{"id":80672,"date":"2021-11-20T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=80672"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:26:05","slug":"julie-mahnken-old-butchers-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/julie-mahnken-old-butchers-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist draws on the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JULIE Mahnken has brought some <em>Equilibrium<\/em> to Soldiers Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Old Butchers\u2019 Shop Gallery\u2019s featured artist, Mahnken\u2019s \u201cexpressive, dramatic\u201d charcoal drawings of the built and natural landscape are on show until Sunday, 28 November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe content of the exhibition is about seeing and valuing the world around us, and searching for environmental balance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy style is open and depicts a sense of constant change. Things don\u2019t remain the same, they\u2019re open to energy and space around them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s as much about what we don\u2019t see, as what we choose to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahnken completed a bachelor of fine art at Federation University in recent years, committing to her creative experimentation after a career in healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always made art but wanted the qualification, and to go to art school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last few years, I was teaching a studio drawing class at U3A, and that allowed me to deepen my knowledge of drawing, and explore the medium as a finished artform itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExploring charcoal resulted in this body of work and exhibition, <em>Equilibrium<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahnken enjoys working with this dark-toned medium which encourages \u201cmark-making\u201d and has a bold, immediate impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharcoal captures the essence of the subject; trees, buildings, different scenes around. 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