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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now, the Darwin Roatary Club is gearing up to host
an art show at Charles Darwin University, culminating in an
auction on July fourth. Now it is set to attract
hopefully national and international interest, with organizers hoping to raise
funds for art bursaries at Charles Darwin University. Now joining
me in the studio to tell us more is the
(00:22):
club's Peter Hopton.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning, Good morning Katie. How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm very good, Peter.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Tell us You'll be happy to know that I'm not
here to talk about wars in Europe or the sale
of the Darwin Portal, the sale of Santos this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I know. I We'll tell worry.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We've got something far more exactly to talk about, which
is art in the Northern Territory.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, and raising money, you know, to help others, which
I think is a wonderful thing. Now, tell me a
little bit about what's planned for the art show.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sure, Probably the first question is why why will we
do this? And just a bit of a lesson. We
recognize that education is one of the major pathways to
solving our problems in the Northern Territory and art is
one of the major ones that attracts people in remote
communities and unfortunately it's called STEM science, Technology, Engineering and
(01:18):
Mathematics attracked about into their scholarships. About eighty percent of
their scholarships are funded nationally and within states and territories,
and the poor art faculty attracts about twenty percent for
a scholarship. So we thought we'd do something about that
and we would raise money to support budding art students
(01:41):
from across the top of Australia. So good not only
the territory Queensland, West Australia and potentially team or as
well for students attending art classes at Darwin University.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I think it's a wonderful thing to do. So it's
planned for what day was it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We open the Denala that's in the city campus. If
you walk in the door on the right hand side,
you'll see about one hundred and five pieces of art
there for sale and for auction. So we open that
on the second of July at eight o'clock in the
morning and it will cease. It's open to the public,
so anybody can walk in and have a look or
(02:24):
more importantly walk in and have a buy. But it'll
be manned by rotarians during the day and you'll be
able to buy it on the spot and there'll be
a red sticker put on the piece of art to
say that it's sold, and then after three days of sales.
The combination of it is the International and International Art Auction,
(02:50):
so it's run like a souther piece things. But the
company is called called Shapiro in Sydney, and Andrews Shapiro
himself has donated his time and his company time to
put this together for us. So the challenge was to
aggregate art around Australia and overseas and how have you gone?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Have you got plenty of pieces of art?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It has blown me out of the water. Locally, we've
got some people here who I won't give the name,
but selling their house and downsizing and they had a
lot of art and the wife said, well, we're only
going to have a few walls in our next place.
What are you going to do with all this art?
So we've ended up with it. So yes, that's so great.
(03:34):
So there are a number of the twenty six items
going for auction, excuse me, ten of those will be donated,
which is fantastic. And another little anecdote is that one
of those pieces of art, and that auction is actually
from a prisoner in the Darwin Penitentiary, right, and through
(03:56):
corrections he has built a magnificent piece of art and
in a shape of a turtle, right, And people that
have seen it already said, this is absolutely unbelievable piece
of art. And so he's done that and two Bilbi's
and a giant green at all in metal.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh that sounds right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, it was a wonderful thing. And the good part
about that is that under the terms and conditions that
if that art raises more than three thousand dollars to
be put into the fund, that the scholarship gets named
after him. If you take that to the extent.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, that's a good thing. Yeah, give us his name
if you've got it there. So he's obviously created that
art while out there at corrections.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He is Wesley Bolton corrections.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, good on him. I think that's good contributing to
the community.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And the artists are sitting and standing. Bilbie's a turtle
and an insect, which is an app.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Now, so tell me about some of the other pieces
of art. I'm assuming some of it, like you know,
sculptures or art works like you've just.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Touched on there a little bit of woodwork yep, but
predominantly painting. So you've got the pro Hearts and the
ken Doanes, We've got.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A bit of everything there is.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's a sort of a pretty eclectic. There's about thirty
percent of its Aboriginal art. And I should mention in
the Aboriginal Art that we have an Australia wide renowned
collector of Aboriginal art in doctor David Went from Stuart Park.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Oh yep.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And David has contributed about four pieces of art and
they are he's been collecting average of art for over
sixty years. Wow. So there's about three or four pieces
of his in the collection.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So tell me how much money are you hoping to raise.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, a a good night will be sixty thousand dollars
and a fantastic night would be one hundred thousand dollars,
so that it's whilst it's dollars to us, it translates
to scholarships. So we'd like to say we would hand
somewhere between six and ten scholarships through Charles Dale and University.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, that was going to be my next question. How
many scholarships, So between six and teen depending on how
deep the community digs to raise money.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we would love to see in the audience. I'd
love to see the usual the Greeks versus the Chinese
bidding against one another for something that we have a territory,
the territory way.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, we are such a multicultural place, so Peter I
should say.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Also in the collection is a fantastic bit of art
from India, a historical piece of art, and so the
Indian community you should There's a painting called Kashmir in
there that you should be looking at. And then for
those historians amongst us, there's four pieces of art that
(07:03):
are from the eighteen forties to the eighteen nineties of
English Countryside and Winter, which are Karen Brown, who's been
doing the curating for us, says, these are absolutely one
of fantastic pieces of art. Now they've been donated to us.
