A virtual tour of PATTERNS OF COLLECTING at the Johnston Collection

All good things must end and sadly, that time is nigh for PATTERNS OF COLLECTING/From the Bower at The Johnston Collection. 

The show comprises artworks and items from the 'bowers' of artists Louise Saxton, Loris Button, Carole Wilson and myself, juxtaposed with selected artworks and objects from the museum’s permanent collection. 

On a beautiful Spring morning last Thursday, 13 September, Louise Saxton, Johnston Collection tour guide Suzanne (pictured above, first and second from left) and I led a lovely group through the final walking tour.

A distinctly different version of the show, originally titled FROM THE BOWER: Patterns of Collecting, debuted at Warrnambool Art Gallery in 2017 and travelled to the Art Gallery of Ballarat later that same year. Both were very well received - and there it was supposed to end.  

The Bower Artists are indebted to Louis Le Vaillant, Director and Curator of The Johnston Collection, who twice visited the show at Ballarat and subsequently invited us to exhibit there as part of the museum's innovative House of Ideas program. 

There’s still time to visit PATTERNS OF COLLECTING before it ends its long run tomorrow, Tuesday, 18 September. Bookings can be made HERE.

Otherwise, you can take a virtual tour right here. The following installation views are by Tim Gresham.

PATTERNS OF COLLECTING at The Johnston Collection: Final Walk-and-Talk

Pictured above and below are two works from a series of watercolour miniatures made especially for PATTERNS OF COLLECTING/From the Bower at The Johnston Collection.

To learn about these and other works in the show, join me and fellow Bower artist Louise Saxton at The Johnston Collection Museum for an informal walk-and-talk, tomorrow, 13 September from 10 - 11.30 am. Bookings, which are essential, can be made through The Johnston Collection HERE.

This will be the last special Bower Event before the show ends on 18 September.

Photos by Tim Gresham.

ENCOUNTER at IMPACT 10

Two of my works are part of Encounter, the Goldfields Printmakers portfolio presented in the Open Folio section of IMPACT 10, the international printmaking conference in Santanda, Spain.

The conference began on September 1 and concludes today, 9 September. (See also previous post).

Deborah Klein, Fallen Woman 1, Phemograph, 28.5 x 21.5 cm, Edition: 20
Printer: Luke Ingram 

Deborah Klein, Fallen Woman 2, 2017, Phemograph, 28.5 x 21.5 cm, Edition: 20
Printer: Luke Ingram

IMPACT 10

Detritus, 2018, phemograph, edition: 10. Printer: Luke Ingram

My phemograph Detritus, 2018 (pictured above) is part of Thinking of Place ll, an exhibition currently on view at the international printmaking conference, IMPACT 10 in Santanda, Spain.

Pictured below: Thinking of place II, directly following its installation in the Bibliotecca Centrale, Cantabria Hangar Hall, Santander. (Photo credit: Antonietta Covino-Beehre).

The exhibition comprises works from East London Printmakers, UK, Kamloops, Canada, Limerick Printmakers, Ireland, New Zealand North and South Island Printmakers, NZ, Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland and three Australian groups: Melbourne Printmakers, Inkmasters, Cairns, and Goldfields Printmakers, Victoria.

IMPACT 10 runs from 1 - 9 September.

Artist Talk at Duldig Studio

Above and below are selected highlights from yesterday’s artist talk at Duldig Studio museum and sculpture garden, beginning with a snapshot of myself with two of its former Directors. On my left is Jenny Port and to my right is Eva de Jong-Duldig, daughter of Karl and Slawa Duldig and Founder and Patron of the museum.

After her mother died in 1975, Eva assisted her father in his studio. In the years following his own death in 1986, she took the first steps towards establishing Duldig Studio as a not-for-profit public museum and art gallery, keeping its contacts intact and undertaking the restoration of the house. She was the museum’s Founding Director when it opened to the public in 2002 until her retirement from the position in 2014. To learn more about Eva, click HERE and scroll down.

To say it was a delight and an honour to meet her doesn’t begin to cover it. 

In 2017, Eva completed her family memoir, Driftwood. I’ll treasure the signed copy she presented me with after my talk, and can’t wait to start reading it.

My talk was introduced by Melinda Mockridge, Education and Public Programs and Co-Curator of the museum's current exhibition, SLAWA: Modernist Art and Design.

Directly after my presentation Shane and I were invited to the farewell event of another Director of the museum. After an extremely productive year at the helm, Jenny Port is retiring - at least from that position - although her association with Duldig Studio will continue. 

Jenny was given a wonderful sendoff by Antony de Jong and Ewa de Jong-Duldig.

Warmest thanks to the Duldig Museum for inviting me to be the first speaker in their second series of Creative Women in Focus talks and to everyone who came along. You were a fantastic audience, who made this usually nervous public speaker feel completely at her ease.