On the 14th August the Australian artists held a dinner in Brisbane to celebrate the close of the In Your Dreams exhibition.  Liz Jeneid and Helen Mueller flew from inter state, and Katherine Nix and Corrie Wright came down from the Sunshine Coast to join Caitlin Sheedy, Corrie Wright, Bev Jensen, Liz Jeneid, Katharine Nix and Helen Mueller, plus Helen Sanderson and Jonathan Tse.  Penny Carey Wells was unable to come from Hobart but sent her good wishes to everyone. Rosemary Penfold did not come as she was not very well. Also absent was Judy Smith, our webmaster, who was away on a 4 wheel drive trip out to the Simpson Desert.  We met during the day and visited the Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art in the city, and had lunch together. Then in the evening we gathered at the China Sea restaurant in Milton for a chinese banquet. It was a lovely close to a long and successful project.

In Your Dreams exhibition closed in Armidale, Australia, today, and has now completed its five year journey.
Read a POSTSCRIPT from each artist here

Australian Curator, Helen Sanderson, adds her postscript ...

In Your Dreams is about to close, after being shown in two venues in Canada, two venues in Germany and eight venues in Australia over a period of five years. The exhibition has been transformed each time it has been shown, with each installation in different size and shaped rooms, and the flair of each of the gallery installation teams making the show look and feel quite different.  I have decided to call it quits now, despite there being requests from further galleries to show this remarkable exhibition.  It is time for me to move on with other projects, and to return the artworks to the artists. 

I have many people to thank for helping with the In Your Dreams exhibition.  The first steps in organising this touring International exhibition started in early 2004…and it is now June 2010. My biggest worry was whether the artists would build works strong enough to tour for a year or more.  I had no idea it would tour for so long.  Over this time the works have withstood the rigours of touring to perfection!  My heartfelt thanks go to every artist for fulfilling this part of the brief so well. 

Thank you to Karen for all her efforts in Canada…I have learned a lot from you during this time. Thank you to Lene Rose for her efforts in Germany, and for looking after me and showing me around when I came to Germany to set up In Your Dreams in 2005. Thanks to Agatha who was living in Germany at that time, for helping so much with the initial establishment of this project.  Her support was a vital key for me. Also thank you to Vera and Sylvia in Munich for their efforts when In Your Dreams showed at Amerika Haus. I will always treasure the memories of going to the Lang Nacht der Museen in Munich in 2007.  To see how the German people embrace the arts with such enthusiasm was marvellous.  It was a fabulous experience. I loved meeting the German artists, and Canadians Karen and Shirley who also attended. Thank you to Hildegard and her husband for often translating my words into German for the German artists.  The tour in Australia has been well received. Thank you to all the Regional Gallery directors and staff for embracing our exhibition.  These galleries appreciated the International artist’s content, and the diversity of work within the show. The exhibition has been seen by a huge number of school children, college students and university undergraduates, as well as the general public. My eternal thanks go to Judy Smith for establishing and maintaining the In Your Dreams website for us since 2005. It has been of great use to the galleries, educational bodies, and in some cases journalists.   A special thank you goes to Barbara and Penny, for their wonderful understanding when we had problems with their works while on tour in Australia.  It has been a great experience for me personally, and I thank you all so much for your support and participation. Thank you to my daughter Jacelyn for her help on many occasions. None of it would have happened without the support and enthusiasm of my husband Don.

Helen Sanderson - Australia
26 June 2010

The In Your Dreams exhibition is almost at a close at Armidale in New South Wales.  The NERAM (New England Regional Art Museum) has hosted this exhibition since it opened on the 19th March 2010. 
They sent me some photos immediately, which I managed to lose, so belatedly and with apologies, here are some photos of the exhibition, in situ, at NERAM. 

Phillipa Charley-Briggs who is the Curator at the Gallery wrote to tell me about the exhibition today and she said:

"The exhibition has been a great success and it has been really pleasing over the last 6 weeks that so many school groups and TAFE groups have come to the gallery.  We have also had a few meetings of the Chamber of Commerce in the last month so quite a few people have come into the gallery who may not have been before -it's always good to broaden the audience.  Last Friday we had our annual fundraising dinner for the NERAM Foundation - so another part of the community was able to see the exhibition."

The final day for this exhibition will be the 27th June.  The In Your Dreams exhibition will then be packed up and crated back to me, Helen Sanderson, and I will then be sending each of the works back to the artists.  It will be the end of a long journey for the works ... and a long journey for me.  A journey with many successes to its credit.