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3 August, 2024
‘Of the Earth’
Congratulations to July’s Artist of the Month, Deborah Dawkings, for her fabulous range of pottery titled “Of the Earth” exhibited front and centre on plinths in the Kilcoy Courthouse Art Gallery. It was wonderful to see several sales for Deborah.
Our Artist of the Month for August is Caroline Dunning.
Caroline was born and bred in Kilcoy, and her family have been farming in the district for four generations.
She will be displaying her exhibition titled “Birds, Rings and Other Things” which includes coloured pencil birds, her chainmaille jewellery (made of rings), and a few other things as August’s Artist of the Month.
Caroline uses coloured pencils to draw birds, as she likes the level of control they give her to create fine detail.
Her technique with coloured pencils involves creating lots of layers of small strokes, working from light to dark, blending with different colours to create shading and the illusion of feathers.
She also creates jewellery, and especially loves making chainmaille and scalemaille jewellery.
Scales have been used as armour since the 14th century BC, with chainmaille being used since the 3rd century BC, and is still used today eg. butcher’s gloves!
Please support Caroline by visiting the Kilcoy Courthouse Art Gallery to view her collection during August.
She will also be giving a talk about her artwork at the exhibition opening at 2pm on the 11th of August at the Kilcoy Art Gallery. Entry $10.
