The old Brewery sits at the far end of The Gong, a small but beautiful lake created in the 1860s or 70s by damming wetlands. It’s part of the Buninyong Botanic Gardens, which is Heritage Victoria listed. The City of Ballarat now plans to destroy a significant part of this area by taking out all […]
Art Meets Nature, curated by Merle Hathaway for the WAMA Project, is an exhibition of art inspired by nature. It shows at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, The Atrium (level 35) 6 August – 6 November, 2019. Free admission all hours.
Art Meets Nature is an exhibition of 26 artists whose work is deeply inspired by nature. Curated for the WAMA Project by Merle Hathaway, the exhibition will be opened by Louise Tegart, Director of the Art Gallery of Ballarat on Friday 16 November at 6.30pm, and closes 5pm 25 November. At Lucy McEachern Gallery, Wingeel, near Inverleigh.
Enjoy the unique environment of the old Brewery and good, live acoustic music while supporting a local family of asylum seekers threatened with deportation. Even Ballarat Council has appealed to the Government to allow this young family who have already contributed so much to our community, to stay. Deportation to Sri Lanka means a […]
At last Save Civic Hall has had a breakthrough. Ammon Beyerle of here studio will lead a new process where everyone will be invited to contribute ideas and plans at “open door studio” workshops. The process starts with an exhibition of “300 concepts”, drawn from all previous consultations. After workshopping and discussions with artists, young and […]
At Ballarat Library, 3pm Sunday 10 November. Regina Lane, from Friends of St Brigid’s will be guest speaker at a public meeting organised by Save Civic Hall. The small community of Crossley, near Port Fairy, banded together to prevent their church and hall, built and maintained by Irish famine survivors, from being sold. The battle […]
For the past few years I worked on the curation of Landscapes of the Mind, which showed at the Art Gallery of Ballarat from 21 September to 27 October. The exhibition looked wonderful in three of the Art Gallery’s ground floor galleries. Chris Nicholls was an artist who lived and worked in a remote corner […]
At last we have a one-stop-shop for the arts of this region. At ArtsAtlas It is quite easy to register as an artist and create your own profile, or to enter events and venues or just check out opportunities and what’s on. And it’s free thanks to the Central Highlands LEAP programme. Its Coordinator, Carolynne […]
Enjoy a free, fun afternoon of arts activities for all the family at Smythesdale’s Historic Precinct. This will feature artists, performers & writers of the northern Golden Plains Shire – which includes Linton, Scardale, Smythesdale, Haddon and outer Buninyong. Enjoy performances by Salty Dog, Haddon Concert Band, music and dance students of Woady Yaloak Primary […]
Jennifer Marshall, a great print-maker and painter, ex Adelaide, Sydney, Ballarat, Bendigo, and now living in Hobart, has a retrospective of her work at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. Reviewer Paul McJillick says “It is a knockout and anyone disposed to be moved by great art must go … This is a master printer at […]
