[Huon Forests] Art Exhibition Opening Night this Friday at Hogan Gallery Melbourne

[jenny weber]

Opening night This Friday Night.
At Hogan Gallery, Smith St, Fitzroy Melbourne.

Free Speech and Tasmania’s Forests On Trial

Freedom to Speak A Corporate Unmasking
Gunns 20 Fundraising Collaborative Art Exhibition – 20 Artists
15 Jan  - 28 Jan 2010
Opening Night 6pm 15 Jan 2010

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*A selection of the artists involved in the exhibition*

*Kevin Perkins*

Born in 1945 in Launceston, Tasmania, furniture designer-maker, Kevin
Perkins takes inspiration in conservation issues and a sense of place
elicited by the history, traditions, forests and wildlife of his home-state.
Perkins is passionate about demonstrating the rich diversity of Tasmanian
timbers - in contrast to bland plantation timbers - and continues to
highlight the natural beauty of these materials through the strong
sculptural forms of his work.
He studied Joinery at Technical College in 1965 and studio sculpture in
1973. He has established a reputation over four decades as Australia's
foremost maker of fine timber furniture.
He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, both nationally and
internationally, recently including Material Culture (2005) at the National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Convergence (2005), which toured to
Hobart, San Francisco and Chicago. Perkins' work is included in many
important collections including the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; the National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Tasmanian Wood Design Collection,
Launceston.
His collaborative commissions date back to 1980 and include the
extraordinary refurbishment of St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta.
Perkins retired from teaching in 2006, after lecturing at the Tasmanian
School of Art, Hobart, for twenty-five years, to work full-time on his own
furniture production.

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*Matthew Newton *

Matthew Newton is an independent photographer based in Hobart. He works with
both moving and still images. He has shot documentaries that have been
broadcast nationally and regularly photographs for editorial and news
publications throughout Australia.

www.matthewnewton.com.au

Awards

Finalist National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010

Finalist Hutchins Art Prize - works on paper 2009

Finalist Olive Cotton Portrait Prize 2009

Finalist Head On Portrait Prize 2008

Finalist Walkley Awards for Journalism excellence 2007

Finalist Leica/CCP Documentary Award 2007

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*Rob Blakers*

Rob has worked as a landscape photographer in Tasmania for almost 30 years
and has seen both extraordinary beauty and profound loss in the island's
wild places.  The quest to find images that might represent the loveliness
and the tragedy of the endangered natural world underpins Rob’s photographic
work. http://www.robblakers.com/

*Elizabeth Barsham*

Elizabeth Barsham has had paintings hung in the Blake Prize and other
major exhibitions. Her paintings have won many awards and have been
acquired by private collectors world wide.  Elizabeth teaches Adult
Education classes in drawing and painting, and you can see recent work
on her website, www.tasmanian-gothic.com .



*Andrew Donohoe*

Andrew Donohoe is a printmaker living in the Upper Huon Valley. His
work is influenced by the natural environment and the magnificent and
majestic forms of the Ancient threatened and quickly vanishing
forests..



*Michael Schlitz*

Michael Schlitz is a printmaker based in Huonville, Tasmania .  he
makes work about, environmental and psychological issues he encounters
in this region.



*Wolfgang Glowacki*

Wolfgang is a multi award winning nature and wilderness photographer based

in Hobart, Tasmania. He is passionate campaigner for the protection of wild

places and his images have been used in many campaigns over that last seven

years in Tasmania. See his work at www.wolfgangglowacki.com.au.





*Selena de Carvalho*

Selena de Carvalho is Tasmanian based artist and maker of things. She moved
to Tasmania in 2002 and has (not in-) bred with an Apiarist allergic to
Bee's.



*Aviva Hannah *

Aviva Hannah is an eco-scientist and artist, a visual ecologist.  She has
participated in many exhibitions and protests in relation to deforestation
in Tasmania. Aviva Hannah also travels and performs whilst journaling and
drawing.



*John McColl*

John McColl has been sculpting professionally in the mediums of ceramic,
wood, bronze and ferro cement for the past 28 years. Being a passionate
surfer, he draws much of his inspiration from the natural world.



*Marcus Tatton*

Trained as a furniture designer, Marcus has worked as a full time sculptor
in Tasmania over the last 15 years.  He camps in the clearfell coupes and
carves large hollow vessels from waste logs insitu.  Marcus also creates
public sculptures in cast concrete, steel and other industrial waste.   The
works are mostly shown in National sculpture forums like Sculpture by the
Sea in Bondi, NSW and Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award in Victoria.



*Nishant Datt*

Nishant is a photographer and forest defender based in Tasmania, originally
from India.  Nishant documents Tasmania’s threatened wilderness and forest
defense actions, from the frontline, often from a tree sit perch.



*Peter Van Der Pasch*

Peter is a photographer, aborist and forest defender based in Tasmania, with
a passion for trees and wilderness. Peter documents life in the tree tops
and on the frontline and forest actions.  Peter is based in Tasmania,
originally from New Zealand.
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