Winter exhibitions offer warmth at Orange Regional Gallery

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Orange Regional Gallery is a hive of activity as it opens two exhibitions in a week.

Coming up on Friday 22 June, in gallery 2 is Orange Air: an object collection by Thomas Pearson featuring 17 blown glass sculptures.

Orange mayor Reg Kidd said the exhibition would be of interest to people of all ages.

“It’s bright, it’s colourful and it is unusual,” Cr Kidd said.

“It’s a really accessible exhibition, particularly for younger audiences.

“Take this opportunity to take the kids to the gallery, while the weather is cold and miserable, and let them be inspired.”

Pearson’s work is made using traditional Venetian glassblowing techniques. Many of his objects reference the human form and he has recently been making large scale, functioning hourglasses.

The works in Orange Air combine traditional methods with innovative modern, glass sculpting techniques to create unique pieces.

The official opening for Orange Air is at Orange Regional Gallery on Friday 22 June, at 6pm.

The artist Thomas Pearson, will give a floor talk at 6pm prior to the opening by gallery director Bradley Hammond at 6:30pm.

Meanwhile, in gallery 3 there is new exhibition called Jali, by Nathalie Hartog-Gautier.

Jali was opened last Friday night to a crowd of about 40 people.

Orange City Council’s Cultural Services Policy Committee Chair Cr Kevin Duffy said the works tell stories of travel and time.

“The artist used her time in Udaipur in India to inspire this exhibition and the Indian theme is clear when you see the pieces,” Cr Duffy said.

“The detailed patterns drawn onto the photographic prints reflect the same patterns that can be seen on palace window screens in India, these are called Jali.”

The complex patterns of the ‘Jali’ provided Hartog-Gautier with a design to work with and the title for this exhibition.

Jali is a series of 20 detailed geometric gouache drawings over archival digital prints of photographs taken during her travels.