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Some Low Isles artworks shown here may still be for sale.

A selection of Low Isles artworks from the Port Douglas exhibition 'Low Isles, a Fragile Sanctuary' exhibition toured to Cairns Regional Gallery. The whole exhibition, held at the old Sugar Wharf building in Port Douglas was highly successful and attracted three hundred viewers on the opening night alone.

The opening of the Cairns Regional Gallery exhibition was on February 2, 2008. The exhibition ran for five weeks, viewers enjoying this local perspective of an endangered island and learning a little about this tiny speck in the Pacific Ocean, an hour's sail from the small resort town of Port Douglas.

The history of the island, with its importance to indigenous Australians, the vital role of the lighthouse in marine safety and the full moon magic of the annual coral spawning were all stories that captured the audience's imagination.

The variety of artworks - from an installation to ceramics and paintings - all examined some aspect of the island from individual artists' perspectives.

The isolation, loneliness and deprivation of the lighthouse keepers and their families was a recurrent theme as was the variety of marine life in the coral lagoon.

Because artists stayed overnight on several occasions, snorkelled in the lagoon with turtle, fish and coral and spent many days exploring the island and researching its history they were well qualified to comment on its ecology and history.

They developed and bonded as a group over months of regular meetings and discussions about the content and style of the exhibition.

The display at the Cairns Regional Gallery was curated by the gallery and ran for four weeks.

CATALOGUE OF WORKS



Jill Booth

Torres Strait or Imperial Pied pigeons perch on the wintering branches of beach almond trees, mountains, ocean and sky in the background - first part of triptych oil paintingThe second section of this triptych painting shows three eggs on the yellow beach sand, pigeons on branches and a nest with pigeon sitting in itThis third section of the large oil painting shows a sooty oyster catcher in the shallows, a white feather on the Low Isles beach
"Our Island Home" - triptych
oil on canvas
ea 910x1220mm
$4,950

Christine,the artist, floats above coral and fish, dreaming of the coral spawning that she has just swum through in the moonlightSit at the blue Low Isles volunteers table and dream of all the women who have lived in isolation on this island - collage and mixed media features a teapot pouring memories, while shells, a letter and old bottles bring further remindersA section of silk fabric screenprinted with a stylised design based on the painted crayfish found washed up on the beach at Low Isles
"Low Isles Dreaming" - mixed media and collage on paper, framed
780x1000mm
$900		"The Blue Table"
mixed media and collage on paper, framed
780x1000mm
$1,200		"Painted Cray"
screenprinted dyes on silk, 4mx1200mm
$600



Jill Chism

a tiny flat bottomed dinghy is carved out of sand and lies within the points of the compass. The dinghy is pointing in a direction which will take it off course and its occupants to their deathsthe artist arranges shoes to spell out the name Jane, who was the wife of an early lighthouse keeper. She died on the island and is possibly the occupant of a lone grave there
"Coral Grave for William Hannah"
installation on Low Isles
NFS		Working on "Footprints"
installation on Low Isles
NFS



Louise Collier

bikini clad girls looking out over lagoon, man and boy at water's edge - oil painting on canvasoil painting of lighthouse on Low Isles as seen through ocean with turtle and coral in water
"Island Day Out"
oil on canvas
$2,500		"Lighthouse Dreaming"
oil on canvas
$3,750

greeny gold - low isles and ocean - textural mixed media on paperoil painting of coral spawning - deep blue backgroundmixed media painting of Low Isles, golden ocean with island in distance
"Golden Dawn After Coral Spawn"
mixed media
$1,000		"Midnight Feast"
oil on canvas
SOLD		"Shimmering Sunset"
mixed media
SOLD



Anna Curtis

Forked lightning zig-zags dramatically through the night sky, illuminating two tiny islands
    Storm at Sea         reduction lino print
    unframed $650       framed $780 (edition 15,2 SOLD)

underwater view of coral gardens with the Low Isles on the horizon
Underwater Wonderland   reduction linoprint
unframed $650               framed $780(edition18,1 SOLD)

More about Anna Curtis


Anne Engdahl

sarong-draped girl against colourful sky - oil painting on canvaspainting of naked girl lying under red umbrella,island and boat in distancepainting of naked girl reclining on beach gazing at coral lagoonpainting of naked girl wearing hat, red sarong over one shoulder, looking at clouds in blue sky
"Pigeon Count"
oil on canvas
$1,500		"Island Dreaming"
oil on canvas
$1,500		"Beach Watch"
oil on canvas
$1,500		"Weather Watch"
oil on canvas
$1,500



Christine Eyres

woman with child looks anxiously towards red sunset over ocean, holds child by the hand - oil painting on canvassymbolic painting of woman with turquoise face holding a fish aloft, net in bottom leftsolar etching of story of Ellen Hannah, assistant lighthouse keeper's wifepainting of dinghy used by William Hannah and later found abandoned at Cape Flattery
"The Lighthouse Keepers Wife"
oil on canvas
830x1030mm
$950		"Sacred Trust"
acrylic on paper, framed
SOLD		"Lighthouse Keepers Wife"
solar etching, framed
460x600mm
$550		"Written in Water"
oil on canvas
700x1100mm
$950

More about Christine Eyres


Helen Low

three women in dinghy search the ocean with torches, looking for coral spawning - blue colours - mixed media on canvasmixed media painting of women in blue stinger suits dancing
"Coral Spawning"
mixed media on canvas
$800		"Water Nymphs"
mixed media on board
$800




Judy Richards

Attired in blue stinger suits, members of the Low Isles Protection Society hold hands protectively around the lighthouse, on which a Torres Strait pigeon sits - glazed ceramicLIPS members cavort around the lighthouse, on which a sarong clad man stands, looking out to seaTourists sit casually around the lighthouse, an osprey nests on top of it, devouring a huge fish
"Low Isles Protection Society"
glazed ceramic
SOLD		"Counting Pigeons while Corals Spawn"
ceramic, glaze
SOLD		"Whose Island is it, Anyway?"
ceramic, paint
SOLD

See page about Judy Richards



Gail Shaw

watercolour painting of a leaf, pigeon, wading birds, various aspects of Low Isles set in a blue skywatercolour painting of snorkelling tourists in a fish bowl, the lagoon and island outside it, looking in
"The Incredible Lightness of Being on Low Isles"
watercolour, framed
$1,100		"Fishy Business on Low Isles"
watercolour, framed
$950



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