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October 2010
Artisans in the Gardens
October 16-24, 2010
Friends of The Gardens presents the 10th Artisans in the Gardens.
A vibrant, eclectic exhibition of objects from Australia's finest contemporary and traditional artisans.
Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
16-24 October 2010, 10am to 4pm daily.
Entry is free and all works are for sale.
For information contact Friends of The Gardens on 02 9231 8182 or visit www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/friends.
"The 10th Artisans in the Gardens exhibition features the extraordinary work of thirty of Australia's finest artisans"
Assemblage: Matt Bisaro
Ceramics: Roslyn Auld, Liz Hardy, Louisa Hart, Ella Szpindler, Kerry Punton
Glass: Benjamin Edols & Kathy Elliott
Jewellery: Gillian Moir, Traudl Troska, Dominique Brammer
Mobiles: Jade Oakley
Prints & Handmade Books: Barbara Davidson
Sculpture: Bronwyn Berman, Darren Borg & Claire Carson, Glenn Doyle, Lucy McEachern, Garth Lena, Heidi McGeoch, Sheila Myers, Denese Oates, Francesco Petrolo, Al Phemister, Sosi Stevensen, Belinda Villani, Will Wilson
Sandstone and Stone: Chris Bennetts, Nick Gazzard
Textiles: Gillian Brooks
Friends of The Gardens invites you to join Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales and the artisans for an exclusive preview Opening Party, 6pm Friday 15 October. Tickets from Friends of The Gardens $45 or $35 members. To book, phone 02 9231 8182.
August 2010
"I have been working on a commission for a casino. The mobile will be installed above a water feature in a lounge area. I've used hand dyed silk for the 'leaves', after spending two days with Julie Edwards, a silk artist www.forsilkssake.com.au. I can't announce where the mobile is going until the project is completed. The mobile is to be called Goldengrove".
June 2010
Winner artsCape 2005, Living in Sunrise Station by Rick Reynolds
artsCape Biennial Newsletter
Issue 1, Friday 11 June 2010
Countdown to opening...
Exhibition dates: June 26th — July 11th
Join us and our 75 artists from around Australia (and beyond), converging on the Bay for the official opening and awards presentation — Beach Hotel Sunday June 27 @ 2pm. Jazz-soul musician Ross Nobel will join our judges...
Then take the 1km parkland stroll bejewelled with 68 sculptures that will surprise and delight. Our formal reception for artists, sponsors, ambassadors and media (invitation only) will be held at the Byron Beach Cafe at 5pm.
Exclusive Travel Package:
artsCape Biennial 2010, Byron Bay NSW
Stay 6 nights in Sirens, a cosy 3 bedroom beach house at Wategos Beach (22—27 June) & enjoy a private tour of Byron's own outdoor sculpture exhibition, followed by lunch at the Byron Beach Café.
Includes tickets to artsCape's VIP event at 5pm on Sunday 27 June. $2000 all inclusive (once only) package. Call 02 6680 7904 or email artsCape.
Flyer for fragile at Art Piece Gallery
Water over Rocks II by Jade Oakley
fragile at art piece gallery
As with artsCape Biennial, concern for the environment is central to the work of all the artists in fragile. In subject matter and through the use of natural and recycled materials artists, bear witness to environmental degradation and pay homage to the simplicity and intrinsic beauty in the palette of the natural world — the tree, the leaf, shell and flotsam.
Lousie Saxton's tree assembled from 1000 individual pieces of reclaimed lace (pictured) is an interpretation of the Tree of Life and a metaphor for the vulnerability of endangered species including the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo and the Koala. Other contributing artists include Christine Willcocks, Lae Oldmeadow, Linelle Steptoe, Wanda Bennett (QLD), Aly de Groot (NT) and others. fragile opens 6pm Friday July 2, exhibition runs until 31 July
art piece gallery
70 burringbah street — mullumbimby
02 6684 3446 / 0422 636 839
Email art piece gallery
www.artpiecegallery.com.au
Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 3pm
Featured Artist: Jade Oakley
After a highly successful exhibition at Australian Galleries in Melbourne, Sydney artist Jade Oakley is preparing three installations for artsCape Biennial. A maker of mobiles a la the great Alexander Calder, Jade's intimate and delicate kinetic sculptures are mouth watering joyous constructions. Following artsCape, she will be undertaking a major commission for the new Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital where her small domestic scale sculptures will be massively scaled up for the huge atrium 'main street' of this world class state of the art facility.
