ACTIVITIES Journal
LINKS to my ARTWORK presented on other online galleries:
My ARTABUS virtual gallery: https://www.artabus.com/kerryn/
PAST ART ACTIVITIES:
* 2010 November 5th - 21st, Postcard Show, themed 'The Salon', Cairns Regional Gallery
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2010 Feb 5 -28, Tablelands - 'Perimeters, Parameters', Kuranda Arts
Cooperative Group Exhibition, Tablelands Regional Gallery in Atherton,
FNQ.
* 2009 Dec. 9 x 5 Group Exhibition, Walker St Gallery, Melbourne
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2009 Nov 21-22 - Coordinated and participated in the 2 day Artist Book
Workshop 'Books as Containers Books as Objects: From Journal to
Sculpture' with Tutor, Adele Outteridge from Brisbane.
* 2009 Oct 23 - Nov 6, Post-Card Show 'Hidden Treasures', Cairns Regional Gallery
* 2009 Oct 10-17, Innisfail Biennial Art Exhibition 2009 (National Competition) Innisfail Shire Hall, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
* 2009 Aug.22/23 -Attended 2 day Artist Book workshop with Tutor Rebecca Berrett at Flying Fish Point CWA Hall.
* 2009 April 24 - May 31, Toured (selected) - Solo, 'Elevating the Spirit', Main Space, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland.
* 2008, Dec 5 - 19, Postcard Show 'Hidden Treasures', (invitation only), Cairns Regional Gallery.
My ENTRY 'Inner-Well-Being'
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2008, August 29 - Sept 19. * Exhibited Artwork 'Time to Play (Big
Time)' for Kick Arts Insider Members Exhibition 'BIG', Centre of
Contemporary Arts, Cairns. It is an Annual Fundraiser. Work sold by the
silent bidding process.
* 2008 August 1 - 30. * Art4Life - Voting Online Competition Art4Life - www.art4life.com.au
- a new Australian art website, supporting the arts through a voting online Australian Artist's competition.
August Theme: Cafe Society/Urban Lifestyle. My Entry: Ponderings (listed No.68)
Voting valid from 1 - 30 August.
Result - As at 28 August, was 9th out of the 22 entries then my computer CRASHED!
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2008 August 16/17. Tutored * ART WORKSHOP - Mixed Media: "ABSTRACTION
BY ARRANGEMENT" (Continued...Days 3 & 4), (Rescheduled from July
19/20).
Venue: CWA Hall, Flying Fish Point, Via Innisfail.
For any enquiries please contact me on 07 40611747 or email via this website.
* 2008 July 1 - 31. * Art4Life - Voting Online Competition
July Theme: Australian Portrait. Entered work Tokens, 7x3=21, listed No. 823 at Art4Life a new 2008 Australian art website.
Voting from 1 to 31 July, 2008.
Result...Came 12th out of a total of 33 entries.
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2008 June 21/22. Tutored * ART WORKSHOP - Mixed Media: "ABSTRACTION BY
ARRANGEMENT" (Day 1 & 2 of 4 days total) June - Sat. 21 & Sun.
22, 2008.
Venue: CWA Hall, Flying Fish Point, Via Innisfail.
©K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 05.11.2010
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Post Update
FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Dived in and did the smArtist telesummit course back in January and
learnt, for starters, about using these social networks for connecting. I
am now actively up and running on Facebook and Twitter and loving the
connecting world wide. Come join me.
My FACEBOOK 'PUBLIC PROFILE PAGE'
Come be 'a Fan' and connect with me.
MY FACEBOOK PUBLIC PROFILE PAGE
Twitter Updates
©K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 13.03.2009
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ARTPOST - ABC's new art website
ARTPOST.ABC.NET.AU by the Australian Govt.
One month ago I joined
up to this site. I am amazed to find I have slowly crawled up the "most
viewed artist" ladder in such a short time to now being currently rated
in third place, with 1305 views to date as at 27.11.08!
Do take a
look at the set up. There are glitches on this site but if you hit a
'dead end' button simply back track and/or hit one of the tags.
my ABC ARTPOST link page
ARTPOST.ABC.NET.AU
K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 27.11.2008
*Note - Artpost was eventually archived
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News Update
ELEVATING THE SPIRIT to show in Main Space at Umbrella Studio, Townsville
Date: April 24 - May 31 , 2009
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Exhibition Review Article
Sugarama Gallery Exhibition Review ELEVATING THE SPIRIT
Exhibition Review ELEVATING THE SPIRIT, Solo Exhibition by Kerryn
Madsen-Pietsch. September 2007, at Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan.
