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Creativity, Mental Health and Well Being Event, CREA Gallery, Riga, Latvia
An important element of the Drawings On Water work is its genesis - from depression to well being through kayaking. As part of the exhibition, the Australian Ambassador, Gerald Thomson hosted and facilitated a morning tea event exploring the issues of mental health in Latvia on the Friday morning following the exhibition opening. The Head of the Latvia Mental Health Department, Ministry for Health, Toms Pulmanis provided a powerful insight about the prevalence of mental health issues and its cost to the economy in Latvia, Dr Dita Baumane Auza, gynecologist and leading Latvian art therapist discussed her practice as an art therapist and I discussed my own experiences. Audience members ranged from Latvian artists through to medical and mental health practitioners and a spirited conversation around personal experiences followed the presentations. A big thank you to Ambassador Gerald Thomson for his organization of the event!
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CREA Gallery Opening, Riga Latvia November 12, 2015
Juris and Vineta Straznov, owner of CREA Design Gallery hosted an opening event that included most of Latvia's leading architects and interior decorators. The exhibition was opned by Australian Ambassador, Gerald Thomson, Ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
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Australia in Portugal - Ralph Kerle
Great support from the Australian Ambassador, Anne Plunkett and the Embassy in Portugal for my exhibition. Read the reviews here. I have to say Ambassador Plunkett's opening speech was just superb and is still being applauded and talked about by those in attendance. I can't thank Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade enough!!
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Exhibition Opening, Espaco Espelho d'Agua Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal Oct 3, 2015
A short visual journey of the Drawings On Water exhibition in Lisbon
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What Sol Lewitt and Ralph Kerle have in common
The absurd life of Ralph Kerle continues!! I would never in my wildest dreams have ever thought that one day a Sol Lewitt painting would be at one end of a gallery facing the images of Ralph Kerle at the other. Bizarre and yet true! The Sol Lewitt image was painted by Sol on the wall of the Espaco Espelho d'Agua in the early 80s and only rediscovered when the Gallery was renovated a couple of years ago and then lovingly restored by its new owner as a feature wall. The other image shows the side wall of the Gallery and its external view onto the marvelous Monument of Discoveries. Ralph Kerle's Drawings On Water exhibition at Espaco Espulho d'Agua in Lisbon runs until October 31, 2015 The Art Journal RSS
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From a kayak on Middle Harbour to galleries in Portugal and Latvia – Drawings on Water goes to Europe
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="5472"] Paddle On Blue Water, The Spit, Middle Harbour, Sydney, Australia. March 4, 2014. [/caption] An exhibition of photographs, Drawings On Water by Sydney artist Ralph Kerle comprising photographs taken during kayak journeys on Sydney’s Middle Harbour, will be shown in two European galleries later this year. The exhibition at Lisbon’s Espaço Espelho d’Agua (trans: Space Mirror Water) will be opened on 3 October by the Australian Ambassador to Portugal, Anne Plunkett. In Latvia, the Australian Ambassador to Sweden, Gerald Thomson, will open the exhibition at Latvia’s leading design gallery CREA, in Riga, on November 12. Around five years ago, Ralph Kerle began kayaking on Middle Harbour as a way of finding a non-pharmaceutical remedy for depression. His morning kayak soon opened up a daily world of new perceptions; offering boundless moments of insight whilst connecting him as closely to nature as the indigenous inhabitants of Middle Harbour, the Cammeraygals. ‘Drawings on Water visually explores the interplay between the surface of the waters of Middle Harbour as creative inspiration and the power of physical movement in kayaking to free the mind from mental darkness and to recharge the soul with the light of new thinking,’ says Kerle. ‘Drawings on Water is something very beautiful and—most importantly for us—unusual, different from other photos that we are used to seeing,’ according to Vineta Stražnova, curator at CREA in Riga. ‘It is real photo art, because it is so natural (not photoshopped) and the colours are so vivid. The works have something in common with abstract art as well as what we can see and feel in real nature.’ Espaço Espelho d’Agua owner Mário Antonio de Almeida said, ‘This is exciting work, a marriage of technique and beauty and the space in Lisbon where it will be presented could not be better. With big windows onto the Tagus River, Espaço Espelho d’Agua offers bright space and an intimate relation with the river that gives it its name.’ Ralph Kerle is an acknowledged global leader in the development and application of creative skills in organisations. He is a former Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company and ran the iconic Melbourne alternative cabaret venue, the Flying Trapeze Café in its heyday (1978-81). He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, majoring in dramatic art. Dates: 3 to 31 October 2015: Espaço Espelho d’Agua, Lisbon, Portugal. Website: http://www.espacoespelhodeagua.com/ 28 October 2015 to 10 January 2016: CREA, Riga, Latvia. Website: http://crea.lv/en/#!home Further information is available at www.ralphkerlesart.com. To arrange an interview please contact Ralph on 0412 559 603.
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Water Notation Retail Display
Nice to see Water Notation 1 , part of the Limited Editions Gallery being included in retail decoration displays. This display can be seen at Frame88, 88 Penshurst Street Willoughby. NSW Australia 2068.
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The Water Line in Gallery 307 Exhibition
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] The Water Line [/caption] I am exhibiting the Water Line and 6 of the iPhone unlimited prints.in a group exhibition at Gallery 307. 307 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge, Sydney Australia. The exhibition is built around a series of new works by their established stable of artists. I am delighted to be included for the first time. The exhibition is open until May 13th.
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Winner - 150th Year Willoughby City Council Heritage Photo Competition.
I was delighted, thrilled and somewhat surprised to win the 150th Year Willoughby City Council Heritage Photo Competition. The picture "Morning at Castlehaven Inlet" was taken at 6.47am April 12 at the bottom of the Castlehaven Track that leads down to the shore line of the inlet on one of those beautiful April autumn early mornings that you experience in Sydney's Middle Harbour with the temperature around 19C. Taken with an iPhone 5 and worked in Picasa 3.9, the edit was simple with just a little luminance and saturation added and a touch of sharpening. Basically this is how breathtakingly beautiful Castlehaven Inlet looked at that moment on that day..
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Featured in The Front Window of Gallery 88
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Mast in Blue Water [/caption] Ralph Kerle’s Art
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Gallery 88 Exhibition Opening Night
An attendance of around 150 on opening night, including the Mayor of Willoughby, Gail Giles-Gidney who officially opened the exhibition, helped raise $2000 for the Black Dog Institute through the auctioning of the Artist's Proof of Paddle in Blue Water. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The Entrance to Gallery 88 [/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The Willoughby Mayor, Gail Giles-Gidney opening "Drawings on Water". [/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The Yellow Wall [/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] In the main room [/caption]
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