Artists featured at regional gallery

Three Peninsula artists were featured in the Five Ways exhibition at the Gosford Regional Gallery recently.

Potters Ms Annette Poole and Ms Annette Reid joined painter Ms Ann Parker for the 10-day exhibition along with fellow Central Coast artists Ms Renate Leyer and Ms Judy Barrett for the display.

Ms Poole was born in a small country town in New Zealand where she studied music and discovered that music, the natural environment and fauna merged into a passion for ceramic art.

Her fascination with clay arose when a family friend invited her to a wood-fired kiln opening, where her interest and enthusiasm was born.

After moving to Australia, Ms Poole studied for a time at Hornsby Tech.

She attended night classes for several years at Central Coast Potters' and day classes with Judy Barrett; continued classes with Penny Riley at Ettalong Beach Arts and Crafts Centre and workshops with several accomplished potters and sculptors.

Her main interest lies with porcelain, raku firings and sculpture.

Fellow potter Ms Reid is a former student of Penny Riley and has been potting for 16 years.

She is the alternate pottery teacher at Ettalong Beach Arts and Crafts Centre and has won first and third prizes at the Royal Easter Show and prizes at the Gosford Show.

She is also a member of Central Coast Potters' Society and the Multi Arts Confederation.

With an Associate Diploma in Fine Arts from Hornsby TAFE and having studied with David Andrews at Raymondale School of Arts and with Julie Duell at Seagull Studio, Ms Parker

currently teaches at Ettalong Beach Arts and Crafts Centre and holds private classes and workshops for various art societies.

Ms Parker has won many awards and exhibited in selected exhibitions including the 1998 Parliament House, Canberra Bicentennial Peoplescape exhibition which was commissioned by Gosford Council to represent Gosford City.

Newsletter, 15 Jul 2010 Multi Arts Confederation