Kerryn
Madsen-Pietsch alluded to the courage and perseverance that it takes to
be an artist in one of the didactics that supported her exhibition
'Elevating the Spirit' displayed recently at the Sugarama Gallery,
Mourilyan. And it is this message of perseverance and serious endeavour
that underpins the rhythmic harmonies of colour and tone that represent
three years of her work.
Kerryn's journey of creativity has been
incremental, built through experience, thought and physical process to
achieve solutions along the way. Her attention to surface texture,
repetitive motifs, structure and colour do provide exquisite moments of
beauty and tranquillity, but in my mind the richness and clarity of
colour handling is more successful when Kerryn takes a step away from
process and allows mechanical intervention (printmaking and
digitisation) to intervene, softening the effect of rigid adherence to
process outcomes. While the visual effect of the artworks do 'elevate
the spirit' through their aesthetic qualities, my search for the stories
of experience, the spirit and the personal, remained frustrated by the
veils of paint and texture. If Kerryn is more able to expose these
narratives, a deeper experience will ensue for the viewer.
For
me, it was the hand built three dimensional basket forms that provided
the best balance of thought, process and material in this exhibition
('Bound and Unified in Contrast' pictured). Kerryn's attention to
detail, superb handling of repetitive layering and obvious control of
the mediums she uses (banana fibre, waxed string* and other organic
materials) fuse as one in these works. These circular fibre forms more
completely capture that sense of life and hope, of looking out and of
looking in, of restraint and freedom.
It does take a brave person
to expose one's own self to the public eye and also takes great courage
and dedication to remain focused and true to purpose in an industry
that is highly subjective and difficult to negotiate. But I sense that
Kerryn will continue to rise to these challenges steadily developing her
oeuvre and style into the future. Valerie Keenan.
ARTS NEXUS - EDITION 65
January - March 2008 (page 30)
www.artsnexus.com.au
*artist's note: its linen thread and not waxed.
K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 31.12.2007
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RAISING SPIRITS (Art Exhibition 'Elevating the Spirit' Review)
Art & About
news and reviews on the latest art exhibitions and theatre shows
Review by Karen van Harskamp, Cairns Post timeout, p.18 Thursday 21.06.07
RAISING SPIRITS
In
seeking and making meaning people draw on patterns - of form, action
and feeling - to define the indescribable and seemingly random nature of
life into recognisable, manageable truths.
'Elevating the Spirit' seeks to transform this process into a tangible presence.
The
media chosen by the artist is often as fascinating as the end result -
'Tokens, 3 x 7 = 21' is a collage work of acrylic, linen thread, rice
paper and cotton fabric patterns from favourite old clothing, fused on
to a grid pattern across canvas. An exploration of how fragments can
constitute the whole but the whole transcends the fragments, this is the
art of association. Madsen-Pietsch's primary derived palette is
evocative but subtly manifested, enhanced by the primal humanity of her
execution.
Her fibre receptacle, 'Circular Bound', suggests the
almost universal human desire to reveal that which is hidden and contain
that which is of value.
Exploring the symbolic vessel of being,
the heart, the artist evokes the quintessential expressions that have
evolved throughout human cultures over time in 'All Embracing, Where
Spirit Resides'.
Oddly connective in their impact, the palette
and composition of many works is both intriguing and meditative as
evidenced in 'Spirit of Gold - States of Being' and 'Parallels (Page
Format Transitions)'.
Revelling in the organic pleasure of
tactile creation, 'Page Format Transitional Series' celebrates how
grounded energies give birth to transformed states and the pleasure of
seeing experience manifest as a language of purpose, impact and visual
aesthetic.
The mark of the artist imbues the works with unique appeal, a quality attractive to many in a mass-produced age.
With
her complex, many layered works Madsen-Pietsch dignifies the challenges
of meaning-making in life by honouring the grandeur of the puzzle and
the pursuit.
K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 13.07.2007
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2006 Cyclone Larry hits Innisfail
"I'VE BEEN THROUGH 'WINIFRED'1986 (CAT.3) AND NOW I'VE BEEN
LARRIED...(CAT.5 - 4+ ?) THAT 'BLASTED 'VISIT FROM CYCLONE LARRY, ON THE
EARLY MONDAY MORNING OF 20TH MARCH 2006, 3.30AM - 9.00 AM."
You can view 'flooded' studio images of the then rented basement of 27 Rankin Street, Innisfail at www.artropica.com.au
Posted 31.03.06
To date (6.09.07) this premise has still not been repaired.
