After a 40 year break, Noel Robertson is back at his drawing board, working on a show of 58 sketches that will grace the walls of the Matilda St Gallery in Macksville from the end of the month.
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Known to many for his funny ‘Chook’ stories and also his memoir ‘In Transit’, the grand opening for this incarnation, ‘Fetch me a Sketch’, is on Saturday, April 28, 4-6pm.
“As a kid growing up in Townsville, my sketches were how I defaced my primary school books,” Noel chuckles.
“You got the cuts for that, but it did not stop me. The real shift came with this wonderful art teacher in high school, who taught us the rudimentaries of composition.
“I was bloody useless at sport and machines and religion but I loved drawing.”
As is often the case, life got in the way, but now Noel has picked up his sketching tools.
His style is pointilist and the works are landscapes and smaller ones inspired by ancient treasures such as Tutankhamen’s burial mask, an Anglo Saxon helmut, Aboriginal rock art and more.
Music, finger food and a free bar at the opening. The exhibition will run throughout May – the gallery is open during normal business hours.