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Picture House launches new art and poetry

Gyan
Gyan
THE very new Picture House Gallery and Bookshop in Gunning, brainchild of actor and artist Max Cullen and artist Margarita Georgiadis will be the setting for an afternoon-long exhibition, book launch and poetry performance this Sunday as star singer-songwriter Gyan joins local region artists Renee Andrews, Jeremy Thompson, Mary Butt, Kirsten Jeffcoat in showing their art.

Cullen and Georgiadis have occupied The Coronation Theatre (circa 1937) in Gunning since 2004.  The theatre, renamed The Picture House, had ceased showing movies in the mid 1960s and was abandoned, until the pair renovated it and transformed it into a cultural centre.

The shop sells art works by emerging, art supplies and fine art publications. The bookshop has pre-loved works on theatre and drama, plays and scripts, fiction/non-fiction, first editions, children’s books, philosophy, music, reference books and film memorabilia.

Aria award-winner Gyan has been a household name since 1990. After a long international career, she has focused on Australia recent year and now lives in Byron Bay.

In 2002, her song, “Life’s Great If You Don’t Weaken”, was on the soundtrack of the Australian film “The Nugget” and she co-wrote Paul Kelly’s “Nobody She Knows”.

In 2008 Gyan’s children’s book, “How Weird Is That?”, with illustrations by Michelle Dawson, was shortlisted for the Crichton Award for Children’s Book Illustration. In the same year she won a Sydney Theatre award for her stage collaboration with Michael Leunig at Sydney Opera House.

“Bear in Mind” is her first poetry book of “tiny poems not yet sung”. Perhaps they’ll be sung in Gunning.

Art, music & poetry, at The Picture House Gallery & Bookshop, 82 Yass Street, Gunning, Sunday, April 14,  inquiries 4845 1889 or visit thepicturehousegallery.webs.com

2-4pm “Local Eyes” exhibition opening, free; 4-6pm, “Bear In Mind”, tiny poems by Gyan” book launch and performance. Tickets $20.

A work by Mary Butt from Crookwell
A work by Mary Butt from Crookwell

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