©K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 31.03.2006
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Newspaper Article
'DUALITY ART EXHIBITION'
Innisfail Advocate, Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - Page 3.
"Inspiration was right on the doorstep for Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch when it came to creating "Light, Time and Facades".
The long-time Innisfail artist has worked out of her Rankin Street studio
for eight years but it wasn't until two years ago that she suddenly
noticed a simple but captivating sight just across the road.
Ms
Madsen-Pietsch has based her latest piece, part of Sugarama Gallery's
new exhibition "Duality", on the reflections of Rankin Street buildings
in windows across the street.
She said she had been snapping
pictures of art deco buildings to finish a film when she stumbled on the
images captured in her painting.
"It was late afternoon light
and it's (image) been the basis of mono prints before this - but I'm
very happy with this result," Ms Madsen-Pietsch said.
Fifteen Innisfail Art Society Members are part of "Duality" which opens this Sunday.
Stasia
Abraham, Annette Anderson, Barbara Brayshaw, Jacque Duffy, Jean
Giarola, Yvonne Hering, Sandra Hodgson, Belinda Mangano, Sally Maroney,
Lou Micallef, Liz Provians, Suzanne Shannon, Anita Berry and Cliff
Madsen and his wife challenged themselves during workshops leading up
the exhibition which were run by James Cook University lecturer Anneke
Silver and curator Melissa Waters.
The resulting artworks range from water colours to prints and sculptures.
"Duality"
opens at 2pm on Sunday in Mourilyan's Sugarama Gallery and members of
the public are welcome to be part of the opening. The exhibition will run
until January (29th).
(Includes Colour photo - Innisfail artist Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch with her Duality exhibit "Light, Time and Facades".)
K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 08.11.2005
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GROWTH Exhibition 2005 Cairns Regional Gallery
Artist Statement
The Growth of the stitch and colour palette in
my art practice stems from the detaching and extrapolating the stitch
from its function (employed in my banana fibre basketry products) into
an exploration of the metaphysical realm of ‘threads’.
Practically,
stitches bind, attach and connect materials and/or surfaces together;
for me it is a metaphor for human bonding. Using a needle and thread by
hand to stitch involves a slow meditative passing of time and is a
methodical and sometimes painful process, of pushing and pulling through
materials. This process in the end reveals the two-sided nature and the
in-between of the affair.
In 'Threads' the stitch, archetype
symbols (such as the ‘X’) and symbolic colour (eg. blue and gold) become
the common threads for linking and connecting to the human psyche. Via
the thread and colour, my work discusses:
a) the spirit and alchemy of ‘relationships’;
b)
dualities of life - the connection of the conscious to
subconsciousrealms, spirit to matter, transience to permanence,
complexity to simplicity, ambiguity to certainty, and
c) interwoven energies.
©K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 02.08.2005
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2004 'SENSE OF ATTACHMENT'
Exhibition October 17 to November 14, 2004, at Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan (just south of Innisfail).
The
theme initiated by K.Madsen-Pietsch was then curated by Jill
O'Sullivan, MCA, Artist/Lecturer, JCU, Townsville. The group exhibition
showcases the artist's interpretation to their own 'sense of
attachment'. It has a broad representation of 16 local Innisfail &
district artists in a very successful show.
Artist's statement:
One
continuum through out my life has been with tactility, its seduction
and the manipulation of various fibres & threads, often for a
functional end use as in the displayed Set 3 Banana fibre pods with
lids.
Still with the idea of 'attachment' I decided to extract
(detach) the stitch from the 3D object of use and, abstractly and
meditatively, started extrapolating 'the stitch'. 'Threads' (Visual
Stitch Diary/Book) became the instrument for the sorting, sifting
through the labyrinth of fluctuating ideas and associations. It allowed
for creative exploration, enquiry and expression of new conceptual ideas
and forms, new attachments.
Practically stitches bind, attach,
and connect materials and/or surfaces together and is a metaphor for
human bonding. The stitch becomes the 'thread', linking and connecting
to the human psyche. Using a needle and thread by hand to stitch is a
slow, methodical and sometimes painful process, of pushing and pulling
through materials. The process reveals the two sides (dual nature) and
the in-between to this affair.
This book is the
starting/referencing point for a further body of new work which is to be
exhibited in a select artist group/curated exhibition called 'Growth'.
The artists involved are members of the Kuranda Arts Cooperative Ltd. It
is to held at the Cairns Regional Gallery next July 2005.
©K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 17.10.2004
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