Dear Friends of Streamline Publishing and Gallery,
Thank you for your continuing interest and support. The current exhibition of John Wakefield OAM and Friends has been a great success, and much fun for all.
I need to advise you that the current lease at 22 Commercial Place ELTHAM is finishing on May 31. However, this is not necessarily the end of the Gallery. In fact, I hope to be back in the same space maybe at the end of the year with a new landlord! I will keep you posted.
The publishing side already has offices at Suite 9 Midway Arcade, First Floor, 974 Main Rd, ELTAHM , just two doors down from the present Gallery. I am not there that often atm, but can easily be so by arrangement.
I am having a massive End of Lease Sale, which I hope will entice you all. (See notice.)
My final exhibition will be of remarkable paper artists, Roma McLaughlin and Kathy Fahey. Do come in and see their astonishingly clever work. Note during this exhibition, my Sunday hours will change to 1-4pm only.
Trust I will see you soon!
Cathy Oliver.
Gallerist.
SALE Hours:
Ordinary hours:
Easily by appointment outside these times.
1 October 2023
Dear Friends of Streamline Publishing,
Spring brings renewal and I am delighted to let you know that Streamline Publishing and Gallery has found new premises across two Eltham locations, one above the other.
The former Gallery is now Pardalote Collections, Shop 4, Midway Arcade, 972-6 Main Rd, Eltham 3095. It will stock art, crafts including Erstwilder jewellery, Chocolatier fine chocolates and the art books published by Streamline Publishing upstairs.
Hours for Pardalote: Tue 10-2; Wed to Sat 9.30-4; Sun 10-2.
Streamline Publishing is by appointment only.
You are all warmly invited to the Launch of Pardalote Collections on
SATURDAY 14 October 2023 from 3-5pm
Shop 4, Midway Arcade, 972-6 Main Rd, Eltham 3095
– Postponed –
A local collector, a WOLLONDILLY man who wishes to remain anonymous, is a committed believer in the power of Indigenous art.
He believes its visceral emotional appeal can transform cultural understandings as it tells stories in new ways.
He also believes that excellent Indigenous art will always increase in value.
It is little surprise then that since his first acquisition just a few years ago collecting has become his passion.
Streamline Publishing and Gallery is thrilled that he has agreed to exhibit and sell 15 paintings from his collection.
This modern collection has been diligently sourced Australia-wide.
The artworks on display come from the Eastern, Central, Western and Tanami Deserts in the Northern Territory, Alawa in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia.
Featured artists include Barney Ellega, Pati Boogul, Judy Watson Napangardi, Violet Petyarre and many others of considerable note, many of whom are featuring at Lume in the city.
This exciting collation covers a variety of methods and subjects.
Ninety per cent of the paints used are mixed by the artists themselves from Indigenous plants.
The colours from the Eastern Desert are cool blues and purples, in contrast to the more familiar reds and browns available for use in the Western Desert.
Subjects include or have stories based on natural flora and fauna, weather, body painting, ceremonies and dreaming.
This is a rare and fabulous opportunity to not just admire but also to purchase these most talented works.
The Indigenous works are handsomely offset by a return to Streamline of Rod Moss’s large graphite works featuring the landscapes around Alice Springs.
When? Wednesday January 24 to Wednesday February 28.
Hours? Monday – Friday 10am – 3pm.
Where? Suite 10, Level One, Midway Arcade, 972-976 Main Rd, Eltham. 3095. (Opposite the Station).
Launch: Sunday Feb 4 from 3 – 4.30pm.
Please RSVP for confirmation and catering purposes by text to Cathy at 0409 088 772, or call in to Pardalote, Shop 4, Midway Arcade, Wed. – Sat. 10am – 4pm.
Rod Moss in front of his artwork
Wednesday May 3rd to Friday May 26th
A paper cut above in Eltham
BY CATHY OLIVER
In a studio above Eltham Town Square, two local artists, Roma McLaughlin and Kathy Fahey, toil away producing intricate and beautiful works of paper art.
Romahas been a papercut artist for over 10 years. She has had several collaborative exhibitions with artist Kathy Fahey with whom she shares a studio in Eltham.
Roma began cutting paper to create intricate patterning as collage for her paintings.
Some of the subjects she has explored are birds, feathers, nests and eggs, which reflect ideas of home, nurturing and belonging.
Roma has also created images from her surrounding urban environment having observed the rapid urban development in the city of Melbourne.
Her later work is inspired by the powerful tides and monumental cliffs found on the Southern Ocean of Victoria.
Currently she is working on collage and papercuts about her local parklands.
Roma uses a single sheet of paper and a scalpel to cut out shapes to form an
interconnecting image.
For her, it is the shapes taken away from the paper that define the intricate patterns that often can resemble lace.
Roma is a member of the international Paper Artists Collective and has been
published in the V&A publication Papercrafts. A Maker’s Guide.
Kathy is a Melbourne artist whose practice includes paintings, hand painted collages and artist books.
The central motif of her art practice is landscape and the natural world.
Her work explores the quintessential elements of the Australian landscape such as deep shadows, straggly eucalypts, dramatic skies, sepia waterways and rugged coastlines.
