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
Working Small (with the Masters)
The recent challenge for members was to work small. We were to produce five small works. Several members took up the additional challenge of doing a copy of a Master’s … Continue reading
A Dab of M.A.G.I.C. in the South West
The weather cooperated beautifully for organisers and artists alike for October’s Music Art and Gardens In Casterton. The bi-annual event draws folk from all over. This year, while enjoying the … Continue reading
Playing Catch-Up with Art and the Gallery
Time slips away, and although blog posts have been in hiatus, members of the gallery and art group have not been idle. The tail-end of 2017 was as busy as … Continue reading
Enjoying the Air and Art
A fine day at the end of October found members of our group at historic Warrock Homestead, not far from Casterton. All were armed with their art materials of choice, … 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
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
Art Celebrates Poetry
The recent 2016 John Shaw Neilson Acquisitive Art Prize saw group members challenging themselves with mediums and interpretations of their selected poem/s written by the celebrated South Australian poet. Some … Continue reading
A Successful 2015 Clarice Beckett Award
June’s Queen’s Birthday weekend provided a choice selection of art for the influx of more than 7,000 visitors to Casterton for the annual Kelpie Muster. There was our own Clarice … Continue reading