last week for Resilience

This is the last week to view my exhibition Resilience at the Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy, bump-out is late afternoon on Wednesday 17 February, and I'll be in the gallery from 3pm for anyone wishing to catch up before the show closes.

A huge thank you, to everyone who took the time to visit my exhibition and for attending the Official Opening, Artist Guided Tour and Artist Conversations in the Gallery - I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity in sharing insights into my process, especially on how the Awards Trophy was created.

Attending the Awards (Sunshine Coast Australia Day) Ceremony, and hearing the amazing stories told by the awe inspiring peeps made me feel very privileged to have created this years awards trophy, and I am very humbled by the lovely feedback I've received from the recipients in appreciation of receiving their trophy - also a big shout of thanks goes to the Sunshine Coast Regional Council for providing local artists with this opportunity.

Pictured above, the actual Awards Trophy - an original photograph was converted into a vector file to create the design.

Further links to the Awards can be viewed via Sunshine Coast Daily's website - Awards ceremony video; Citizen of the Year, Senior Citizen, Sports Person of the Year, Young Citizens, additional Recipients (including, Creative, Community - Group or Organisation, and Environment).

morning tea and artists guided tour

Date claimer peeps! This THURSDAY 14 Jan 11.00am at the Butter Factory Arts Centre.

Join both Kym and I, for morning tea and a guided tour, as we share the highlights of our exhibitions. RSVP bfac@iinet.net.au - all welcome - gold coin donation. 

Dets refresher ...

Public Programs:

Please direct all inquiries to the gallery

Thursday 14 January 2016 at 11am

Guided Tour with both myself and Kym

Please RSVP by 13 Jan bfac@iinet.net.au or 07 5442 6665

Saturday 16 January - Sunday 24 January 2016 10am - 3pm daily (closed Mondays)

APT8 Kids on Tour - no RSVP required - please click on this link for all the details.

Butter Factory Arts Centre

11A Maple Street,

Cooroy Q 4563

07 5442 6665

bfac@iinet.net.au 

www.butterfactoryartscentre.com.au

Gallery Hours:

Tues - Fri 10am - 4pm

Sat - Sun 10am - 3pm

(Closed Mondays and on public holidays)

Resilience - install and opening

Resilience exhibition is now open to the public!
(plus Kym Barrett's Into the Blue)

Serenity II (detail), 2015 - Limited Edition 2/6

A huge shout-out of thanks to the install team - their professionalism and efficiency in hanging the work is second to none!

Strictly white gloves only when handling the supposedly 'stainless' stainless steel - I've found methylated spirits the best method for removing any greasy residue ...

(photo courtesy Cathy Money)

L-R; Cathy Money (Gallery Coordinator, Butter Factory Arts Centre) with the lovely Julie Hauritz (Public Art Officer, Sunshine Coast Regional Council) officially opening both exhibitions.

A lovely crowd attendance ... thank you to all who could make it and those who were there in spirit ♥

Handing the keys back to the community, L-R ; Cathy Money with Tex Pipke (President, The Cooroy Future Group - formally, the Cooroy Lower Mill Board) accepting the keys from Nina Shadforth (Director, Noosa Regional Gallery) to the Butter Factory Arts Centre.

(photo courtesy Sam Vatovey)

The final word and thanking one and all for coming... L-R; Kim Schoenberger (me), Kym Barrett, Cathy Money, and Julie Hauritz

(photo courtesy Sam Vatovey)

A link to my website for anyone wishing to view the works in more detail - please direct all sale inquiries to the gallery while works are on show - exhibition runs until Wednesday 17 February, 2016.

Butter Factory Arts Centre 
11A Maple Street,
Cooroy Q 4563
07 5442 6665
bfac@iinet.net.au
www.butterfactoryartscentre.com.au

Gallery Hours: 
Tues – Fri 10am – 4pm
Sat – Sun 10am – 3pm
(Closed Mondays and on public holidays)

Resilience exhibition

It gives me great pleasure to extend this warm invitation to my next exhibition ...

The opportunity for this exhibition literally came out of the blue, however, I am really happy with the thread I've created between the works - the two larger works, Resilient I and II have been previously exhibited - Resilient I in Living Change, the Flying Arts Alliance Inc touring exhibition of the 2013 Queensland Regional Art Awards, and Resilient II in Reflections, Friends Noosa Regional Gallery Taste of Art 2015 group show at Noosa Regional Gallery. I've wanted to showcase these works together for some time now and it's great the opportunity presented itself.

