Excursion to The Camberwell Art Show

Posted on Jul 12, 2016
 
 
That's Ngaire Cannon examining the three top awarded items....the winning entry is in the center. 
 
For those members who braved the miserable cold weather and attended the Camberwell Art Show as our regular weekly meeting they were not disappointed. It was great and warm inside.
 
The Show has been an event for 51 years and often the venue by which some of the world’s most renowned and capable “water colour”  artists (many of whom reside in Melbourne evidently) exhibit  and regularly share in the prizes and awards. Again there were several water colours on show, but equally there were oils, pastels and various other types.
 
Introduced by the President of Camberwell Rotary Nick Pane we were soon absorbed in the intricacies of picture art as explained by renowned critics and judges while being treated to finger food and drinks during the viewing. To his great surprise our art illiterate but nameless author could readily equate to the tireless impressions and tonal contrast and drama of the items in the first room with the mute patterns and colour contrasts in works in another room. Aspects of artistic “sensitivity “ in some works were however unfortunately less obvious.
 
The story of this year’s winner’s contribution was wonderful (Perfume Bottles). An amateur but obviously highly skilled artist with no real expectations of success saw her work contributed  to the show by her husband. Moreover he placed a very modest $500 as the asking price for sale.   The asking price for most works on display was typically $3000 plus. The judge told of the lady’s surprise when being contacted to attend the Show as winner the next day. First prize was $25000.
 
As our photographer explains, there are lots of photos of our visit to the Camberwell Rotary Art Show.
 
One can see  Camberwell President Nick Pane, and Brenda Innes telling us a bit about the art, and Professor of Art History at Melbourne University Ken Wach’s delivering his erudite dissertation, but  NOT ONE photo of our revered President Meredith. Many so-called art cognescenti, but no Meredith!  So sorry!   
 
 
 
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