Osmosis Artists

The first visit to Queenstown had plenty of drama and contrasts for the artists involved in this years exhibition to contemplate. There were a number of bushfires in areas around Queenstown which enveloped the surrounding ranges with a veil of smoke. It was quite hot too, so the march flies and mosquitoes had fun annoying the artists hands as they worked and dive bombing the pages of journals and canvases. On the final day wild winds whipped through the town tearing of part of the roof of the recently restored Paragon Theatre and dashing the iron sheets about the street.

Through it all though everyone gathered plenty of research information and imagery to work with and plans for the next trip are already brewing. We visited the Larq Gallery run by Raymond Arnold where photographer Brett Martin had an exhibition of images of Queeenstown that only a person who had spent a lot of time working there would have been able to develop, capturing the mood of the town beautifully. Detail from his catalogue below:

The exhibition runs until the 20th of February and the Larq Gallery is located at 8 Hunter Street, Queenstown.