Members are invited to join us for coffee and cake at 10am in the Gallery café prior to the meeting. Afterwards enjoy the opportunity to view Perspectives 2012.

Remember, early bird registration of $45 is still available until the day of the AGM, after that it will revert to the normal $50 membership fee.   Become a member or renew now!

NB: Only financial members are able to vote at an AGM.

All positions on the Executive Committee are open and we invite nominations for the positions of:

President

Vice President

Treasurer

Secretary

4 ordinary members

Please forward your nomination to Michelle Morris at Michelle.Morris2det@det.wa.edu.au

First Love 2011 was opened by Rosemary Wallace on  St Valentine’s Day, Monday February 14 2011.  Held  at the Forrest Centre Foyer in St Georges Terrace Perth the opening event was attended by approximately 130 guests. Rosemary’s speach highlighted importance of studio time and experimentation. She said it is important for art teachers to continually practice their skills and explore new mediums and techniques, for her it had always been part of professional and personal development.

This annual showcase promoted the creative talent of 35 participating  artists  with  157 artworks displayed. There was variety of themes and mediums displayed. First Love 2011 included oil, acrylic and aerosol painting, ceramics, sculpture, textile, jewellery, pastels, drawing, photography and collage. The aim of the exhibition was to support art teachers as visual artists.  The exhibition gives the members of Art Ed WA a chance to participate in presenting to an audience.

At the opening 10 x 10 cm artworks donated by ArtEdWA members were auctioned by silent bidding.  This was a great success with bids being made for most of the 48 works displayed and the highest price for one work reaching $50 (#45 Julie Ferns-Pheasant) almost $800 was raised. Proceeds have been donated to The Princess Margaret Hospital Starlight Foundation. Thank you to all the members who supplied us with their creative canvases.

Presentations of life memberships were awarded to Digby De Bruin and Rosemary Wallace for their support of visual arts education over the past thirty years.

The Exhibition was open to the public weekdays from 8am to 5pm  Monday 14 – Friday 25 February.

Art Ed WA would like to congratulate the exhibiting members. A very special thanks to the First Love committee:  Ilsa Bennion, Rachel Zimmermann and Rosie O’Keefe, and also the exhibition install team who helped  Ilsa, Rosie and Rachel  to hang the exhibition on Saturday 12  and to bump out on 26 February: Gen Baker,  Von Wiese, Thelma Cluning,  Keilo Wise , Michelle Morris, Dionne Garvey and Carmen Stewart.

When images are forwarded we will post them as well.

Following posted on 17 September.

FIRST LOVE EXHIBITION

FORREST CENTRE, PERTH

14 – 25 FEBRUARY 2011

• Entries close Friday 28 January 5.00pm.   Download Entry Form

Back by popular demand – our fabulous 10×10 canvases kindly supported through the donation of canvases by Jackson’s Drawing Supplies.

• The 10×10 canvases will be sold by silent auction. Bidding starts at $10 and will remain open until the close of the Exhibition on 25th February.  All proceeds of the mini canvas silent auction will go to PMH Club Ado.

The Official Opening of FIRST LOVE 2011

will be held at the Forrest Centre, Perth

on Valentine’s Day

Monday 14 February 2011, 6 – 8pm

Download Invitation Flyer

For any further information please contact Ilsa ilsa.bennion@bigpond.com

Nominations for the 2011 Executive and Management Committee are open – please send your name, contact number and position you wish to nominate for to our Secretary Rosie O’Keefe at rosie.okeefe2@hotmail.com (NB: Nominees must be financial for the 2011 membership period at the commencement of the AGM, 11am Saturday 19^th February).

Executive and Management Committee positions:

President

Vice President

Secretary

Treasurer

5 General Members (responsible for a subcommittee)

Nominations close 17^th February 2011 at 5pm

Our guest artist, Tania Ferrier has sent me the following link

http://www.wadjemup.blogspot.com

for some introductory history to the place called the Rottnest Quod, the subject of her Exhibition ‘The Quod Project’.

