Gallery News

Our Intrepid Publicity Officer has been very busy promoting the Gallery, which she does very well. Recently she was caught in action at the local Community Radio Station in Salisbury, so I thought I would share these snapshots with you.

   

Every month, Judy does an interview update of all that is current at the Gallery, she also gets lots of newspaper coverage for us. Is seemingly tireless in her efforts to promote The Gawler Community Gallery Inc.
 Having been with the gallery from it's inception as part of "Arts Action" back in 2006 Judy has been very pro-active in volunteering her time in the interests of The Arts within Gawler.
Without the efforts of many such people we would not have the Quality Gallery that we have today.
 Many Thanks Judy and all those who contribute their time and efforts to bring the public a beautifully displayed Gallery full of Art in 6 week blocks throughout every year.

Tomorrow is the Grand Opening of:- 'The Gawler Biannual Art Awards' a prestigious event open to  any artist, with 5 prize categories to choose from for entrants, and 3 Major award prizes including The Brian Mahoney Award.
These awards have now been judged and the prizes will be awarded tomorrow at the opening. There is also a 'People's Choice Award' which is calculated by your votes and presented at the end of the Exhibition.
We would love to see you all tomorrow so come on out and enjoy the company of others, we open at 9AM and the opening is at 2 PM.
We also have our Fun For Fathers, Fathers Day Raffle with 3 prizes ranging in value from over $50 to over $250.  Tickets are only $1 each. You have to be in it to win it.
Prizes will be drawn on the Thursday prior to Fathers Day.
Our next News Letter will be out shortly also.
Cheers. For now, Dianne Blog Admin.

Our Raffle Sponsors

Father's Day Raffle.

All you Fathers out there can look forward to the possibility of winning, One Of Three- 'fun for father Packs'

from Mitre 10 Salisbury

The generosity of Mitre 10 Hardware, at Park Terrace, Salisbury sees us with a fabulous- Fish Finder- (this is an electronic gadget) which I am sure all you Fishermen out there would know about. I'm told they are very good.



Thanks also go out to the Management of The Criterion Hotel Gawler.  Sharon and John have donated a $50 meal voucher, so Mum's you can take Dad out for a lovely Dinner, (I can personally recommend their meals). Located at- 18 Nineteenth St, Gawler South SA 5118.  Ph: 08 8522 1922.


The wonderful Erminio, Karen, Vicki and the rest of the team from United Discount Chemist on John Rice Avenue at Elizabeth Vale, have again donated goods. 
They include Thermal Drinking Glasses, Gloves, Skillet Pan, Sharpening Steel, a lovely Photo frame and an Ornament.




The Management of The Gawler Cinema, has very kindly donated a Family Pass, this is a Day or Night out at the Movies- for 2 Adults and 2 Children, how wonderful would that be!  You will find them at- 11 Murray Street, Gawler 5118, S.A. Phone: 08 8523 1633 for movie times and what's on.

from Shaver Shop Tea Tree Plaza

 Gavin and his well trained staff from The Shaver Shop at Tea Tree Plaza, have donated a lovely Travel Shaver, which by the way can be charged by using a USB.





Member Donations
Our members assist us by donating goods also and at present we have BBQ tools, a beautiful Painting of Frogs waiting for a new home, Hand Turned wooden pen set and Chocolate. yum!
You never know what other great things we will have, by Father's Day to make your day with the family complete!

NEWS and REMINDERS

NEED ANY FRAMING ?

Dave from  'Dial A Picture Framer' at Salisbury East, visits the gallery on the 2nd Saturday of each month for all your Faraming needs, whether it is a new Matt, completed Frame or extra Frames to have on hand, Dave will advise you and gives our gallery members a fixed discount.
He is usually available between 11 and 12, however you can always call the gallery prior to your visit to ensure he will be there.

COOKERY BOOK by our MEMBERS

It is coming along slower than we would like. WE would like to have this ready for sale before Christmas this year.

This is a call to all our members to supply a favourite RECIPE to go into a self published Cook book to help raise funds for the gallery.
we could use more Savoury Recipes in particular please.
Contact our secretary via email (gordon.gates@hotmail.com phone:8252 3564)or leave details in her pigeon hole at the gallery. A good quality photo, either printed or emailed of your own personally made, favourite Art works would be appreciated also so that we can showcase our wonderful gallery within the pages of the cook book.

SHOP POLICY

We will soon have the details for you all of our updated Shop Policy. This is all about how to present your work in a proffessional manner and make the running of the Shop easier for all of us.

