News and studios of the Wild Swan Art Group

 Recent July Winter Meeting in Perth 
with  
The Wild Swan Art Group from Western Australia

Left to Right Dr Duncan McKay, John Cullinane, Michael Doherty, Connie Petrillo, Kevin Robertson and Peter Davidson taking photograph 

Cynthia Ellis,  Caspar Fairhall,  Diokno Pasilan, Chelle Bourne  and Lynne Norton absent

On the 18 of September The Wild Swan Art Group will be holding there second exhibition in Japan at The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum in the Public Gallery for a one day lighting exhibition, the group looks forward to the occasion and the response of the Okinawan peoples. 

News about individuals within the group and their recent achievements

 Lynne Norton and the  Australian War Memorial 

Lynne received a call from the Australian War Memorial last week advising her of a presentation to the outgoing Chairman of the Board of the AWM, Canberra,  Ken Doolan AO of a reproduction of her work for his present, she researched  him and found he had been CO of the ship, well done Lynne see link below.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/australianwarmemorial/27549673114/

Diokno Pasilan installation Ballarat Laneways Luminaries Festival

Below is the stunning installation by Diokno for Ballarat Laneways Luminaries Festival. Made of recycled milk bottle and LED lights at the Lost Ones Gallery.

Photo Diokno Pasilin


Caspar Fairhall

will be having a solo exhibition at
Gallerysmith Project Space in North Melbourne Victoria

details and link below

CASPAR FAIRHALL

Nine Times the Space

September 22 – October 8

Exhibition opening, Saturday September 24, 2-4pm

http://www.gsprojectspace.com/exhibitions/

Cynthia Ellis and Micheal Doherty 

will be exhbiting at the 

'Scene' 

Exhibition

 in Western Australia at 

Nyisztor Studio

Next Saturday July 30th

link is here 

http://www.nyisztorstudio.com.au/exhibitions.htm

Below is some of the artist's studios 

Peter Davidson's Western Australian studio (Father's garage)

Chelle Bourne - studio

Cynthia Ellis - studio

The Wild Swan Art Group will soon fly to Okinawa

Okinawa Study by Peter Davidson

Tomorrow is the last appointment viewing day at Gallery Opera Labo in Nishi Ku, Japan for the Wild Swan Art Group, it will then travel for a one day  lighting exhibition at The People’s Gallery which is located in the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum. 

The Wild Swan Art Group from Western Australia has started very successfully in Japan, at  Gallery Opera Labo and the comments have been very favourable towards the artworks, and now through the Internet the artists and the Japanese audiences have started to engage in a dialogue, which on the face of it is mutually educating on both sides in terms of what they can understand from each other’s culture and aesthetic, that has been one of the positive aspects of this venture.

The Okinawa exhibition will take place in September and it will be works on paper, there will also be some different artworks going to replace the paintings, it will not be the same exhibition as in Gallery Opera Labo.

It will be very interesting to see how the Okinawans view the Western Australian artworks because it’s surrounded by sea and has a more laid back lifestyle than mainland Japan ,which moves at a very fast pace. In somes ways Okinawa is a bit like the seaside culture of Perth, very relaxed or as they say in Japan: NONKI which translates into English as happy go lucky, so it will be interesting to see how these two beach focused cultures relate to each other.

Lastly, a special thanks from the Wild Swan Art Group to Makiko Karitani/Gallery Opera Labo along with her customers for attending the exhibition, there is no doubt we hope return again sometime in the near future, thank you.

Many of the artworks for the The Wild Swans Art Groups exhibition at Gallerry Opera Labo are now in Japan here are a few.

John Cullinane's painting titled; Birdman - oil on cotton - 25 cm x 20cm

Lynne Norton's outstanding print that won the “Excellent Prize” in Qingdao Biennial International Print Exhibition 2000 (CHINA) titled “Impetuous Momentum”

Michael Doherty's painting titled: Time and Tide 
oil on canvas

This is a small selection of very fine idiosyncratic artworks that are now travelling to or are in Japan for the first exhibition at Makiko Karitani's Opera Labo Gallery, and it appears the Nishi ku community of Kobe are very much looking forward to seeing the artworks. 

One of the very good issues that seems to be happening in this gathering of artworks by Western Australian artists in Japan is the uniqueness of their aesthetic visions and one believes this will be one of the better consequences that will happen from assembling such a collection of artists.

Makiko Karitani  

Soprano and Gallerist 

Gallery Opera Labo

The Wild Swans Arts Group is appreciative of Makiko Karitani's support for the first exhibition in Japan, if you wish to see more on Makiko's Gallery Opera Labo please click on the following link below, thank you. 

English Site 

http://galleryoperalabo.blogspot.jp/

Japanese Site

http://maki51.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/

The Wild Swan artworks start assembling in Kobe - Japan

Dawn

Michael Doherty

City Scape

M L Norton 

Study of Mum

P Davidson

The artworks from The Wild Swans Art Group are now gathering at the edge of the old Kyoto foreign lands, (as it was known around the time when the Tale of Genji that was written around the 11^th century) in Nishi Ku - Kobe behind Akashi.

For a group of artists who mostly have spent all their artistic lives in one of the most distant cities on earth being Perth, Western Australia, then coming to exhibit in one of the great aesthetic triangles of the world being Nara, Kyoto and Kobe with Osaka in the middle, is a humbling experience. 

Nonetheless, the Wild Swans Art Group are here to exhibit/learn and where these uncharted aesthetic travels go collectively and independently one does not know, but it does start in Japan at Gallery Opera Labo and the momentum, along with the local peoples anticipation for the show is gathering, further updates will be posted in the near future, thank you.

Tale of Genji Link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji

The Wild Swan Arts Group - Western Australia - Towards Uncharted Aesthetic Horizons

Left to right  Duncan McKay, Connie Petrillo Caspar Fairhall, Kevin Robertson, Cynthia Ellis, Peter Davidson, Michael Doherty, John Cullinane other members not present are Chelle Bourne, Lynne Norton and Diokno Pasilan

On April 28th 2016 The Wild Swan Arts Group was formed and the artists will now work towards the groups first international exhibition in Japan at Gallery Opera Labo in Nishi Ku, Kobe in June 2016. 

The Wild Swan Arts Group looks forward very much to exhibiting in Japan and are very aware of the long and distinguished history of Japanese art which will no doubt only add to the drive that these artists have within their aesthetics studio praxis for this forth coming exhibition.

It appears throughout Western Australia's short aesthetic history in comparison with the long histories of aesthetics in East Asia there has been not a lot of exchange with Japan. The Wild Swan Arts Groups looks forward to exhibiting in Japan on a regular basis and hopefully in the future with invited artists from within the region in unity and diversity.

Link to Gallery Opera Labo

http://galleryoperalabo.blogspot.com.au/