BARK

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Exhibition Dates: 5 to 16 April 2023

A contemporary mixed media exhibition featuring monumental landscape paintings and expressive animal sculptures.

BARK is a wide-ranging visual exploration of Australian landscapes and habitats. An eclectic mix of atmospheric paintings and expressionistic mixed media sculptures.

Col Ritchie has used a variety of techniques combined with bold brush strokes and intense splashes of colour to capture the essence of dry sclerophyll and stringy bark forests, creating landscapes that are full of colour, movement and mystique.

The sculptural element was inspired by his barking, loyal studio companions during lockdown. Through the application of texture, colour and natural resources, Ritchie made a series of ‘stick’ dogs, each personable and uniquely individual in design and character.

Exhibition will be closed on Good Friday, 7 April 2023.

Image: Col Ritchie, Misty Stand, 2022, acrylic on canvas

When

  • Wednesday, 05 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Thursday, 06 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Saturday, 08 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM
  • Sunday, 09 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM
  • Tuesday, 11 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Wednesday, 12 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Thursday, 13 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Friday, 14 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Saturday, 15 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM
  • Sunday, 16 April 2023 | 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Location

Art Space on The Concourse, 409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, 2067, View Map

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Photo Gallery

Col Ritchie,

Col Ritchie, "Misty Stand", 2022, acrylic on canvas

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Col Ritchie,

Col Ritchie, "Tall Timbers", 2021, acrylic on canvas

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Col Ritchie,

Col Ritchie, "Stick Dogs: Lucy, Harriet, Harvey and Mr Darcy", 2021-2022, mixed media

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Col Ritchie,

Col Ritchie, "The Clearing", 2020, acrylic on canvas

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Col Ritchie,

Col Ritchie, "Stick Dogs: Rex, Rocky and Brewster", 2021-2022, mixed media

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Cost

Free

Contact

Jacqui Carroll
0488 884 555
studio888@iinet.net.au

Opening Event

6pm - 8pm, Wednesday 5 April

Guest Speaker: Catherine Gilholme, Arts Initiatives and Events Officer, The Arts Unit Department of Education.

Creative drawing and sculpture design workshop

2pm - 3pm, Tuesday 11 April

Artist Col Ritchie will lead participants through a drawing process to design their own BARK dog characters. Bookings essential.

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