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Under the Christmas tree

Bondi Christmas crop

Is your Christmas looking as fun as Julia Wakefield’s Bondi Christmas ?  Have you entered into the spirit of things and started on the never-ending parties and catch-ups?  How is the shopping going?

Wendy Wright MaggieLorelei Medcalf Grey BirdPeter Heuzenroeder Hummingbird

Wendy Wright’s Maggie-Lorelei Medcalf’s Grey bird-Peter Heuzenroeders’ Hummingbird

To help with your Christmas shopping, Mrs Harris’ Shop, as in past years, has gathered a fabulous selection of artists and works to help you out with this.

Harvey Collins Blue ChairDenis Noble WindowAnne Brown Make a wish

Harvey Collins’ Blue Chair-Denis Noble’s Window-Anne Brown’s Make a wish

As always, there’s a great variety and you can have a fun time, enjoy the gorgeous pieces and achieve a whole lot in a short time.

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Anna-Maria Zupancic’s Abstract Apples-Ivana di Stasio’s Brooches

We also have a great supply of special Christmas cards created by Julia Wakefield and Mary Pulford – both of whom are favourites in the gallery. And, there’s a selection of the delightful Angels for Africa. Purchasing one of these angels will help impoverished Kenyan children to access an education.  They’re just superb as Christmas decorations.

A big thank you to artists, friends and supporters throughout the year – we look forward to seeing you again next year with a full program of wonderful artists and works.  It just keeps getting better!

Merry Christmas!

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Awakenings

It’s Spring – and it’s started with a blast!

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The spectacular weather of late is the perfect backdrop for the brand new exhibition at Mrs Harris’ Shop.

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Five artists have teamed up to present Awakenings, inspired by the stirrings of Spring:

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award-winning sculptor, Alex Brown, photographers Helen Fletcher and Ann Brown and painters, Sheryl Morgan and Anna-Maria Zupancic.

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If artworks inspired by Nature appeal to you, then you will be delighted by this exhibition.  You’ll find explosions of colour in Helen’s photographs and Sheryl’s acrylic paintings; softness in Anna-Maria’s abstracts and bouquets, exquisite detail in Ann’s black and white Fractured Flowers and intrigue in the cable net lights and sculptures made by Alex (recent winner of the 2013 Richard Cohen Sculpture Competition).

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 Awakenings opens on Saturdays and Sundays throughout September 11am  – 3pm.  Pop in on any one of these days and meet at least one of the artists (maybe even more!)  Chat with them about their work – they’re happy to share their ideas and inspirations.

 

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In the mind of the beholder . . .

Welcome to Mrs Harris’ Shop and the Fringe 2013 exhibition.

Here we are: back where we started!

This time last year, we were excited (and will confess, just a little nervous) to be preparing our first exhibition.

The Fringe was such an exciting place to start – it proved to be the perfect launch for Mrs Harris’ Shop.

It’s been a wonderful year and we thank our growing band of supporters.

 

This year, a little less nervous and even more excited, Mrs Harris invited artists to submit works that portrayed an aspect, or aspects, of psychology, for the 2013 Fringe exhibition.

Seven wonderful artists rose to the challenge and we have some fabulous pieces on show. Each artist, of course, has her (they just happen to all be female!) own interpretation of this very broad topic – and now, it’s up to you, the viewer, to enjoy your own interpretation of the individual works.

After all, it’s In the mind of the beholder.

With photographs, paintings, sculpture and glass, there’s a fabulous variety.

So join us, at Mrs Harris’ Shop for a journey inside your own head and perhaps dare to wander into that of the artist. What was she thinking when she created that piece?

Chances are you will meet at least one of the artists when you drop in. They all love chatting about their work and particularly enjoy meeting visitors to the gallery.

  • Deborah Trusson
  • Philippa Robert
  • Anna-Maria Zupancic
  • Suzanne Mustan
  • Jenny Johnson
  • Krystyna Moore
  • Ivana di Stasio

Ivana#1Goddess of the fertile earth

Internal struggle #1

 

 

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Final exhibition for 2012

Welcome to Mrs Harris’ Shop and the final exhibition for 2012.

Six talented artists have combined to see in the festive season and help us celebrate the close of an exciting year.

We welcome back painters Anna-Maria Zupancic, who exhibited in our first exhibition (Robert Weaver and Friends) and Mt Gambier artist Jenny Johnson, who was here recently with Cheers!
Joining Anna-Maria and Jenny, are painter Philippa Robert, photographer Suzanne Mustan, glass artist Muriel Birkill and first-time exhibitor, Mary Sharpe.