So if you're English and you're pining for home, come
(07:23):
along and attend the auction and get some of John
Breers's art.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How great, I mean, how great the way that the
community is obviously donating as well to make sure that
you are able to raise as much money as possible.
Four people wanting to obviously study at CDU.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, and for the benefit. But at the end
of this there will be a CDU Rotary Committee put
together and they will provide the rules as to these
are how the bursaries are to be awarded and managed.
So it will be input from senior members of the
Rotary Club as to how they spend the money that
(08:04):
we've raised.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wonderful stuff, well, Peter, the Rosary Club of Darwin does
some great stuff around the Northern Territory.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You've been a part of that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I have at different times tried to help out because
I really like to see people contributing to the community
and doing wonderful things. And as I say, the Rotary
Club really does. What else have you got? Have you
got a bit of other stuff going on at the moment?
The Rotary Club always busy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, obviously got the chocolate wheel at the show coming on, Yes,
so that keeps people the whole of the club busy
for three days and beyond that it's just the usual one,
the whole and one has been deferred I think until
next year, but that's an attractant which the majority of
(08:47):
that money goes to the No More campaign, so we
still contribute to riding for the disabled and those we
raise around probably around one hundred thousand dollars a year,
which is distributed through this local community.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Wonderful one.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And of course you've got our work that we've been
doing over at Bellewan for the last eight years. Yeah,
where I have to say that I'm proud with about
what's happened at Bellewan and what we've been able to
do and help Dave Ferguson over there, the CEO, and
because he's got a big, big challenge in front of
him and managing I think it's two hundred and twenty
six people.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Ye, all good stuff. Yeah, well, Peter, it's always good
to catch up with you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Anybody listening this morning, they can head along between the
second and the fourth of July at Charles Darwin University,
and of course it is going to be open to
the public and online the second, third and the fourth
of July and you can head to give give a
g giv e g y dot com and then you
(09:48):
can search art Auction twenty five and you'll be able
to tell little say Rotary Club of Darwin and obviously
you know Charles Darwin University. You'll be able to tell
whether you're on the right auction or not otherwise you
can you can turn up. You can go and have
a look through.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Can't you bet up exactly? We'd love you to turn
up and and if you're turning up to register as
a buyer on the fourth.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Bring your wallet, bring.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Your wallet, and and and short pockets and a lot
of money.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Up feed often from the road Tree Club of Darwin.
Lovely to catch up with you. Thank you, thank you Katie,
Thanks so much.
Now, the Darwin Roatary Club is gearing up to host
an art show at Charles Darwin University, culminating in an
auction on July fourth. Now it is set to attract
hopefully national and international interest, with organizers hoping to raise
funds for art bursaries at Charles Darwin University. Now joining
me in the studio to tell us more is the
(00:22):
club's Peter Hopton.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning, Good morning Katie. How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm very good, Peter.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Tell us You'll be happy to know that I'm not
here to talk about wars in Europe or the sale
of the Darwin Portal, the sale of Santos this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I know. I We'll tell worry.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We've got something far more exactly to talk about, which
is art in the Northern Territory.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, and raising money, you know, to help others, which
I think is a wonderful thing. Now, tell me a
little bit about what's planned for the art show.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sure, Probably the first question is why why will we
do this? And just a bit of a lesson. We
recognize that education is one of the major pathways to
solving our problems in the Northern Territory and art is
one of the major ones that attracts people in remote
communities and unfortunately it's called STEM science, Technology, Engineering and
(01:18):
Mathematics attracked about into their scholarships. About eighty percent of
their scholarships are funded nationally and within states and territories,
and the poor art faculty attracts about twenty percent for
a scholarship. So we thought we'd do something about that
and we would raise money to support budding art students
(01:41):
from across the top of Australia. So good not only
the territory Queensland, West Australia and potentially team or as
well for students attending art classes at Darwin University.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I think it's a wonderful thing to do. So it's
planned for what day was it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We open the Denala that's in the city campus. If
you walk in the door on the right hand side,
you'll see about one hundred and five pieces of art
there for sale and for auction. So we open that
on the second of July at eight o'clock in the
morning and it will cease. It's open to the public,
so anybody can walk in and have a look or
(02:24):
more importantly walk in and have a buy. But it'll
be manned by rotarians during the day and you'll be
able to buy it on the spot and there'll be
a red sticker put on the piece of art to
say that it's sold, and then after three days of sales.
The combination of it is the International and International Art Auction,
(02:50):
so it's run like a souther piece things. But the
company is called called Shapiro in Sydney, and Andrews Shapiro
himself has donated his time and his company time to
put this together for us. So the challenge was to
aggregate art around Australia and overseas and how have you gone?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Have you got plenty of pieces of art?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It has blown me out of the water. Locally, we've
got some people here who I won't give the name,
but selling their house and downsizing and they had a
lot of art and the wife said, well, we're only
going to have a few walls in our next place.
What are you going to do with all this art?
So we've ended up with it. So yes, that's so great.
