With over 30 years as a practicing ceramic artist and teacher, Dee Jaeger combines her passions for clay, education and the environment. The students at Hale School have been learning about these connections through unique outdoor art experiences.
Despite a diverse portfolio of commercial and artistic photographs, Josh Wells was feeling disenchanted with photography. His most recent exhibition featured photos taken from his cavoodle’s perspective, a project that helped rekindle his enjoyment of the art of capturing images through a lens.
Tatiana Amaral has always been drawn to making visual art. From a young age, she found paper to be a natural medium. She paints, tears, burns, shapes and remakes paper into intricate artworks – much as she has remade herself in her adopted country of Australia.
Fleur Schell’s new works are at once charming, meaningful and wonderfully executed by an artist happy to share both why and how they have come to be.
Originally from the UK, Jennie Merritt has exhibited with Fine Art@Hale since 2019. Jennie’s creative journey is one of challenging herself and pushing the limits of her chosen medium.
Term Two at Hale saw the historical Roundhouse return to its past role as an art studio on campus. The building that once saw Robert Juniper seated behind his easel, sharing his love of art with Hale students including Leon Pericles in the 1960s, became the home of Hale’s Artist in Residence.
In 2015, Greg Barr was commissioned by the Nulsen Group to paint an artwork commemorating the ten year anniversary of the Nulsen Youth Patron Program at Hale. This year marks 15 years of that relationship and the first time Greg is exhibiting with Fine Art@Hale.
Leon Pericles, one of Australia’s most prominent and prolific artists, is the only person to have exhibited with Fine Art@Hale every year since 1993. In the lead up to this year’s exhibition, we caught up with Leon to discuss his continued connection to Hale and the humour that both drives his creativity and serves as his greatest reward.
Exhibiting at Fine Art@Hale for the first time in 2019, Sam Hopkins was thrilled to have his sculpture En Masse purchased by the Year 6 class as a parting gift to the Junior School. The talk he gave to the class provided him with some extra inspiration for a sculpture that will be exhibited at Fine Art@Hale 2020.
With the United Nations declaring 2020 the year of global plant health, Fine Art@Hale met with Jude Willis. Focusing on macroscopic and microscopic ecologies, Jude’s detailed paintings of her environment help raise awareness of the incredible life that exists and grows all around us.