Monday, June 24, 2013

Exhibition Opening - Flashes of Brilliance





















PhotoVoice Australia is delighted to announce that we have a new exhibition. In 2012 seven community photographers from Toowoomba Clubhouse participated in an eight week project. The photographs and accompanying stories which are the result of their work are very moving and insightful.

Toowoomba Clubhouse is a dedicated community working towards the recovery of adults with mental illness. www.toowoombaclubhouse.org.au/ 

The exhibition will be opened by Sandy Pottinger at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery on Saturday 13 July. We hope to have lots of people there to celebrate the work of Cari, Brendan, Naomi, Anita, Nora, Lisa and Christian. Others who contributed to the project were social work student Kate Nelle, Clubhouse staff Tash Parkin and Lynette Pirie, writer Bryce Alcock and photographer and project facilitator Ann Alcock. We are grateful to  Lucy Robertson-Cuninghame for Graphic Design for the project.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Bay Islands PhotoVoice


On Monday 9 January we will be starting a new PhotoVoice project on Macleay and Russell Islands in Moreton Bay in conjunction with NAPCAN and with funding from 'Yes' OPTUS Connecting Communities Grant.  This is very exciting and there is much interest on the islands with 13 children and young people signing up. This level of participation has meant that we now need to break into 2 groups. We are looking forward to lots of great photos!

We will hold 7 sessions over a 10 day period and have wonderful support from local organisations and particularly Bay Islands Community Services who are providing transport and morning and afternoon teas.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

International Women's Day 2011


Soroptimist International (SI) Toowoomba celebrated International Women's Day 2011 with Monica Tiit and Helen Sesay who participated in "One Decade On - African Settlement on the Downs". Although the project formally ceased in November there have been subsequent events with the Zonta Club of Toowoomba Garden City and and now the women from the local branch of SI.

The photographs shows the members of SI Toowoomba wearing the head dresses of Sudan and Sierra Leone.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

One Decade On - African Settlement on the Downs


This exhibition is on the move again. It has been showing at the Gatton Library for two months and will shortly be relocated to the Toowoomba Regional Library. Our feedback indicates that it has been well received and has created much interest. In the image accompanying this post, Mohamed Mohamed, a PhotoVoice participant views the display.

New Exhibition venue for Life as it is With Asperger's



For the month of February the Life as it is With Asperger's exhibition will be hosted by St Ursula's School. They have a beautiful new gallery space at the school which just holds the 48 piece exhibition. The images show how the exhibition looks in its new home. It is anticipated that it will be viewed by many teachers, students and parents during this time.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Life as it is With Asperger's



The exhibition opening at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery was exciting and a larger than expected crowd came to hear Artist Camilla Connolly speak. She was thoughtful and funny and her speech was very encouraging to those who participated in the project.

The photographs by 3 of the photographers was chosen for an exhibition of works for people on the autism spectrum to be held in Ballina in May which is very exciting news.

St Ursula's has agreed to host the exhibition in their school in February and others are considering the possibility of doing this. This is wonderful news for the parents and children who participated because one of the outcomes we hoped for was that there would be recognition of the difficulties faced at school by those who have Asperger's.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Life as it is With Asperger's


The exhibition for this project will open on 20 November 2010 at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. Award winning artist, Camilla Connolly will open the exhibition. The accompanying stories for the images for this exhibition have been finely tuned with help from writer, Jillian Watkinson. This has been an enormous help with Jill drawing together themes and highlighting the most salient points.

This has made a really polished exhibition and the assistance of a professional writer is something we must consider in future.

One Decade on - African Settlement on the Downs

this project continues to surprise and it also continues to grow. We have been invited to keep the exhibition up for another month at the Kath Dickson Community Art Space.

This will provide a wonderful opportunity for continuing exposure. One of the most exciting bits of news has been the offer to tour the exhibition throughout the Regional Council Libraries in Q'ld. This came about as a result of an offer from a group of librarians following a presentation by Jennifer Withnall from QPASTT and Ann Alcock from PhotoVoice Australia. Our thanks to the librarians who also purchased several books. Our book sales have been so good that we will need to order additional copies.

Monday, October 11, 2010

The Exhibition is Open!


What a fantastic opening. There was standing room only and we were sorry that some people were not able to squeeze in. We will have more photos of the opening to follow but in the meantime, this is what the exhibition looks like. In addition to the banners there are 25 framed images on the walls and a book. It is open until the end of October at the Kath Dickson Community Artspace at 359 Ruthven Street Toowoomba. We hope you are able to see it before it closes.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Choosing Pictures for the Exhibition



The exhibition opening is approaching. These images show project participants and project facilitators working together to choose images for display.