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Whitby Free Press, 31 Jan 1990, p. 11

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0MQt g Y'IUWd. 1YA08aMGSWJ,aagsiq TaýM[yaTmHW ,oxaoAri WIIITY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAYJANUARY 31,1990, PAGE il McQuay's phot os onexidbition -An, exhibition. of hand-painted silverprints by- National'Award- winning -photographer Mary Ellen McQuay will* .be - beldant' «The Station Gallery,- Henry, and Victoria streets, fromn Feb. 3 to 25. The -opeming reception te meet the artist will. be held on Suniday, .Feèb. 4, fromn 2 te, 5 p.m. Alil are wvelcomne The ekhiiin titled '.Sacred Silences,1 deals with the ancient Ceits ard 'the Standing, Stone Circles, which have remained' part of t~e British landscape for over 5,000t years. These'megalithie structures stretch from Stonehenge, and Avebury, the grand and impressive stene circles of southern England te the remote and elegant Callanish Standing Stones 4pd the Ring of Brodgar set on the haunting.moorland of Scotland's most western and northern! islandsï.' McQuay made two extensive trips te, Britain to photograph the stones in their environment. During the -most'recent trip in the fali of 1989, she travelled to the windswept Outer Hebrides and Orkney Islands of Scotland., Her Scottish background and passon for a distant. ancestry kindied an interest in interpreting these large sulent structures. "Creating and building have been constant'loves of humanityr. Megaliths that were built by the McQuay. 'LestWeFrget' at .McLaughIdin>,gallery 'etWe "Forget, Canadian WarArt of World WarlIand Il' opndat the Rob ert, McLaugh- lin <l 'dû on an. 29 adcon- tinésunilMarchx4.' ' Lest -We, Forget, commemorates 'the-fflieth anniversary of the beginning of World, War.Il. At the sanie time, it pays' tribute te, artists who recorded the 'war through' their, art and to ail Canadians who served in the war. - The exhibition 6ffers a selection of, paintings, drawings, nrnts and sculpture coverrng bth World War I and 11. It includes many works belonging te, the Canadian War Museurn that have rarely been seen bJy the public. Such edisti-nguished British artists as Paul Nash, Wyndham Lewis, Augustus John and Sir. A]fred Mannings worked for the Canadian War Recrods Office in World War I. *Ainong. their Canadian colleagues are the familiar names of A. Y. Jackson, Arthur iàsmner, David Milne'and Frederick Varley. They are ail represented in the exhibition, together with such noted contemporary Canadiens, who were official war artists in World War II, as Bruno and Molly Bobak, Pegi Nicol MacLeodi Alex Colville, Charles Comfort and Carl Schaefer. In ber catalogue text,, art historian and guest curator Dr.- Maria Tippet discusses the development of both war art programs in Canada. She describes the people who were the driving forces babind them, such as Lord Bee.verbrook -in World War I -and Vincent Massey in World War II - and the purposes t.hey had nm mnd. Sheexamnines the .artists'.Who were 'elected, what they did, where they went, and what happened te, their work both physically and stylistically. 'Lest We-- Forget' is an exhibition of great relevance for the peple of Durhamn Region. The officiai - opening of 1 the exhibition will be* held Sunday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. The'exhibition Mill be opened by Brigadier-Canerai N. M. Hall CD, Comimander of Central Militia Area, Canadian 'Forces Base Toronto. Members of. the Ontario Regiment, *Royal ,Canadian Armouredr Corps will participate in- the opening., 'Meet the Cýomposer' festival On Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m., the Oshawa Temple Salva- tien Army Band will be holding its annuai 'Meet the Composer .festival in their Temple at 570 Thornton Rd. N. This year's program'will fea- ture composer Commissioner Stanley Ditimar, with apeciai guests 'The Coner Brook Citadel Salvation Army Band'from New- foundland, Canadian Staff. Band euphonium solist Ivor Snell and the Oshawa Temple Band. 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The artisît'will give a tour of ber exhibition on Sunday, Feb. 18 at '2 p.m., and -a oe-day, workshop on hand-painting'silver prints will, be'held on Sunday, Feb.,25 from 10 a.'m. te 4 p.m. McQuaY will aise -ins!truct, aà.: 10-ýweek workshop on hand-painting àa.nd bakand white photography - evely, Wednesday vnzg Feb. 7 through April 11, from 7:30 te 10 The Hair Centre ýUniýsex , ESCUrF$72~&UPi'CHILDRENW~ELCOWE I ~ L ~ h CA[I FRANK OR flFRRII 900 BONACORD AVE (OTTER CREEK), WHITBY Imm M- 7PM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 8M- 5FM SATURdiAY 0 e Maria Ji forV NAVIU CPE5T,0oývs IN( CUSTOM MADE bESIGNS SUITED SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUR TASTES AND DESIRES HAND BEADED BRiDAL GOWNS BRIDAI..ACCESSORIES CUJSTOM TAJLORING TO AU. GOWNS MOTHER 0F BRIDE AND GROOM FASHIONS AFFORDABLE PRICES EXCLUSIVEIY N DURHAM REGIOtIAT: Dianne's Bridai Couture 413 DUNDAS ST. E, WIIIBY FOR VOUR EXCLUSIVE APPOINTMENT CALL: 430- 8985. 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