Over the course of the next four weekends, the artists will spend some time in the gallery. They look forward to meeting you and will be delighted to chat about their work.
Join us for the opening of the exhibition on Friday 23 November, or pop in between 11:00am and 3:00pm, Saturdays and Sundays until 16 December.

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Robert Weaver and Friends

featuring Robert Weaver, Anna-Maria Zupancic, Helen Kibble

25 February – 18 March 2012, 11:00am – 4:00pm, Saturday, Sunday and public holiday Monday (12 March)

Robert Weaver

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I first developed an interest in art at Gawler in the 1950s and in 1960, I enrolled in Art in Year 8. Since then, I have undertaken various private classes in general and life drawing and water-colour.

This was followed by private painting classes in Townsville, QLD in 1970-71; general drawing and life drawing at the South Australian School of Art (1972); life drawing groups at Byron Bay (1997), Burnside Art Society (2000- 2002), Charles Darwin University (2004), with David Williams at WEA (2004) and at Central School of Art, Norwood (2004-2006); water-colour course by Joseph Zbukvic (2006) and membership of the Adelaide Art Society (2006-2009).

In 2007, I retired from my work as a dental surgeon and became a full-time student at Adelaide College of the Arts, majoring in drawing under Anthony Millowick and Pei Wu and painting under Yasmin Grass and Loene Furler. I graduated with Bachelor of Visual Art & Design in 2009.

Becoming a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Exhibition proved to be a highlight of 2009.

I believe that an understanding of Surrealist methods and the techniques to achieve them are integral to the making of contemporary artworks.

I am therefore interested in what is meant by the Surrealist requirements to maximise the use of the imagination and to create works of expressivity with elements of spontaneity and the unconscious – in essence, to produce works with a property of visual excitement.

The interpretation of the artwork by the viewer’s use of their imagination is as important as that of the artist!

Anna-Maria Zupancic

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I have been involved in art all my life. I have been an art teacher since 1975 and established a gallery in Penola (Local Images), one in Largs Bay (Pier Gallery) and a student and community initiative centre at Christies Beach (Shop Front).

I have taken part in many group exhibitions in a variety of country and city galleries. These include Naracoorte Art Gallery, Local Images at Penola, Sir Robert Helpman at Mt Gambier, Bull Ring at the Jam Factory, Pier Gallery at Largs Bay, Nexus Gallery in Adelaide, Prospect Gallery at Nailsworth, Hughes Gallery at Fullarton, Education Development Centre at Hindmarsh, Pi Pi’s at Port Noarlunga, Port Adelaide Community Arts Centre and Port Dock Hotel.

Currently I am a member of [embrace], a co-operative of independently practising South Australian artists formed to market their work and that of emerging Australian artists. We have a novel partnership with Snooze Mile End, a bedding and bedroom furniture retailer, which displays our work in bedroom settings. The combination of beautiful furniture, stylish accessories and original artwork allows potential purchasers to visualise all the art works in their own homes.

In my art, I love to explore colour, line and shape in a free and abstract way. I have lots of ideas and themes and enjoy using rich colours and mixed media. Nature continues to be my biggest inspiration. Exploring and experimenting with my art works provides me with wonderful new experiences, keeping my passion alive.

I love using acrylic because it is so quick and easy with various impasto gels, modeling compounds and mixed media. At present I am using a lot of gold, silver and copper in my work in both paint and gold/silver leaf. I like to work in sets and often produce a suite of works at one time.

In this exhibition I have explored the law of attraction and surrounded myself with Chinese symbols for love, wealth, prosperity and good fortune. I have used rich jewel like colours, textured mediums and papers, fabric and gold leaf to decorate these images.

I have also developed an abstract series based on the Australian landscape using a painted layered approach over similar mixed mediums listed above.

Helen Kibble

Capsicums

I have always been passionate about colour and a keen observer of the designs the natural world produces.

Whilst early art classes included ‘Life Drawing’ at the Adelaide Central School of Art, and also studying a variety of mediums under such tutors as Bruce Vinal, Han Ning and Sylvia Preston, my painting production has been mainly in the last decade.

Currently, I produce mostly realistic works using a range of mediums and surfaces. Mediums include watercolour, pastel, acrylic and charcoal, and mixed media. Watercolour is a favourite because I love the possibilities and challenges of its fluid nature.

I enjoy a wide range of subject matter.

I have sold paintings at a variety of exhibitions including the Holdfast Bay Emerging Artists Exhibition (selling all I exhibited), the Cathedral Art Show, the Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show and a successful Solo Exhibition. I have also exhibited as part of the SALA Festival.