New works also featured are the prototypes for my recent commission, to design and make the 2016 Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards Trophy - four unique designs were created for the Trophy with one exclusively chosen, the remaining three designs (executed differently) feature in this exhibition.

Held at the Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy the exhibition opens on Friday 8 January, 2016 at 6pm with guest speaker Nina Shodforth, Director, Noosa Regional Gallery, and officially opened by Julie Hauritz, Public Art Officer, Sunshine Coast Regional Council. It would be wonderful to see you there, if you can make it. My work will showcase in the Foyer, and Kym Barrett in the Creamery who is also exhibiting - both exhibitions open on the same evening.

Exhibition dates: 8 January - 17 February, 2016

And, to compliment the exhibition the gallery has provided Public Program of events:

Please direct all inquiries to the gallery

Thursday 14 January 2016 at 11am

Guided Tour with both myself and Kym

Please RSVP by 13 Jan bfac@iinet.net.au or 07 5442 6665

Saturday 16 January - Sunday 24 January 2016 10am - 3pm daily (closed Mondays)

APT8 Kids on Tour - no RSVP required - please click on this link for all the details.

Butter Factory Arts Centre

11A Maple Street,

Cooroy Q 4563

07 5442 6665

bfac@iinet.net.au 

www.butterfactoryartscentre.com.au

Gallery Hours:

Tues - Fri 10am - 4pm

Sat - Sun 10am - 3pm

(Closed Mondays and on public holidays)

Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards Trophy

I am delighted to announce that earlier in the year, I was commissioned by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council to design and make the 2016 Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards Trophy.

Mateship, kinship and uniting as one, were the inspiration behind my design. The idea behind the concept was to design a trophy that represented what it means to be Australian and living on the Sunshine Coast.

It was an honour to be chosen to design the Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards trophy - I believe the nominees for this award are people worthy of celebrating and honouring for the unconditional service they provide, not only for the people around them but also the broader community.

Designed to hang on a wall rather than sit as an object on a shelf, each trophy is cut from recycled corrugated iron using a waterjet cutting technique, and finished with a stainless steel and Jacaranda backing – while an original photograph was painstakingly converted into a vector file to create the design – the finished trophy however a different design is the same concept as
Resilient I pictured below.

Example concept - NOT ACTUAL WORK

Winners in the seven categories will receive their award at the Sunshine Coast Australia Day Awards Ceremony, on Monday 25 January 2016.  

movies to see and artworks up for grabs!

Pictured below, Radiant Love is currently being showcased and is up for grabs at the Art with Heart Art display alongside ten other artworks as the major fundraiser for the 2014 Heart of Gold International Film Festival Gympie, Thursday 9th-12th October.  Art with Heart Art consists of artwork donated by renowned and local artists and is coordinated by Joolie Gibbs and her team at the Gympie Regional Gallery.  Ten artists include; Kim Schoenberger, Joolie Gibbs, Robin Hines, Amy Young, Jane Welsh, Sam Keane, Sherrie Rowan, Nonie Metzler, Bernadette Tuffley, Ryan Bailey.

 

Artworks up for grabs, I believe, are being displayed in the Propectors Hall for the duration of the event and to be in the draw, purchasers will be able to buy a ticket, record their order of preference for each of the artworks and as tickets are drawn, winners will be allotted their hightest preferred artwork, depending on the pieces remaining at the time you may still win your artwork of preference.  Tickets are $20 each and are limited to 500 tickets - drawn Sunday afternoon October 12, 2014.

  

Radiant Love, 2011. Found objects, steel and porcelain.

 

The Heart of Gold International Short Film Fest kicks off tomorrow at the Gympie Civic Centre, 32 Mellor St - there is a wonderful program with planner you can download, for convenience here is the direct link to their  > website.

exciting news!

Most of my facebook buddies will know of this news already, but its way too exciting not to share with my blogging friends too!   Way back when in 2011, the lovely Jo Murray sent me a link to Landfillart.org  'The Landfillart Project' a call for artworks made with recycled hub caps - liking the concept, I created my piece and posted it off to Pennsylvania (previous blog posts). Three years on, my transformed hubcap entitled Threaded Notions has been selected for their very first exhibition entitled, "Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art" held at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia USA - OMG, excitement plus!!!

