Saturday 5 January to
Sunday 3 February 2008
Gallery Hours 11.00 am - 5.00 pm Daily
White Hill Gallery
White Hill Road Red Hill/Dromana
Melways Ref 160 G9
Phone (03) 5931 0146
email: rhayllar@bigpond.net.au
www.whitehillart.com.au
Peter Nolan is beaming with pleasure at the
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OAK HILL COMMUNITY ART SPACE
success of his on-line innovations. Especially
has generated a considerable buzz with his
...is a member, volunteer run organisation
popular is the customer subscriber section
witty yet iconic images, composed with their
that promotes and supports the local arts
where one can list one's favorite artists,
root bound firmly in literature and Australian
community. Each month brings a different
one's favorite art category, and one's
folk lore, often in a multitude of materials
themed exhibition to showcase a varied
favorite medium...great for keeping up with
including metal (occasionally rusted), Parisian
array of talents - both emerging and
individual artist's latest creations as they
balconies, timber and glass.
established artists.
become available.
The new year of 2008 begins with a bang
December `A Sculptural Space' - with
What makes the Oz website so attractive for
with the January opening of local landscape
works on display by artists Brett Bancroft,
users (and this bit is the clever bit) as Peter
painter Rodney Symmons, best known
Antionette Bonnici and students and the
uploads new information onto the website,
for his atmospheric studies of the bay,
McClelland Sculpture Group. Artwork is
for example specific paintings by a specific
contemporary take on traditional realism,
presented in clay, wire, material, wood
artist, each client receives by email
and evocative use of the mediums of oil
and found objects, which offers a freedom
a thumbnail which then links back to the
and watercolour.
of expression and creativity. Held annually,
Oz website showing the favorite artist,
White Hill stable artists number Bea
all works are of a high quality and appeal
category or medium.
Edwards, Carole Foster, Clive Ducker,
to most tastes.
In conjunction with this site modernization
Ian Chisholm, Margaret Lees and Josephine
January `Third Annual' Mornington
Peter has strategically placed web
& Ernest Pititto's tasteful Tuscan and
Peninsula Postcards Exhibition - A
advertisements in London and New York
Venetian pictures.
selection of works from each medium
this has instantly caught on successfully
The intimate space of ORIGINAL OZ
such as photography and paintings in
producing in excess of 100 unique hits a
GALLERY at Mt Martha village is hung in
month and the actual number of images
oil, acrylic, pen, sculpture will be
classical salon style from ceiling to floor, and
accessed is huge.
reproduced into post cards to be
is just the medicine for slowing down the
distributed around the Peninsula at
Joining Oz is realist pastelist Leigh Ruff,
busy mind as one needs to stop scanning
popular venues and information centres
commanding such attention with the pictorial
and concentrate on each piece to take in the
for sale to the public with very affordable
waves he is already reported to be making
elegance of it all.
works of a high standard.
that he needs to be put on "future watch",
The Oz stable of artist numbers among its
and Malcolm Webster, here represented by
March 'Photography Exhibition' -
ranks some of Australia's best known and
his luminous contemporary abstractions.
A varied selection from local
admired realist and contemporary artists;
photographers - novice to professional
And a Queensland aborigine's carved
many of them award winners suiting a bevy
- with all works for sale.
indigenous wooden vases, apparently the
of tastes and decorative requirements.
timber from a tree only found rarely in one
Following the recent re-launch of the gallery's
For more information about any of
place, present a freshness of pace and
website incorporating several state-of-the-art
these exhibitions or future events in
direction for Original Oz Gallery.
client based features, the gallery's director
2008, please contact the Gallery.
ORIGINAL OZ
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all works can be viewed on our website at
Shop 7, 34/38 Lochiel Ave, Mt Martha
Mel: 144 J12
OPEN 6DAYS A WEEK · FROM 9AM TILL 5PM · CLOSED TUESDAYS
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Pulpit Rock Rodney Symmons
White Hill Eagle Robert Ford
