Visionaries: Christianity and the Visual Arts

Christianity and the Visual Arts

At the Table: Kerry Holland

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Kerry Holland

  1. Celadon Blue, 54.5cm x 64.5cm, Oil and mixed media on canvas

2. Sunrise Bowl, Stoneware with porcelain, shino glaze, reduction fired.

3. Blue spotted White Bowl, Southern Ice porcelain bowl.

Installation arrangement:

Interested in Kerry’s work? She can be contacted on:

email: kerry.a.holland@gmail.com

Advent Exhibition 2017: Theme

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The Advent exhibition at Brookfield is to have suitably themed work with an Australian setting or symbols. This will also relate to much of the work by one of the original advisors, the late Rev. David Binns, whose “Saints from the Suburbs” series gave a Brisbane setting to his re-picturing of the biblical story. Dr. Lindsay Farrell will deliver the David Binns Memorial Lecture at Brookfield on Wednesday, October 25th.

Opening of Exhibition: December 8 until after Christmas. More details to come.

At the Table: Marion McMonaghy

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Marion McConaghy

The Table’s Journey, Mixed media on canvas, 90cm x 120cm

Artist Statement

I painted this image as a way of processing the impact of life changing events. When something you have always counted on, something that you rest on, is swept away. It is then that one looks at what’s left and one’s faith.

 

At the Table: Barbara Niczynski

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Barbara Niczynski

Leaving the Table, Acrylic on canvas, 28cm x 35cm

Artist Statement

A look at grief.  When one leaves a long term relationship, the other is left to grieve at the loss of rituals such as breakfast at the table.  She too must leave the table, and come back with a new ritual that encompasses completeness in breakfast for one. 

I thought of musical notes now missing: the clink of the spoon against the coffee cup, the scrape of the chair, the baritone cough.  I thought about what now must come, a determination to continue and write a new song.

Autopsy Table, Pen and watercolour, 28cm x 35cm

 

Want to know more about Barbara’s work? Contact her on barbniz@live.com.au

At the Table: Murhaf Obeid

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 Murhaf Obeid

The Last Supper,  Acrylic and gouache on canvas, varnished with gold leaf, 110 cm x 190cm.

Artist Statement

My name is Murhaf Obeid, I am from (Homs, Syria)

After I finished my last academy studies in Topography I went to Paulist’s convent in Harissa- Lebanon, in 2001. And I got a bachelor degree of Science in Philosophy and Theology, 2009. Then I studied all the courses to get Master degree in Church Science (marriage and family) in Suggest University, Beirut, but still working on the final research about Paul Evdokimov.

In 2006, I followed an iconography class for about one year by the iconographer: Nicolas Majdalani, in Lebanon, then In May/ 2014, June/ 2015 I went to Minsk- Belarus and completed a 12 days master-class in painting and gelding icons.

I Participated in drawing icons for a book about old Christian fathers, translated into Arabic by Bishop Joseph Jbara, and drawing celebrity’s profile pictures for “The history of Arabic literature” book (written by Hanna Fakhoury)/2008

2014-2016 I was responsible of writing the main  icons of three churches in Beirut, Lebanon.

Want to know more about Murhaf and his work? Contact him on murhafobeid@hotmail.com

At the Table: Marcelien Hunt

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Marcelien Hunt

  1. The Book Study: Table of Contents, 82 cm x 63 cm , oil on canvas

The Book Study

When you chop up the goose at the table, the life is past.  When you chop up a fine wine sitting at the table by over analysis, the delight is past. As we sit at the table to study scripture and chop the passages into pieces of analysis to meet our purposes, we risk losing the life and delight of the soul.

  1. Bare Essentials, 56 cm x 63 cm, oil on canvas

Bare Essentials 

The worldly view of at the table in our current society is fast food and fast pleasures.  Society appears to have lost taking time with family and friends at the table with healthy morsels, conversation, close relationships forming.

  1. On the Table, is it our Lord’s time or your time?   Oil on canvas

Interested in Marcelien work? She can be contacted on:

 marcelien@gmx.com

 

At the Table: Jennii Gould

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Jennii Gould

            The Table, Acrylic on canvas, 60 cm x 45 cm    

My work is from a sketch in my Spiritual Diary, so it is based on personal experience and references Psalm 23.5. “You prepare a table before me, in the presence of my enemies”.

Interested in Jennii’s work? She can be contacted on:

 jennifer_gould@bigpond.com