artsCape Awards
artsCape Biennial Sculpture Prize
Ken Johnson's "Art & Nature" & $2000 cash
The Art Piece Gallery Prize
The winning artist receives $1000 cash & an invitation to exhibit www.artpiecegallery.com.au
The Linnaeus Sculpture Prize
The winning artist receives two weeks holiday at the luxurious Linneaus Estate beach house located in Broken Head.
The artsCape Biennial Local Artist Prize
The winning artist receives a $500 dining package at the Balcony Bar & Restaurant, Byron Bay, initiated by the GCAT dune care group.
The Beach Hotel People's Choice Award
The winning artist receives 5 nights accommodation at The Beach Hotel Resort.
May 2010
'Jade's exhibition invites the viewer to embark on a magical, mystery tour throughout the gallery, as each delicately arranged organic form creates a swirling shadowy play that is both captivating and awe inspiring. Timeless creations move deftly through the air, dancing to a quiet rhythm that generates peacefulness and contentedness in the uplifting journey of inquiry..' Caroline Field, Australian Galleries
May 2010
Drawings in the Air
May 29 - 30, 2010
Cost: $390.00
Level: All levels.
Book Now at ArtWorkshops Australia
'Drawings in the air' is a sculptural mobile workshop inspired by beautiful objects from nature such as beach pebbles, feathers, seed pods, shells and leaves. Students will explore these objects through drawing, painting and collage, and will then learn to translate these drawings into a mobile, to make 'Drawings in the air'. Jade Oakley's filigree works manage to walk that difficult line between painting and sculpture. The color effects are stunning - a mobile may appear to have been dipped in ink, or reveal a wash of color like brackish water over white sands.
Jade has been Artist in Residence at Bundanon Artist's Centre, Noosa Regional Gallery and Vermont Studio Centre in Vermont, USA and most recently, Artist in Residence at Bondi Public School. Commissions include 'Canopy', a large outdoor mobile for Concord Centre for Mental Health in 2008, 'Angel Trees' mobiles for Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, 2008.
She is represented by the Australian Galleries.
May 2010
Oakley makes headway with Headland
May 13, 2010
"Jade Oakley is unusual for a sculptor. Where others may use a chisel or an oxyacetylene torch her tools of trade are her hands and a pair of pliers..."
Visit the ABC Arts blog to read more.
May 2010
Headland Exhibition
Jade will be exhibiting a new collection of mobiles at Australian Galleries from 13 May 2010 - 6 June 2010. View the Headland mobiles here.
"There is a place in my mind's eye where a house is perched on a cliff, as lightly as an insect. Where I have walked barefoot along a ridge top over sandstone and fallen banksia leaves, looking down through the angophora forest to see glimpses of the sea below. Through the forest and out into the heathland, thick with birds and bottle brush and whispering grasses tossed by the wind. Beyond that are the cliffs where waves break and pool over the rocks – and past that is the great sighing sea. This is my dream place – where I flee to in my mind to escape my noisy urban home – this is the Headland."
Jade Oakley, April 2010
Australian Galleries is delighted to present this exhibition of exquisite sculptural installations by the Sydney-based artist Jade Oakley. Headland is an exhibition of finely articulated kinetic wire mobiles and free-standing sculpture that has been inspired by the memory of a place. The works depicting organic, web-like wire structures in gentle gradations of colour and form are designed for both interior and exterior spaces.
The Headland exhibition will open on Thursday 13th May 2010, from 6pm – 8pm.
