Repainting Our Picture is an art workshop project funded by Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) to increase support and community connectedness through the delivery of a series of art workshops on stations in the Charters Towers Region.
It is a celebration of the bush, and our lives we live on the land.
If a picture says 1000 words, what would you like your picture to say?
Drought and flood is not our whole story.
CELEBRATE NATIONAL AGRICULTURE DAY
WITH THE PARTICIPANTS
........7PM THURSDAY......
.........21 NOV 2019......
GUEST SPEAKER: ARTIST MARK COOMBE
The World Theatre Gallery exhibition
8 NOV to 29 DEC 2019
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'Repainting Our Picture' Q&A
Why cattle stations?
This workshop series has been funded through a grant from the FRRR. When we applied for the grant, one of their first questions was why cattle stations: why couldn't we just hold them in the central location of Charters Towers? These workshops were intended to benefit people outside of the urban centre. Our workshop at Wandovale Station for instance, which is 215 km outside of Charters Towers on dirt roads: it takes approximately three hours to get there. To expect people on the stations to come into town for the weekend to attend an art workshop is simply not feasible. (One of the women at the Wandovale Station workshop arrived a bit late because she had been preg testing heifers in the yards that morning). We also made the workshops family friendly, with art activities for the children also -- this means that mums and govies can attend.
Why 'Repainting Our Picture'?
The tagline for these workshops is 'drought and flood isn't our whole story.' It has been a hard few years in the rural industry for numerous reasons. Artist Katie Jones is a rural artist whose aim through her work is to educate and expose people to a different way of life, as well as creating a picture that rural viewers can recognise and embrace. At the beginning of each workshop she asks participants 'what, if they show someone something about their way of life, they would want that to be?' And also, 'if you could put a picture on the wall that said, "this is why I live here," what would that be? Through these workshops we are remembering the wonderful parts of our lifestyle.
What's the point?
The 'Repainting Our Picture Workshops' will culminate with an exhibition for the month of November at the World Theatre in Charters Towers. This exhibition has been timed to Coincide with National Agriculture Day on Nov 21. We will be having a celebration on the evening of Nov 21.
Through our participants paintings we are creating a first person narrative and celebration of what it is to live and work in rural North Queensland.
With five workshops down, how has it gone thus far?
The feedback thus far has been extremely positive. The quality of art produced has been excellent. Not only have our participants been excited with the work that they have produced, but they have also found it to be a cathartic and relaxing weekend, surrounded by like-minded people of a similar background. Parents have also been pleased with the quality of art instruction their children have received.
About the organisers:
'The Repainting Our Picture' workshops have been organised by Dalrymple Landcare Committee.
They have been made possible through a grant by FRRR (Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal).
Art Instructor Katie Jones has illustrated two books about childhood in rural North Queensland.
It is a celebration of the bush, and our lives we live on the land.
If a picture says 1000 words, what would you like your picture to say?
Drought and flood is not our whole story.
CELEBRATE NATIONAL AGRICULTURE DAY
WITH THE PARTICIPANTS
........7PM THURSDAY......
.........21 NOV 2019......
GUEST SPEAKER: ARTIST MARK COOMBE
The World Theatre Gallery exhibition
8 NOV to 29 DEC 2019
.....................................................
'Repainting Our Picture' Q&A
Why cattle stations?
This workshop series has been funded through a grant from the FRRR. When we applied for the grant, one of their first questions was why cattle stations: why couldn't we just hold them in the central location of Charters Towers? These workshops were intended to benefit people outside of the urban centre. Our workshop at Wandovale Station for instance, which is 215 km outside of Charters Towers on dirt roads: it takes approximately three hours to get there. To expect people on the stations to come into town for the weekend to attend an art workshop is simply not feasible. (One of the women at the Wandovale Station workshop arrived a bit late because she had been preg testing heifers in the yards that morning). We also made the workshops family friendly, with art activities for the children also -- this means that mums and govies can attend.
Why 'Repainting Our Picture'?
The tagline for these workshops is 'drought and flood isn't our whole story.' It has been a hard few years in the rural industry for numerous reasons. Artist Katie Jones is a rural artist whose aim through her work is to educate and expose people to a different way of life, as well as creating a picture that rural viewers can recognise and embrace. At the beginning of each workshop she asks participants 'what, if they show someone something about their way of life, they would want that to be?' And also, 'if you could put a picture on the wall that said, "this is why I live here," what would that be? Through these workshops we are remembering the wonderful parts of our lifestyle.
What's the point?
The 'Repainting Our Picture Workshops' will culminate with an exhibition for the month of November at the World Theatre in Charters Towers. This exhibition has been timed to Coincide with National Agriculture Day on Nov 21. We will be having a celebration on the evening of Nov 21.
Through our participants paintings we are creating a first person narrative and celebration of what it is to live and work in rural North Queensland.
With five workshops down, how has it gone thus far?
The feedback thus far has been extremely positive. The quality of art produced has been excellent. Not only have our participants been excited with the work that they have produced, but they have also found it to be a cathartic and relaxing weekend, surrounded by like-minded people of a similar background. Parents have also been pleased with the quality of art instruction their children have received.
About the organisers:
'The Repainting Our Picture' workshops have been organised by Dalrymple Landcare Committee.
They have been made possible through a grant by FRRR (Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal).
Art Instructor Katie Jones has illustrated two books about childhood in rural North Queensland.
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