Council’s plans to celebrate Australia Day on Monday, 26 January 2015 are well underway. These include a community early morning BBQ breakfast in Bungendore from 7.30 am, morning tea at Captains Flat at 10.00 am and a family BBQ lunch at Braidwood starting at 12.15 pm.
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The main feature of the celebrations is the presentation of community awards for Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year and Sportsperson of the Year in each of our main towns and the surrounding areas. We are also delighted that one of our residents has chosen to become an Australian citizen at our Bungendore event.
The Australia Day Ambassador is a popular feature of the celebrations. Palerang is honoured to have well-known contemporary artist, Charles Billich, as our Ambassador this year. Based in Sydney, Charles is one of the most prominent living Australian painters with a career spanning more than 40 years.
Charles has had a distinguished international association with the Olympic movement, being the artist for the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympic bids. Architecture and cityscapes, portraiture and figurative work, dance, music, theatre and sports all provide the imagery for his distinctive work and always in a way that challenges the norm. Charles’ keynote address at each event is sure to be a real highlight.
Come along and enjoy a great family fun day.
ABOUT CHARLES BILLICH
Here’s what Billich’s website has to say about the Artist: “From the White House to the Vatican, the collection of Presidents and Kings, Sydney-based artist Charles Billich is one of the most prominent living Australian painters. In a career spanning some forty years, he has exhibited at some of the world’s best venues and has been an honoured guest and resident artist on many occasions. From the Vatican Museum to the White House, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne to His Majesty King George V Tupou Palace in Tonga, the Red Cross Museum in Geneva to numerous university, government, corporate and private collections, Charles Billich has an eclectic and ubiquitous following.
“There is a touch of irony in what I paint as there is in all contemporary surreal art, my lingua franca for articulating the vast gamma of emotions and impulses inherent to mystic creations” Charles Billich.
“The irrepressible Billich attributes his world-wide and eclectic acceptance to his audacious versatility, candor and persistence.
He does not conform to dogma, be it ideological, cultural or aesthetic.
Billich reinvents himself periodically with ground breaking, unpredictable, sometimes provocative, most times fascinating, epiphanies.
The complexities of his thematic choice reflect a turbulent life journey.
He has a rare ability to faithfully translate his creative ideas from his imagination onto canvas, thanks to skills only granted to those willing to submit to punishing yet exhilarating labour.
Having an empty canvas Billich can hardly wait to actually enter into it and to create something which is almost tangible, to create an illusion, to express an emotion and say what he wants to say.
He vents all his frustrations onto the canvas and the canvas, most of the time, is actually grateful. In return it gives him a result that is beyond his expectations.
Billich maintains that dedication is the foundation of geniality, that discipline determines inspiration, and that it takes focus to materialise the vision.”
Source: www.billich.com
