Victoria Park (left) receives the Peter Culley Award from DAB vice-president Ellen Terrell. Image: Howard Salkow.
Former Mossman Hospital nurse and now successful artist Victoria Park has been rewarded for her exceptional work by receiving DAB’s highest honour, the Peter Culley Award for 2019.
Ms Park received the award at DAB’s end-of-year exhibition at their Mossman studio on Friday night which was attended by many of the exhibitors.
The Peter Culley Award was created to honour the founding tutor at DAB, who died in 2012. The extremely popular Culley taught many of the DAB artists and his infectious passion is still missed.
Ms Park received the award from DAB vice president Ellen Terrell.
“I am truly humbled and at the same time, delighted to receive the award. This is recognition which I shall treasure,” said Ms Park.
At the exhibition, Ms Park exhibited a piece of work titled Barnacle, which included hand-made corals and a metallic-glazed tripod.
She will also be exhibiting her work at the Artisan Christmas market on Saturday, December 14 organised by the Cairns Art Society which is being held on Shield Street from 5pm-9pm.
DAB, or the Douglas Arts Studio Gallery, is a not-for-profit arts centre run by volunteers. Their website is: www.dabmossman.com where additional information can be obtained including the Semester 1 Program for 2020.
GALLERY: DAB END-OF-YEAR EXHIBITION. ALL IMAGES BY HOWARD SALKOW
Victoria Park displays her Tripod (left) and Barnacle exhibits with some of her additional work in the background.
Seventeen-year-old Aaron Herlihy with this girl's face called 'Sarah'.
George Brendecke, with The Floral Phoenix representing a burnt out forest.
Some of the work on display at the DAB end-of-year exhibition.
The Mosaic Peer Group meets every Saturday afternoon in DAB’s backyard. They work on their own projects but they really love doing group projects together. About six weeks before the end-of-year exhibition they were challenged to come up with a creation for the exhibition: and ‘Octosphere’ (pictured here) was born.
They were offered a pool filter to use, worked out the design, then each 'mosaiced' fish, crabs, seaweed and other under water bits and pieces to create a fantastic reef scene. They asked Ellen Terrell (DAB’s Pottery Tutor) if she would make an octopus to go on the top, which finished the piece perfectly. The following were involved in the project. (L-R) Sue Jones, Ellen Terrell, Andrea Falstein, Lee-Anne Witte, Kerrie Jamieson, Pat Lane and Deb Edds.
Mandy Ryan with her impressive collection of handbags -- the base of each bag is made with merino wool, then embellished with different wools, locks, spun wool, yarn and silk fibres, which give a lovely shine. She also likes to add fabric scraps (from recycled clothing or scarves) to create texture and interest. Most of the bags include a vintage or recycled button and some even have a hand-made clay button which she designs.
