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Birds Nest
Studio – Celebrating Ten Years
Opening January 2nd to 28th 2010
Artists: Tom Mutch, Frank Malerba, Jacqui Elley, Llew Summers,
Richard Mathieson, Chris Charteris
22 Pumpkin Flat Road, Kuaotunu, RD2 Whitianga. 078662827
Exhibition hours: 10 to 5 daily
Works by (left to right):
Tom Mutch, Llew Summers, Richard Mathieson, Frank Malerba, Jacqui
Elley, Chris Charteris
Greetings from Birds Nest Studio - June 2009
Yes, we
are back in Kuaotunu where Tom Mutch has been tucked away in his
studio for the last three months completing the paintings for the
Jackman Gallery (Melbourne) Exhibition, August this year, and
designing his works for the Birds Nest Studio exhibition in
January 2010, which sounds a long way off, but is in fact only 7
months away.
We'll be
celebrating Birds Nest Studio's TENTH annual exhibition. The
Opening Day is Saturday, January 2nd 2010 at 2pm-8pm. (Closing
date is January 24th). Showing alongside Tom Mutch are: Frank
Malerba (Melbourne), Jacqui Elley (New Plymouth), Richard
Mathieson (Auckland), Llew Summers (Christchurch), Chris Charteris
(Kuaotunu). So pencil this into your diaries - come along and
celebrate with us.
In the
meantime, keep warm over winter. Hibernate when you can and take
pleasure in those frosty days when you can't.
Send us
an email if you feel like it. info@tommutch.com
Best
wishes from us at Birds Nest Studio
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM US, OF BIRDS
NEST STUDIO - 14 December 2008
Greetings to you....or should I say........ G'day Mate!
When we last wrote, we were in Coffs Harbour, about to embark
on our trip into and around Australia. So now we are back in Coffs
having completed our three and a half month, 23,000km trip, which
has been dubbed "the whistle-stop tour". If it wasn't
for the pictures and video footage to prove its reality, it would
all be dream-like memories.
Australia is an amazingly colourful country; the so-called
RED-LAND is indeed red, and when not red, [eg the Pinnacles just
outside of Perth,] then it is yellow! Has to be seen to be
believed. We spent around a month in each of the three states we
travelled into: Northern Territories, Western Australia, South
Australia. Each state quite different from the other. And each
containing such uncompromising landscape. The favourite is perhaps
the Northern Territories - the "Centre", Kakadu National
Park & Arnhem Land - although certain spots/areas in Western
Australia - Nigaloo Reef, Margaret River - and the Flinders Ranges
in South Australia was absolutely gob-smacking. We met some
awesome people along the way who shared some great times and gave
us sound advice when needed. Very importantly, we found solace
with friends and family in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne. Thanks
to you all.
Without doubt, Tom's vision of a short-movie will begin the
manifestation process once he settles back into Birds Nest Studio.
On the Art front, Tom has been offered an exhibition in
Melbourne August 2009, at Jackman Gallery with particular interest
in the War & Famine works. And our 2010 Birds Nest Studio show
is taking shape.
We'll post more details about the shows closer to the time.
In the meantime, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas, safe
travels, and a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2009.
With our best regards
Tom & Raywin
Birds Nest Studio
Greetings from Birds Nest Studio – An
update on the Mutch’s adventures. July 7 2008
Dear Reader,
Some of you will know that Tom is taking a one-year sabbatical
from painting. For those that are unaware, we are living in Coffs
Harbour, Australia, for its mild climate and constant surf, where
Tom has just finished his fourth novel The Orchardist, (which has
received great feedback from a variety of sources – we’re
hoping to find a publisher for it after our travels), and has
already started a fifth novel under the working title The Red
Shoe. He keeps his hand-eye-co-ordination honed through pencil on
paper drawings, and keeps his endorphins raging by body surfing
whenever he can.
Tom's War and Famine Series, in particular the painting "The
Carbon Footprint of War & The Pollution of Religion", has
been a key focus in a Discussion written by Dr Margot Edwards
& Dr Ralph Bathurst, (Snr Lecturers at the Department of
Management and International Business, Massey University, Albany
Campus). Dr Edwards writes "We think your painting is a very
significant work, on a global scale, and we would like to make it
accessible to as many people as possible." The Chapter –
"Developing a Sustainability Consciousness Through Engagement
with Art" is to be included for publication in the USA based
book Management Education for Global Sustainability; and may also
be presented in an Australasian Conference Paper. In the near
future, a copy of The Chapter will be available on request if you
are interested in reading it.
We hope you enjoyed the Birds Nest Studio 2008 January exhibition
with David McCracken’s superb steel/stainless steel sculptures
and Tom’s anti-war works [the War & Famine Series]. As
always, we had a great turnout and many private collections can
now boast of their new Mutch or McCracken artwork.
There will be no exhibition in 2009 but we promise you an exciting
show for January 2010, which will be our TENTH exhibition. We’ll
keep you updated on its progress. In the meantime, those of you
that might be interested in Tom’s anti-war works which seem to
have grown legs of their own, log on to www.tommutch.com
or contact us through art.lim@ihug.co.nz .
In six weeks time, we will be setting out on a 13,000km camping
trip into and around Australia before returning to God’s Own to
settle back into a working routine. Tom intends to document our
Australian travels, so expect there will be a new series of works
based around this experience.
All the best to each of you in your endeavours for the rest of the
year and as mentioned earlier we intend to thrill and entertain
you at Birds Nest Studio’s 2010 Show.
Until next time, keep warm over winter.
Kindest regards from Tom and I
Raywin
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