Cooroora Institute

Sharing the song of the earth through creative practice

Our Director opens "Silt" - works by Megan Puls

October 29, 2016

Megan Puls new exhibition "Silt", a stunning collection of black and white porcelain works, is being opened by Cooroora Institute director Dr Tamsin Kerr.

Exhibition opens 3 pm, 30 October and continues until 27 November 2016, at Makers Gallery, 53 Jackson St, Clayfield 4011, Queensland.

Works from Megan Puls' exhibition Silt at Makers Gallery

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Nov 30, 2018

Katerina and Allen’s wedding Cooroora Institute

Nov 30, 2018

Sep 2, 2018

Repost of Lindsay Vickery's blog about his piece "Kurui"

Sep 2, 2018

kurui [2018] for bass clarinet, pian/elodica and percussion was written for a performance at the Cooroora Institute on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.

Sep 2, 2018

Aug 12, 2018

Afternoon Delights

Aug 12, 2018

Over the next couple of weeks, the Cooroora Institute offers afternoons of delight with contemporary and exploratory music that responds to place.

Residency and Performance - Judith Hamann

Delicious Ironies at the Cooroora Institute

Aug 12, 2018

Aug 3, 2018

Cooroora Institute Cultural Plan

Aug 3, 2018

Aim:

To share the song of the earth through creative practice…

Goals:

1. To re-invest in fine craft as well as the site-specific visual and performing art.

2. To recognise, respect, support, and inspire local artists and art communities.

3. To act ethically, generously, and sustainably within a diverse community.

4. To connect with skilled artists from around the world and bring their expertise to the local.

5. To recognise and converse with the artistry of the non-human: birds, trees, rocks, mountains, fungi, earth, water, insects.

6. To explore, research, write about, and practice creative ideas and approaches which share the song of the earth.

Aug 3, 2018

Apr 21, 2018

Something for Everyone

Apr 21, 2018

The Cooroora Institute has a great roll-up of events in wood, metal, words, and music over the next few months.

Check out our calendar, https://www.cooroorainstitute.org/calendar/for details. Don’t forget we close for all of 2019 for a sabbatical, so this is your chance to share the song of this country through creative practice. If you’ve been thinking, I’ll do that one of these years, this is the time to pounce.

Apr 21, 2018

Feb 1, 2018

Winnowing slower complexities

Feb 1, 2018

My plan for a little while is to spend time breathing in the scent of the earth. To spend time sitting under a tree. To awe, to wonder, to replenish. And then I’ll see if I want to come back to the online fast lane.

Feb 1, 2018

Dec 4, 2017

Collaborations in Craft and Music: end of year event at the Cooroora Institute

Dec 4, 2017

Tamsin gave a vote of thanks to all involved in the 2017 year at the Cooroora Institute, finishing with the words:

The world is built upon the fullness of half-remembered stories. Stories that speak to our intertwining: the metalsmith talks to the moon, the maiden to the wallaby, the wood artist to the mountain, the oceans to the turkeys, the trees to the spirits. These stories are always part of place. And only some of them are human.

Dec 4, 2017

Aug 16, 2017

Conversations of Trees

Aug 16, 2017

“Ah, bi-pedals…. Always wanting everything to be either one thing or the other and not everything all at once. ‘On the one hand….’ such polarizing debates and understandings. And then there’s those bi-pedals who seek the one truth; maybe it’s because they only have the one head?” ...

Loosely transcribed forest conversation (key words only, omitting the transient ongoing shaking in laughter and power and constant checking in with connecting roots, fungi, dirt, water, leaves, wind, sun, mountain, smoke, fire, microbes, possums, and everything inbetween that would make for so much “babble” that we’d be unable to hear).

Aug 16, 2017

Jul 11, 2017

Opening talk to Active 8 … Create

Jul 11, 2017

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And perhaps this is the connective tissue that runs through the colourful body of this exhibition: a portrait of place through a numinous craft – a presence of divinity indeed. With such a thought, I’d like to pause and admire the ability of such art to create moments of stillness in the midst of our busy lives. Active8 … Create is a showcase worthy of a contemplative awe and admiration for these local artists and their wondrous art.

Jul 11, 2017

Nov 30, 2016

Wild/flower Women: Opening talk, Noosa Regional Gallery

Nov 30, 2016

WHO SPEAKS FOR LOCAL COUNTRY AND WHAT LANGUAGE DO THEY USE? DR TAMSIN KERR, COOROORA INSTITUTE DIRECTOR SPEAKS AT Noosa Regional Gallery, 25 NOVEMBER 2016

Nov 30, 2016