Alluring Australia 4 : Women in Art
9:25:00 PM
Moores Building - Contemporary Art Gallery
I've written about my love for the arts in my previous posts. I'm someone who appreciates the arts and even when I
was little, if my family went on holidays overseas and also locally in
Malaysia, my father would usually bring us to visit galleries and museums. So I
grew up being exposed to the arts.
I think that wherever we travel to, we should always try and
visit at least one gallery or museum to witness and study their art and
culture. Of course we won't be able to cover all but we should try to make a
point to at least go to a few because its interesting and it is one way for us
to know and love a place.
So when I saw the gallery just next to the cafe that we were
having breakfast (Read my post here) I wanted to jump with joy. I didn't of course.
Technically the gallery was not part of the itinerary but I knew I had to
go have a look and see what they have. I didn't know whether we had any time to
go there after, so after I ordered my food at the cafe and chatted a bit with
the rest, I told Khubayb that I really wanted to go to the gallery at least for
a while just while waiting for the food to arrive. So we quickly went. I
managed to look at a few of the art pieces on display, but it was quite rushed
and the food came really fast (the Moore and Moore cafe had excellent
service!). So, I headed back to the courtyard to have my yummy scrumptious
breakfast.
After we had finished with our breakfast, I went to the gallery
again to see the paintings. And I was so lucky because all 3 artists who were
exhibiting their pieces at the gallery were all there.
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| Mia Laing, Alicia Gorey and Jan Brown |
I introduced myself to them and chatted about their art works for the Three Palettes exhibition.
It just so happens that all three artists had different themes and they are things that
I really love: beaches, ballet and portraits. The three artists were part of a
group called Women in Art Western Australia (WAWA) which they founded.
The first artist, Jan Brown featured prominent themes of ballet
in her impressionist style artworks which is a natural progression of her
lifelong love of the special dance. I told Jan that I did ballet when I was
younger. I actually took ballet lessons with my cousins when i stayed in Ipoh,
Perak in primary school but when I moved to KL, I stopped. I also shared with
Jan that I actually designed a skirt for aere which was inspired by ballet: The
AURELIA and ALIVIA skirt and I've written about my love for tulle skirts years
ago too. Jan told me a family member of hers was really into ballet and might be interested in one of my
skirts.
The second artist Mia Laing's paintings mostly captures the
sun-drenched beauty of their lifestyle in Western Australia. She drew her
inspiration from Rottnest Island (where we were going on our second day), and
even from her painting I could already see that it was a very vibrant,
colourful and beautiful place to be. Even before going there, her paintings
already captured my imagination of our upcoming destination. Love the different shades of blue in her artworks as blue is one of my favourite colours and the sea is one of my inspirations when I started aere almost 2 years ago too.
The third artist Alicia Gorey drew portraits of famous people in
Freemantle. Well, some were famous, like a well-known footballer, and some were
just locals who were not famous as we define it, but who are dear, special and important
to the kind and talented artist. The everyday people of Freemantle. And that was an interesting concept. She really captured their
essence well, and all the people she painted exudes warmth and friendliness - a
very common trait of the people of Freemantle.
It was really nice to chat with the friendly and lovely artists. I got
carried away chatting and appreciating their works till I realised that the
rest of our group had already left the place and Ee Lian had to call us to move
on to the next place in our itinerary. Really loved the gallery and talking to
the artist so if you're there, do drop by!
Till my next post.
| Wearing aere's NYDIA Flowy Pleated Cardigan |
The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
http://www.fac.org.au/moores-building
The Moores Building
46 Henry Street, Fremantle WA
Galleries open 10am - 4pm, 7 days a week
The Moores Building
46 Henry Street, Fremantle WA
Galleries open 10am - 4pm, 7 days a week
PEACE & LOVE!
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