2006-09-10	We are moving to Bali Planning for around March 2007 http://baliv.com
2006-03-25	Archibal Prizes for 2006 announced Marcus Wills has won the 2006 Archibald Prize for his painting The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts). The Archibald Prize is now in its 85th year. Marcus receives a prize of $35,000. The Paul Juraszek monolith was inspired by an etching called Allegory of iconoclasm by Marcus Gheeraerts the elder, a Flemish engraver, illustrator and painter best remembered as the illustrator of the 1567 edition of Aesop's fables. Wills saw the etching in a book whilst researching some paintings he was making based on the apocalypse and thought he'd like to do something with it. Casting around for a subject for his own version, Wills thought of Paul Juraszek whom he had met when they showed at the same gallery. Juraszek is a Melbourne-based sculptor, who makes mostly animals from myths and legends. "As it turned out he suited the subject even better than I could possibly have imagined," says Wills. Juraszek appears in the painting 29 times and in most cases the sculptures featured are his. The original etching is an allegory about the reformation. At the bottom of the painting there are iconoclasts smashing up relics, bones and bibles and tossing them into a pit. Behind are clerics and, one assumes, their congregation collecting the relics and taking them away. All over the head, little religious ceremonies are taking place with monkeys involved in several of them - Gheeraerts' dig at Catholicism one imagines. In Wills' version it is Juraszek's sculptures that are being smashed and then rescued by others. "In most of the little scenes the people are doing similar things to those in the original painting though I don't see my version as a religious comment," says Wills. Instead he sees it as "a kind of an allegory about the artist."
2005-11-29	Launch of our New Site! Hendragallery undergoes a make-over. After we got our permanent address (hendragallery.com) in October, the next project has been a site make-over with the objective of making it easy to manage as material is added. The previous site is still available at http://hendragallery.com/previous - so if you are hunting for something in particular, you may need to look there. As we worked, our virtual gallery took shape with its rooms and floor plan. Your feedback is more than welcome, send it to hendra@hendragallery.com
2005-11-21	James Gleeson turns 90. To mark the occasion he gives the gift. James and his partner (Frank O'Keefe) have marked his 90th birthday by giving a $15 million foundation to the Art Gallery of NSW to facilitate purchases of Australian art works. The Gallery had an exhibition of his art in 2003. The National Gallery of Victoria had an exhibition in 2004/2005. Listen to the ABC Radio National story.
2005-11-19	Mini Exhibition. . We showed paintings at the home of a friend. Xuan (who lives in Newcastle) had commissioned Hendra to paint a large Purple Rose, so today we delivered it. We also took the opportunity to show a selection of other paintings to Xuan and friends.
2005-11-16	Drummoyne Art Society. Today we joined our local art society. The Drummoyne Art Society has monthly meetings with presentatins by artists, and two exhibitions each year.An exhibition is currently showing and that is where we picked up the membership information that prompted us to join.
2005-10-28	Now listed on artistsearch.net. We have listed in the artistsearch.net directory. This directory provides for some art to be displayed, and we currently have 3 paintings displayed there.
2005-10-22	Google finally finds us. Google indexed our site directly for the first timeon October 2 Prior to this we had been listed in the MSN and Yahoo indexes, and a Google search for hendragallery would turn up indirect references - that is, other web sites that listed our geocities web address.
2005-10-12	We get hendragallery.com. We obtain the hendragallery.com domain name. This will enable us to move our web address away form the proprietary geocities.com domain, and will also give us e-mail addresses at hendragallery.com. We are using godaddy.com to provide the DNS domain, and for web hosting. For those initerested in some technical information, their servers are in Arizona and we are using a Linux server with Apache web server, MySQL database and Fromtpage extensions.
2005-05-05	Site upgrade. To ensure reliable access at all times. The free geocities service we have been using has a download limit, and if this is exceeded, access to the site gets patchy. So we have upgraded to a pplan with a much bigger download limit. Hopefully we can depend on the site to reliably support eBay auctions of some paintings. This means a change to the URL - it loses the final "au" to become http://geocities.com/hendagallery.
2004-10-28	Hendragallery established. Built on a free web-site at http:geocities.com.au/hendragallery The objective is to display recent paintings by Hendra along with contact information, news and interests.

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