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The Ken Field Art Exhibition and Sale

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© Norman Lindsay - The Chase © Sidney Robert Nolan - Kelly at St Kilda Beach

This year’s Ken Field Exhibition is going to be the best ever! We are lucky enough to be able to take advantage of a wonderful new location in the Foyer and Krongold Gallery of the James Forbes Academy, with their soaring spaces and magnificent vistas over the Main Oval and the Chapel. Many of our favourite artists have agreed to exhibit their works again, and this year we are branching out into new areas of interest. We are also lucky enough to have the assistance of Barry Pang and Anita Archer whose highly successful Fine Art Exhibition and Auction last year helped to raise more than $40,000 for the Ken Field Fund for the Performing Arts. They will be committing a small number of special paintings to the Exhibition as they did in 2003, and interest is expected to be high. Robert and Kathy Littlewood, current Scotch parents, are also again supporting us with a range of works from their gallery (Littlewood and Hart) and promise to have a number of Pro Harts for the Exhibition.

The Ken Field Show will run from Friday, 7 October until Sunday, 9 October 2005. You will find an invitation on page 31 to attend the formal opening and cocktail party on Friday, 7 October, and we hope that you will book early in order to attend – and get the first opportunity to make purchases from the Exhibition.

Featured artists this year include Greg Allen, Bob Wade, Ben Shearer, Angie Morgan, Gordon Fitchett, Paul Margoscy, Charles Moodie, Len Pawluk, Donald Ramsay, Jo-Anne Seebery, Joseph Zbukvic, Davina Anderson and many others. Helen Loveridge from New South Wales is providing a number of Aboriginal works for us, and these should be a special attraction. Well-known Melbourne sculptor Jenny Whiteside is exhibiting for the first time, and jeweler Kathy Pulkkinen, who deals in the Danish-designed Pilgrim Jewelry, will also join us.

Profits from the sale of these art works go towards the Ken Field Fund for the Performing Arts, created following the death of the much beloved and iconic Scotch Bursar in 1988. Over the years almost $500,000 has been raised through activities and the careful investment of the accumulating funds. Each year grants are made by the Principal to the various areas of the performing arts throughout the School – both Junior and Senior School – and in 2004 more than $15,000 was allocated to specific projects. This continuing support for the Performing Arts at Scotch College is a genuine tribute to Ken Field whose interest in the Arts throughout his 32 years at Scotch never faltered.

Make sure you make a date to visit the Ken Field Art Exhibition and Sale on the Family Day Weekend of 7–9 October. Please fill in the form on page 31 and return it to reserve your place at the formal opening and cocktail party.

Dr Alan Watkinson
Director of Development

Updated: Monday 24 June 2013