Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Jacqueline travelled from NSW to attend the annual exhibition last weekend at Shades of Gray. Castlemaine artists weave rust and imagination into stunning Garden Exhibition 
 Castlemaine artists Chelly and Peter Gray have spent more than three decades transforming strands of rusty wire into extraordinary works of art. What began as an experiment in the…
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Submit upcycled artworks now. Entries for the popular Central Goldfields Art Gallery Community Arts Exhibition 2025 are due next week. Works can be delivered to the Gallery between 10am and 4pm from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 November. Artists are being encouraged to have an upcycled/recycled element or theme to their work. Entrants from Central…
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The Watchers – Unique State – Carolyn Vickers. As I walked towards Carolyn Vickers’ studio last week, to find out all about the latest exhibition in the MANet Art Gallery, nature was all around, with frog noises from the pond and a blue wren sitting on a tree. Nature lovers will enjoy the next exhibition…
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Steve May and James Reyne. Have you started work on your Archibald Prize entry for 2026? Shelbourne artist Steve May has, and it is a reminder that residents of Australia or New Zealand (during the eligibility period) are eligible to enter Australia’s most famous and prestigious portrait competition. Steve, whose background is in automotive painting,…
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Intriguing exhibition at Newstead Arts Hub. Local artist Tom Henty is holding an exhibition — called The Autumn Collection — of detailed and thought-provoking artworks at Newstead Arts Hub until Sunday 26 October. The Hub says: “Enigmatically, Tom has said no more about what might be on the walls and plinths, so you’ll have to…
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Judy Holding in the Cascade Art Gallery. Last week I met an old school friend from Boort, Judy Holding. Though I was not in the same grade, we both went to Boort Primary School in the 40s. Aeons ago! Before getting serious about her exhibition, we exchanged stories of our school days, which was most…
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Co-regulation Faeries. The Autumn Collection, an exhibition by Tom Henty, 4-26 Oct, Sat & Sun 10am – 4pm
 This wonderful solo exhibition features images, objects and constructions made (mostly) over recent years. Tom Henty has lived mostly in the Box-Ironbark region of central Victoria. Tom’s work, including watercolours, prints, collages, paintings and installations/assemblages, is exhibited…
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Diana Orinda Burns: Dusk 2. Last week I met Diana Orinda Burns and her friend and her student Robyn Gibson, who have a joint exhibition of prints at Fossickers in Talbot from 3-26 October. The exhibition invites audiences to reflect on their own experiences of nature through the eyes of two printmakers who live and…
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Maree Edwards MP with Newstead Arts Hub President Kate Tucker, Council’s Creative Industries Officer Madeleine McClelland and local supporters. Newstead Arts Hub (NAH) has been funded $30,400 from the State Government towards a large community arts project that will beautify the Hub and reflect local stories about the nearby river. On Tuesday 30 September, State…
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Blackboard’s farewell. For a number of years now, pedestrians passing by the blue door of EDGE Galleries on Main Street, Maldon, have been amused by the messages — words of a shining wit, some might say — scrawled in chalk on the blackboard in the window. But who was responsible? One of the owners or…
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