Art - Performances and Exhibitions

Saturday, 14 January 2023

2023 JOAN MIRÓ I see you Art Group Exhibition Brisbane Australia

2023 JOAN MIRÓ I see you Art Group Exhibition Brisbane Australia

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2021 The Ambitious Dali

2021 The Ambitious Dali

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2018 Vincent Van Gogh You are not alone

2018 Vincent Van Gogh You are not alone

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2017 Picasso Today

2017 Picasso Today

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2016 Eleven faces of Frida Kahlo

ELEVEN FACES OF FRIDA KAHLO

2016

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Monday, 19 December 2022

CALL TO ARTISTS! Expression of interest to participate in this Upcoming Art Group exhibition 2023

CALL TO ARTISTS!

Expression of interest

to participate in this Upcoming Art Group exhibition 2023

"JOAN MIRO"

I see you

Exhibition proposed dates: November 2023

Proposed Place : To be confirmed

Brisbane. Australia

"JOAN MIRO"

I see you

The election of this title is the result of the desire of Gemma Garcia, visual artist and Curator, to present another Spanish artist to the Australian community.

Also to give the opportunity to the Australian artists to investigate, think about Joan Miro's artworks, live, style, and create artworks in response of this stimulus.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Joan Miró

Gemma had the impulse of investigating more about Joan Miró, and his creations.

Joan Miró i Ferrà Catalán- 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983

As a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult to classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

He began drawing classes at the age of seven at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion. To the dismay of his father, he enrolled at the fine art academy at La Llotja in 1907. He studied at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc and he had his first solo show in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau, where his work was ridiculed and defaced. Inspired by Fauve and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia.

If you are interested in participating in this exhibition, contact Gemma Garcia, she will give you the Expression of interest form where you can read more about participation conditions, cost of participation, deadlines, etc, and after reviewing your information she will inform you if your proposal has been accepted.

brisbaneape@gmail.com

Gemma is interested in offering every Art Group, the opportunity to Australian artists to investigate and respond to a life an art works of a famous Artist.

Gemma Garcia-Roman has coordinated and curated,

with a great success the following group exhibitions

2016 "ELEVEN FACES OF FRIDA KAHLO". BIA (Brisbane Institute of Art)

2017 "PICASSO TODAY". Jugglers Art Space. Brisbane.

2018 "VINCENT VAN GOGH You are not alone". BIA (Brisbane Institute of Art)

2021 " THE AMBITIOUS DALI" BIA (Brisbane Institute of Art)

and in 2023, " JOAN MIRO- I see You" Brisbane will be surprised by this amazing an creative Exhibition!

Art group coordinator and Curator of the upcoming exhibition:
Freelance GEMMA GARCIA ROMAN

For more information about participation conditions (deadlines, fees, etc) please contact: brisbaneape@gmail.com

Sunday, 3 January 2021

2021 Opening night "The ambitious Dali" March 12th, 7 pm to 9 pm

RSVP essential, please register your interest in participating at the "Opening night" here

ART GROUP EXHIBITION

"The ambitious Dali"

Exhibition dates: March 12th to 23rd, 2021
from 10 am to 4pm

Monday to Friday

(Weekend and different hours contact us please)

Brisbaneape@gmail.com

OPENING NIGHT:

Day: March 12th

Time: 7pm to 9pm

FREE EVENT

RSVP essential, please register your interest in participating at the "Opening night" here

Exhibition Gallery:

BIA (Brisbane Institute of Art)

41 Grafton St, Windsor

Brisbane, QLD

ARTISTS:

◙ SHARON HANSON

◙ GEMMA GARCIA

◙ PETA LLOYD

◙ ANA MARIA DUQUE

◙ TANYA HEMPSON

◙ MEANA TAEE

◙ YARO STARAK

◙ GENEVIEVE THACKELL JAMES

A special thank you to

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Online Spanish Gestalt Art Therapy training

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Dip. Visual Art.

Certificate IV Training & Assessment.

Dip. Gestalt Therapist.

Master Ericksonian Hypnologist.

Aurasoma Therapist L2.

About Gemma Garcia

ARTIST BIO Gemma Garcia was born in Spain in 1971. In 1986 she entered as a student of a Private Art Academy in Valladolid, where she studied classical art. She studied at that Academy of Art for over five years. After living in several cities due to her father’s profession (the whole family were changing homes depending on their father’s jobs) Gemma lived the most time in Castellon - Valencia. Living in Valencia Gemma has always been fascinated by the sculptures created with cardboard during the celebration of the “Fallas” a cultural and traditional celebration in Valencia where “The masters falleros” are part of an important yearly competition of big sculptures. Her interest was also due to the material used in these sculptures (paper). The traditional ones were also created with paper and as a glue they used flour and water mix. Gemma wen to the Cultural Association of Fine Arts of Castellon, and there she meets her “mentor”, the Sculptor Agustin Ahis, specialized in wood and clay. During this time Gemma began to be interested in combining Art and Therapy. She studied the Diploma of Gestalt Therapy and conducted research about the use of art and therapy with the local department of fire and rescue. She worked for the Spanish government in the Emergency field for 15 years. Her second master’s degree is in Ericksonian Hypnosis from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Valencia - Spain, in 2006. In 2010 Gemma moved to Australia and founded with his husband Yaro Starak, the Gestalt Art Therapy centre. In 2014 she obtained the Diploma of Visual arts and since then she did not stop learning techniques, creating Arts, and participating in Group exhibitions and competitions. Also, she received several awards for her participation at the Brisbane City Council ARTFORCE Awards. In 2016 she was the winner Best ENERGEX Cabinet 2015. Urban Smart Projects. Her main work is related to “Papier Mache” sculptures, she believes that Art can support climate change, when using recycled materials, and she also loved creating artworks with the print making technique. Gemma is, most of the time, interested in sharing her Spanish culture and Latin culture in Australia. Since 2016, Gemma is the Curator and the Art Groups coordinator of exhibitions related to Spanish /Latin artists. For every project, Gemma invites Australian artists to reflect and create artworks, performances, in response to a famous artist like Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso or Vincent Vangogh, and then create an Art group exhibition. Gemma’s interest is to continue creating art, and her future project will be participating in a “master papier Mache sculptures master class with the Falleros” in Valencia (Spain) and sharing her creations with the Australian public in future exhibitions.