Published Wednesday, 23 May, 2007 at 05:11 PM
Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure
The Honourable Anna Bligh
DEPUTY PREMIER TO OPEN ART GROUP’S FIRST SOLO BRISBANE SHOW
Wednesday 23 May 2007
Exciting new Indigenous artist Heather Blacklock features in the first major solo Brisbane show by the Yorga Art group to be opened by Deputy Premier Anna Bligh.
“Yorga Art is a great story – it’s about Indigenous people working with non-Indigenous people to fulfill their passion for art,” Ms Bligh said.
“Heather Blacklock’s work is inspirational and so is her life story. She started painting when she was young, stopped for 15 years to have three children and started again when she came to live in Brisbane six years ago.
“In a short time she has developed her own unique style, particularly her trademark use of ‘porcupine quill’ imagery to create layered movement.
“This technique is of great personal significance as it links Heather to her childhood with the Noongar people in Western Australia, where she used to go out hunting with her family and eat porcupine.”
Heather Blacklock’s work will be shown in the Yorga Art exhibition, at the Douglas Street Design Centre in Milton, alongside paintings by her husband, Ray Blacklock, a former rugby league great.
Yorga Art is a partnership of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and art lovers: Heather and Ray Blacklock and the owners of Fine Design Consultants, Leanne and Ray Rambert.
Ms Bligh said it was an exciting time for Indigenous art in Queensland with the recent opening of Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
“The exhibition traces the journey of the successful Lockhart River Art Gang,” Ms Bligh said.
“Also the Queensland Government has invested $200, 000 in the new Community Arts and Cultural Centre at Lockhart River and a further $200, 000 in the new Cultural Centre at Hope Vale.”
Ms Bligh said the Queensland Arts Industry Sector Development Plan, released this year, includes further initiatives to improve opportunities for regional, remote and urban Indigenous artists.
Media contact: Deputy Premier’s 3224 6900
Exciting new Indigenous artist Heather Blacklock features in the first major solo Brisbane show by the Yorga Art group to be opened by Deputy Premier Anna Bligh.
“Yorga Art is a great story – it’s about Indigenous people working with non-Indigenous people to fulfill their passion for art,” Ms Bligh said.
“Heather Blacklock’s work is inspirational and so is her life story. She started painting when she was young, stopped for 15 years to have three children and started again when she came to live in Brisbane six years ago.
“In a short time she has developed her own unique style, particularly her trademark use of ‘porcupine quill’ imagery to create layered movement.
“This technique is of great personal significance as it links Heather to her childhood with the Noongar people in Western Australia, where she used to go out hunting with her family and eat porcupine.”
Heather Blacklock’s work will be shown in the Yorga Art exhibition, at the Douglas Street Design Centre in Milton, alongside paintings by her husband, Ray Blacklock, a former rugby league great.
Yorga Art is a partnership of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and art lovers: Heather and Ray Blacklock and the owners of Fine Design Consultants, Leanne and Ray Rambert.
Ms Bligh said it was an exciting time for Indigenous art in Queensland with the recent opening of Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
“The exhibition traces the journey of the successful Lockhart River Art Gang,” Ms Bligh said.
“Also the Queensland Government has invested $200, 000 in the new Community Arts and Cultural Centre at Lockhart River and a further $200, 000 in the new Cultural Centre at Hope Vale.”
Ms Bligh said the Queensland Arts Industry Sector Development Plan, released this year, includes further initiatives to improve opportunities for regional, remote and urban Indigenous artists.
Media contact: Deputy Premier’s 3224 6900