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Creative Workshops for Adults with a Disability
WORKSHOPS - Art and Artisan Challenge Southern Highlands is offering Creative Workshops for Adults with a disability using your NDIS funding for Community Participation & Recreational Activity. These classes are delivered by a trained local artist with a Fine Arts Degree from the National Art School in Sydney. Classes are small to allow for individual attention and are conducted on various days of the week. Come along and try your hand at painting and drawing, pottery or pom pom and…
Willowtree Art Workshops
Be part of a Creative Community and discover your unique creative potential. Willowtree Sculpture Garden offers Art Workshops suitable for beginners and experienced artists throughout the year. All workshops are run by professional and experienced artists and provide you with the opportunity to work in a variety of art mediums. To increase the sense of being part of an artistic community. All workshop participants will enjoy a gourmet delicious Lunch together in the Laggan Hall and an opportunity to meet…
Louisa Atkinson Watercolour – ‘Study of a Possum’
Returning to the Southern Highlands is a significant painting by Louisa Atkinson, a noted botanist, journalist, novelist and artist of the mid-1900s. The watercolour entitled ‘Study of a Possum’ has been put on display at Harper’s Mansion, the National Trust property in Berrima, for a limited time. Louisa Atkinson was born at Oldbury Farm under the shadows of Gingenbullen, Sutton Forest in 1834. Her father died soon after she was born and her mother’s marriage to George Barton, the overseer…
Tulip Time Bowral 2018
Tulip Time, one of Australia's oldest and best loved floral festivals continues to grow as the region's largest event. Corbett Gardens, the centrepiece of the Festival is mass-planted with over 75,000 tulips, 15,000 annuals and an additional 40,000 tulips planted across the Shire. Overall a celebration of stunning tulip displays, entertainment, special events and premier private gardens, so essentially there's something on offer for both young and the young at heart!
Sculpture in the Paddock
Sculpture in the Paddock was conceived by Yass artists Al Phemister, Duncan Waugh and Kim Nelson as part of the 2013 YASSarts celebration weekend. Scultpure in the Paddock is held in Spring each year; a time when our region literally blossoms and culturally flourishes. September sees the celebration of Floriade in Canberra, quality live music hosted in many local venues, terrific produce available in local eateries and the commencement of the Turning Wave Festival in Yass. All of these factors combine to create a…
Carolyn Young – ‘Inhabiting the Woodlands’
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Winter/Spring Programme 2018 Building on Young's award winning 'Grassy Woodlands' series this exhibition re-imagines 19th century human experience in light of Australian mammals that have become vulnerable or extinct. Young explores the question of who inhabits the woodlands across time through still life photographs of mammals, plants, insects and artefacts. Inspired by the work of ecologists Young set out to find intact grassy woodlands, the wildflowers within, and evidence of animal inhabitation. Her findings are…
ACO Virtual
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Winter/Spring Programme 2018 ACO Virtual is a world-first interactive installation that places visitors in the middle of a virtual orchestra to experience, conduct, isolate and play along. ACO Virtual will transform the Gallery and features large scale footage of orchestral performances with the sound of each musician coming from their own individual projection. Audiences will be surrounded with a touch-screen 'music stand' allowing them to spotlight sounds and visuals, highlighting musicians, or a section of…
A Visual Feast – two artists and a chef
Juliet Holmes a Court and Ruth Levine produce art inspired by their culinary muse – Chef James Viles of Biota. “Why, we are asked, set a challenge like this, landscapes off a plate, and sculptures from a meal? The answer is, and it’s another thing in common with nature,.... to grow”. They are artists who are fed by nature, its shapes, its colours, its textures. Using the fascinating culinary work of local chef, Biota's James Viles, has been a step…
Creative Workshops for Adults with a Disability
WORKSHOPS - Art and Artisan Challenge Southern Highlands is offering Creative Workshops for Adults with a disability using your NDIS funding for Community Participation & Recreational Activity. These classes are delivered by a trained local artist with a Fine Arts Degree from the National Art School in Sydney. Classes are small to allow for individual attention and are conducted on various days of the week. Come along and try your hand at painting and drawing, pottery or pom pom and…
Tulip Time Arts
Spring - Peter Mueller, Sculptor Celebrity Portraits - Noeline Brown (CWA Tea Rooms) Flower Pot Sculptures - Local School Children Metal Garden Sculptures - Heidi McGeoch John Copes Portrait Prize Exhibition - Bowral Art Gallery Postcards from our Past - Engaging Enlargements - Old Town Hall Southern Highlands Photographic Society Members Exhibition - Old Town Hall Artisan Craft Expo - Bowral Baptist Church Turning Heads - Painting and Sculpture - Bowral Court House