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
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)
Photos copyright
Yaro Starak's copyright
YARO STARAK
GEMMA GARCIA ROMAN
Gemma Garcia's copyright
KELLI CAPPELLLO
Kelli Cappello's copyright
