Wednesday 11 October 2017

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

Monday 2 October 2017

Wild Swan Art Group at The Australian High Commission Singapore


The Wild Swan Art Group Exhibition at The Australian High Commssion Singapore  Ms Kate Duff Australia’s Deputy High Commissioner to Singapore with Dr Peter Davidson 



Many thanks to all the those  who visited
 The Wild Swan Art Group Exhibition 
at 
The Australian High Commission Singapore 







Visitor on the last day 


Thursday 31 August 2017

 
Here are some of the Artworks on show at Nyisztor Studio
 
 
Sadaharu Horio and Michael Doherty on the far wall
 
 
John Cullinane
 
 
Kevin Robertson
 
 
Chelle Bourne
 
 
Cynthia Ellis
 
 
Diokno Pasilan
 


Caspar Fairhall
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday 17 August 2017

The Wild Swan Art Group News


End of Summer exhibition

The Wild Swan Art Group from Western Australia and friends 

will open soon at 2 Dogs Art Space Akashi



Due to the extreme heat in Japan and as the Art Space has no air conditioning or electricity the gallery will only open when it is cool enough, so if you see the door open please come in, thank you.

Unfortunately the heat is still extreme I will try and open the gallery in the morning now before midday thank you 24/8/2017 


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The Wild Swan Art Group
From
Western Australia
Exhibitors

 Duncan McKay, Connie Petrillo Caspar Fairhall, Kevin Robertson,
Cynthia Ellis, Peter Davidson, Michael Doherty, John Cullinane,
 Chelle Bourne, Lynne Norton and Diokno Pasilan


Invite you to their exhibition
At the
The Australian High Commission Singapore
25 Napier Road, Singapore 258507
Opening
5th of September 10.30 am to 12 pm




 Michelle Bourne 
Textural Study 2017  
acrylic on paper 
40cm.2 h cm x 33 cm w x 1.5 cm d



Cynthia Elliss   
Singapore Gardens 2017
gouache and water colour on archival paper
 80cm h x 100 cm w



 Duncan Mckay 
Noughts and Crosses 2017 
water based enamel on canvas
100 cm h x 100 cm w




Peter Davidson 
Ume Tree (Plum) Omomuki (warm feeling) 2017
pastel on brown paper 
120 cm h x 67 cm w


 
Down on his Luck
 
Australian High Commission Singapore


Tuesday 18 July 2017

The Wild Swan Art Group are now preparing for The Australian High Commission Singapore Exhibition


Kangeroo Paws 2016
Lynne Norton
acrylic on paper
18cm h x 18cm w

The beauty and colour of Western Australian wildflowers inspired these paintings to incorporate design elements rather than as seen in the landscape 

Lynne Norton 2017

The Wild Swan Art Group are now preparing for The Australian High Commission Singapore exhibition to be held in the Atrium from the 4th of Semptember through to the 26th, Monday to Friday between 8.30 - 4pm.


The above artwork of Kangeroo Paws is by Lynne Norton, the red and green Kangeroo Paws are a unique flower only to Western Australia and serves as the states floral emblem. It flowers in  spring and summer. 

Thursday 1 June 2017

The Wild Swan Art Group will be exhibiting in the Gutai meets Western Australian exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space Akashi




Currently there is a exhibition about to open in 2 Dogs Art Space that contains the works of The Wild Swans Art Group on show. The exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space is titled Gutai meets Western Australian it acknowledges the friendship between the two communities and how in Japan that relationship developed with groups exhibiting and performing, learning from each other.

For example, here is a link to Sadaharu Horio performing with Martine Hiene and David Bromfield at Atiler 2001 under the Kobe railway line in 2012;

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJk_e-fIclw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKl4dbVfRAA&spfreload=5


I have been going to events dinners with the Gutai members since 2006 so its well over a decade now members of the groups have been interacting from these sister states being Hyogo prefecture and Western Australia there for we look forward to this exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space. 

Article by Peter Davidson who is in the exhibition

Friday 14 April 2017

News From the Wild Swan Art Group




 Sadaharu Horio  has given eight artworks to be exhibited  with the Wild Swans Art Group at Ron Nyisztor Studios in Perth in September 2017 .

