Downstream Exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Three artists linked by family, ecology and the Hawkesbury will feature in the next exhibition to open at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Titled Downstream, its focus is the Hawkesbury River, which has attracted and inspired artists since the earliest days of white settlement.
Ana Pollak is the most recent winner of the Dobell Prize for Drawing. In her winning work, Mullet Creek, Pollak depicts an oyster farm in an area that can be reached only by boat. ‘There's so much in the world that is loud and noisy and for me (the river) creates a sense of stillness and calm,’ she says.
Jenny Pollak, is an artist who works in a variety of media including photography utilising macro photographic images and projections and sculpture incorporating seemingly disparate objects such as fish bones, silver goblets and cocktail umbrellas! Jenny Pollak was the winner of the 2003 Walkom Manning Sculpture Prize, Taree. She has exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and in major exhibitions around Sydney and NSW.
Ana and Jenny credit their parents, who were scientists, with instilling in their offspring a curiosity and a love of the natural world. Over the years, as maturing artists, they have maintained their sense of wonder but developed different ways to express it.
David Collins is a much-travelled artist who keeps coming back to the Hawkesbury. Though he has received high praise for recent exhibitions following painting trips to Broken Hill and to China, it is the Hawkesbury and its surrounding bushland that continues to be the major subject and influence on his work.
| Official opening |
6pm Friday 20 June |
| On view |
20 June - 27 July 2008
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Deerubbin Centre (1st Floor) 300 George Street Windsor
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| Opening hours |
Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm (closed Tuesdays and public holidays)
Weekends 10am - 3pm |
| Phone |
4560 4441 |
| Admission |
FREE |
| Website |
http://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/ |
Contact details
Diana Robson
Tel: 02 4560 4586
Fax: 02 4560 4400
drobson@hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au
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