Central to her work is the use of paper both to paint landscapes on, or to paint on, tear up and reassemble into a collaged artwork.
Her paintings and collages are renderings of colour, light, movement and form.
Her work is as much about these elements as it as about the depiction of birds, flowers, trees and skies.
Kathy’s work is not photo-representative but rather her interpretation of the natural world, slightly abstracted and expressive, but still recognisable glimpses of the Australian landscape.
In recent years, as a result of Covid Lockdowns, Kathy has been painting remnant native bushland and parklands in and around her neighbourhood.
Kathy exhibits regularly at home and abroad. She shares a studio in Eltham with Roma McLaughlin.
Wednesday to Saturday: 10:30am – 4:00pm | Sunday: 10:30am – 2:30pm
MARCH 18 – APRIL 28
Wednesday to Saturday: 10:30am – 4:00pm | Sunday: 10:30am – 2:30pm
FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 15
Nillumbik Botanical Artists’ Group
from Eltham Living and Learning Centre
Launch event Sunday, November 6 | 5pm – 6:30pm
Launch: Tuesday, 6 December, 5:00-6:30pm
December 1 – December 28
Launch event Sunday, October 16 | 3pm – 4:30pm
October 15 – November 4
Handcoloured Linocuts. Exploring Australian Pottery and Floral.
Exhibition supported by Calligrapher Lynne Muir.
Great Grampians!
It’s Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan!
Tuesday August 30 – Wednesday September 21
Launch by Vicki Ward, MP for Eltham, on 7 September @ 5.15pm
RSVP by text to 0409 0887 72.
Extended Hours: Tues – Sat 10.30 – 4, Sun 10.30 – 2.30.
Internationally-recognised Monsalvat-bred artists Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan are back in town!
Following their participation at the Eltham Art Show in September, the two will honour Streamline Publishing’s Gallery with an exhibition of recent works featuring the Grampians for three weeks until September 28.
MP Member for Eltham Vicki Ward will launch the exhibition on Wednesday September 7 at 5.15pm.
Both artists were born into the artistic life of Monsalvat.
Mervyn’s mother, Sonia Skipper was raised there and responsible for many of its sculptures.
His father, Joe Hannan, worked as a potter and painter.
Jenni’s mother, Grace Mitchell, a pastry chef and sculptor. ran tearooms nearby.
Jenni began her formal painting lessons at Montsalvat when aged 10 under Lesley Sinclair.
After Eltham High School and Business College, Jenni worked in offices before heading overseas.
Mervyn had begun a life of travel – to New Zealand, Asia, Africa, the USA and Europe.
Mervyn worked in Switzerland with the Montreux Jazz Festival for several years as a stage-hand for some of the world’s leading jazz musicians while refining his drumming skills.
Together, Mervyn and Jenni have travelled, painted and exhibited in Mongolia and Timor, as well as much time spent painting inland Australia, particularly the North Flinders Ranges and Lake Eyre.
Jenni holds a Fine Arts degree (RMIT) and a Master of Visual Art (Monash).
Painting has been her life-blood.
She combines her love of nature with wanting to share the excitement she finds in the wildness and beauty of our world.
She works en plein air, often walking through the landscape or her subject, believing that to truly record the subject you need to understand it, not work from a photo.
She has worked on ice-breaker ships as artist-in-residence to the Antarctic, The Arctic and Norway.
Jenni also spent many years painting landscapes that were endangered and led conservation groups to maintain the Eltham environs she loved.
To this end, she served as a Shire Councillor.
Much of Mervyn’s sculptural work has an ephemeral dimension.
Works have been made in the bush or unexpected locations and left to return to their natural environment.
His visual arts works employ multi-media processes from traditional paint on canvas, drawing, pastel painting, carving construction and clay modelling.
In 2005 Jenni had an exhibition of her Antarctic paintings at the Hamilton Regional Gallery and also painted the Digby McDonald Brothers portrait which hung in the Hamilton Gallery.
Jenni and Mervyn relocated to the 1856 bluestone Petschel House in Hamilton in 2016.
Since then, the pair have enjoyed exploring and painting the Western District landscapes, in particular the Grampians with it array of wild rocky outcrops and myriad wildflowers and rare orchids.
In the new Robert Marshall-designed studio, workshop and gallery, Jenni runs painting and printmaking workshops and Mervyn offers pastel workshops.
An orchard, alpacas and several orphaned lambs plus assorted fowls complement the vista.
Streamline Publishing presents…
U3A paintings: ‘Tremendous Trees’
Tuesday 2 August – Saturday 27 August
Project Managed by U3A art teacher Leanne Ipsen
Launch Thursday 4 August 5 – 6pm.
22 Commercial Place, ELTHAM 3095.
All paintings for sale.
Watercolours exhibition 31 May – 31 July.
Pauline delights in painting the glorious colours of the bush around Eltham and Warrandyte, using watercolours and oils en plein air. Pauline became a member of the Victorian Artists’ Society in 1972, then in 1998 Warrandyte Arts Association and later in 2007 Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, which both gave ‘Life Membership’ for outstanding service. She has won many awards while she has exhibited widely, and her work is prized in collections nationally and internationally.
