Nor'West News: February 07, 2017

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Tuesday February 7 2017
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Urlich returns to the stage
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IT’S BEEN a quiet 18 years for
• By Tom Doudney
Margaret Urlich – and that’s
just the way she likes it.
The New Zealand Music and
Aria award-winning singer
hasn’t released new music since
Second Nature in 1999.
Next month, she will perform
with her former When The
Cat’s Away bandmates Annie
Gardening
Crummer, Debbie Harwood
and another longtime collaborator,
Sharon O’Neill, at Lincoln’s
Selwyn Sounds concert.
They will be part of a starstudded
line up also featuring
Dragon, Mi-Sex, The Jordan
Luck Band and Jason Kerrison.
These days Urlich lives on a
otoring
rural property Australia’s
New South Wales southern
highlands, halfway between
Sydney and Canberra.
Although she never made
a decision to stop recording,
she has been busy over the
last two decades raising two
children, Ava, 18, and Carlos,
15, with husband George
asty Bites
Gorga, and teaching singing in
high schools. She often mentors
young singers before they
sit their university entrance
exams.
Urlich said she didn’t miss
the limelight.
“I quite like being normal.
I only ever started singing
because I just love it. The whole
fame side of it, I didn’t think
about that much and it always
felt a little bit uncomfortable for
me,” she said.
“I don’t need to have a high
profile to be happy. In fact, I
think the opposite is true for
me.”
Although she has been living
across the ditch since the early
1990s, she comes back to play
in New Zealand about five or
six times a year, usually with
Crummer, Harwood, O’Neill
and Shona Laing.
“It’s always very satisfying
going on stage with these
women,” Urlich said.
“I have known Annie and
Debbie for 30 years now and we
are still very good friends and
we love singing together.”
In spite of her long absence
from the recording studio,
Urlich does not rule out new
music in the future, especially
now her children are coming
to the end of their high school
years.
However, the music would
have to meet her own high
standards.
“I still love singing and performing,
but I guess with the
recording side of it, I haven’t felt
that I have the energy to make
it as amazing as I would like to
make it,” she said.
“I am never saying never but
it does take a lot of energy. I just
can’t put out anything that I
think is mediocre.”
•Selwyn Sounds will
be held on March 4,
from 11.30am-8.30pm.
Tickets can be purchased
via Ticketek and buyers
will be able to prepurchase
a return bus ride
between pick up points in
Christchurch or Rolleston
and Lincoln Domain.
OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT:
Margaret Urlich says she
doesn’t miss fame after her
18 year absence from the
recording studio but still
enjoys performing on stage. ​
HamisH soutHcott
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furniture and I typically create off pieces. I’m
My art covers a broad range of mediums, including
sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, and
passionate about sustainability, so where possible
I use reclaimed materials. I believe salvaged
materials have an inherent beauty that should be
showcased.
In New Zealand,
we’re fortunate
to have a rich
landscape, that is
the envy of many.
These artworks
draw on our diverse
landscape and looks
at the burden that
society has and
High relief sculptures for the continues to have
wall by Hamish Southcott.
on this beautiful part
of the world. Our actions
today, have far reaching
consequences tomorrow!
I sought to reflect these
contexts in artworks that
convey the present and my
hopes for positive change in
the future.
tania Bostock
My Paintings are Strong, deliberately imperfect,
and beautiful.
For me painting is emotive, and a great deal of
time and thought goes into each creation.
I am drawn to texture and contrast, and my
process consists of straightening and perfecting,
then pushing the
paint in a freer,
Textural painting by Tania Bostock.
less controlled
manner. I find
both approaches
necessary,
working
multiple
with each.
in
layers
Tania Bostock has
lived in Nelson for
ten years. She
has always had
an interest in
art, and because
of the success
of her paintings
it was a natural
progression to
become a fulltime
Artist.
Detail image of Southcott’s work.
Detail of the paint patina on Bostock’s work.
11 February – 8 March
Full Circle
Tania Bostock
Hamish Southcott
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