Research Institute - Art Exhibition

Chris REID
121. Anguish
Relief Woodcarving (Blackwood, Cedar and Elm), 25 x 32 cm
$280 - Sold

"Much is happening in our world; much love and hatred. To be spiritually true to ourselves, our God and our world, we must stand up to injustice. This piece represents the rage felt by a person in the turbulent world he lives in. This rage will move him to action with the guidance of his spirit into constructive and positive change."

122. Snugglepot & Cuddlepie
Relief Woodcarving (Blackwood and Huon Pine), 19 x 35 cm
$160 - Sold

"Since May Gibbs conceived the idea of the gumnut characters in 1913, children and adults have been uplifted by their depiction. Australian Spirituality is tied to the bush and its mystique. I have attempted a 'relief carving' image of the characters in Australian timbers adding a third dimension to May's images."

Donald RICHARDSON
123. Landscape
Photography/Collage, 87 x 29 cm
$200

"This work is composed of 'aleatoric' prints - ie the unintended photos at the end of the roll of film. However, the chance effects, combined as they have been, express the spirit of the Australian landscape - both in its natural state and of the effects of human habitation."

124. Light in August
Photography/Collage, 72 x 30 cm
$200

"This composition of 'aleatoric' prints, expresses the spirit of a place - an Australian room, in early spring - better than a considered arrangement would have."

Richard ROGERS
125. City on a Hill
Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 90 cm
$750

"The title comes from the words of Christ who described his followers as a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. Inherent in the painting is the idea of the need for balance between the various aspects of the spiritual life, each of which is important but not to be practiced to the exclusion of others."

126. In the Steps of Christ
Acrylic on Craftwood, 59 x 78 cm
$480

"This painting tells the story of the life of Jesus Christ; his birth, the time that he and his family spent as refugees in Egypt when he was a child; his baptism, equipping for ministry by the Holy Spirit; his death and resurrection. The symbolism also describes the life pilgrimage of all those who would seek to follow Christ."

Margaret ROHDE
127. Bauhinia
Oil, 51 x 71 cm
$700 - Sold

"In this painting I hope I have put in paint the feelings, wonders, of form and colour. I wish to express - nature in all its forms is my spirituality."

Ros ROWETT
128. 2 Esdras 4
Computer-generated, 25 x 20 cm
$250

"The human mind can not understand God's ways - a conversation with the angel Uriel."

129. The Spirit of Creation
Computer-generated, 49 x 25 cm
$400

"Let the earth produce all kinds of plants - this work explores the growth, excitement and pleasure of the creation."

Trevor SCHAEFER
130. Mother and Child
Pastel, 50 x 69 cm
NFS

Belinda SCHMIDTKE
131. Movements of Prayer
Pencil & Ink, 30 x 22 cm
$75 each

"The movement of the pictures and their colours are symbolic of the rich pigments and textures which flow out from the desert heart of Australia - as also from the desert heart of humanity - a heart in search of God with a soul's longing for rest."

Helen SHERRIFF
132. Squawk / Here Now
Mixed, 30 x 61 cm, 60 x 60
$495

"We are desperately hungry,
We don't see
(Like a baby bird being blind)
That God is right here now,
Dying to feed us.
(Like a Golden Bower Bird making mansions.)"

Robin SINCLAIR
133. Three Trees
Oil, (a) 75 x 92 cm, (b) 102 x 149 cm, (c) 75 x 92 cm
$2100 - Sold

"'The Three Trees' represents the common condition of humankind:
1. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (for better or worse?)
2. Family Tree (Adam & Eve weep for their children)
3. The Tree of Life (its leaves are for the healing of the nations)"

Dave SMITH
134. Coral's Stole
Textile (Cross Stitch), 164 cm
NFS

"The work in this deacon's stole depicts six symbols of life within the church, each set within a Celtic knotwork frame. The symbols illustrate important themes in Coral's life and ministry."

SOL
135. The Winter Queen
Mixed, 60 cm
$170

"Everyday I am exploring my own spirituality, specifically through my art and puppet making. This allows me the perfect opportunity to manifest this outwardly. The characters I develop spring from the primal soup of humankinds, various mythologies and as archetypes find relevance in our contemporary ideas of self-exploration."

Helen STACEY
136. Celebration at the Waters of Life
Acrylic, 99 x 119 cm
$1600

137-1. Meeting at the Waters of Life
Acrylic, 29 x 48 cm
$1350 set of three; separate prices by negotiation

137-3. Levitating at the Waters of Life

"The desert can be experienced in numerous ways - awe at the immensity and spectacle of the land, wonder at the fragile textures underfoot and seeing the land as a mapped surface overlaid with the stories and unseen lines of the mythic journeys of Indigenous ancestors or the marks of road, rail and settlement of more recent habitation. The desert stirs the sense and the soul. There is the realisation that the desert has been a place of meeting for people of many cultures and faiths and the desert can be seen as a place of spiritual encounter and renewal."

Sheila STONOR
138. Existence
Photography, 18 x 27 cm
$85

"Life and death may be an endless cycle but existence is unchanging."

139-1. Pelican One
Photography, 29 x 20 cm
$85 each

139-2. Pelican Too

139-3. Pelican Also

"The pelican is supremely confident of its place in the world, while people seem fraught with insecurities."

Yvette TALBOT
140. Mother Earth
Textile, 102 x 147 cm
$95

"The mother earth is getting wrecked. I don't like it. More things are getting built. More trees chopped down. You know my people have always loved the earth from the start. We can live without buildings, air conditioning and cars. We communicate with animals, plants and wildlife, we connect with them. We love the bush, fresh air and the sun."