(03:34):
So there are a number of the twenty six items
going for auction, excuse me, ten of those will be donated,
which is fantastic. And another little anecdote is that one
of those pieces of art, and that auction is actually
from a prisoner in the Darwin Penitentiary, right, and through
(03:56):
corrections he has built a magnificent piece of art and
in a shape of a turtle, right, And people that
have seen it already said, this is absolutely unbelievable piece
of art. And so he's done that and two Bilbi's
and a giant green at all in metal.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh that sounds right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, it was a wonderful thing. And the good part
about that is that under the terms and conditions that
if that art raises more than three thousand dollars to
be put into the fund, that the scholarship gets named
after him. If you take that to the extent.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, that's a good thing. Yeah, give us his name
if you've got it there. So he's obviously created that
art while out there at corrections.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He is Wesley Bolton corrections.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, good on him. I think that's good contributing to
the community.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And the artists are sitting and standing. Bilbie's a turtle
and an insect, which is an app.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Now, so tell me about some of the other pieces
of art. I'm assuming some of it, like you know,
sculptures or art works like you've just.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Touched on there a little bit of woodwork yep, but
predominantly painting. So you've got the pro Hearts and the
ken Doanes, We've got.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A bit of everything there is.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's a sort of a pretty eclectic. There's about thirty
percent of its Aboriginal art. And I should mention in
the Aboriginal Art that we have an Australia wide renowned
collector of Aboriginal art in doctor David Went from Stuart Park.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Oh yep.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And David has contributed about four pieces of art and
they are he's been collecting average of art for over
sixty years. Wow. So there's about three or four pieces
of his in the collection.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So tell me how much money are you hoping to raise.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, a a good night will be sixty thousand dollars
and a fantastic night would be one hundred thousand dollars,
so that it's whilst it's dollars to us, it translates
to scholarships. So we'd like to say we would hand
somewhere between six and ten scholarships through Charles Dale and University.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, that was going to be my next question. How
many scholarships, So between six and teen depending on how
deep the community digs to raise money.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we would love to see in the audience. I'd
love to see the usual the Greeks versus the Chinese
bidding against one another for something that we have a territory,
the territory way.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, we are such a multicultural place, so Peter I
should say.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Also in the collection is a fantastic bit of art
from India, a historical piece of art, and so the
Indian community you should There's a painting called Kashmir in
there that you should be looking at. And then for
those historians amongst us, there's four pieces of art that
(07:03):
are from the eighteen forties to the eighteen nineties of
English Countryside and Winter, which are Karen Brown, who's been
doing the curating for us, says, these are absolutely one
of fantastic pieces of art. Now they've been donated to us.
So if you're English and you're pining for home, come
(07:23):
along and attend the auction and get some of John
Breers's art.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How great, I mean, how great the way that the
community is obviously donating as well to make sure that
you are able to raise as much money as possible.
Four people wanting to obviously study at CDU.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, and for the benefit. But at the end
of this there will be a CDU Rotary Committee put
together and they will provide the rules as to these
are how the bursaries are to be awarded and managed.
So it will be input from senior members of the
Rotary Club as to how they spend the money that
(08:04):
we've raised.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wonderful stuff, well, Peter, the Rosary Club of Darwin does
some great stuff around the Northern Territory.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You've been a part of that.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I have at different times tried to help out because
I really like to see people contributing to the community
and doing wonderful things. And as I say, the Rotary
Club really does. What else have you got? Have you
got a bit of other stuff going on at the moment?
The Rotary Club always busy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, obviously got the chocolate wheel at the show coming on, Yes,
so that keeps people the whole of the club busy
for three days and beyond that it's just the usual one,
the whole and one has been deferred I think until
next year, but that's an attractant which the majority of
(08:47):
that money goes to the No More campaign, so we
still contribute to riding for the disabled and those we
raise around probably around one hundred thousand dollars a year,
which is distributed through this local community.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Wonderful one.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And of course you've got our work that we've been
doing over at Bellewan for the last eight years. Yeah,
where I have to say that I'm proud with about
what's happened at Bellewan and what we've been able to
do and help Dave Ferguson over there, the CEO, and
because he's got a big, big challenge in front of
him and managing I think it's two hundred and twenty
six people.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Ye, all good stuff. Yeah, well, Peter, it's always good
to catch up with you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Anybody listening this morning, they can head along between the
second and the fourth of July at Charles Darwin University,
and of course it is going to be open to
the public and online the second, third and the fourth
of July and you can head to give give a
g giv e g y dot com and then you
(09:48):
can search art Auction twenty five and you'll be able
to tell little say Rotary Club of Darwin and obviously
you know Charles Darwin University. You'll be able to tell
whether you're on the right auction or not otherwise you
can you can turn up. You can go and have
a look through.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Can't you bet up exactly? We'd love you to turn
up and and if you're turning up to register as
a buyer on the fourth.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Bring your wallet, bring.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Your wallet, and and and short pockets and a lot
of money.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Up feed often from the road Tree Club of Darwin.
Lovely to catch up with you. Thank you, thank you Katie,
Thanks so much.
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