Annual Competitive Art Exhibition A Huge Success
IMAGE: Sponsor, Rhonda Daley YLAD Living Soils, the Hon Margaret Beazley and Hilltops Mayor, Margaret Roles.
Young Society of Artists Inc would like to offer a huge thank you to everyone who helped make the 39th Annual Cherry Festival Competitive Art Exhibition such a huge success.
Heather Ruhl, speaking on behalf of the group recorded over 900 visitors through the door over the course of the exhibition and 41 artworks were sold. “It takes all of us to pull an exhibition like this together,” Mrs Ruhl said.
“From the entries, cataloguing, the set-up, the pull-down, the catering - to the last visitor through the door.”
Mrs Ruhl said it was no easy feat arriving at the People’s Choice Award sponsored by Hilltops Council this year because voting was spread evenly over the 250 entries, a testament to the high standard of the work.
In the end, the award went to Dallas Nyberg for “Mary Vally Rattler”.
The $1000 Acquisitive Prize, sponsored by Grove Estate, was won by Jeff Peady’s “Passing the Batton” from his body of wood carvings in “Motherhood”.
John Thomas’s oil painting “The Blue Lagoon” earned him the $500 Acquisitive Award sponsored by YLAD Living Soils.
The results of the raffle were:
- First prize, sponsored by YSA Inc went to Joy Harriet;
- Second prize went to Aimee Carrie;
- Third prize, sponsored by Hilltops Honey went to Dale McIntosh; and
- Fourth prize was won by Joy Cornish.
The Burrangong Gallery Festival Exhibition Opening and morning tea will take place on the Railway Platform on December 17 at 11am. It will remain on display until February 25, 2023.
The Young Society of Artists Art Room will be closed from December 19 to January 29, 2023, but the next monthly meeting will be held in the art room on Saturday, January 21, 2023. There is no December meeting.
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