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Ralph Kerle's Art Goes To Berlin, September 2018
Delighted to receive this letter from the Enter Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany. "Dear Artist,I am happy to announce you have been chosen to participate in our ninth pop-up exhibition, ‘30 Contemporary Artists’ to be held Friday 14.09 - Sunday 30.09.2018 in Berlin. This fall Enter Art Foundation will present 30 German and international artists in the Gerichtshöfe building in Wedding, Berlin (Gerichtstraße 12-13, Wedding 13347). The early twentieth century factory building is now home to over 70 artist’s studios. The space we will be exhibiting in is large with high ceilings and lots of natural light, as well as track lighting. It is less 10 minutes walking distance from Ubahn and Sbahn lines which means easy access for an interesting mix of art lovers, collectors and gallerists. The last week is also the Berlin Art Week, bringing even more art interested people to Berlin. The exhibition will be open for public from Sat 15.09. - Sun 30.09, Thursdays to Sundays, 12-20:00. On Friday, 14.09. will be our private preview (19-23). Saturday, 15. September will be our public vernissage, beginning at 15:00. Saturday, 22. september will be our public Matinée including Royal talks. Sunday, 30. September will be our Finissage, from 15-18. Please confirm your participation.Yours faithfullySuzanne Royal - Head CuratorTill Wald - Managing Director and Co-Founder."If you are in Berlin in the last two weeks of September please come and see me!!
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Andy Singh's speech at my Nature in Surrealism Exhibition Opening
I asked Andy Singh, President of the NSW River Canoe Club, the oldest kayak club in NSW to say a few words at the opening of my new exhibition, "Nature in Surrealism" at the Intercontinental Hotel Gallery, Sydney. The audience response to his short speech was so powerful and positive I asked Andy if I might share it in full. Here it is ... Imagine an icy drop of spring melt falling into the headwater creeks of the Kosciusko. Trickles join together to become Friday’s Flat Creek, then the Thredbo river cascading down the river valley before forming the dams of the Snowy scheme. A long rest behind the dam wall before tumbling over the slipway as the Snowy river runs its long, winding journey to the sea. Gravity gives way to currents and tides, drawing out and down to the deeper offshore water where the eastern Australian current turns southward, down the Victorian coast and eventually finding refuge in Bass Strait. Here whirlpools of currents cycle round and round until a slingshot swings around the west Tasmanian coast and flings our well-travelled droplets towards the frigid southern oceans. We learn from an early age to be bound politically and emotionally to the land, to the brown mass on the globe. Somehow we ignore those beautiful blue ribbons running through, over and around our continents, somehow we ignore this dynamic mass of energy connecting us all. Across this continuous connected current of water, our club’s kayakers skim the surface of creeks, rivers, harbors and oceans. We paddle in canoes, river boats, and sea kayaks. But the continuity of this water does not mean consistency – each riffle, ripple, rapid, wave, current and tide challenges us to be alert, to read its switchblade intent, to move with its power and ultimately respect its authority. We remember, always beneath our passage, an unforgiving anger resides, ready to strike at the first complacency with its deathly hand and pull us to our demise. Our safe passage across water's ever-changing surface is a ride of uncertainty. It requires the acceptance, both physically and mentally, of being part of something bigger than ourselves. We learn to be humble, to be respectful and to be tolerant of others. We learn, while we are never in command of the sea, we can still befriend its currents, its tides and its waves, we can listen to its hints of dangers and storms ahead. We can, through connection, application and resilience, make progress. We can survive. We are a club, a community. I know Ralph spends many mornings by himself on the harbor with his camera, but he is never alone. He paddles in a community, eighty three years old. He paddles in spirit with our club patron, the ninety five year old Basil, still spring enough to drive out and see Ralph on a beginners white water weekend. He paddles in spirit with five year old Amelia, sitting in the middle of her parents' canoe as they reach Gundagai on the Murrumbidgee river, a journey Ralph has also made with me. Ralph paddles in the same community as Nicole, Kevin and Rick when they cross Bass Strait and find club members waiting for them in Tasmania to take them home. Ultimately we paddle these water alone, but we find ourselves stronger, smarter and braver because we paddle in a community. Í congratulate Ralph on his work here. In his sensitive flow of texture and colour, I am on the ocean again, wind in my face, wave on my side, seeing the world in slow motion, seeing time create understanding, opportunity and hope, for a better world. Personally, I have suffered from the elements of PTSD. Within my family there is depression and anorexia. Within my workplace, there is stoic suppression, and suicide. I can’t rewind time back thirty years when depressions’ cold hand reached out and took my friend Peter, in all his youth from us. I can't turn back the clock, to give Peter the opportunity to grow a little older through the lessons we know today. I thank Ralph for his long and varied efforts in raising money and awareness for mental health, for kayaking and for our club. I thank Ralph for capturing in the brief moment of his camera lens, the vision of a better world.
