Showing posts with label Rylstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rylstone. Show all posts
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September 19, 2013
50th Birthday Celebration - Rylstone & District Historical Society
AFFILIATED SOCIETIES NEWS AND EVENTS
October 24, 2012
RAHS - Afflilated Societies - News & Events
Reminder!
Tuesday 30 October
Evening Lecture: Restoring a Historic Mural at Rylstone
The Bridge View Inn in Rylstone in mid-West NSW contains a rare mural painted in the late 19th Century by an unknown artist, depicting the second Rylstone bridge, elaborately framed by decoration and nudes. The mural is in an extremely unstable condition, and painting conservators Matteo Volonte and Adam Godijn from International Conservation Services recently travelled to Rylstone to commence stabilisation and remove the layers of overpaint that had been discovered to be covering the top third of the image. The journey to Rylstone turned into one of discovery in many different ways.
Adam Godijn graduated in 2000 as a paintings conservator and has led an exciting career in Australia and abroad. Adam is based in Sydney with International Conservation Services as a Senior Paintings Conservator and has worked on many of the most important private and public collections.
Virginia Hollister moved to Rylstone in 2004 after a career working as a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, then arts administrator for the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts, then freelance arts and museum researcher and writer. In Rylstone she is deeply involved with the Rylstone and District Historical Society, who own and manage the Bridge View Inn.
A joint activity of ASHET and the RAHS
Venue: History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Time: 5.30 for 6 pm
Cost: $8.00 Includes light refreshments on arrival.
Tuesday 30 October
Evening Lecture: Restoring a Historic Mural at Rylstone
The Bridge View Inn in Rylstone in mid-West NSW contains a rare mural painted in the late 19th Century by an unknown artist, depicting the second Rylstone bridge, elaborately framed by decoration and nudes. The mural is in an extremely unstable condition, and painting conservators Matteo Volonte and Adam Godijn from International Conservation Services recently travelled to Rylstone to commence stabilisation and remove the layers of overpaint that had been discovered to be covering the top third of the image. The journey to Rylstone turned into one of discovery in many different ways.
Adam Godijn graduated in 2000 as a paintings conservator and has led an exciting career in Australia and abroad. Adam is based in Sydney with International Conservation Services as a Senior Paintings Conservator and has worked on many of the most important private and public collections.
Virginia Hollister moved to Rylstone in 2004 after a career working as a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, then arts administrator for the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts, then freelance arts and museum researcher and writer. In Rylstone she is deeply involved with the Rylstone and District Historical Society, who own and manage the Bridge View Inn.
A joint activity of ASHET and the RAHS
Venue: History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Time: 5.30 for 6 pm
Cost: $8.00 Includes light refreshments on arrival.
October 1, 2012
Sculpture in and around Rylstone-Kandos
VISION
The long-term goal of the
Rylstone Sculptures Inc is to oversee multiple and diverse installations
of permanent and site-specific of sculpture along the banks of the
Cudgegong River at Rylstone and in and around the environs of Rylstone
and Kandos. An already existing footpath winds it way along part of the
riverbank, and passes through part of the iconic Rylstone Showground.
Works of the highest artistic calibre will be sought to enrich the towns
to create an exciting collection of sculpture for the region. The
collection will understandably be assembled over many years; it should
become a long term element of the culture of Rylstone and Kandos
To bring attention to this goal, and to stimulate community appreciation for public sculpture, an exhibition of sculptural works will again be displayed over two days at the annual Rylstone-Kandos Agricultural Show, on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd of February 2013 at Rylstone Showground. The Agricultural Show attracts more than 3000 visitors.
The
2012 SCULPTURES ON THE HILL was enthusiastically received. Kent
Buchanan Curator of Dubbo Cultural Centre opened the exhibition with
some thoughts about what he thinks he learnt by growing up the country
(in his case Dubbo). “Living in the country taught me how to hunt, I
had to explore and find the things I was interested in”. Over time he
came to realise that ‘Living in the country’ gives artists the
opportunity to be both connected to the land and to express emotion in
their physical work; so that they can be an intersection of
understanding.
“Art
offers the opportunity for reflection. A Gallery or Museum is a shelter
from commerce, a space outside of the normal world in which we can stop
and ruminate on beauty, ideas, feelings without an outside agenda; it
is just you and the artwork. Similarly it creates conversations;
dialogue between opposites and similar”. In this way a healthy balance
is created that nourishes the sense of self.
Sculptures on The Hill is
as much an expression of this as any bricks and mortar gallery and
demonstrates “the care and love for the built environment is evident and
is an acknowledgment of the continuation of culture and heritage
breathing life into the soul of Rylstone.”
See http://www.rylstonesculptures.wordpress.com/
August 10, 2012
Restoring a Historic Mural at Rylsone
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| Bridge View Inn at Rylstone |
EVENING LECTURE: Restoring a Historic Mural at Rylstone
- Date: Tue 30 Oct
- Time: 05:30 pm
Additional Information
The Bridge View Inn in Rylstone in mid-West NSW contains a rare mural
painted in the late 19th Century by an unknown artist, depicting the
second Rylstone bridge, elaborately framed by decoration and nudes. The
mural is in an extremely unstable condition, and painting conservators
Matteo Volonte and Adam Godijn from International Conservation Services
recently travelled to Rylstone to commence stabilisation and remove the
layers of overpaint that had been discovered to be covering the top
third of the image. The journey to Rylstone turned into one of discovery
in many different ways.
Adam Godijn graduated in 2000 as a paintings conservator and has led
an exciting career in Australia and abroad. Adam is based in Sydney with
International Conservation Services as a Senior Paintings Conservator
and has worked on many of the most important private and public
collections.
Virginia Hollister moved to Rylstone in 2004 after a career working
as a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, then arts administrator for
the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts, then freelance
arts and museum researcher and writer. In Rylstone she is deeply
involved with the Rylstone and District Historical Society, who own and
manage the Bridge View Inn.
A joint activity of ASHET and the RAHS
Venue: History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Time: 5.30 for 6 pm
Cost: $8.00 Includes light refreshments on arrival
Time: 5.30 for 6 pm
Cost: $8.00 Includes light refreshments on arrival
July 21, 2012
20th Century Heritage Society Regional Tour
Mudgee and district is one of NSW’s best-kept secrets – less than 4 hours from Sydney, rich in natural beauty,
Enjoy an
introduction to some of its and district neighbours Kandos and Gulgong’s
delights: architectural, landscape and gastronomic.
The Society’s President Dr Roy Lumby – together with local experts Colleen O’Sullivan, John Broadley, Barbara Hickson and David Mort – will open gates and doors not usually open to the public.
Kandos is an entirely 20th century town built for and from cement. Gulgong was a major gold strike site and home to poet Henry Lawson.
Meet some key local identities such as the retailing dynasty the Loneragan family, whose houses and gardens in town and country we will sample.
Learn about local architect Harold Hardwick, who was prolific through the Federation era, leaving a legacy of buildings.
Don’t
miss the work of landscape designer Paul Sorensen, and nurseryman and
garden designer, Walter Hazlewood, working in the country.
The
weekend programme includes a gala dinner with two short talks on 20th
century heritage in Mudgee and cinemas in country towns. Not to be
missed!
April 20, 2012
Rylstone's Bridge View Inn Painted Mural
As an event for Heritage Week 2012, the Rylstone and District Historical Society is having an open day for the public to see the progress of the work to clean and stabilise the mural. Some new parts have been exposed.
View a slide presentation of the project here.
When: Sunday 22nd April, 2012
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