Friday, September 26, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
6 to 12 October. Tap Gallery. Jo Mulholland - Remembering
Come help me celebrate my birthday!
Jo Mulholland – Remembering, an anthology.
Dutch-born, Jo Mulholland, is celebration his 65th birthday, with an exhibition of 60+ paintings, remembering people and places that he has liked.
Fulfilling the life-long ambition to paint, in retirement, he has produced these more than sixty paintings, within the last three years.
Each painting is a “snapshot”, in oil on canvas, of a friendly face, or a favourite location, encountered, during 52 years in Australia.
Partly completing an Art Teachers Conversion Course, in the early 1970s, he chose to remain a teacher, in the NSW primary school system, enjoying the enthusiasm and energy of his students.
At that time, the Waratah Festival, was a wonderful way to allow the pupils to exhibit their art works, in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
In addition, enthusiasm for coaching school soccer teams; teaching dancing; and simply the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, was a deciding factor.
In recent years, there was also an enthusiasm for genuine naturism, as recreation, also reflected in a number of the works.
Active in the Dutch community, of NSW, Jo Mulholland is a member of the boards of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre and the NSW Federation of Netherlands Societies.
Jo Mulholland – Remembering, an anthology.
Dutch-born, Jo Mulholland, is celebration his 65th birthday, with an exhibition of 60+ paintings, remembering people and places that he has liked.
Fulfilling the life-long ambition to paint, in retirement, he has produced these more than sixty paintings, within the last three years.
Each painting is a “snapshot”, in oil on canvas, of a friendly face, or a favourite location, encountered, during 52 years in Australia.
Partly completing an Art Teachers Conversion Course, in the early 1970s, he chose to remain a teacher, in the NSW primary school system, enjoying the enthusiasm and energy of his students.
At that time, the Waratah Festival, was a wonderful way to allow the pupils to exhibit their art works, in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
In addition, enthusiasm for coaching school soccer teams; teaching dancing; and simply the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, was a deciding factor.
In recent years, there was also an enthusiasm for genuine naturism, as recreation, also reflected in a number of the works.
Active in the Dutch community, of NSW, Jo Mulholland is a member of the boards of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre and the NSW Federation of Netherlands Societies.
6 - 12 October 08 |
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The nude, in art. (My art)
It's true. Perhaps you can check it.
Whenever I have put something on my redbubble site(s) about nudity, there have been a lot more visitors.
Well. Let's hope they come to the Tap Gallery, in Palmer Street, Darlinghurst, (Sydney, Australia) in the afternoons between 6 October and 12 October, to look at the places and people, whom I have known and liked.
Not that naturists (or nudists) instantly turn into nice people, when they are naked in each others' company. But there is a bit of truth to the idea of clothes making the man and the woman and the body being a bit of a leveller.
The irony is that I am now having an exhibition of my paintings, only a few streets away from the institution which was known as East(Old) Sydney Tech, where I was failed in painting and told by another teacher that my drawing was all wrong because, obviously, the body underneath the clothes of the models, shaped the cloth.
Surely I should know what the body underneath would look like?
Well. Actually, it wasn't until about 15 years ago, that I got serious about naturism.
Sure! Now I have a better idea. But, then, whether _textiles_ believe it or not, when a naturist is talking to a naturist, they (we) are not doing a body-search!
(These drawings I did, in the drawing class, during that Art Teachers Conversion course, in the very early 70s.)
Happiness is _having no tan-lines_, as the saying goes. But, once back in Sydney, there simply are lots of times when it's better to wear something (usually pants).
I hope you'll come a check out my art work to see if I understood the anatomy of the human body and how it shapes our clothes, a bit better, since, 1969-1971.
So.......hope you'll come along to:
Tap Gallery 45 Burton St. Darlinghurst. (The other entrance is in Palmer Street.) Every afternoon 12-6 p.m.. 6-12 October.
Well. Actually, it wasn't until about 15 years ago, that I got serious about naturism.
Sure! Now I have a better idea. But, then, whether _textiles_ believe it or not, when a naturist is talking to a naturist, they (we) are not doing a body-search!
(These drawings I did, in the drawing class, during that Art Teachers Conversion course, in the very early 70s.)
Happiness is _having no tan-lines_, as the saying goes. But, once back in Sydney, there simply are lots of times when it's better to wear something (usually pants).
I hope you'll come a check out my art work to see if I understood the anatomy of the human body and how it shapes our clothes, a bit better, since, 1969-1971.
So.......hope you'll come along to:
Tap Gallery 45 Burton St. Darlinghurst. (The other entrance is in Palmer Street.) Every afternoon 12-6 p.m.. 6-12 October.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Remembering! Celebrating 65 years, with 65 paintings.
October 8, 2008 I celebrate my 65th birthday with the opening of my exhbition, consisting of 65 paintings, reflecting the memories of particularly people and also places I have known and liked, at the Tap Gallery, Palmer Street, Darlinghurst.
Please click on picture........
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