The Wild Swan Art Group will be showing in Kyoto in September

News from the Wild Swan Art Group

To all our friends and supporters around the world thank you for your continuing support it is appreciated.  

Here is some currents news on the groups forthcoming activities .

Caspar Fairhall

Caspar's Solo Exhibition  at Fremantle Arts Center Western Australia
 is  opening on the 25 May


Diokno Pasalin

Will be doing a collaboration with two other artists at the Back Space Gallery - Ballarat Victoria

Link https://www.boaa.net.au/diokno-pasilan-scott-fredericks-pete-gregg

Michael Doherty

Will be awarded the International Prize Giulio Cesare on the 7th of July at Palazzo Velli Rome,for career achievement,amongst forty other artists worldwide.

Solo exhibition at OrangeryGallery 1st of November in Perth.(Photo of Award above)


Kevin Robertson

Kevin's exhibition Wonderwall will be opening on the 22nd of June at Geraldton Regional Art Gallery - Western Australia

chef-d'oeurve Restaurant/Gallery Osaka

Audience 

Chef-d'oeurve Restaurant/Gallery is a good venue to exhibit or perform in, it seems to be one of the few old building around the neighbourhood that had  survived the fire bombings of World War Two, so it has a certain charm  to it from the old wooden hand made roof shingles that are still visible in the restaurant roof along with its wooden beams.

 Hirosi Funato Double Bass and Loui Lerroy Guitar

Sometimes in life you are fortunate and when the Wild Swans Art Group exhibited in Osaka at the chef-d'oeurve Restaurant/Gallery fortune revealed itself for the after exhibiting in the gallery next to the restaurant for two days, the owner asked if we wanted an extension of one day and the obvious answer was yes!

On the last night of the three day exhibition two Japanese musicians from what one might consider the avante garde genre played experimentally and passionately, making noises with an array of objects that were being scrapped or dragged or banged on or along the musical instruments. 

The intensity of the musicians performance with the accompanying large array of spontaneously made sounds that were being composed in then now with a kind of randomness made it an interesting and enjoyable musical work.

It was also great to see The Wild Swans Art Group juxtaposed such performance in some ways it was strange but unusual is good, it takes one out of there comfort zone for having musicians perform with a high intensity in front of artworks, that contain a driven praxis within in someways might  remind  the audience of how artist's create.

The Japanese audience appear to really appreciate art and spending time to look at each piece then asking questions, plus it was especially pleasing to get some positive feed back from one of the audience members of how she enjoyed the experience.

View through the restaurant to the gallery space

Many thanks to all who came it made the exhibition over three days an enjoyable experience. 

The Wild Swans Art Group in Osaka Japan at chef-d'oeurve

The Wild Swans Art Group from Western Australia

Exhibition opens

March

Thursday 1st 12pm to 10pm - Friday 2nd 12pm to 9pm

at 

chef-d'oeurve

Restaurant/Gallery

西区阿波座1-9-12

550-0011 Osaka

The group has exhibited in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia in Japan at Kobe, Okinawa, Akashi and soon Osaka

Below are some of the artworks by John Cullinane Kevin Robertson and Lynne Norton that will be on show with Cynthia Ellis Diokno Pasilan Connie Petrillo Duncan McKay Chelle Bourne Michael Doherty Peter Davidson and Caspar Fairhall

Cynthia Ellis

Peter Davidson

Caspar Fairhall

Peter Davidson

 Duncan McKay

Chelle Bourne

Michael Doherty

Connie Petrillo

Diokno Pasilan

John Cullinane

Lynne Norton

Kevin Robertson

The Wild swans Art Group Exhibition chef-d'œuvre Osaka - Japan

The Wild Swans Art Group

from

Western Australia

 Duncan McKay, Connie Petrillo Caspar Fairhall, Kevin Robertson, Cynthia Ellis,

Peter Davidson, Michael Doherty, John Cullinane Chelle Bourne,

Lynne Norton and Diokno Pasilan

Osaka - Japan

Exhibition

At

 chef-d'œuvre

Restaurant – Gallery

Opens March

Thursday 1^st 12pm to 10pm - Friday 2^nd 12pm to 9pm

The group has exhibited in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia in Japan at Kobe, Okinawa and Akashi

Wild Swans Art Group 2018

Currently the Wild Swans Art Group is showing at 2 Dogs Art Space Akashi in the Driven exhibition with other selected Western Australian Artists 

The Driven exhibition

by

Western Australian Artists

Opens 12th of January to the 23^rd By appointment

Gallery Opening times1 - 4 pm Saturday and Sunday

on these days 13-14-21of January20^th 1.30 – 4pm

Lynne Norton - Caspar Fairhall -  Diokno Pasalin - Michael Doherty - Shelley Cowper -  Peter Davidson - Cynthia Ellis - 

 Melissa Nolan McDougal  - Sally Douglas - Ron Nyizstor

Michelle Bourne - Kevin Robertson

John Cullinaine - Duncan Mckay - Ken Wadrop

 Further exhibition spaces are now being researched for exhibitions around Japan and maybe Australia as these shows come to fruition the information will be posted on this blog.

Thank you for your continued support.

Wild Swans Art Group with Sadaharu Horio from Kobe Japan at the Nyisztor Studios Western Australia

Cynthia Ellis

The Wild Swans Art Group of Lynne Norton, Caspar Fairhall, Duncan Mckay, John Cullinane, Michael Doherty, Connie Petrillo, Diokno Pasilin, Cynthia Ellis, Peter Davidson, Chelle Bourne and Kevin Robertson, recent exhibition at Nyisztor Studios in Western Australia included eight artworks from the Japanese avant garde artist Sadaharu Horio who generously contributed to the exhibition thank you Horio.

Its not often the Wild Swans exhibit back in their home state of Western Australia, so it was good to return to the place of its origins as the group has been very well received in Japan, Kuching Malaysia and more recently at the Australian High Commission Singapore. Further more to all those who came to the exhibition many thanks and special thanks to Ron Nyisztor for the hanging of the artworks.

Sadaharu Horio 

 Caspar Fairhall

Michael Doherty

Duncan Mckay

 Michelle Bourne Diokno Pasalin and Connie Petrillo

 John Cullinane

Kevin Robertson