 

Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art prides itself as an environmentally inspired contemporary art exhibition presenting works by nearly 300 artists from every U.S. state and 35 other countries, including little ole me!  So if your in the area please do call in and see the show - the Official Opening is on Saturday 6 September, 2014 and exhibits through to March 1, 2015.  Sadly being on the other side of the globe I'll not get in to see the exhibition - so if there is anyone out there that does, it would be fab to hear all about it!

"Minutiae" opens @ Rosebed St Gallery

Rosebed St Gallery's saw it's official exhibition opening last Friday night for Minutiae.  A massive crowd gathered in support of a special little gallery in down town Eudlo.

Minutiae (n, pl the small, precise, or trivial details of something: "the minutiae of everyday life") is a wonderful showcase of 430+ artworks from 43 artists (me included) and is Rosebed's annual end of year takeaway art small's exhibition, which means, artworks can be taken home once purchased (link contained within for details).

Curated by gallery owner Maya Cater-Malins Minutiae is a delightful mix of artworks at affordable prices, if your in the area and would like to support local....

 

A couple of my pieces on show...

 

It's the Little People

Laugh Dream

 

More images of my artworks for Minutiae seen on my website, additional artworks can be viewed on-line in Rosebed St Gallery's facebook page.

Exhibition dates: 04 Dec 2013 to 02 Feb 2014
13 Rosebed St, Eudlo
Wed - Sun 10am-4pm

only 9 days left to see my exhibition

It never ceases to amaze me how time flies by so quickly.  My exhibition closes Saturday week, 7th September and if you wish to see the show before it closes there's only nine days to do so.  

 

I'll be in the gallery on Saturday 7th (Sept) between 1pm and 3pm if anyone is wishing to come and talk with me about my work.

 

And to share some images with you...

(apologies to my overseas friends for the delay in uploading the images :-)

 

 

 Insight - view one

 

Insight - view two and a detail below

 

Inner Reflection (sold)

 

Beyond Silence

 

Yearning (sold)

 

Gympie Regional Gallery, 39 Nash St, Gympie Q 4570.

Gallery Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm.

(entry into the gallery is free)

 

There's additional images on my website if you would like to see more, including the dimensions to give you an idea of scale.

opening night

What an awesome opening!! Insight: Journeys in Steel and Clay is now open for viewing at Gympie Regional Gallery until Saturday 7th September, 2013.

 

It was a lovely evening celebrating amongst good friends and new friends...

 

Guest Speaker, Stephanie Outridge Field graciously accepting a thank you gift from yours truely for officially opening my exhibition...

 

 

A beautiful crowd gathered in celebration.

 

 

 

Three openings in the one evening, Gallery Coordinator, Joolie Gibbs, (pictured below) curator of the three exhibitions, opens Joachim Froese Still Life: Photography 1999-2008, while Elaine Thompson, President, Cool/Arts Gympie opened Animated Steel an exhibition by Christopher Trotter and ARTSLINK Queensland, all works on display are a must see, if your in the area!

Meeting baby Mindari with mum and dad, Amy and Jandamarra - precious!

Conversations...

 

 

This group photograph consists of five artists who participated in the 2013 OSCAS Open Studio Ceramic Australia Showcase over the weekend. All five of us under the one roof, in the same evening. (only 18 participating in the Open Studio in QLD!)

 

 

Note to self for future reference, hiring a bus worked a treat. Happy campers, loading back on the bus for their journey home, Christine and Noela in the front seat. It looked like a lot of fun, I wish I could have joined in!

 

 

Gympie Regional Gallery

39 Nash St

Tuesday to Saturday

10am to 4pm

(Closed Public Holidays)

Ph:1300 307 800

 

bump-in today!

To share with you, a few photographs from today's bump-in at Gympie Regional Gallery for my solo exhibiton, Insight: Journeys in Steel and Clay.

 

 

Glen and his expertise, lining up and positioning the triptych.

 

Me with the hammer, nail number one, of one hundred and twenty one!

 

Glen in the distance marking out 5cm intervals... the first porcelain bone in place.

 

One hundred and twenty one porcelain bone run the full length of the wall.

 

It's title: "When you Reach the Far Shore, you Leave the Boat Behind" - Ram Dass

Joolie attending to the final touches.

 

It's always hard to capture the full essence of the whole show in one photograph, I will get more at a later date...

hop of the bus! + Official Opening 'time' changed

Please amend or make a note in your dairy folks the time for my Official Opening of Insight: Journeys in Steel and Clay (Gympie Regional Gallery, Sat 17th August, 2013) will be from 5.30pm onwards and not 1.30pm as previously mentioned (to which I have now amended).

