NEWS AND TEXT


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

* 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

* 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'

* 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!

* 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.

* 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.

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©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

K. Madsen-Pietsch, Post date 24.02.2008

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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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