Melbourne Cup Exhibition - 6/10/10 - 6/11/10

Feature Artist - Helen Krieg

Opening - Saturday 9th October, 7pm

Attended by Mayor Ann Ferguson
Melbourne Cup Mad Hatters - 29th Oct 11am - Light Refreshments
Attended by Mayor Ann Ferguson

All things Melbourne Cup - Racing, Horses, Fashion, Hats etc.

Medium: Mixed media, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, whimsy, pastels, jewellery, ceramics and fabrications.Participation welcomed, $1 per week per item 10% commission
Drop Off Art by Saturday 2nd October, 2010
Gallery Hours
Wed-Sat 10-4

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'Octagonal' by Helen Krieg

Pastel Workshop - 8th Sept - One Day Only

Teacher - Ann Shegog

See link below for details

http://generalstorecommunityarts.weebly.com/classesworkshops.html

Pastel Workshop - Wed 8th Sept - One Day Only

Teacher - Ann Shegog

See link below for details

http://generalstorecommunityarts.weebly.com/classesworkshops.html

Spring Exhibition 1/9/10 - 2/10/10

'After Birth' by Michelle Willsmore

Feature artist: Yvonne Jaunay

Drop off art: 25-28 August

Open: 1 September – 2 October 2010

Spring, renewal, growth. September is our Spring. Chill winter slips away and our Hills come alive with growth and zing and sunshine comes to stay. Don your artist’s apron now and create a work that sings.

Spring is sprung and things to be done

so paint and make and construct if you dare.

Medium: Mixed media, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, whimsy, pastels, jewellery, ceramics and fabrications.

Participation welcomed, $1 per week per item 10% commission

contact us - http://generalstorecommunityarts.weebly.com/contact-us.html

Gallery Hours - Wed-Sat 10-4

cricket art prize 2010

The work may be figurative, semi-abstract, still-life or figure-in-landscape.

Acceptable media are: oil painting, acrylic painting, water-colour, pastels or mixed media on canvas, board or artists paper with a cubist, impressionist, tonalist, fauvist, surrealist, pop art, futurist, hard-edge, modern, naïve, orientalist, pointillist, precisionist, regionalist or romanticist style.

A painting or composition that depicts life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyard, park, beach, street, local club or social-cricket.

The judges for 2010 are comedian and author Steve Abbott; art collector Dr. Dick Quan; art-critic John McDonald and last years winning artist - Jane Kellahan.

This annual art prize competitjavascript:void(0)ion offers AU$20,000 to the winning artist, AU$2000 for the Highly Commended and AU$1000 to the Peoples’ Choice with international exposure for the finalists in the travelling exhibition.

A wider variety of entries are expected this year due to the Cricket Art Prize being open to all test-cricket playing nations… the closing date is the 1st of September and all artists are encouraged to get hold of an entry form and ‘start putting some runs on the board’.

http://www.cricketartprize.org
Closing date 1st of September

Ethos Gallery At Woodside

Willard Wigan - Mirco-Sculptor

You have got to check this guy out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Willard Wigan is a "micro-sculptor."

He works under a microscope and mounts most of work inside the eye of a sewing needle or on a pin head.

http://www.google.com.au/images?q=willard+wigan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=VHtVTLuzC8vIcbGHhMAM&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEQQsAQwAw&biw=1024&bih=679