women’s artistic works inspire
We women need to learn how to buy things for ourselves rather than always buy gifts for others.
I mentioned this thought when I opened the latest exhibition at the Burra Regional Art Gallery which was filled with exquisite women’s artworks.
There were 15 women artists exhibiting in Parallel 1930, which exuded a strong theme of feminine resourcefulness captured in Dorothy Henderson’s “The Humble Pinny’’.
Burra’s own Glenys Christopher joined Clare Valley artists Christian Vocke, potter Jill Foster and Ronda and Jim Dunstan, who drew from images of the natural world.
However, the main reason I travelled to Burra was to open the exhibition of one of Australia’s most renowned naive artists, Marie Jonsson-Harrison, a wonderful personal friend.
Her colourful, dynamic and playful naive art filled the main art space at Burra Gallery, itself an exciting, historic bluestone building from where John MacDougall Stuart began his epic journey across the continent.
Tags: Burra, naive art, regional art, women artists
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By Marie Jonsson-Harrison, 11/07/2010 @ 12:14 pm
Thank you so much dearest Nadine and Olivier for the lovely story and for doing a magnificent job at the opening, travelling all that way and your great company, so very much appreciated. Also thanks to Olivier for his fabulous photography Love Marie xx