Metropolitan Framing & Gallery
Art in Willoughby

Frame 88 is a mirrors and frame shop, with a combined framing experience of more than 50 years. Frame 88 is a mirrors and frame shop, with a combined framing experience of more than 50 years. Where you meet all your framing requirements. Where you meet all your framing requirements.we make custom frames to serve you your desired art gallery.

The idea for the collaboration came up in conversation and Almurayati’s first reaction was that it was very challenging. As much as we are very good friends, we come from very diverse backgrounds, diverse cultures. The resist for me is how to harmonies the collaboration in a visual and physical way.’. Almurayati’s technique, which he compares to instinctive writing’, involves tapping his subconscious for letters or words (in Arabic calligraphy, Latin, English and Persian), which he writes on a canvas while wearing a blindfold. Ralph Berle is a multimedia artist using image, sound and text to create works that push the edges of art practices. Graduating from the Victorian College of The Arts majoring in Dramatic Arts in 1979, he. came to prominence in Australia in the premature 90s as a pioneer in the creation and production of digital multimedia live performance art shows. The Drawings on Water photographic series sees him return to a single image practice. His work is now in private collections in Australia, India, and Singapore. Drawings on Water visually explores the surface of the waters of Middle Barbour, Sydney Australia and the power of physical movement in kayaking as the moderate for ingenious inspiration to release the heed of mental darkness to recharge the soul with healing insights. Around five years ago, Ralph Berle began kayaking on Middle Barbour as a way of finding a non pharmaceutical repair for depression. His morning kayak soon opened up a daily world of new perceptions offering boundless moments of insight whilst connecting him physically as accessible to nature as the original inhabitants of Middle Barbour, the Cammeraygals. The exhibition comprises photographs taken during his kayak journeys that acted as the doorways to fresh mental pathways and self awareness. Ralph Berle is an acknowledged global leader in the development and application of original skills in organizations. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, majoring in dramatic art.