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Wednesday 2 November 2022

Local Creative - Jeffrey Samuels
Portrait of Jeffrey Samuels by Sharon Hickey, Jeffrey stands in front of two large paintings on the left painting there is a star shape in the centre and white outlines show many fish shapes all heading to the centre star, the more you look the more you see thebackground colours are green, yellow, orange, brown and dark green-blue, the painting on the right is similar but its colours are blue, green and yellow - the fish are ore in a repetitive circular shape and there are white overlapping circles. Jeffrey stands in front of these paintings smiling with his mouth shut, he has a very friendlyface and grey short hair, he wear a black polo short sleeve shirt with red highlights and a gold emblem
Jeffrey Samuels. Photography by Sharon Hickey

Our featured artist Jeffrey Samuels is a local artist as well as a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, his work can be seen at the Pop Up exhibition this month at Chrissie Cotter Gallery. Jeffrey would like to use his art to help change Australia's constitution, to have Aboriginal people enshrined in it. Check out this link to read more about Jeffrey and his upcoming work here.

Mia Economou, also this months featured artist is a runner up from this years Young Creative awards, her piece Ozark Amy will be on show at Chrissie Cotter Gallery from 8 - 13 November. Mia is influenced by nature and likes to instil the sense of calm, beauty and healing in her paintings to capture the same atmosphere she experiences in nature. The work is inspired by the novel, Gone Girl. Hear more from Mia here.

A wonderful opening took place on the weekend at the Sydney Bus Museum for the GreenWay Art Prize. If you want to check out these outstanding artworks celebrating the precious 5.8km urban environmental and sustainable transport corridor in Sydney’s Inner West - the exhibition runs until Sunday 13 November. Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger took out the 13th GreenWay Open Art Prize for her artwork 'Mangrove V - Beyond the Light' 2022.

A reminder to our readers to check in regularly on our internal and external opportunities page, there are some great initiatives, call outs and funding available, organisations and the like are looking for our talented community to be involved. See the opportunities tab below and here.

One of the opportunities listed includes applications for the Art Gallery’s 2023 Youth Collective which are now open. The Youth Collective is a one-year mentorship program for folks aged 15 to 24. They encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences from within and outside Greater Sydney. Closing date is Friday 4 November, 5pm. See here for more.

Another exciting opportunity we will be announcing shortly is the EDGE Art Camp on the GreenWay Expression of Interest, for artists to participate in a two week artists residency on the GreenWay in Lilyfield. Keep your eyes out for the special bulletin in your inbox.

St Anmore Music Festival

Saturday 5 November 2022
Marching band on the road wearing red, many brass intruments can be seen and there is a crowd of people following

Mia Economou - Young Creative 

Awards @ CCG 8-13 November 
Cropped painting Ozark Amy by Mia Economou, a young woman stands on a rock with her back to us, she wears a stripy brown and white top and has long hair, beneath the rock there is a stream and dense bush on the other side

Ceramics Open Studio

Saturday 12-13 November 2022
 Person stands at a studio table and works with orange coloured clay their hands look like they are shaping a mug or jug. the person wears blue overalls and hair pulled up and glasses. There are tools on the table
 

Boomalli Pop Up at CCG

Wednesday 16-21 November 2022
Painting by Bronwyn Bancroft, three women with black skin dance on a patterened style earth that has shapes made out of dots, large oval type shapes sit horizontally with a dividing balck and white curving line separting another area of oval shapes with an orange background. In tha background is a patterned burnt orange and black semi circle repeated pattern, in the very background are hill shapes with green and black diagonal lines and a blue sky and yellow round sun. The first two women look to be dancing with arms outstretched and knees bent wearing dresses the third does a hand stand - there are no features on the women\
 

Marrickville Music Festival

Saturday 19 November 2022
Photo of a person d\

Balmain Public School Art Show

Saturday 19 November 2022
Cut out couloring in of a budgie, the bird is multicoloured and features a close up of the birds, head and upper body,, the head is tilted and the bird has large eyes and a cute look about it
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