25/04/2012 |
General News
Follow our Mongolian Spring journey and exhibitions in Ulanbaataar Mongolia.
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for Mongolian Journal Blog.
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A Mongolian Summer 2010 Journey
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28/03/2012 |
Galleries
The New Web site for ELTHAM SOUTH FINE ART: Studios and Gallery is
www.ElthamSouthFineArt.com.au
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Information about Jenni Mitchell's family gallery and orchard garden.
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29/02/2012 |
Exhibitions
A lot has been happening lately!
THE TEACHING STUDIO
We have relocated our teaching studio from Montsalvat to SIX MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD Eltham. Why? Because we have my mother's house and studio on the corner of Mount Pleasant and Main Road to use. My mother, Grace Mitchell passed away six months ago in April. She was at 94 years of age. Grace had wanted us to use her space for artistic pursuit. With much toil we are now ready and have had several classes working from the new studio space. And working well within the garden setting. Spring being the perfect time to start a new venture. If you are thinking of joining the classes or having some private tuition with Jenni, now is the time to enrol.
OPEN STUDIO
For Two weekends in November, 19/20 and 26/27 we will be opening our studios, gallery and garden to the public. As a former founding artist of the Open Studio Program I am pleased to announce we are returning after a break of several years.
With the new space we are able to exhibit our work in a well lit environment. It will be a show of the family - Grace Mitchell, Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan. Grace's work on show will be a preview to a larger show we hope to have in the next couple of years. Mervyn and Jenni's work will be a series of paintings and photographs of recent travels and studio works including NORWAY, MONGOLIA and the Australian Desert.
WORKSHOP WINGROVE PARK, DEC 2011
To finish the year Jenni and Mervyn will be holding a local Eltham workshop in Wingrove Park, just opposite the studio gallery in Mount Pleasant Road. Wingrove Park is a natural park full of history and wonderful on Manna Gum trees. It's wild and untamed and totally suitable for painting.
For more information and enquiries see entry on page and contact Jenni on 9439 3458 or Mobile 0417 585 102.
Jenni
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02/02/2012 |
General News
Eltham South Fine Art: Studios and Gallery will now be open regularly from Thursday to Saturday.
Situated at Six Mount Pleasant Road Eltham the gallery hours are:
Thursday 10 - 5.30
Friday 10 - 5.30
Saturday 11 - 5.30
The gallery will be open at other times and by arrangement: phone 0417 585 102 for details.
New Painting Classes with Jenni Mitchell are now available:
Thursday Morning 10.00 - 12.30
Thursday Evening 6.30 - 8.30
Friday Morning 10.00 - 12.30
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22/11/2011 |
General News
ELTHAM SOUTH FINE ART Studios & Gallery is our new working name.
Our STUDIOS, GALLERY & FRAMING WORKSHOP are situated on a site between two roads - Six Mount Pleasant Road and 19 Fordhams Road in Eltham.
Two entrances now - Six Mount Pleasant for the Gallery and teaching workshop and Fordhams Road for the framing studio.
The studios have been combined in honour of my mother who passed away in April this year. Grace Mitchell purchased the property here in Eltham in 1948 and the family has lived here since. Grace's Place is now open to the public as a gallery and teaching studio showcasing sculpture, painting and photography work by the family.
We are open for the first time in this form as part of the Nillumbik OPEN STUDIO program and thereafter 'irregularly' - when the sign is out or by appointment. We live on site and are more than happy to open the gallery - just give us a phone call and make a time.
Telephone: (03) 9439 3458 or Mobile 0417 585 102 Email: jenni@jennimitchell.com.au for an appointment or any enquiry |
13/11/2011 |
Exhibitions
Returning to the Nillumbik Open Studio Program this year we will be introducing our new Gallery Studio venue.
ELTHAM SOUTH FINE ART - Studio and Gallery; located at Six Mount Pleasant Road Eltham.
We have moved the Montsalvat teaching studio to this space as well as set up a gallery to exhibit the work of my mother, Grace Mitchell, Mervyn Hannan and myself, Jenni Mitchell.
Six Mount Pleasant Road is the extension of our property, my mother's house and garden. Grace sadly passed away in April this year at the age of 94.
The Eltham South Fine Art studio and gallery space was first bought by the Mitchell family in 1948. The Mitchell's created an orchard and vegetable garden on the side of the mudstone hill and later Grace made her famous home made pies from here before turning pastry to clay and working with wood and stone in her sculpture.
Some of her work will be shown over this coming Open Studio.
Hours - Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am - 5.00pm.
Enquiries to Jenni Mitchell (03) 9439 3458 M. 0417 585 102 |
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29/02/2012 | General News
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Eltham artists Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan are the first Australian Artists to be invited to exhibit their work in Mongolia’s History Museum and the Mongolian Union of Artists Gallery in Ulaanbaatar.
The Australian artists have been working together on a project with Mongolian artist Togsoyun Sodom for several years.
In 2005 Jenni and Mervyn hosted Togsoyun Sodom in Eltham and invited her to travel to the Flinders Ranges desert regions to paint. The paintings and work produced from that trip culminated in the DESERT DREAMING exhibition held at the Montsalvat Barn Gallery 2005.
The group had vowed to follow up with a second show in Mongolia, STAGE TWO.
In 2010 both Jenni and Mervyn travelled to Mongolia and painted the wild countryside with Togsoyun visiting the North East Siberian Russian region Khenti and the central Khorhorin region of Mongolia.
There is a complimentary sense of the wild places in Australia and the wild Mongolian landscape. Avid Australian desert travelers, Jenni and Mervyn see the Mongolian countryside as even more extensive in largeness than Australia.
... There are no fences in the Mongolian countryside – endless ranges of green hills looming out of long flat plains, and more hills and in beyond more long plains. The Australian long landscape has a sense an end at the edge of the horizon; the Mongolian countryside does not. This may change in the near future as the countryside is re-developed into mining lots and the nomadic lifestyle takes on a new sense of borders; and the new introduction of fences. Today the landscape is still dotted with family felt gers and satellite dishes and roads are long ribbons of dirt tracks running in the general direction of the next town...
The exhibition is a culmination of work from each artist depicting in Paint, pastel and photography the landscape of Australia and Mongolia.
A further Australian exhibition is also planned to be held later in the year showcasing the strong connection of the Australian and Mongolian artists.
Interview with Jenni Mitchell (2010)
Jenni Mitchell Artist Profile .
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