Central Goldfields Art Gallery has a new exhibition commencing 18 April through to 14 July 2024.
The impact of place is the theme that unites Jackie Gorring, Philip Adams and Craig Barrett who are contemporary artists living in Central Victoria on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
This exhibition presents Jackie Gorring’s sculptural works made from a variety of found objects while Philip Adams’s paintings stem from his love of the natural landscape. The Berry Consols are abandoned gold mines to the north of Creswick that Craig Barrett has painted, allowing us to ponder the human impact on the landscape from the Goldrush period.
I am fortunate to live in a location where the native bush land transitions to pastoral.
My daily views are through the trunks, branches and foliage of Box Gum and Stringybark, to vistas of open fields dotted with isolated grand eucalypts.
The changing seasons and times of the day provide a variety of visual combinations, inhabited by many indigenous birds.
My painting is a celebration of this beauty and a pleasure I wish to share.
-Philip Adams
The exhibition will be opened by Central Goldfields Shire mayor Councillor Liesbeth Long at 2pm on Saturday 20 April. All welcome.
See all the pictures in the issue.
This article appeared in the Tarrangower Times, 12 April 2024.
