DECEMBER 2009

AWARDS FOR 2009 KAS EXHIBITION

FIRST PRIZE O/A            YVONNE LANGSHAW                  Blue Jug
SECOND PRIZE O/A        IRMA ROBERTS                            Man in the Mirror
THIRD PRIZE O/A           RENATE FISCHER                       Windy Afternoon

Robert East Memorial Award  KAS Member   SALWA WOODROFFE       Waves

Landscape / Seascape / Urbanscape

1st         RENATE FISCHER                         STORMY WEATHER
2nd        YVONNE LANGSHAW                   FINKE RIVER
KAS     BETH CRAWFORD                         BHP LANDSCAPE
Highly Comm   Becky Guggisberg             Commenced         Philip Miles

Contemporary/ Abstract.    

 1st        YVONNE LANGSHAW                DOWN AT TWO MILE CAMP
2nd       VIVIEN TANNER                           MEN AT WORK
KAS      PAMELA WILSON                      LEYLA
Highly Comm   Lynne Mak                        Commended           Sarah Aylward
                                                    
Watercolour   ( Norm  Gilmour Memorial Prize) 
1st        MARY-JANE BURKE                    BREAKING LIGHT -WINEGLASS BAY
2nd     BERYL CROFTS                               AFTERNOON GLOW –NEW YORK
KAS     JUDITH CROWLEY                     STEEL SUNRISE
Highly Comm Brian Stratton                         Commended       Malcolm Carver
                                                    
Illawarra Region      
1ST       DAWN BROOKS                             STORM OVER ILLAWARRA
2ND       MAX SMITH                                    END OF DAY AT MINNAMURRA (Purchased by Council)
KAS    JOYCE BUTLER                            FOG OVER KENDALL’S
Highly Comm   Ray Teasdale          

Still Life         
1ST       FREDA SURGENOR                      NINE MARBLES
2ND       ROSLYN PSAKIS                           RED ONIONS
KAS    JUDITH CROWLEY                     BRIGHT STAR
Highly Comm   Cathryn Burton                    Commended  Colleen Behl
                                                    
Figurative / Portrait
1ST       BRIAN CHAPMAN                         SELF PORTRAIT
2ND        JEANNIE WITTS                             PICKING BLUEBELLS FOR GRANDMA
KAS   BETT WILSON                                 FEMALE NUDE
Highly Comm   Lesley Murray                      Commended    Jillian Jessen                                        

YOUNG ARTISTS       Under  14 YEARS          
1ST      JESSE WILLINGHAM                         FRIENDS UNITED
2ND     TORI TOWELL                                 CHURCH/LANDSCAPE
3RD      ELOUERA MARSHALL                   PLAYFUL KITTEN
Highly Comm      Nicholas McGee                Commended  Nina Willingham
                                      
YOUNG ARTIST                 14-Under 19  YEARS          
1ST         NICOLA PENTECOST                 KINGFISHERS
2ND            TAYHLA RYDER                      BEACHCOMBERS COLLECTION
3RD           TAYHLA RYDER                       SOPHIE
Highly Comm  Haisley Formosa     Commended          Hannah Jones                       
                                                    
YOUNG ARTISTS’ AWARD     Sections  A-H

NICOLA PENTECOST    SELF-PORTRAIT

YOUNG ARTISTS’ ENCOURAGEMENT   SectionsA-H        

HAYLEY ROBINSON      GYPSY HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD:    VIVIEN TANNER -  ‘Evening Glow’

WINNERS OF THE RAFFLE DRAWN SUNDAY 22ND NOVEMBER:

FIRST PRIZE:  Vivien Tanner’s Painting.             Julio Sanchez – Kiama

SECOND PRIZE: Photographic Package               Ruth Grant – Minnamurra

THIRD PRIZE:     Lagoon Restaurant Dinner       Tony Madden – Berry

FOURTH PRIZE:  Video Ezy Voucher                     D. May – Kiama

FIFTH PRIZE:   Harbourside Brighton Dinner      Bill Lever – Wollongong

31ST ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION 2009:

This year we had 4 judges who worked together very successfully and they were:


Liz JENEID -   a practising artist living in the Illawarra, taught visual arts for 20 years and is a University Fellow at Wollongong. As well as teaching textiles and visual investigation in the faculty of Creative Arts, she was Director of the Long Gallery for 6 years. Liz has had 6 solo exhibitions, and travelled extensively, participating in group exhibitions here and abroad, including the tapestry Triennale in Poland, Denmark and Japan.
Liz’s work is found in the Powerhouse Museum, Art Gallery of NSW , University of Washington, Seattle USA, to mention a few. In 2010 she will be artist in residence at the Vermont Studio USA

Leonie WATSON  - an Artist and teacher, she has been a finalist in the Sulman and Blake Prize and the Fishers Ghost Award at Campbelltown. Leonie is  a sessional Lecturer in Painting, and Tutor in Art Theory at the University of Wollongong ,and teaches Painting and Art History at TAFE, West Wollongong. Her Masters thesis was published under the title “Collecting the Self : And the Ambiguous Body”. Leonie is currently writing a doctoral thesis on “The Body in Still Life Painting”.

Dr Kurt BRERETON  - Is a visual and digital media artist, writer and academic. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast and teaches art at West W’gong Tafe. In 2005 his book “Hyper Taiwan: Art Design and Culture” was published. In 2008 a monograph on his recent art career titled ‘Luscious’, was published by Lakeside Arts USA, in conjunction with a solo touring exhibition of his paintings and videos in New York. His next solo exhibition will be at the Sara Roney Gallery in Sydney, next year.

EDWARD Del VILLAR -  a Kiama resident, and KAS member, judged our young people’s works of art. Edward has Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours.  Edward won 1st prize this year in the portrait section at the Royal Easter Show. Visual artist, illustrator and animation artist, he teaches Life Drawing Classes weekly at the Coachhouse, and, in a few weeks, he will become a proud father,