Bridge Arts exhibition ‘Summer Sensations’ opens at regional gallery
Works by members of a local arts group, and four other South Australian artists, have gone on show at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery.
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“It may be the sun on the pastures, the shadows and folds of distant hills, or perhaps the glint of sunlight caught in the rustling leaves of a fragrant gum tree – there is always something in the summer light to catch the eye of an artist.”
So says the introduction to an exhibition by a Murray Bridge arts group which opened at the local gallery on Sunday.
Twenty-two members of Bridge Arts contributed to Summer Sensations, which will remain on show at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery until January 19.
On show now are works by Kathleen Cain, Lyn Wood, Winnie Pelz and Helen Stacey; Fulvia Mantelli speaks at the exhibition opening. Images: Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Peri Strathearn.
Also at the gallery over the same period will be (Dis)stilled Life, a collection of mostly still-life paintings by Lyn Wood and Winnie Pelz; and Explore, a selection of farm scenes and portraits of endangered native animals by Helen Stacey and Kathleen Cain.
Each of those four artists is South Australian, too, hailing from Walker Flat, Cape Jarvis and Strathalbyn.
Gallery director Fulvia Mantelli said she loved the diversity in the Bridge Arts exhibition: “(summer’s) sights, its scents and the emotions it conjures, from landscape vistas to micro nature to bushfire memories”.
A majority of the works in all three exhibitions are for sale.
Stacey and Cain will give a talk at the gallery this Sunday.
- See the exhibitions:Visit Murray Bridge Regional Gallery between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Saturday, or 11am-4pm on Sundays.
