Gold Coast artists Lainie Cooper, Dean Cogle and others in Italian exhibition
After more than a year of planning, 14 Gold Coast artists will have their pieces exhibited in the world’s art capital overseas, including work from the late Dean Cogle.
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LAINIE Cooper is one of fourteen Gold Coast artists who will have their work exhibited in the world’s art capital of Italy.
It will be the 74-year-old’s third time exhibiting her sculptures, often made in clay, wax or bronze in Florence, but that didn’t make it any less daunting, she said.
“It’s a bit daunting actually going to Florence and you’re from Queensland, with all the most wonderful art in the world,” she said.
Other local artists part of the exhibition include a cross section of ages and mediums, including a piece by the late Dean Cogle and art work from Margie Huebner, Tony Dowers, Judy Anderson, Anne Anderson, Michaela and Dieter Klockner, Miryung Muir, Wesley John Rundel, Kaye Forster, Dean Rustling, Emre Gurger, Toni Cross De Chavannes and Robert Todonai.
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Their work will be shown at Gadarte Gallery as part of the ‘Creative Connection’ from October 18 to 31.
Ms Cooper, president of the Australian Creative Exchange, will showcase her sculpture piece of two sugar gliders on a brick, alluding to habitat destruction through deforestation.
“People can look at a sculpture and not need to speak the language,” she said.
“Art crosses boundaries even though we’re all speaking different languages.”
They would exhibit their work alongside Turkish artists from Hacettepe University in Ankara after they took part in a 2015 War and Peace exhibition on the Gold Coast.
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Ms Cooper said the selection process was quite rigorous after a year of planning and they were lucky the gallery chose their exhibition to run.
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