Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Images from the exhibition, Putting a Lid on it.

Catherine Mc Cue Boes has been invited to exhibit at BRAG as part of the Green Series. Showing in the Vault, 'Putting A Lid on it" is an installation of artist books /boxes, opening on the 5th June, the exhibition continues until the 5th August 2012. Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, 1 Barolin Street Bundaberg, (07)41304750 Email hellobrag@bundaberg.qld.gov.au. Web www.brag-brc.org.au Putting a Lid On It  is an installation of book boxes, by Bundaberg based printmaker and book artist Catherine McCue Boes.  Mc Cue Boes spent many weeks at two remote Australian gas plants photographing the impact these gas plants had on their surrounding landscape. As well as recording the environmental damage caused directly or indirectly, by their establishment. McCue Boes’s installation presents her photographs in the format of book boxes. Placed together, the series of boxes, encourages the audience to peep inside some of  the boxes and explore the hidden materials inside. The exhibit...

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Madonna in the Caves Scull in the Caves Bottled Champagne Drawings in the Caves Bodies in the Caves The Caves We Drove to Reims , where we started our trip through France, we had not visited a champagne cave so we needed to finish off our trip with a visit to the House of Pommery . ‘Champagne seems to have had more than its fair share of capable widows, and Madame Pommery was no exception. After the region's best known, the veuve Clicquot , Madame Pommery is the most famous. She took a fledgling Champagne house and laid the foundations for the creation of a grande marque. She moved the house towards the exclusive production of sparkling Champagne rather than still, which was more prevalent in the late 19 th Century than it is now, as well as overseeing construction above ground and below. Above ground she commissioned a grand house, which is notable for being an unusual mix of both styles and materials, which is a polite way of saying it looks weird. The...

Château du Clos-de-Vougeot Writings in stone Wooden statue Château du Clos-de-Vougeot Tools Château du Clos-de-Vougeot C0urtyard at Château du Clos-de-Vougeot Vinyard at Château du Clos-de-Vougeot Statue at Château du Clos-de-Vougeot Castel de Tres Girard Odd shop Odd shop full of great things Local Finds More Great work Wednesday 18-8-10 Staying at the Castel de Tres Girard, Morey St Denis, and This delightful hotel is in the heart of the Burgundy wine country. Originally a seventeenth century wine press, the house was completely and skillfully restored in 2000, and the result is a lovely combination of modern with the original beams and stonework. It is a perfect base from which to explore the Burgundy area. It is only 20 kilometres from Dijon. We visited the Château du Clos-de-Vougeot 15km north of Beaune between Gévry-Chambertin and Nuits-St-Georges, where you get to see the mammoth thirteenth-century winepres...

Later we visited the Chateau De Pommord, the largest private owned vineyard, a fantastic place. We bought some wine and had it shipped to Australia. A Picasso exhibition was on at the Chateau so the visit was well worth it. Tuesday 17-8-10 Still in the wine growing, distract we drove on, tasting wine, stopping here and there, the weather was still wet but we enjoyed this part of France and would do it again.

Monday 16-8-10 Peter and I have decided that we should have started our trip through France here, in Beaune, we could have collected wine and had a great time, but as our trip is almost over we cannot take all this wine with us and we can only drink so much. As it was still raining, we visited the Hospices de Beaune, home for the poor, a remarkable building. The Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is a former charitable almshouse in France.The Hospices de Beaune is a charitable institution in. It was founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, as a hospital for the poor and needy. The original hospital building, is one of the finest examples of French fifteenth-century architecture, is now a museum.