After playing Bridge all day yesterday in the New England Swiss Teams ... something like 56 boards over 7 hours including a delicious lunch ... I attended a book launch at the Armidale Art Gallery in the Beardy Street Mall. Yes, Armidale has two art galleries, one of national importance exhibiting a large collection of major art-works on more or less permanent display, and the other where the book launch was held selling art works.
The book in question is an exquisite collection of photographs taken by my friend, Terry Cooke. It's entitled New England High Country: contrast and colour, and the one hundred photos were mainly taken around Armidale and district. He's a great photographer as many friends and relatives will attest when they receive one of the 10 copies I acquired.
The book's genesis occurred earlier this year when Terry sought crowd-funding through the Pozible platform and approached me and many others I know to pre-order copies of his work. The money was used to select and edit the photos, and kick-start the printing process. The outcome is beautiful and will no doubt sell rapidly through the region's tourist agencies.
This post is more about the launch itself than the contents. Basically, subscribers to the crowd-funding exercise were invited to the gallery to meet each other over wine and nibbles and to the simultaneous launch of an exhibition by a talented local artist Antoinette Andersen (see: http://www.armidaleartgallery.com/artist_profile.php?id=53) and Terry's book-launch. I knew most of the audience attending who were colleagues during my working days at the University of New England or professional people such as local doctors or people I meet at the bridge table.
Here's the manager of the gallery launching Antoinette's exhibition with some of her pictures in the background. I like them and will go back to see if I can obtain some smaller items - w're running out of space to hang things in this house.
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Terry just before the launch. Most of us who had crowd-funded the exercise had envelopes containing a single copy of the book, but were under strict instructions to keep the envelopes sealed until after the official launch. Well, Emily was an exception as Dot kindly took a copy with her to see Emily and her family in Mountain View, California.
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And Terry addressing us about the book's production.
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While Bruce Menzies, my some time doctor and local orchestral conductor gave his take on the book's development.
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If you come and visit us we'll take you to this gallery, which is also exhibiting numerous photographs produced by Terry.
AS
The book in question is an exquisite collection of photographs taken by my friend, Terry Cooke. It's entitled New England High Country: contrast and colour, and the one hundred photos were mainly taken around Armidale and district. He's a great photographer as many friends and relatives will attest when they receive one of the 10 copies I acquired.
The book's genesis occurred earlier this year when Terry sought crowd-funding through the Pozible platform and approached me and many others I know to pre-order copies of his work. The money was used to select and edit the photos, and kick-start the printing process. The outcome is beautiful and will no doubt sell rapidly through the region's tourist agencies.
This post is more about the launch itself than the contents. Basically, subscribers to the crowd-funding exercise were invited to the gallery to meet each other over wine and nibbles and to the simultaneous launch of an exhibition by a talented local artist Antoinette Andersen (see: http://www.armidaleartgallery.com/artist_profile.php?id=53) and Terry's book-launch. I knew most of the audience attending who were colleagues during my working days at the University of New England or professional people such as local doctors or people I meet at the bridge table.
Here's the manager of the gallery launching Antoinette's exhibition with some of her pictures in the background. I like them and will go back to see if I can obtain some smaller items - w're running out of space to hang things in this house.
Terry just before the launch. Most of us who had crowd-funded the exercise had envelopes containing a single copy of the book, but were under strict instructions to keep the envelopes sealed until after the official launch. Well, Emily was an exception as Dot kindly took a copy with her to see Emily and her family in Mountain View, California.
And Terry addressing us about the book's production.
While Bruce Menzies, my some time doctor and local orchestral conductor gave his take on the book's development.
If you come and visit us we'll take you to this gallery, which is also exhibiting numerous photographs produced by Terry.
AS
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