Also, I am excited to announce my Guest Speaker for the evening will be Stephanie Outridge Field.  I had the pleasure of hearing Stephanie talk at an exhibition opening some time ago at Noosa Regional Gallery it was truely an inspirational speach which left us all on a high.

And, In the spirit of things and in total excitement!!! I have booked a bus to transport my supporters to Gympie for the opening.  I am capping it at 20 people max.  The cost will be $10 per person (I will be subsidising $10 per person) So... if you are interested in hitching a lift up the highway let me know asap - email me at info@kimschoenberger.com and I will send you the details...

 

Of course, this is not the bus that will be transporting you there, but it is a groovy looking bus!

 

You will be in very safe hands and transported with Lyn from Mystic Mountain Tours.  Lyn took myself and a group of ladies on a Hen's day out, it was an awesome ride - btw, if your ever in need of hiring a bus, I highly recommended them!

 

 

full steam ahead!

Time is ticking by so quick with nearly one month until d-day for my Gympie solo exhibition, my lack of posts is a true indication I have been grinding (literally) away the hours in the studio as well as burning the midnight oil.  Not wanting to say it too loud for in fear of the flying spanner! ...with all my medieval preparations almost in order and working on the final touches with the last of my assemblages... I think, I am starting to feel like I am on top of things, yipeeee! ....well, for now anyhows - only two days ago I felt like I was gasping for air, oh the joys of fluctuations of being an artist! 

The last few weeks (inbetween glazing and firing medieval ceramics and de-teaing tea bags, knitting, latch hooking etc., into the evenings....) I have being wreaking havoc for the neighbours with all the noise pollution echoing through the valley, banging and clanging all through day... I have tried to mix it up abit with my routine as to give them a break from all the noise, but the last few weeks have been fairly intense. - I did manage to take a couple of images 'in the makings' ...and NO my bench is not always this tidy, I couldn't help myself, I did clear the bench for some of the photos.

 

Of course these images show works in progress, in contemplation, the maybe's and the maybe not's - just a snippet behind the scenes and what can find its way onto my work bench. 

 

I am currently working on these following three pieces at the moment, doing the finishing touches... the two lighter pieces have been sanded with the darker third piece next in line. I like the randomness of working with the lay of the waterjet cuts each piece takes on its own identity and presence.  The protruding plates you can see, are for the porcelain bone to rest onto - these are designed to hang on the wall, backed with another material, to which I will reveal at a later date.

Best Sculpture Award

Over the weekend my art piece Domestic Goddess took out the Best Sculpture Award at the Immanuel Arts Festival.  In its 32nd year running, the Immanuel Arts Festival is recognised as the largest community arts event on the Sunshine Coast which attracts over 300 artists and showcases over 1000 artworks across a number of different genres including painting, photography, sculpture, creative and wearable art. Its nice to participate and support the local art events, and I am humbled to have received an award.

Domestic Goddess is of course from my Domestic Duties Chp.2 solo exhibition 2012, in which part of, is now touring in a group show entitled Teasing the Domestic with Artslink Queensland 2013-14 Touring Exhibiton Program.  Tour dates are on my website if anyone is interested > here.  However the exhibition Teasing the Domestic is soon to be exhibiting locally for a few days (15 - 22 June, 2013), at The J (Noosaville) in conjunction with the 'Noosa Long Weekend'.  I will post sooner to the day with all the details to confirm the dates, times and opening etc...

 

 

Sponsorship & thoughts...

Check out this delicious stash of steel! ...and I have to send a huge-mega thank you to Steve from Caloundra Waterjet Cutting for his sponsorship and supplying me with his discarded steel off cuts.  This steel of course is for my new body of work, my upcoming solo show in Gympie (Regional Gallery), having new material to work with is very inspiring and has injected a new spin on my direction.

 

 

In this new body of work I am looking to document my personal journey in a tangible form...

 

 

 an inward journey of growth and discovery, personal development both spiritually and emotionally...

I often frequent a deeper level of mind,

 

 

I find peace and solitude in this space....

 

For me, this 'space' is enriched with meaning overflowing with abundance,

 

it is the direct line to "source"

 

it is here where all the magic happens

 

and is where all the answers lie, to your own truths....