General News
7 July, 2022
‘Creative About Bookaar’ exhibition to open
LOCAL artists will showcase their works at a visual art exhibition with a difference this weekend.
LOCAL artists will showcase their works at a visual art exhibition with a difference this weekend.
The exhibition – dubbed Creative About Bookaar – features works which feature everything Bookaar – whether it be historical, native flora and fauna, farming or contemporary times.
Exhibition co-ordinator and artist Isha Paasse said the exhibition will feature more than 130 artworks, visual paintings, drawings, whimsical poems sold with the relative artworks and hand woven baskets from local vegetation.
She said a piece made of 1000 origamipieces will be a feature depicting local swans at Lake Bookaar.
“When a visual artist uses their skills including emotion, to tell a story, to enlighten, to emanate feelings, to educate, to inspire and entertain, then their abilities are triumphantly enrichened,” Ms Paasse said.
“This is exactly what six local Corangamite shire artists have created.
“With their combined years of honing their trade they will delight their audience for one week only from July 9-15 at the Bookaar Schoolhouse on Darlington Road.”
Artists involved in the exhibition are Joan Mahony, Isha Paasse, Jan Barnes, Lydia Green, Sue Hollingsworth and Ellie Blackney.
The ‘Creative About Bookaar’ art exhibition has been described as a visual encyclopaedia of Bookaar and Surrounds.
Ms Paasse said it has taken the artists months of research to identify and produce the many layers offered within this locality.
“They experienced an exciting journey of discovery, whereby encapsulating, revealing and imagining the infinite layers of the district of Bookaar, also including two creations of Mounts Leura and SugarLoaf pre European colonisation,” she said.
“Through visual art they have revealed some relatively unknown facts or imagined portrayals relating to the life and times of our chosen area.
“It is a taste of what many localities within the Corangamite Shire have to offer, each elaborately unique in their own way.
“There is an infinite amount to be revealed about our Corangamite Shire.”
Open day celebrations start at 1pm sharp on Saturday at the Bookaar School, Darlington Road, Bookaar.
The exhibition is free for the community, with a complimentary mobile coffee van at opening day only, closing at 4pm.
The exhibition will then run from Sunday through to July 15 each day between 11amand 4pm.
Eftpos and cash sales welcome for all artworks.