Australian Galleries Smith Street
Address: 50 Smith Street, Collingwood VIC 3066
Hours: Monday to Saturday 10am – 6pm, Sunday 12pm – 5pm
November 2009
ArtWorkshops
Workshop Description
‘Drawings in the air’ is a sculptural mobile workshop inspired by beautiful objects from nature such as beach pebbles, feathers, seed pods, shells and leaves. Students will explore these objects through drawing, painting and collage, and will then learn to translate these drawings into a mobile, to make ‘Drawings in the air’.
Date – 10/11th of April 2010
www.artworkshopsaustralia.com.au
Click here to view the ArtWorkshops full flyer in PDF format.
October 2009
A sculpture by...
October 6 - 24, 2009
Australian Galleries
View Jade's sculptures from the "A Sculpture by..." exhibition here.
Visit Australian Galleries to read more.
Mid 2009
Sunday Life feature
"Mobile hanging from ceiling... We love Jade Oakley's artwork. She creates such beautiful and whimsical pieces in wire. The piece on the back wall in a white frame is by Jade as well."
Colour, fun and whimsy unite the well-loved home of author and designer Vanessa Holle and her husband, Christian Holle, a tax consultant and their three boys, Jonas, 10, Finn 9, and Clay, 7.
After buying their four-bedroom semi in Sydney’s Bondi Beach in 1998, the couple embarked on renovations, gutting the entire second storey, adding a third and extending the ground floor seven years ago. "It was a typical semi with a dark hall and rooms off to the side," says Holle. "We wanted to create a light, bright, open area facing north." Vanessa's sister Camilla Block, from Durbach Block Architects, designed the renovation and specified Dulux Berkshire White for the walls.
Holle, who works form home, feels she has created the ideal environment for meetings and lunch breaks, and the influence of her own creative eye is obvious. "I love bright colours. I just love stripes and I love all things crocheted and handmade," she says. "You can tell, can't you?"
June 2009
Estuary Exhibition
Jade will be exhibiting a new collection of mobiles at Australian Galleries from 18 June 2009 - 11 July 2009.
View the Estuary mobiles here.
June 2009
the tide comes in...
'Jade Oakley's sculptural mobiles transformed Australian Galleries into a mesmerizing setting for the evening'
'Jade's exhibition opening at Australian Galleries animated the space with her works dancing between guests and twirling like the conversations around them.' Amy Rowe, Australian Galleries
June 2009
Jade Oakley Exhibition
June 22, 2009
"Some time ago we featured the mobile Jade Oakley created for our Alexandria showroom, inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames... Jade has recently got her new website up and running, so you can now view more of her stunning portfolio online. She also has a solo exhibition Estuary currently showing at the Australian Galleries in Sydney until July 11th. Below are two of the pieces featured in the exhibition..."
Visit Living Edge's le blog to read more.
June 2009
Studio Visit: Jade Oakley
June 3, 2009
"Last week, we were invited to the studio space of Sydney artist Jade Oakley. We chatted about her work and took loads of photos as she prepared for her upcoming exhibition "Estuary" which will open on the 18th of June at Australian Galleries Glenmore Road in Paddington (Sydney)..."
Visit indie art & design to read more.
October 2008
Eames Wire Mobiles by Jade Oakley
October 14, 2008
"Jade Oakley is an Australian artist who works in the rather unusual medium of wire mobiles. Living Edge commissioned Jade to create two mobiles for our Alexandria showroom, both inspired by Charles and Ray Eames. Jade had complete freedom to come up with her own response to the brief and created the two wire mobiles below..."
Visit Living Edge's le blog to read more.
April 2008
For the love of Sculpture
Townsend Art Consulting e-newsletter
April 1, 2008
...Young Australian sculptor, Jade Oakley is the artist profiled this month. Her work was introduced to me by Sculptor Michael Snape and I was instantly drawn to it's jewellery-like qualities and colour palette.
Jade's sculptures (she also paints) have proved to be a great success - her show at Mori Gallery in Sydney last year was a near sell out and a number or her works were commissioned including a work for the Sydney Children's Hospital..."
Click here to view a pdf version of the Townsend Art Consulting e-newsletter April 2008.