Art by Ron Brook see his wonderful work at the gallery until December 20th and then January 7th to 17th 2016.

Gallery Summer Hours. 10th Anniversary Celebrations

Special Notices:

Closure during the hottest days, and our 10th Anniversary Celebrations.

It is the policy of our gallery, for the Health and Safety of our Volunteers and the Public, to close our doors when the forecast temperature for the day is 35 degrees or more.

We appologise for any inconvenience that this may cause, however, I am sure that you will agree, that it is not pleasant to be in a HOT environment for any length of time, and unfortunately we DO NOT have adequate air conditioning to support us in remaining open on these days.

Because we are aware, that we have a lot of heat closure days during the Summer, we extend the length of time, that exhibitions run during this period, to give everyone the chance to come and view them and to purchase quality work that they fall in love with.

If you have any further questions you may call any of the committee members, simply follow this link or go to the page.


This is a photo of the dust storm which took place a few days ago not too far from Gawler. (post date 21-12-15)
It is courtesy of the 'S.A. Country Fire Service' who do a fabulous job here in S.A.
Many of our gallery members live on the land and need to be home to guard their properties also on hot days.
We hope that you all stay well and safe during the summer months.

For Sale in our 'Shop', Christmas Gift Ideas, and More

Important Notice to both the Public and our Members! The Gawler Community Gallery will closed from the 21st December 2015 and will be re-opening on January 7th 2016.

And the Lucky Winners were:-

First- Lisa Wood, Second- Janet Nicholls and Third- Ellen Steyn.

The Christmas raffle has again been a wonderful success, many thanks to the girls who put the fabulous prizes together, which included for the first time, a book buyers prize.
 Winner of the Book Buyers Prize- Laura
Congratulations to all, I am sure these will go well towards you all enjoying a very festive Christmas.

As you can see here the prizes are quite substantial.

On display are also a variety of items you will find in out shop, everything from paintings, jewellery, pottery, sculpture, textiles, the odd candle or two and so very much more. 
See below also.

There is still timebefore Christmas, to come on in and grab yourself a very individual, ONE OFF gift for someone special in your life

       

More news still to come so stay tuned for the next entry coming soon.

Zem~fearis exhibition by Thelma Kirkwood see it at the Gallery until December 20th and then January 7th to 17th 2016

New Committee, A.G.M, Pre-Christmas

 Special Information

Cook Book - NOW AVAILABLE - only $15.00 

This is a colaboration of work by our Members, (Artists) of their 'Favourite Recipes' and Photographs of their wonderful 'Art Work' have been inserted into the page that their recipe is displayed on. 
This would make a wonderful gift for anyone for Christmas, Birthday or Other. There is a limited supply so please phone in with your order, and get into the gallery quickly so as not to miss out on your copy before Christmas. As time is limited now and there cannot be a second print run until the New Year.  (Apologies, pictures are currently unavailable, I was sent some but cannot use them.)

As a result of the recent A.G.M, the following are now our new committee.

NEW COMMITTEE:

President: Ron Brook,
Vice President/Roster: Joanne Hughes,
Secretary: Joanne Emery.
Treasurer: Ellen Steyn,
Program Co-ordinator: Thelma Kirkwood,
Publicity: Portia Stanton-Noble,
Shop-Cordinators: Gayl Baehnisch and Laura Wright, 
Office assistants: Jan Burns and Gordon Head.

Reminders and Updates

 A Busy Holiday Season Is Coming!!

Christmas Raffles are all wrapped up, chuckle. As you would expect!
We have 3 really BIG prizes with tons of goodies inside which I am sure will delight anyone who should win one of them.  Tickets are available at the Gallery Shop for only $1.00 each. Our books are made up of ten so you can buy the whole book if you like.
 The Raffle will be drawn before we close the Gallery for the Christmas break which is aproximately Sunday 20th December at 3pm.  I need to just confirm the dates for you.

The latest Newsletter is now online for everyone. We now have a new Editor, with the change of Committee on Thursday 29th October at our Annual AGM. I will list them all shortly.

The Exhibition Calendar for 2016 has now been updated also, there have been a few changes, so please take note, those of you who use this service to plan your future exhibitions. there are still only 6 room available for the whole of next year, so it would be a good idea to lock one in now and pay a deposit.

Membership is now just about apon us; and Invoices and reminders will be going out very very soon. Don't forget to renew yours as none of us wishe to have an admin fee added if we are late. details will be  on your form which will either be Emailed or Posted to you.

Gawler Health - Hospital ongoing Exhibition.
Just a reminder that hte next change over date for paarticipants is on the 1st Thursday of December at 1.30pm, Contact Mr Ron Brook for more information or check at the gallery during open hours.

Reminders Exhibitions and Planning

Latest Exhibition Openings 

Opening Speeches

Until the 1st of November there are the following Exhibitions running at The Gawler Community Gallery.

Melinda Radus and Sue Broady present ‘Spectrum’.

by sue Broady

by melinda Radus

This is a first for Mother and Daughter, putting together a shared exhibition at the Gawler Community Gallery. Originally from the USA, they are now local, from Sampson Flat. (and yes they were affected by the fires last summer). 

by Melinda Radus

They will exhibit paintings in a variety of mediums and styles, covering several themes.

