{"id":1224,"date":"2019-02-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2025-03-15T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:56:11","slug":"poetica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/poetica\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPoetica\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>The first exhibition for 2019 at Blue Knob Hall Gallery is \u2018Poetica\u2019. It\u2019s been many years since we had this theme for an exhibition and have had many requests to hold it again. As there are always new artists joining this creative community at the Gallery it is being embraced anew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists have selected lines from a poem, song or text to create a piece of artwork. There is a long tradition of artists being inspired by poetry or text, spiritual or otherwise, and the work has resulted in a variety of unique visual interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening night is on Friday 8th Feb, at 6:30pm with a set menu for $20 incl Mains and Dessert. Bookings are essential. Please phone the Gallery&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:02 66897449\">02 66897449<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"281\" data-id=\"1225\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0107.jpeg\" alt=\"Only Breath by Christine Wynyard\" class=\"wp-image-1225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0107.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0107-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Only Breath&#8217; by Christine Wynyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"416\" data-id=\"1228\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0104.jpeg\" alt=\"All hope abandon, ye who enter here..\nBy Wendy Hughes (Diptych detail)\" class=\"wp-image-1228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0104.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0104-159x300.jpeg 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All hope abandon, ye who enter here..<br>By Wendy Hughes (Diptych detail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"298\" data-id=\"1229\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0103.jpeg\" alt=\"Woven Flax Pot by Amy Rosenberg\" class=\"wp-image-1229\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Woven Flax Pot by Amy Rosenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blue Knob Ceramic Studio \u2013 Artists of the Month<\/strong><br>The<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Artists of the Month for February are Ali Walker and Trish O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Walker has had an extensive background in the arts and ceramics. Her work has involved an exploration in the use of local clay. \u2018Wild Clay\u2019 has become synonymous with her work and she has produced pieces with beautiful patinas and hues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trish O\u2019Brien is an emerging ceramic student, using the local flora and fungi as an inspiration for her work. These are often functional as well as sculptural, and add another voice to the quality of work coming out of Blue Knob Ceramic Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"160\" data-id=\"1230\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0102.jpeg\" alt=\"Fallen by Trish O'Brien\" class=\"wp-image-1230\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fallen by Trish O&#8217;Brien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"202\" data-id=\"1227\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0105.jpeg\" alt=\"Wild Reef by Ali Walker\" class=\"wp-image-1227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0105.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0105-300x173.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wild Reef by Ali Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artists &amp; Friends Lunch<br><\/strong>The next Artists and Friends Lunch will be held on Thurs 29th November at 12.30pm with a set menu for $20 incl main &amp; Dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first exhibition for 2019 at Blue Knob Hall Gallery is \u2018Poetica\u2019. It\u2019s been many years since we had this theme for an exhibition and have had many requests to hold it again. As there are always new artists joining this creative community at the Gallery it is being embraced anew. Artists have selected lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-28"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}