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	Lightning Man, Lightning Visit! Senior Warlpiri artist Michael Nelson Jagamara will make a lightning visit to Brisbane to promote and celebrate the successful 2015 launching of Lightning Strikes sculpture series. Michael Nelson Jagamara, (MNJ), was born in 1946 at Vaughan Springs, in Central Australia. In 2014, MNJ completed an angular ‘lightning’ sculpture design derived from his age old Rain + Water Dreaming story. Its distinctive hard edged base represents a section of a ‘travelling storm’ whilst the three jagged upright forms represent ‘flashes of lightning’.
	September 2015 Newsletter Read here
	Artworks by Michael Nelson Jagamara inspires new piece of music! Michael Nelson Jagamara’s artworks have inspired Melbourne-based jazz pianist Joe Chindamo to compose ‘Continuum’, which will have its premiere at Blue Sky Coffee, in Newstead, on Saturday 12^th September. DeClassified Music have commissioned the work! read more
	Lightning Strikes at Blackbird Just installed, a gathering storm on the Brisbane river! Large stainless steel sculpture by Michael Nelson Jagamara. Enjoy the view over a drink at Blackbird restaurant.
	Vale Geoff Williams FireWorks Gallery acknowledges with sadness the recent passing of Northern New South Wales artist and muralist Geoff Williams last month. You all might remember Geoff's quirky and often satirical still life, realist/surrealist paintings, often depicting Australian flora and fauna.
	HireWorks at FireWorks Working with LJ Hooker (New Farm) and Coco Republic, selected FireWorks Gallery artists are now showing painting and sculpture at superb Riverfront apartment in Kangaroo Point. See here for more info. If you wish to discuss art styling, and art leasing, contact here.
	Congratulations Serena Bonson! Congratulations to emerging Maningrida artist Serena Bonson, whose new works Wangarra Spirits have been shortlisted for the 2015 Woollahra Sculpture Prize in Sydney. Fabricated in aluminium, these new, limited editions have been developed and produced through FireWorks Gallery with the assistance of Maningrida Arts and Culture. For more info, see here.
	Ian Waldron visits Brisbane Whilst in Brisbane last week, Ian Waldron visited 'The Royals' Equestrian Centre, RNA Showgrounds. Ian will be back in Brisbane in mid-September with a new series of black & white paintings inspired by his family connection to the Delta Downs Cattle Station in the Gulf region.
	FireWorks Gallery at KPMG FireWorks Gallery at KPMG, Riparian Plaza: a-mini survey of eight expressionist paintings by Michael Nelson Jagamara, alongside four Lightning Strikes sculptures act as playful foreground to the panoramic river views; plus paintings from the Seduction Suite series by Ian Waldron.
	New Wangarra Spirit sculptures arrive at FireWorks Gallery Recently arrived at FireWorks Gallery are eye-catching Wangarra Spirit sculptures by young emerging artist, Serena Bonson, from Maningrida, Northern Territory. Her bold black and white aluminium sculptures were cast and remodelled from her original timber carvings, to create unique indoor or outdoor small-scale sculptures. Image: Serena Bonson 2015 cluster of Wangarra Spirits cast aluminium various dimensions

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