Burragorang The Lost Valley 2018
Exhibitions
Burragorang the Lost Valley is a past sell out exhibition that was held at Lost Bear Gallery – Lurline St. Katoomba. It opened on Saturday March 24th 2018 and ran until April 29th 2018. The exhibition coincided with the official book launch of ‘Paintings from Burragorang the Lost Valley’ – a book filled with rare paintings of mine both recent and from my former visits, along with other works. Bob Brown has written the foreword with an interesting introduction by Jim Smith.
The Burragorang Valley
The Burragorang Valley put is the picturesque valley that was flooded in the 1950s to make way for a permanent water supply for the growing city of Sydney.
What was once a thriving valley of guest houses, farms and other small industries no longer exists. Residents were forced to leave their precious valley, livelihoods were lost, people dispossessed with only a small compensation.
The homes and buildings were demolished the land stripped of vegetation. That Valley is now called Lake Burragorang. I have been fortunate enough to have had a very long history with what is left of this beautiful area – a history I thought I had left behind 30 years ago. The story of my involvement and how recent trips with Water NSW came about, is told in this book. Predominantly, though, it is a book of my art featuring exhibition images of my paintings and some from earlier times, along with other works of mine towards the back.
It has been a journey I never thought I would ever make again
and yet, here it is, the result of 4 years of planning and and dedicated painting. This will be my final exhibition of the Burragorang Valley.
The Burragorang Valley Exhibition March 2018
Exhibitions
1977-88
1977 Geo Styles Gallery
1978 Prouds Art Gallery
1979 Collier Galleries
1980 Collier Galleries
1993 Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens
1984 Rainsford Gallery
1985 Collier Galleries
1986 Geo Styles Gallery
1987 Collier Gallerie
1988 North Shore Gallery
1989-02
1990 Geo Styles Gallery– Robyn Collier
1991 Painted Moon Gallery
1992 North Shore Gallery
1993 Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens
1995 Noella Byrne Gallery
1996 Boyd Gallery
1998 Boyd Gallery
2000 Gap Bluff Centre Watson’s Bay
2002 2003 Boyd Gallery
2005-18
2010 Katoomba Fine Art
2011 Katoomba Fine Art
2011 Exhibitor Kwass Seoul Korea
2012 Invited Exhibitor with Kwass Parliament House
2014 Lost Bear Gallery – ‘The Hidden Landscape’
2016 Lost Bear Gallery ‘Wild’
2018 ‘Burragorang The Lot Valley’
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