Karen Welsh, The Nimbin GoodTimes
The Nimbin Diversity exhibition, held at the invitation of the Gunnedah Bicentennial Regional Gallery, has been a new and interesting experience for both the Nimbin Artists Gallery and many of our local artists.
Gunnedah could be considered to have many different values to our local region – a hot dry climate, large monoculture agriculture and a vast coal mining industry across the scenic Liverpool Plains.
These differences brought forth our invitation – to showcase our local artists diversity in colour, form and artistic expression.
Gunnedah has an excellent art space, provided by the council, and co-located with the tourist information centre.
Volunteer staff are the backbone of the art space.
We were all warmly welcomed and supported with good Opening Night attendance, and we received great feedback to Donna Sharam’s artist talk and workshop.
While we had some good sales, overall, they reflected a general downturn from everyone’s rising costs, leaving even less for the joy and beauty of artworks.
The Gunnedah ‘market’ highlighted that Nimbin is fortunate to tap into that additional market of tourism, a bonus added to our solid loyal locals.
December is a great time to visit your local gallery, come in and enjoy a visual treat and consider your gift-giving options.
Nimbin Artists Gallery closes only on 25th December; all other days we open 10 to 4-ish, in the heart of the village on Cullen Street, or see us on FB.
This article appeared in The Nimbin GoodTimes, December 2024.