NOW SHOWING UNTIL 15 OCTOBER 2010
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery & Koorie Heritage Trust presents
PaRing Gallery
AN EXHIBITION BUILDING PATHWAYS BETWEEN FIRST AUSTRALIAN
CULTURE AND THE MELBOURNE BUSINESS COMMUNITY
Download invitation here (pdf 404kb)
Download exhibition catalogue here (pdf 2.3MB)
Exhibiting Artists: Megan Cadd, Will Carter, Vicki Couzens, Peter Waples-Crowe, Lee Darroch, Peter Farmer, Gerald Fysh, Mick Harding, Patricia Harrison, Coral Hayes, Kamahi Djordon King, Elizabeth Liddle, Helen Morris, Jilalga Murray-Ranui, Janet Ogsten, Patricia Pittman, Wayne Quilliam, Irene Ridgeway, Jenny (Tweety) Solomon, Lisa Waup & Gloria Whalan
Toyota Australia, 155 Bertie Street, Port Melbourne
[Mel Ref 2E B11. 109 Tram, Stop 127, North Port Station/Lightrail Port Melb]
Open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm or by appointment. Inquiries Ken Wong 0419 570 846
IMAGES ABOVE L-R [all details of works] Baby Cockatoo Feather photograph by Elizabeth Liddle, Aisaha photograph by Wayne Quilliam & Big fire dead bogong moth linocut print by Mick Harding
About PaRing Gallery
The PaRing Gallery aims to create PaRing (pathways) between the Melbourne business community and first Australian culture. The gallery is an initiative of the Committee for Melbourne’s business leadership program, the Future Focus Group, working in partnership with the Koorie Heritage Trust, and for this incarnation, the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery. In early 2008, dissatisfied with their level of understanding and connection to first Australian cultures, the Future Focus Group project team resolved to work together on creating conversations between Aboriginal Victorians and the mainstream population. The team agreed on a specific goal - to find a way for Aboriginal people to bring their art and culture deeper into the daily lives of Melbournians. By displaying this work in major corporate buildings across Melbourne, they felt they could help to create pathways between the cultures.
About Koorie Heritage Trust Inc.
The Koorie Heritage Trust Inc Cultural Centre aims to protect, preserve and promote the living culture of the Indigenous people of south-eastern Australia. 'Gnokan Danna Murra Kor-ki', is the motto of the Trust and is the combination of two Koorie languages and means 'Give me your hand my friend' and bridge the cultural gap. The Koorie Heritage Trust Inc believes that through education and promotion it can raise an awareness and appreciation of the cultural diversity of Koorie culture in south-eastern Australia and work towards the broader goals of reconciliation for all Australians. The Trust embraces reconciliation by having Koories and non- Koories working together, side-by-side from the Board level down. All of the Trust’s activities and projects focus on reconciliation, healing, moving forward and honouring what has been before. Since time immemorial the creation stories taught Koorie people how to care for and live in unison with the land of their origin. People, who came later from a variety of cultures, brought with them their own beliefs. Many do not know the intricate original stories of this land. Bringing Koorie stories forward to be included with all other stories, cultural practices and beliefs, brings an important balance to the Victorian community.
View past exhibitions in the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
View past exhibitions from the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
2010 CALL for ENTRIES - it’s ART: WEAR it!
Open to all textile and fibre artists
This exhibition with the theme Flair: Flame: Fusion offers established and emerging artists the opportunity to
- display their creations
- network
- market their work
- a chance to have their creation modelled at a fashion parade
Entry Forms and more information available from Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre, 5 Sargood Street, Altona
For entry forms and more information, phone 03 9398 2511 or email louisjl@bigpond.net.au
Applications close 2 August 2010