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Regional Art Gallery

Interview with an Education committee person from regional art gallery.

How has changing weather affect how you live/ work? Working had stopped because of heavy rain and they could not perform the opening. Mainly rain is the worst. Town not really built for a lot of rain.

What are some extremes in weather that you've seen Rain, & dust storms. electric storms as well.

Would you rather the flood season or drought season? Floods are proffered because of the after affect.

What are some cool stories about dust storms? There was one night two years ago around 4:00 in the afternoon where the sky went bright red and the pitch black like night. People on YouTube thought it was a hoax.

Who or what are most affected by the weather? She believes that farmers would be the most affected by the weather.

How do you cope with the weather? Greatful for air con, since she didn't't have any when she was smaller.

If you were told to evacuate your home, would you go? Yes if there was an extreme in a life and death situation.

I think that the most interesting thing about this conversation was that this lady thought that broken hill wasn't really built for heavy rain. She emphasized this with her story about an opening for her work that had to be closed and canceled because the rain was o hard that the water was running down the walls of the inside of the building.

inspiration from Gallery: Simple, cute. Creatures of the deep. Dot art and line art brought in through aboriginal culture. Black and white paintings, aboriginal artists Regional art gallery is one of the few art galleries that sell aboriginal made artworks Acrylic paints Wood nd metal sculptures from landscape. Mining. E.g. House shoes... Animals made from original parts of nature! Hollow log... Wilcannia water dog by Badger Bates. Golden orb spider made of bed pieces. Symbols to represent different animals Cartoons, giving animals carachtors Black and white can create more depth than color Figures of speech put into painting. Identity fake ness., society's trap. Don't bring me plastic flowers Monocromatic colors bring different moods Elaborate coloured pictures.acrylic. Paper sculpturing. Using a different background type instead of canvas, gives a different effect. Volume and 3d on canvas gives a realistic effect. Realistic pictures give a down to earth feeling. Profile pictures make the object seem misunderstood. Smiling pictures give warmth. Greens and blues are vibrant and cool. Red and orange are warm and sharp. Photographs in black and hits give the picture a weary feeling. Collages gives a confused feeling Looking down onto a scene gives the looker a sense of pity or sorrow.

Pro Heart's Gallery

Interview with Pro Heart's Sister-in-law, Linda.

How has changing weather affect how you live/ work? Doesn't really affect..l more people on bad day.

What are some extremes in weather that you've seen? Extreme dust storm every single day, dust every where...

Would you rather the flood season or drought season? drought, but she loves the green now.

What are some cool stories about dust storms? couln't go home, no sight so had a coffee.

Who or what are most affected by the weather? Everyone is affected, limitations on normal life.

How do you cope with the weather? prefer winter, more heating and air con.

If you were told to evacuate your home, would you go? Yes, if it was a floods.

What are some icons used in Broken hill art? Mining icons, e.g. Mining shafts...

Inspiration from Pro Heart's Gallery Odd coloured used for normal objects gives the artwork a futuristic look. Art on normal objects. Detailed pictures which blending history different parts of artwork depicting different parts of history. Masks used for representation in many artworks Symbolism Meaning history

Reviews on Friday.

BUSH AND BEYOND

Ian and Wendy’s gallery, Bush and Beyond, holds very realistic artworks, based on Broken Hill’s natural and built environment. Their landscapes and portraits depict natural views and rare sights. Some of the work by Wendy are about the natural disasters that occur around Broken Hill. There was this one painting that was done of a dust storm that was only down the road from her gallery. Many examples, such as this show how artists can be inspired by the extreme events created by nature.

HOWARD WILLIAM STEER

Howard’s very comical artworks are quite well known in the Broken Hill region. The cartoons playing on well known phrases or titles of something. For example, ‘Dancing With The Stars’ is a T.V. Show on famous people learning to dance ballroom and performing for the judges. Howard’s cartoon, however, depicts people dancing with stars. Most of his works are set in Broken Hill and all images contain a representation of the ‘Flying Doctor’ being depicted as a doctor with wings.