Sculptures and drawings by Rainer Schlüter

The sculptures reflect an intense relationship between the artist and the stone. Nature creates objects of such complexity, originality and beauty that the human mind is at loss to compete. The artist’s act of sculpting begins in the quarry, with the search for the right stone, the one holding in embryo the artist’s future creation. It is based on the reactions to the material he sculpts, originating by the fusion between the natural roughness of the stone and the polished body fragments surfacing from it.

“It is a work in process in the sense that it never really ends”. Every piece the artist will create an experiment; “when I begin, I don’t know where I am going, nor what it will become in the end. I can define my sculptures as unfinished inventories of fragments”. The work is improvisational sites in which the constructed and the unfinished represent the artist’s intuition and the force of nature and beauty. “I rely on the stones, the sensuality in their shapes, the elegance in their lines, I feel the power of their structure, and with my work, I sense I join the work of Nature, culminating in a natural fusion which enhances the sensuality on the stone by highlighting its natural contrasts”. Rainer H Schlüter, 2012.

Special guest Cr Margaret Cochrane will officially open the exhibition and then celebrations to follow at Havana Music Café. The First 10 people who attend the launch at Cell Art Space will receive a special complimentary gift if they purchase a main meal on the night.

The artist’s work was inspired by her own childhood backyard; complete with a Hill’s Hoist clothesline. Although she say’s it is really about any Australian backyard.

The birds are modeled on Anna’s pet cockatiels, which ranged free in her backyard.

The work is black and white, because people would expect it to be colourful and Anna likes to be different.

Anna can envisage her work in a shop window – at a baby shop, pet shop, Library, or any shop wishing to display an Australian backyard. It’s cool, Anna say’s, that her work will be on display over Australia Day.

OPENING NIGHT Celebrations – 9 December 9:15 onwards
(last stop on the Creative Crawl)

Lyndell Hayes and Jeni Bullock have come together to examine the use of colour and it’s relation to spatial perception revealing how composition can be directly modified and enriched by integrating painting and drawing. Through this practice the artists inform their work in a contemporary manner exploring such things as birds and animals, subjects both artists are passionate about. Both Lyndell and Jeni have participated in many group shows and continue to evolve their arts practices constantly inspired by by both the tropical environment in which they live and from their travels overseas.

Jeni and Lyndell’s works are available for purchase to add to your art collection. Come by 109 Lake Street and check them out!

OPENING NIGHT – 9 December 9:15 onwards (last stop on the Creative Crawl)

Join exhibiting artists Lyndell Hayes & Jeni Bullock as they present a short artist talk. Special guest Rose Rigley from Knock Knock Contemporary Artists’ Initiative will officially open the exhibition. Listen to the musical talents of singer songwriter Alex Blagojevic as she hits Cell Art Space’s steps with her original songs, an infusion of folk, rock, soul and jazz.