Sadaharu Horio hails from Kobe was a member of the renowned Gutai Art Movement has exhibited at the Yokohama International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York The Armory Art fair in 2017, Hong Kong Basel 2017. 

links to Sadaharu Horio 

http://www.axel-vervoordt.com/en/gallery/exhibitions/sadaharu-horio 











Peter Davidson 

Will be having a one day lighting exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space, Akashi Japan 15 of his artworks will be from the 100 views of Mount Fuji from the same spot and 10 pastels on paper from another view of Mount Fuji

Link to Peter Davidson's artworks  2 Dogs Art Space: http://2dogsartspaceakashi.blogspot.jp/2017/04/peter-davidson-mount-fuji-artworks-on.html

Cynthia Ellis

The Other Art Fair Melbourne http://melbourne.theotherartfair.com/tickets

Contact me cynthiaellis@westnet.con.au

for complimentary tickets to the event.


Diokno Pasilan
Will be participating in an art exhibition in Taiwan

titled: Vessel

Curator: Patrick D. Flores
Artists: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Mark Justiniani , Henrielle Pagkaliwangan, Diokno Pasilan, Veejay Villafranca , Teng Chao-Ming


Details below

http://www.vtartsalon.com/

http://www.digiarts.org.tw/english/News_Content.aspx?n=21271C0A383F2951&s=494EFF09CD03CCA2&t=665c2193adb6ee13&tn=07162743f11728016890d9af53aab6df

Friday 24 February 2017

News on The Wild Swan Artists coming exhibitions in Australia


Omomuki Painting 
(warm feeling)

Title: Plum surprise 
The winter lingers

Peter Davidson 
oil on board

This painting will be showing
 at the 
西オーストラリアと日本のアーティストの展覧会
“Peace & Harmony”オープニングパーティを土曜と日曜に開催☆
日本の有名アーティスト堀尾貞治さんの絵画も展示予定

News on some current exhibitions 
by
 some of the members of the 

 Wild Swans Art Group


Gallery Smith Project Space 
In 
Melbourne 
link
http://www.gsprojectspace.com/exhibitions/

will exhibit

CASPAR FAIRHALL


Nine times the space
March 2–25

Exhibition opening: Saturday March 4, 4-6pm
Caspar Fairhall’s art practice covers painting, painted constructions, video and interactive video art. Best known for hard-edged but painterly works with rich surfaces, much of Fairhall’s work can be seen as asking questions of the viewer such as: What does it mean to represent space in an image? How does the space in an image relate to the space and time outside the image? What does it mean to both look into and at an image? The complex, layered paint surfaces and unresolvable pictorial spaces—what curator Margaret Moore described as propositions for perception—are tools that Fairhall uses to address these questions.
Much of Fairhall’s recent work is derived from his time in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and draws on the ancient banded iron formations of the Hamersly Ranges, which date from the Archean epoch 2.5 billion years ago. Both the sense of deep time and the biological origin of these formations are central concerns of this body of work.
Fairhall is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and The University of Western Australia, amongst others. 

Cynthia Ellis 
has been invited to show
at
The Other Art Fair Melbourne 2017
Well done Cynthia 

Michael Doherty 
is currently preparing 

for 
solo exhibition
 in 
 Vienna, Austria

John  Cullinane
Will be exhibiting at 
Turner Galleries 
in 
Perth 
AN IDEA WILL COME FROM ANY SOURCE SUCH AS SOMETHING OR SOMEONE SEEN; SUCH AS AN EVENT, A BOOK, A DISCUSSION, POLITICS, ANY MEDIA WHATEVER. I LIKE TO BE OPEN AT ALL TIMES TO CAPTURE THE IDEA WHEN IT COMES, MANY IDEAS ESCAPE, NEVER TO BE FOUND...
JOHN CULLINANE, 2015
John Cullinane's exhibitions never fail to be seriously thought provoking. His paintings can be found in many important local and interstate public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of WA, Parliament House Canberra, Murdoch University, Curtin University, Bankwest, Edith Cowan University, Royal Perth Hospital and several local council collections.

http://www.turnergalleries.com.au/artists/john_cullinane.php
Best to all for there coming shows