Alice TEASDALE
141. Prayer Flags: Kathmandu
Colour Photograph, 19 x 15 cm
$60

"For many young Australians, the images and experiences of travel inform a personal history. This is Boudanath, a Buddhist stupa in Kathmandu in Nepal. Wind takes prayers from the fluttering flags, while Buddha's all-seeing eye watches. There is a powerful sense of worship in the respect, dignity and colour of this ancient faith. I savour such images and memories - they are part of my spirituality."

Dianne TEASDALE
142. Spiritual Equation
Pen & Wash, 28 x 10 cm
$270

"Exploring this notion that all religious groups' highest ideals are the same. In purest form, infinite love."

Helen The PRINTER
143. Emptiness is Form
Bronze, 19 x 19 x 10 cm
$550

"This singing bowl is based on the Buddhist teaching of Anata, the realisation arises that no thing has an intrinsic 'self'. Matter arises and ceases in different forms and we name it in the form we see it in, in this moment."

144. Form is Emptiness
Bronze, 12 x 14 x 9 cm
$715

"Through the practice of single-pointed concentration of the mind, the mind becomes spacious and subtle - able to grasp the reality that this body is a series of processes with no thing that can be called a 'self.' Seeing through this illusion, the spirits are lifted and joy and peace arise."

Dorothy THIEM
145. Country Church: Delamere
Water Colour, 26 x 19 cm
$180

"This work represents generations of people who love the Lord and worship Him."

146. Consider the Lilies
Water Colour, 43 x 60 cm
$550 - Sold

"One of the wonderful truths which come from God's word and which often come to my mind is represented in this work."

Erni TINESZ
147. Unicornicus
Stained Glass Lead Light, 61 x 83 cm
NFS

"I love the process of creating a design, putting it together, letting the colour and light bring it to life. Light creates the third dimension."

Orlando TISATO
148. Trinity
Acrylic on Canvas, 220 x 201 cm
NFS

"Orlando is a painter from the Umbria region in Italy, whose work dates back to the 1940's and is exhibited across Italy, France & USA. In 1996, during a visit to Australia, he was captivated by his brother's garden and, in particular, the red claret ash tree that is the garden's centre piece, under which he would regularly meditate and muse at the stars and moon. He found the space so wonderful that he converted it, on a warm December night in 1996, into an open air theatre in which he created this Trinity painting, in performance while dancing to music before a captive audience."

Joanna TOULOUMTZOGLOU
149. Wind, Fire and Water
Water-based Paints on Silk, 86 x 179 cm
$1000

"Three elements, three symbols of the spiritual realm. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit... Drink of this water and you will never thirst again, but will become as a fountain of living water springing up into everlasting life."

150. Eden
Water-based Paints on Silk, 86 x 179 cm
$1000

"My works explore the notion of life in the Spirit. To be controlled by human nature, results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace."

Robin TROTTER
151. Clowning for Christ
Water Colour, 25 x 26 cm
NFS

"Ministry through a dramatic presentation of the Christian message by means of clowning, which appeared to the local children who participated in the 1999 Almond Blossom Festival. They handed out lifesavers with a smile and witnessed that Christ is a lifesaver."

Dell WALKER
152. Not a Parallel Universe
Mixed, 122 x 91 cm
$750

"Appearances can be deceiving, a poor reflection of reality. In urban and suburban busyness it often seems like human activities and consumer priorities occupy the whole of reality. I have often found it hard to remember that God is always alongside, awesome but benevolent, understanding, and wanting to give fuller dimensions to each of our lives, part of life, not a parallel universe. Hurray for times of reflection (beyond glass)."

Vikki WALLER
153. Here We Are..+..Send Us!
Mixed Fabrics, Hand- & Machine-sewn Quilt, 165 x 240 cm
NFS

"The theme for UCA Assembly 2000 is taken from Isaiah 6. The hem of God's robe filled the temple and the Lord says 'whom shall I send, who will go for us'. We respond, 'Here we are send us'. We go from the sanctity of the temple, eagerly in our many hued envelopes, into God's amazing colourful world to tell of the Lord's love and saving power."

154. Time...To Be
Mixed Fabrics, Hand- & Machine-sewn Quilt, 150 x 227 cm
NFS

"Celebrating Port Adelaide's UCA Jubilee - 150 years. To depict the movement and spirit of the Port congregation and church I chose to side step the precision of the quilt making process and work in an unstructured way using eye, hand and scissors directly on the cloth. The pictures evolved as I worked. Celebrations are an integral part of Church life as is reaching out to others in the community."

Sheila WHITTAM
155. The Music Room I
Gouache & Pastel, 46 x 62 cm
$650

"The intimate moments of making music, or the practice of acquiring harmony together in any human activity can produce moments that are exquisite."

156. The Music Room II
Gouache & Pastel, 66 x 84 cm
$980

"David as a young boy had the ability to play music and quieten Saul's aggravation. Music has power to soothe our spirits."

157. Australian Madonna & Child
Gouache & Pastel, 84 x 64 cm
$980

"Madonna has the meaning 'respected woman.' Mother and child is a subject that has been venerated for a long time including Isis, Astarti and Diana. The Catholic Church has worshipped this image, not without reason. After the Reformation, Protestants rejected it as having pagan origins. There may have been a decline because of this objection of respect for women among the newly formed churches. In this work I am searching for a new meaning for the old image of Mother & Child and placing it in the context of Australia's culture."

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Bronwyn ELSEGOOD
159. Ephemeral Enigma
Oil, 30 x 22 cm
NFS

"This work was inspired by nature, specifically by butterflies that form the basis of a Mandala."

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"A tapestry of colours, each representing complexities and directions in life, set upon a gold cross that represents God and truth."

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"An attempt to capture nature - its patterns, colours and forms."