Art Post Uki

A SURPRISING PLACE FOR SURPRISING ART

ART POST UKI is a gallery space dedicated to showing the work of artists from Uki and surrounding areas in what is a truly unusual venue, the 1909 heritage-listed Uki Post Ofﬁce. The exhibitions are curated by an independent panel of artists including a local artist, with a mission to build community and engage visitors.

Ending soon

‘A Retrospective’
Marie France Rose

These works have the innocence and freshness of children’s paintings. They are naive and yet they are much more. They have an adult’s wry humour and are consciously depicting an optimistic world; a world at its very best.
Marie France started out as a sculptor but over the years she developed a unique process in which she combined her sculptural skills with painting. She began to sculpt small figures and objects that she then attached to a canvas and painted. The result is an integrated relief painting.
The relief paintings in this exhibition can be divided into those produced between 2010 and 2024 like ‘Banga Market’, and her final series of 2025 ‘Every dog and his man’ which are small comical studies of people walking their beloved pooches.
Tragically Marie France died in June this year but she leaves a wonderful collection of work that brings joy to all that see it.

Exhibition ends Wednesday 14 October

Anne Smerdon

Gelassenheit: Letting Things Be

Opening Thursday 15 October

There is something wonderfully soothing, reassuring, about these 17 oil paintings by artist Anne Smerdon. Each painting is an intimate glance of small everyday objects that can be found on any household shelf or table.
A collection of brown tincture bottles stand to attention on a shelf giving off the peaceful reflective air of a Morandi painting. In another painting, it is as if someone has stepped away from cutting up a pawpaw. Three luscious pears sit in a soft golden light waiting to be eaten .
But some of these intimate scenes have an unexpected visitor. A parrot struts around investigating the objects. A flutter of tension passes: Is the parrot going to knock over something and destroy the peace? In one painting a pesky parrot pecks at a rich red apple.
For artist Anne Smerdon the title of her exhibition ‘Gelassenheit: Letting Things Be’ sums up her change in approaching still lifes. Instead of stage managing every scene in these still lifes she has simply responded to what is presented. Relaxing, letting life simply reveal itself.

Anne lives on the Gold Coast. She has exhibited extensively in group shows and solo exhibitions and been a finalist in many art awards including the Portia Geach Award and Wollumbin Art Prize. Recently she appeared on the ABC program Portrait Artist of the Year in which she had four hours to paint Margaret Pomeranz’s portrait.