What's On at the Gallery
2011 has proved to be a most busy year so far. After a ‘Big Wet’ which kept everyone grounded in and around Kununurra or sent them scurrying south, via air only as the roads were cut, it was a relief to see a bit of regular sun in April. However in March events were already under way.
On Friday 11th March…
the Gallery held a Kununurra Chamber
of Commerce – Business After Hours evening. This was co-hosted
with
who generously donated free flights as the lucky business card prize.
Airnorth CEO Simone Saunders has a firm grip on the precious airline
ticket voucher
Monday 28th March…
Another function had a happy crowd enjoying the art as Lovell Gallery hosted a cocktail party for SKAL International. With 50 inter and intrastate visitors joined by 30 local SKAL members and several artists, it was another fun night. Visiting guests were subjected to a quiz and then got their own back when the locals were made to enter a drawing competition.
 SKAL Kununurra President Vanessa Haydon and Nadeen Lovell oversee the proceedings. |
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 Local SKAL members get to work |
 Broome SKAL Member and Shire President is asked to critique the work and appears quite stunned. |
Lovell Gallery is unique in that SKAL International ( an International Tourism network which has been around for over 70 years,) does not normally accept gallery owners as Members. An exception was made by the overseas based International Board of Directors a few years ago, to accept Lovell Gallery due to its high quality presentation of service and content and its’ Tourism Attraction status.
And then on Wednesday 18th May…
the biggest night of the year….
The Argyle Diamonds-Ord Valley Muster, Lovell Gallery-Art Appreciation Evening.
A lot of planning, installation and hard work by the gallery personnel, artists and Friends of the Gallery goes into place for this event. Guests may attend by way of purchasing a ticket only and these always sell out in advance.
The theme was ‘Laundered’ and was an expose of the darker side of the Art World with laundering of clothes suddenly becoming laundering of money , counterfeiting, forging and fakery. Even a Hills Hoist made an appearance as did many other tools of the trades of laundry and laundering
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Kimberley Kohan, Polly Shiner, Jan Parish, Trish Purchase , Peter Mulder, Mary Raymond, Louise Collier, Jeanne Barnes and of course Nadeen were all in attendance. Simon Hemsley and Al Mason unfortunately had other commitments interstate.
The forgeries these artists produced were inspired and a definite surprise when they were unveiled to the crowd…….
 Not Leonardo but Louise Collier with her rendition of Mona Lisa |
 Picasso’s Weeping Woman produced by Jeanne Barnes |
 And Kimberley Kohan, reluctant to copy a Jeffrey Smart as he is still alive and exhibiting ….created her own Smart work, showing she has a very good understanding of the Master’s work, as well as the talent to pull it off. |
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Nadeen would like to give a big vote of thanks
to all who helped out with particular note of the enthusiasm and work
put in by
Allan Wedderburn …a true Friend of the Gallery.
June – Sept... The visitors will be flooding into town and the gallery will once again be very busy as it is now a well known ‘must see’ on the Tourist Trail.
October... The Kununurra Visitor Centre is hosting a national event and has asked Nadeen to be part of the event. More to come on that later.
PHEW! .... painting time is already looking scarce for Nadeen
NEW WORK
There is always new work coming into the gallery. See a few samples on the Originals Page and please don’t hesitate to contact us for details of our latest works.
NEW WORK
by Kimberley Kohan is available. See her website. While Kimberley has made the move to live in Fremantle, she is still travelling up to the Kimberley several times a year. Her visits here are often planned to include gallery events and she has remained one of our top selling artists.