WEB SITES

If as a gallery member you have your own Art page, blog or web site, and would like it to be added to the Gallery Blog, please contact myself (Dianne), with your information OR leave a message through the Blog via the COMMENT section at the bottom of each page post.

NEWS LETTER

Colleen has either posted or emailed your latest newsletter in the last week, it is also available here on the Blog.
If you have any exhibitions, news, tips, or Questions suitable to add to our news letter, please contact Colleen a minimum of 2 weeks prior to the next round of Exhibition Openings.
Please refer to the Exhibition Calandar for those dates- availavle both here on the Blog and in the Gallery.

We have 3 New Exhibitions opening this Sunday, so please feel free to pop on out,  several of our members are involved in private exhibitions this time. (Amity, also Animal Expo and also G.A.S.)   Entry is Free to all and suitable for all ages.

I hope to see you there, Admin Dianne

Gallery News

Ellen Steyn- Animal Expo

photos coming soon

Amity Exhibition:

Amity has sent us an Invitation for their coming 9th Exhibition at the Gawler Community Gallery, and have informed us of an ERROR in the TIME for their GRAND OPENING.
It is due to be opened at 2pm, by Mrs Joanne Hughes, NOT  1.pm as stated on their Invitation or poster.
Thank you AMITY, we wish you every success for your exhibition.

What's Coming Soon?

July/August Exhibitions

A few sneak peaks to temp you all.

AMITY 9th A SYMPHONY OF COLOUR-

Now in it's Ninth year of continuous Exhibiting in the Lovely Gawler Community Gallery, this great group started out with 6 members and due to retirement they are now down to 4.

by Carol Clue

by Brian Windebank

However this hasn't stopped them from providing us with a   colourful collection of NEW work.    With a collective of 96 years of experience in the arts, it will be difficult to decide which one to take home and enjoy as your very own, made with creative vision and love. 

ELLEN STEYN'S ANIMAL EXPO-

 As usual Ellen will delight everyone with her life like paintings of Animals, from wild creatures to your best friend, come along and choose one of her wonderful pieces to grace your Lounge or Entry.  Ellen excels in her ability to interpret the expression in each animals eyes and facial features.

 GAWLER ART SOCIETY

The Gawler Art Society has many members, they meet weekly for painting sessions and have people come in to give talks and also provide the odd one day Master Class. What a great way to make friends and pick up new ideas.

They will have 2 rooms this year and exhibit with us regularly. There will be a diverse range of artistic style and topic on display by this very talented group.

The openings for these exhibitions are currently planned for 1.pm on Sunday the 6th of July, at The Gawler Community Gallery, Station Master's House, 23rd Street, Gawler South.

Gallery News

News Flash !! 

With the change over of exhibitions a few weeks ago the "People's Choice Award" was finally able to be calculated for the 'Mother' Exhibition. The lucky winner was Laura Wright. congratulations Laura, a beautiful little painting titled- 'Mother's Cradle'.

Photographic Exhibition Prize Winners, are listed in the Post titled- 'Exhibition Openings'

Our last 2 raffles were a huge success

and we are well on track to having another great one, with quite a few Wonderful donations from Local Sponsors already. 

We would like to THANK those wonderful businesses for their New and Renewed support, it means a great deal to the Gallery.

Father's Day Raffle.

All you Fathers out there can look forward to the possibility of winning,

a lovely Shaver, from The Shaver Shop at Tea Tree Plaza,
a Fish Finder (electronic gadget) from Mitre 10 Salisbury,

donated by Mitre 10 Salisbury

a meal voucher at the lovely Criterion Hotel (I can personally recommend their meals),
a Night out at the Movies- Family Pass at the Gawler Cinema,

Member Donations include BBQ tools, and there is a beautiful  Painting of Frogs waiting for a new home.

The wonderful United Discount Chemist at Elizabeth Vale is again donating goods, which at this time are unavailable to list.

donated by Shaver Shop Tea Tree Plaza

You never know what other great things we will have, to make your day with the family complete!

LATEST OPENINGS

Travelling Wrinklies

by Carol Clue, Kerrie Bennet and Pat Low.



This lovely group opened their exhibition on Sunday 1st June, to lovely weather yet again and a nice little group of visitors.

I understand that the day had several sales Wether they were Shop or Exhibition related is unknown at this stage ,so I will update when I have those details for you.

Above is a selection of their work which I hope will entice you to come out and visit us to view the two exhibitions in full which are now currently on display until the 29th of June.