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.

Exhibition Openings

 Photographic Exhibition

A beautiful Autumn day was the perfect setting for a well attended opening of the Photographic exhibition this afternoon.  

First Prize Winner- Simon Slattery.

First Prize (my appologies  for the reflections

The quality of the work presented is exceptional and made it very difficult for the judging, which apparently took 2 hours. 

Second Prize

Second Prize Winner- Jan Worden.

Due to the difficulty and quality of photographs, there were also several honourable mentions given. 

Third Prize- Julia Mannix.

Fourth Prize- Joanne Emmery.

Well done to all those who have entered their work and congratulations to the winners.

Highly Commended

This is one of four Highly commended pieces awarded, at the time of taking these the others did not have their labels up.

This Tryptich received many
wonderful comments on the day.

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 was very busy and had several sales.  Well done everyone.

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.

Exhibitions & More

Gallery Update

I delivered my photos this afternoon for the Photographic Exhibition listed below.

The Gallery was alive with the buzz of activity with many people coming and going, delivering or collecting their work.

Sun Seeker by Dianne Vagg $180.

So MANY diverse and beautifully presented photos are arriving to be hung tomorrow.

The current/finished exhibitions are all coming down, and the rooms being made ready for the new ones to be hung.

The Openings are next Sunday, at 2pm as stated below. Do yourself a favour and come on out, we REALLY  are seeing absolutely fantastic work in our gallery this year. It seems to be getting better and better.

Coming Exhibitions for May/June

Photographic Exhibition

Opening Ceremony: 2p.m.

Sunday 25th May

Open May 22nd  to June 29th  2014

All Welcome

Judging by: Mr Bruce Hobby

From: 'Not just a Hobby Photographic’

Melbourne St, Nth Adelaide

Prizes Sponsored by

 The Gawler Community Gallery

 Gawler Books

and 

 Mrs Sylvia Bolding

Location:   The Gawler Community Gallery,  Station Master’s House,  23^rd Street Gawler.

Open Hours:  Thursday to Saturday 10am to 4pm.

Sunday 9am to 3pm.  Phone:  8523 5995

Also about to open are

"The Travelling Wrinklies"

 with Pat Low, Carol Clue and Kerrie Barrett

As you can see from their wonderfully creative Invitation, they will be presenting a variety of paintings show casing their experiences from their travels around the globe.This is truly something to look forward to.

Future Events

As the year continues to move along so very fast I would like to say that we will be holding a FATHER's DAY raffle, I am in the process of looking for sponsors and prizes, so that is something else to look forward to.

BIG INCREASE VISITOR NUMBERS

The Committee and Shop Coordinator have been 

keeping a running tally of our visitors for the year.  

It is very pleasing to be able to report that without exception- EVERY month has seen a marked increase in Visitor numbers. 

Our best day is Sunday for every month, and it is a toss up for Friday and Saturday coming in second.

Thursday continues and has traditionally been our quietest day, yet I am pleased to say that over the coarse of each month even these numbers are steadily increasing.

SO WITH VOLUNTEERS DAY APPROACHING -

A HUGE  THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS

 FOR SUCH A GREAT EFFORT!!!