The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is looking for artists aged 5-18 who love to be creative at home and who are working on their art independently of school. The Young Artists Awards are judged by a panel of working artists who feel passionate about encouraging creativity in young people. If you are interested in exploring this fantastic opportunity, please click on the link below:

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How do you find ways to write about your work in a compelling and concise manner? What are the questions and ideas you place alongside your work so that you can convey your practice in meaningful and relevant ways? This workshop will focus on ways to develop quations, statements and ideas about your work that help open it up to others who are not familiar with your work. You will be asked to bring a current statement about your work as a starting point, and through a collaborative, guided process, you will leave with some concrete ways to strengthen it.

Maximum 20 participants.

Sunshine Coast Art Crawl 2019
October 18 – 20, 2019

The Sunshine Coast Art Centre is venue 129 for the 2019 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl featuring first time artists: Judy E. Witheford, Keely Halwar, Will Sheward, Kate Napier, and Paddy Meade. They will be showing their work in the gallery from October 18 to 20, 10am – 5pm. Come and meet them, and support their participation.

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Art Card Fundraiser
October 18–November 10, 2019

Our popular Art Card Fundraiser is back just in time for the holiday season. Come to the gallery, buy a card or two, and support local artists and the Arts Council.

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Two and More
October 24 – November 10, 2019

Reception: November 10, 2019

Vanessa Hall-Patch, Pia Sillem, Elaine Futterman, Mike Allegretti, Jack Olive, Ray Niebergall, Bev Niebergall, Jack Ploesser

Two and More is an exhibition of artists working with printmaking and clay who explore two and more surface design techniques. Playing and contrasting techniques and their combined effects, the artists in the exhibition reveal a breadth of material exploration, combined with extraordinary skill and control.

Vanessa Hall-Patch creates works on paper by layering multiple photo-based printmaking techniques, including etching, screen printing, relief and embossment. Focusing on themes of collecting, recording and preservation, Vanessa documents vernacular structures within her rural surroundings of Bowen Island, British Columbia. Pia Sillem’s pottery is fired in a wood kiln, which creates unique effects that cannot be achieved or duplicated in any other way. Elaine Futterman and Mike Allegretti of Creek Clayworks use salt firing. They put salt into their gas kiln and the sodium combines with silica in the clay to form glaze, a method that originated in Germany in the 1700s. There are often some surprises when they open the kiln to see what patterns the salt has made on the pots. The process produces luminous, almost alchemical surfaces. Jack Olive’s work plays with a range of glazing techniques including black and white pieces that are fired in the raku method with no glaze on the outside and the interiors are glazed. He makes both functional and decorative work, ranging from abstract and geometric to subjects drawn from the natural environment. Bev and Ray Niebergall will display their clay creations that range from functional wear to decorative and sculptural works, while Jack Ploesser exhibits his deep knowledge of copper red and ash glazes and they curious ways they interact with each other.

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Members are invited to the 2019 Annual General Meeting & Awards Ceremony, October 24 at 7 pm at the Art Centre at the corner of Trail and Medusa

Come and celebrate the past Sunshine Coast Arts Council year of exhibitions, programs, finances and accomplishments as well as celebrating with this year’s annual awards’ recipients – The Anne and Philip Klein Visual Arts Award, the Frances Wasserlein Community Leadership in Arts and Culture Award, the Gillian Lowndes Award, and the Louise Baril Memorial Music Award. Refreshments will be served.