The 2024 Clarice Beckett Art Award
It’s nearing that time again, when Casterton in South-West Victoria celebrates Clarice Beckett by hosting the annual Art Award in her honour. This year, there is an extra category for … Continue reading
A Busy Month for Artists
And the winners of the Clarice Beckett Art Award for 2023 are… Left to Right – Overall Winner – “Lane Way” done in acrylic by Ian Stevenson, Glad Laslett Patron’s … Continue reading
Clarice Beckett Art Award 10th Anniversary
It’s a special year for Artists of the Valley and Gorman’s Art Gallery, being a decade since the inception of the Clarice Beckett Art Award. The old adage of ‘time … Continue reading
Clarice Beckett Art Award – Rescheduled
With COVID19 playing havoc with events in the first half of 2021, the Annual Award and Exhibition was postponed this year, rather than be cancelled. Organisers, and artists who had … Continue reading
Another Successful Clarice Beckett Art Award
The 2019 Clarice Beckett Art Award attracted 60 wonderfully diverse entries in all styles, mediums and subjects. This year’s judge, Dagny Strand, well known artist from Penola, South Australia and … Continue reading
More than just Dogs at this Year’s ‘Kelpie’ Art Show
It was a new format for the annual ‘Kelpie Art Show’, this year. The organisation of the show was taken over by the Casterton Rotary Club and they had … Continue reading
Clarice Beckett Honoured in Style by Winners
Last night was an extremely special time at Gorman’s Art Gallery in Casterton. Not only was it the opening of the annual Clarice Beckett Art Award , but it also … Continue reading
Inspired by Poetry
It is always a challenge to gather inspiration and the Muse in the same room when choosing a poem for an entry into the annual John Shaw Neilson Art Prize. … Continue reading
Honouring Clarice Beckett in 2016
This weekend in June sees Artists of the Valley celebrating the Casterton-born artist with the fifth Clarice Beckett Art Award. It’s always a hectic time for the group, with much … Continue reading
Kelpie Roundup
On the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, here in Casterton, visitors would be hard put to not see a Kelpie or fifty. With an influx of people for the annual Kelpie … Continue reading
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