Joan Miró: 2024 I See you: Joan Miro Opening Night

2024 I See you: Joan Miro

Opening Night

July 20th, 2024

I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all the artists and speakers from CRE Spanish and Orange Sky for their incredible contributions. A special thank you to our generous sponsors: McFillin Accountants, Totem, and the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre. Your support has been invaluable. Additionally, I would like to express my appreciation to the musicians for adding a melodic touch to our event. Lastly, thank you to BIA for welcoming us once again this year. Your collective efforts have made this event a resounding success.

Sincerely,
Gemma Garcia
Freelance Curator

Why this title: I see you: Joan Miro.

Joan is the artist's first name, and MIRO is his surname.

When I conceived the idea for this exhibition, I played with his surname, because 'Miro' is also a verb in Spanish, meaning 'to see.

Using this translation, I created the name of this exhibition: I See You: Joan Miro.

"Who is JOAN MIRO:

Joan Miró is a famous Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, celebrated for his significant contributions to Surrealism.

Born in Barcelona in 1893, Miró developed a distinctive style characterized by vibrant colors, organic forms, and playful abstraction.

His work often drew inspiration from the landscapes and culture of Catalonia, blending elements of fantasy and reality to create dreamlike compositions.

His legacy is celebrated worldwide, and his art continues to inspire with its imaginative qualities.

Tonight's exhibition is inspired by Miró.

PERFORMANCES:

Griffin Cappello

Griffin Cappello is an emerging Composer with his sights set on becoming a composer for film and television.

Griffin attends Rivermount College and, for his second consecutive year is receiving tuition in Classical Composition as part of the Young Conservatory Program with Griffith University.

The I See You Joan Miro exhibition will be Griffin’s second experience sharing a live performance of his original work. To create this piece, he used stimulus images of Miro making art, coupled with several of Miro’s works.

Griffin intends to capture the movement and spatial qualities of Miro, to communicate how Miro physically created his art, and how as a viewer he perceived the sense of space within some of Miro’s works.

Pamella Costa

Pamella Costa, a skilled Violin and Viola musician from Brazil, brings over a decade of musical expertise to Brisbane.

Her journey began at the Escola de Música de Brasília, where she became a valued member of elite orchestras and choirs. With a Bachelor's degree in Viola and nearing the completion of her Music degree at the Queensland Conservatorium, Pamella combines formal education with extensive teaching experience.

As a captivating performer, she currently showcases her talents in "Mad Mariachi," an ensemble that fuses rock and mariachi music.

SPEAKERS:

CRE- COUNCIL OF SPANISH RESIDENTS in the Sydney Consulate region.

A bridge of communication between Spanish citizen residing in Australia and their Consular offices.

President and Councillor- Carolina Arnáiz Félix

Secretary and Councillor- Jose Manuel Serrano Santos

ORANGE SKY

The Organization supports people disconnected from the community or often ignored like the homeless, our friends.

Melissa Dark

Artists will donate a Percentage of each of their sales.

https://give.orangesky.org.au/register/i-see-you--joan-miro--art-group-exhibition

PRESENTATION OF THE ARTISTS:

Sulja Raam

Sulja Raam is a Brisbane-based artist with a rich background as an industrial designer, a precious metals jeweller, a contemporary blacksmith, a furniture designer, a unique fabricator, a sculptor, and a theatre set designer.

Sulja is a contemporary jeweller with an honours degree in Industrial Design with additional skills as a contemporary metalsmith and furniture designer/maker include sculpting.

A graduate of QUT and Randwick Tech he has run his own creative business, Totem Design, in Sydney, Cairns and Brisbane and he has had several exhibitions in each city, having his first show, a group show, in 1986.

Yaro Starak

Yaro Starak is an artist interested in experiments, and exploring techniques, mediums and forms. Noel Miller who was one of his teachers, taught him about textures and color composition.

One of Yaro’s passions, besides Gestalt Art Therapy and counseling sessions (Yaro is a former lecturer at the University of Queensland), is painting portraits that capture the essence of the person. For Yaro, painting is like creating an exotic plate of food, where color, style, shapes, and vibration feeds your soul."

Sharmila Nezovic

Sharmila Nezovic is a ‘conceptual artist’, gaining a reputation for transposing contemporary ideas around ‘cultural ecology’ into her abstract Paintings in oils and industrial mixed media on canvas.

She grew up in Melbourne. Her art studies began with a Dip. Art from The VCA (Melb); Post-grad. Painting, at the New York Studio School (Manhattan, USA); and, she holds the Master of Creative Arts (MCA) by research - James Cook University of Nth Qld, Townsville. 2001

Her art investigates the relationships between architectural spaces and their perceived social narratives.

As an experimental artist based in Brisbane, her abstract paintings use oils and industrial mixed media to explore our paved urban environments and how those built environments affect us.

Meana Taee

Meana holds a Bachelor of Visual Art, from the University of Canberra.

Meana's vibrant work evokes the magic world of Alice in Wonderland. One of her passions is working with resins and creating stunning glass totems. If you're interested in participating in one of her amazing workshops, please contact Meana.

Kelli Capello

Kelli Capello has a Graduate Certificate in Arts (Creative Writing) from - the University of Queensland, a Graduate Certificate in Arts Administration - from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and a Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) and a Bachelor of Arts. QUT.

In her Artist Statement, Kelli says that she stitches, intending to communicate her fascination with the universe and the interdependence of one thread to another.

For Kelli, stitching is one of creative contemplation. Her artworks are portals to texture, color and imagination.

Genevieve Thackwell-James

Her background is in theatre, acting and community work.

She works in different mediums, but particularly in ceramic.

Genevieve once experienced homelessness as a teenager.

She emphasizes that we are living in a time and place where homelessness is a real issue for many people.

One person told her that they were sleeping in a 'thousand-star hotel' because the sky was their roof.

To raise awareness, Genevieve has created nearly a hundred blue stars to symbolize those without a home."

SPONSORS:

McFILLIN

Gestalt Art Therapy centre (Yaro Starak & Gemma Garcia)

TOTEM (Sulja Raam)