This Forum is a joint initiative between Western Australia’s five Arts Education Associations: ArtEdWA, ASME, ATOM, Drama West and Ausdance WA.

Where: Wesley College Goatcher Auditorium

When: 29th November 2010

Time:  5 – 7pm

Target audience:  All Arts staff from K-12

Cost: FREE

Print out FLYER for display on your notice board to alert non Association members.

Guest speaker: Professor John O’Toole (Lead writer for the The Arts – National Curriculum, ACARA)

The Forum will be led by a panel consisting of a representative from each learning area: Visual Arts, Media, Music, Drama and Dance, with a 6th person as facilitator.

The session will take the form of a discourse, with audience Q & A.

Other Association’s involved are confident of having 50 members present, so we are certainly hoping for similar representation from our membership.

Further details of the format of the Forum will be available after 15th November.

Please mark this in your diaries as a ‘not to miss’ event as it is sure to be an extremely informative look at and discussion of the Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The ARTS paper.

Get in early to save your place by registering via RSVP to waartsforum@gmail.com

NB: Include both your name and school/organisation in your email

For further information please contact Yvonne Wiese von@yvonnewiese.com

Follow signposted directions to the Jenkins Lawn

Please RSVP by Friday 26 November  to Yvonne Wiese von@yvonnewiese.com

FLYER

They are almost enough to help you work out how you might do them yourself! Thanks to Gen Baker for the images. Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge.

Hosted by Carmen Stewart at Aquinas College this event is free to members. Take time out of your busy schedule and reacquaint yourself with other ArtEd members before the year ends.

RSVP by Tuesday 1 December to Carmen.Stewart@aquinas.wa.edu.au

Please see flyer for details

See Map of Aquinas College

From an early age he had a interest in sculpture. Growing up near a ceramic foundry, Ron reminisced about the days of being a young boy when he would bring home broken ceramic treasures found amongst discarded rubbish. After finishing National Service in 1971 Ron made a life choice to follow his dream of being an artist.

Following his arts education at Claremont School of Art, James Street Technical School, and Midland TAFE under the tuition of Guy Grey-Smith, Ron made the decision to dedicate his life to what he enjoyed doing – making art. With the support of his wife Terry and close friends, Ron purchased the 12 acre property in the Swan Valley and here, the dream was born.

Building the sculpture park into the first class gallery it is today has been a careful balancing act, juggling the art of creating sculptural forms with the savvy of maintaining a business enterprise. The gallery boasts the achievement of being a fully self funded business. It does not receive any external funding. Ron muses he has both “the passion and stupidity to make something out of nothing”.

Regularly exhibiting at the annual Sculpture by the Sea, Ron has an impressive portfolio and list of achievements behind him. He mainly works on commissions now days, indicating this can be difficult as there is a lack of local patrons for sculptural art in Western Australia. Ron has worked on a number of significant overseas commissions and shared with ArtEd members work completed for the Sultan of Omar which included a large piece and over 2000 miniature versions which were hand crafted by the artist himself.

Ron’s current sculptures have become progressively larger in scale. For larger works he generally uses fabricated copper, aluminum and stainless steel. Many of his earlier, smaller works are cast in bronze. The ever increasing cost of materials makes sculpture a particularly expensive art form. With a lifetime of experience, Ron has a strong understanding of sculptural materials, processes and techniques and is reflected in the high standards maintained in his work.

Ron speaks passionately of the need to nurture the arts for the next generation and works tirelessly to assist younger artists with opportunities to develop their skills through artist in residence programs. Being in control of a private business gives Ron the freedom to work without relying on others and he takes pride in helping others in their personal artistic journey, indicating that it is important “to give younger artists a chance”.

The hardest part about being an artist is that “you receive very little praise. There is mostly just criticism”. Investing in the arts has been a life long passion and Ron is still living the dream, sculpture continuing to be an important and significant part of his existence. Building forms daily and running a gallery that benefits the lives of Western Australians. “Life is not easier, but its is richer because of the arts”.