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Ascensions
This body of works, Ascension, awoke in me the idea of ascension into enlightenment, a path difficult and shrouded in mystery throughout civilisation. It also evokes the idea of the inner working of the brains - energy and insight combined. The images were captured on the hull of Bundeena, a 40foot ketch owned by Frank Taylor from Jarvis Bay New South Wales, Australia. The vessel was moored at the D'Albora Marina, the Spit, Middle Harbour, Sydney,. Australia. Click to take a full tour of the exhibition. Be aware it may take 60 seconds for the 3D software to load and open. Please be reassured you will have a wonderful experience though!!
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exhibbit features Ralph Kerle's upcoming Berlin Exhibition
I used exhibbit as a way of presenting my upcoming collection for my Berlin exhibition to my curator. And bang out of the blue, exhibbit emailed me and said their curation team had chosen my work as the featured exhibition and artist all this week. What great global coverage!! Couldn't have wanted to end the week in a better fashion. exhibbit appears to me to be a fabulous tool for exhibiting AND marketing your work on-line.
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Announcing Melbourne Exhibition Extension
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Offshore Aerial View [/caption] Sagra Gallery has extended the Paintings On Water exhibition until Sunday, December 11th as a result of its success. If you are in Melbourne please come and visit me in the Gallery. I am there Wednesday through Sunday 11.00am to 3.00pm and 5.30pm to 9,00pm. Offshore Aerial View is the picture that has received the most positive comments.
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Paintings On Water Exhibition Opening Sagra Gallery, Melbourne Australia
These wonderful responses are taken directly from the Guest Book entered on opening night. I could not have asked for a better opening!! "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible - Paul Klee" You have produced true art!Simply striking and beautiful artworkStunningly strikingLove! Love! Love!Beautiful art and a fantastic story behind it!Amazing,mind shifting. Beautiful! Thanks to Phillip Doggett-Williams, Curator, Sagra Gallery and Alan Pentland and Steve Vizard for making this a superb opening night!! The proof of success is the work sold well!!
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Oil Vein In The Middle Land Comes To Life
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Oil Vein in the Middle Land [/caption] Really nice to see new exhibition pieces coming off the press!! Congratulations to Aaron and Jayson Cook CIE - elle who have done a great job bringing this new piece to life.
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NSW Minister for the Arts Selects Paddle On Blue Water
Photographs courtesy of Donald Robertson. Print courtesy of Spitting Image Delighted to announce the New South Wales Minister for the Arts, the Hon Troy Grant has selected Paddle on Blue Water as the art piece to decorate the reception area in his office.
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Drawings On Water Series 2 Exhibition Opening, Gallery 88 Willoughby, Sydney Australia
Around 150 people attended the exhibition opening on April 7th, opened by the New South Wales State Government Treasurer and local member, Gladys Berejiklian that included a short speech from Professor KatherIne Boydell, Professor for Mental Health, the Black Dog Institute about the importance of arts in mental health. Ian Rogerson auctioned an earlier work, Paddle in Blue Water which raised $1000 for Black Dog. This exhibition features a collaboration between Saif Al Murayti entitled "The Dust Will Never Settle On Our World". The words Love Freedom Hope in Arabic calligraphy are painted by Saif on top of my photograph stretched on canvas. The exhibition is open until May 9th at Gallery 88, 88 Penshurst Street, Willoughby, Sydney Australia. The Art Journal RSS
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Gallery 88 Exhibition Opening - April 7th 2016
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3826"] Clearing the Inner Blueness [/caption] Gallery 88, 88 Penshurst Street, Willoughby. New South Wales, Australia presents a collection of new images in his highly acclaimed Drawings On Water series opening on Thursday April 7 at 6.00pm. .The exhibition includes a work - The Dust Never Settles On Our World - a collaboration with Saif Al Murayati, winner of the prestigious Blake Award for Religious Art that celebrates a long standing friendship forged between 2 Australian artists from very different cultural backgrounds - Anglo Celtic and Arab, Christian and Muslim. The work uses a painting on photograph technique and represents an emerging new direction for Drawings On Water. The exhibition will be opened by the Hon, Gladys Berekjiklian. MP Treasurer, New South Wales State Government and local member for Willoughby.Please join us for refreshment and drinks. RSVP at Facebook page
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I am Big In The Baltics
Paraphrasing the great Tom Waits song title, "I am Big in Japan", I am big in the Baltics as a result of some nice publicity, direct and indirect for the Drawings on Water Latvia exhibition. The main Latvian interior decorator magazine has featured it and an article on one of Latvia's more famous journalists used the gallery and the Drawings on Water images as the mis-en-scene for the picture accompanying the article
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Drawings on Water Head and Art Shots, Riga Latvia
A beautiful series of photographs taken showcasing the art and the audience at the opening of the Riga Latvia exhibition by Latvian photographer Igor Blazevich.
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