IT was while leading life drawing classes at the Art Gallery of Ballarat that Alison Parkinson’s appreciation for capturing three-dimensional form deepened.<\/p>\n
Surveying the work of her students led the Mount Prospect-based artist to further hone her own drawing practice and to turn her hand to sculpture.<\/p>\n
“Drawing has been my discipline and it’s something that has trained me to see the world,” Parkinson said.<\/p>\n
Parkinson is among five local artists represented in the inaugural Ballarat Drawers exhibition opening this weekend at Ross Creek Gallery, Smythes Creek.<\/p>\n
Officially launching with a 2pm event this Sunday 7 June, it will also feature work by Bren Luke, Kim Anderson, Peter Cougle and Georgina Gould-Hardwick.<\/p>\n
“It’s exciting because we’ve never had exclusively a drawing exhibition before,” the gallery’s Ruby Pilven said.<\/p>\n
Parkinson will have 10 of her works in the show, part of the gallery’s new series celebrating the depth of creative practice within the Ballarat area.<\/p>\n
She aims for a wild energy to flow through each of her semi-abstracted drawings that revel in the organic forms of living things like flowers and vegetables.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been working on this new body of work since the start of this year and it’s about looking at the fleeting moments of organic things,” Parkinson said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve extrapolated a sense of all dimensions in trying to capture the moments that turn into the past, and the moments that pre-empt the future.”<\/p>\n
Ballarat Drawers follows on from The Painters and The Printmakers, and will in turn be followed by The Potters, and The Sculptors later this year.<\/p>\n
Pilven said the Ballarat series has been conceived as an evolving platform for the region’s arts talent to be seen, celebrated and supported.<\/p>\n
Ballarat Drawers runs from Saturday 6 June to Sunday 28 June with the gallery open weekends and by appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IT was while leading life drawing classes at the Art Gallery of Ballarat that Alison Parkinson’s appreciation for capturing three-dimensional form deepened. Surveying the work of her students led the Mount Prospect-based artist to further hone her own drawing practice and to turn her hand to sculpture. “Drawing has been my discipline and it’s something […]<\/p>\n