See also the March Edition of Warrandyte Diary with an article on Pauline on Page 23: Click Here
Full colour catalogue available, $7.00
Exhibition 11 May – June 24. Watercolours . Landscapes.
See Gallery hours above.
Launch Saturday 14 May at 2pm. Light refreshments of wine and finger foods.
Russell Danby has been a practicing artist since the late 1970s.
He studied Fine Art – Painting at Caulfield Institute (Monash) and went on to have many exhibitions in the inner city of Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s. In 1986 he lived in London, UK and exhibited in an Islington Gallery. In 1988, Russell lived in Penang, Malaysia and exhibited at the Dewan Sri (Town Hall) in Georgetown.
On return to Australia, Russell worked for 10 years in Community Services at Vision Australia. During Leave, he established his own artistic business – muralmaker.com.au. This venture demonstrated Russell’s skill in painting large community and private murals. He worked solo in this area for the next 10 years.
More recently, Russell has travelled to numerous countries, taking his sketch pad and recording everyday life. He now paints watercolours of the scenery he observes. This exhibition reflects the scenery and locations that have been near to him over the past three years. Covid Lockdown became an issue but he continued to paint scenery that was readily available.
David Adam is a professional photographer/musician with more than 30 years’ experience working at the University of Melbourne. David’s interest in photographing native birds began in the early 2000’s after traveling to Central Australia. Since leaving the university in 2014, David has continued to pursue his passion for bird photography both locally and interstate.
Full colour catalogue available, $7.00
Jessica Callaway (B Des, Monash University 2017) is a graphic designer,illustrator and artist. Putting pen, pencil, or paint brush to paper is Jessica’s natural way to express the beauty around her, and to bring wonderful worlds to life. Jessie is the illustrator of Terri Triceratops is Free!
(see books)
Jessica is available for private commissions, and loves painting pet portraits!
Artwork from Terri Triceratops is Free! is on ongoing display. Prints can be ordered.
Exhibiting unframed calligraphic works, originals and prints, ongoing;
framed originals exhibition 1 April – 9 May.
Lynne’s work delights in intricacy and finesse. Drawing inspiration from her extensive travels and the rich landscape around her home in South-Eastern Victoria, Lynne has carved a niche in the world of publishing, illustrating award winning books of Australian wildlife, Celtic poetry and lives of the saints. Other illustration includes illuminating the words of Rumi, Gibran, Tolkien and Scottish wilderness campaigner John Muir.
Commercial and commissioned work includes citations, awards and certificates for National and State organisations, such as the Supreme Court and the birth certificates for Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. Lynne exhibits regularly in local South Gippsland galleries and with the Calligraphy Society of Victoria.
In her artwork, Lynne draws on a heritage of various techniques including dry brush gouache, egg tempura and gold leaf illumination on a variety of surfaces from gessoed wood, canvas and paper.
Catalogue available, $7.00
Judy Watson was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1966. She grew up surrounded by animals, in a home attached to her father’s veterinary clinic, spending many weeks each year on a family farm. From a young age she walked to the nearby public library and devoured books, and her grandmother, a painter encouraged her to create large paintings for display on the veterinary waiting room wall.
Judy’s love of reading, drawing and the visual arts led her to a degree in Fine Arts at Melbourne University. Animals, particularly dogs, continued to be an integral part of her personal life. She lived in London in the late 1980s, working in the box office of the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End. In her time there she painted the people she met and developed a love of theatre culture which later fed into her visual language.
Returning to Australia, she began work at Greening Australia Victoria, promoting sustainable farming techniques through the illustration and design of educational materials. Her time there re-opened her eyes to Australia’s natural beauty, and shortly after this she moved naturally into children’s book illustration which combined her interests in the visual arts, animals, nature, people, stage and costume, and books. Her art practice and book illustration have travelled along side by side, feeding into one another since then.
Judy has been published by Penguin, HarperCollins, Walker Books, and Allen and Unwin. Her book Goodnight, Mice! (author, Frances Watts) won a Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2012. Searching for Cicadas (auth. Lesley Gibbes) was shortlisted for the CBCA Eve Pownall Award in 2020. Leonard Doesn’t Dance (auth. Frances Watts) was selected by the International Youth Library for inclusion in the prestigious White Ravens Catalogue 2020. Her latest book with Sofie Laguna is When You’re Older. Illustrations from the book were shortlisted for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator Exhibition 2022.
Judy lives and works in Frankston South, on a property backing onto a wildlife reserve and the Sweetwater Creek. She is married to a plant nerd and has two teenage children, a three-legged dog, several chickens and an ever-changing array of foster cats.
Catalogue available, $7.00
Exhibiting until May 29
This exhibition features the work of a small group of year 9 students who have responded to the theme ‘Emotions’. Collectively the students share a love of art and many meet regularly during their lunchtimes to create and further their passions.
While the works are connected by the theme of ‘Emotions’ they are diverse in medium, subject matter and approach. Each student provides their personal interpretation and a unique perspective to this broad theme.
‘Emotions’ runs until May 29.