There will be lovely animals in Charcoal, flowers in Watercolour and more. 

by Sue Broady

Art runs in the family, as along with her Mother, Melinda’s Grandmother and an Aunt are also artists. We wish them well as we do all our participating artists.

Again we welcome Textile Artist, Yvonne Jaunay from ‘Murray Bridge’.

Her exhibition titled "Cloth, Paper +" is in the “Red Hen” room at the Gallery, this time her work will include felting, silk printing, dye-ing, some prints, paper items and Jewelry relating to the title. Such talent and diversity needs to be seen. Yvonne has studied these mediums, at Marden College, and others in the Adelaide area, as well as interstate.

The Textplorer group

'Texplorers' is a group of ten Textile Artists from in and around Gawler, they present “Out of the Blue”, showing a variety of pieces resulting from a day of' Indigo dye-ing of fabric and threads', using many time-honoured techniques. 

Textplorer Exhibition

They have produced very interesting patterns and designs. There are wall-hangings, canvasses, scarves, cushions, cards, covered journals and much more, all following the ”blue” theme.

Local artist Clue, is celebrating 10 years of exhibiting at the ‘Gawler Community Gallery’.

Carol Clue 

 This latest exhibition of hers titled ‘Salmagundi’, aptly describes her versatility in the Arts, as it means ‘A medley of anything. 

She will present several works in various art mediums with a percentage of sales being donated to Carol’s favourite charity the ‘RFDS’ - ‘Royal Flying Doctor Service’. 

Congratulations Carol on 10 years supporting the arts at the Gawler Community Gallery.

S.A.L.A and More

What's On! What's Coming!

S.A.L.A. Is now running and there are so many events happening all across South Australia, for even more information see- AroundYou.com, and EventFinda.com.au, Adelaide , Northern Areas.

Here is the Gawler Art Trail, which covers many events in the local area. We know there are more, but this trail is easy to follow and makes for a great day out if you are in the area.

Here at 'The Gawler Community Gallery' are new Exhibitions starting next week and running throughout the S.A.L.A Festival. see the previous blog for details or go to our Exhibition Calendar.

Find directions to 'The Gawler Community Gallery, at Where Is we are way to find.

Don't forget that 'AMITY', 'Gawler Art Society' and Julia Mannix' student Mosaics' are still on until the 9th of August.

Exhibition Openings

M.P. Mr Tony Picollo Opens 2 Exhibitions

‘Mosaics’ – ‘As Time Goes By’ exhibition.

Mosaic opening crowd

On Sunday the 5^thof July at 2pm, M.P. Mr Tony Picollo opened this vibrant exhibition by the students of Julia Mannix, in one of their upstairs rooms. (The Ghan Room)



 They also have the ‘Overland Room’ across the hall. The opening was 0verflowing with attendees, and the mosaic work presented in these two rooms is of excellent quality and beauty. 






All the pieces are very detailed, and many pieces are 3 D. Job well done Ladies, Congratulations to one and all.

  Amity 10 Years On Exhibition

Following the Mosaics opening Tony proceeded downstairs to officially open ‘AMITY's 10 Years On’ exhibition, which is the Left hand room (Red Hen) as you enter the gallery. 

This is the third time that he has opened for them, and again the room was overflowing with invitees and visitors.

Over the years the group expanded it's numbers temporarily from 6 to 9 then was forced to  reduce them in later years. 

Dorothy Beverly, regretfully left the group due to her advancing years (we hope you are keeping well Dorothy),and greatly respected and loved Phil Bolding sadly passed away as the result of a brain tumour a few years ago. 

The group advises us that they are both still sadly missed.

On a lighter note the friendship of Amity seems to shine through their work. This year there are animals painted by all members and yet they are all so vastly different with each persons individual style being quite obvious. They also have, cards, Unframed work and Jewelry for sale.

M.P. Mr Tony Picollo is a very busy man !

        

We all very much appreciate the time you have given to the gallery, and its exhibitors over the years Tony, from Amity and all from The Gawler Community Gallery.

Gawler Art Society - G.A.S. Mr Bruce Eastick 

 Finally  at 2.30pm, Mr Bruce Eastick, (Poet and Patron for G.A.S) opened ‘The Gawler Art Society’ (G.A.S) exhibition.

 Held in the downstairs ‘Tea and Sugar’ exhibition room, this too was very well attended. 

Many of the artists in this group are also members of ‘The Gawler Community Gallery’.  

Some of them support us by regularly exhibiting individually, they also have work in the ‘Gallery Shop’, and often sit on the roster as well.

Unfortunately I do not have a photo of G.A.S. to share with you.

A very talented group of artists with a huge variety of style, genre and medium.

You really should make every effort to make the visit to Gawler to see all of the Excellent exhibitions that are currently running Thursday to Sunday until the 9^thof August.  ALL work in these exhibitions is for sale and would make wonderful gifts or a perfect new addition to your home, and entry is free.

The tally for the day is listed at 64 in the Day Book, however I have been reliably informed that the volunteers lost count at about 2pm. They were so busy with enquiries and sales. So we know that there were a lot more people who came to see the opening of ALL the exhibitions.

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