PACK GALLERY HAS MOVED TO BYRON BAY ARTS & INDUSTRIAL ESTATE!
We are now at 3/1 Acacia Street , Byron Bay Industrial Estate and still showcasing highly collectable, established and emerging contemporary artists from Northern NSW and beyond.
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EXHIBITION - “TALES OF LIFE & LAND”
saturday 15TH NOVEMBER
5:30pm to 7:30pm
@ Pack Gallery Studio - 3 Acacia Street Byron Industrial Estate
An exhibition of eight of Pack Gallery’s figurative & portrait Artists. Opening 15th November.
Everyone is welcome to celebrate our first exhibition in the new location 3/1 Acacia Street Byron Bay.
FREE!
lecture - “The figure painted”
saturday 29TH NOVEMBER
4:00pm to 6:00pm
@ Pack Gallery Studio - 3 Acacia Street Byron Industrial Estate
Dear friends. our next and last for the year, lecture and discussion by M.E. Baird
'The Figure Painted' - A discussion on the figure [body] in painting. Beginning with late Renaissance 'Mannerism' and later the figures of Edward Hopper, Jenny Saville and Paula Bannan.
Tickets $45 - https://events.humanitix.com/the-figure-painted
FEATURE Artist - MICHELLE DAWSON
Biography
Born in New Zealand, Michelle moved to Australia in 1985. She has been working as a professional artist since 1996 and has studied both in Australia and the UK. She has been shortlisted for many major art prizes including the Jacaranda Drawing Prize, The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, (Highly Commended), The Bendigo Drawing Prize, The CBSC Art Prize, The Hurford Portrait Prize, the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, The KAAF Art Award and the Ravenswood Art Prize. She has also illustrated 3 children's books and was shortlisted for the CBCA 2009 Crichton Award for Best New Illustrator. Michelle lives and works in a converted church near the coast in rural Australia.
Artist Statement
My work is figuratively based and invariably incorporates animals. I am drawn to the aesthetics and lines of improbable looking creatures such as cheetahs, hyenas, dodos, tasmanian tigers and kangaroos. I am intrigued by the point whereby the domesticated and civilised meets the wild and instinctual and how these opposing natures interact, inform and/or thwart each other. The animals; be they real beasts or imaginary monsters have been used over the years of my art practice, as a vehicle to express this conundrum.
At other times I have simply attempted to convey the ineffable beauty a wild thing stirs in me, to capture the strange and miraculous otherness that has in itself captured me and my attention. And also to speak of the great loss and sadness when a creature becomes, or tetters on the edge of extinction. My love of reading, both fiction and non-fiction, also strongly informs my art practice and has been the catalyst for many paintings and drawings including a body of work around the subject of mythical monsters.
In recent years I have also moved into the genre of portraiture. With both the animal and human artworks I strive to evoke the essential nature of my chosen subject matter. I see the actual process of focused drawing and painting as the means of incantation by which this is achieved.
“The Hunters II”
25cm x 3Ocm ~ Oil and embroidery on canvas
$1350
“The Hunters III”
25cm x 3Ocm ~ Oil and embroidery on canvas
$1350
NEW ART @ PACK GALLERY
MICHELLE DAWSON
“The Hunters I”
Oil and embroidery on linen
30cm x 30cm
$TBC
CAMILLE BATURO
“Pears and Peons”
Oil on canvas
102 x 76 cm
$1800
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We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung nation.