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AT the launch of this year’s Arthurs Seat Challenge are, from left, Cheryl Mumbers, Margaret Davis and Pippa Hanson. Picture: Margaret Harrison
Challenge to raise safety awareness Snip and tuck: Volunteers prune roses at the Mornington Botanical Rose Gardens. Picture: Supplied
Secateurs at the ready … VOLUNTEERS pruned more than 4000 rose bushes at Mornington Botanical Rose Gardens last week – and then enjoyed dinner. Fine weather on Saturday 14 July and a bracing breeze off Port Phillip on the Sunday made the annual pruning weekend enjoyable for the volunteers and visitors. Free pruning demonstrations by the Rose Society of Victoria attracted 65 enthusiasts over the two days. To join the group call Ron 0459 032 497.
THE Arthurs Seat Challenge is an annual 6.7 kilometre fun run and walk from Rosebud to the top of Arthurs Seat. The event, which finishes at Seawinds Gardens, is held to promote and raise money for the Fit to Drive program provided free to students in schools on the Mornington Peninsula and in Frankston. Fit to Drive focuses on personal safety, responsibility, and strategies to make young people safer on the road. The program aims to reduce road trauma by changing attitudes and
behaviours of young drivers and passengers. BlueScope Western Port has supported the program since it began in 2002. Sponsorship coordinator, Amanda Burston said Fit to Drive program “is directly aligned with our company’s core values of keeping people safe and supporting our local community”. “It’s been remarkable to see the growth, expansion and significant reduction in young driver fatalities and accidents across the peninsula,” she said.
Major partners for this year’s Arthurs Seat Challenge are BlueScope Western Port, the Mornington Peninsula News Group (publisher of this newspaper), Your Community Bank Rye/Dromana/Rosebud, and Spicy Web. The Arthurs Seat Challenge will start at 8.30am on Sunday 11 November at the corner of Jetty and Point Nepean roads, Rosebud. Registrations can be made online at www.arthursseatchallenge.com.au and forms will be available on the day from 7.30am at Rosebud Primary School.
WHAT’S NEW... JULY - SEPTEMBER 2018 At Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
WHAT’S ON EXHIBITION
20 JULY 9 SEPT
2018 NATIONAL WORKS ON PAPER PRIZE An MPRG exhibition
20 July – 9 September 2018 Sixty-three finalists from around Australia have been shortlisted from over 1,000 entries for the National Works on Paper acquisition and award (total prize money $50,000). PROGRAMS
SATURDAY ART TALKS Saturday 4 August With 2018 National Works on Paper finalists Cameron Robbins, Rosie Weiss and Kylie Stillman.
THE COOK, THE ARTISTS, THEIR WORK AND PAPER Saturday 8 September Join Guy Mirabella for an immersive dining experience with artists Katherine Hattam, Locust Jones and Godwin Bradbeer.
YOUNG AT ART 24 July and 14 August Art activities for pre-schoolers. Georgie Mattingley, I Had to Lift the Calf 2018 (detail), hand-tinted silver gelatin print
mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au adults $4 concession $2
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2018 National Works On Paper FROM over 1,000 entries, 63 artists have been shortlisted for the 2018 National Works on Paper acquisition and award (total prize money $50,000). The prize, the most prestigious acquisitive prize and exhibition of its kind in Australia, showcases recent work by some of Australia’s leading artists working in the field of drawing, print-making and digital media, providing a survey of contemporary practice today. Traditional approaches to working with paper are explored along with works that use new technological mediums – displaying the ways in which these mediums are prompting new explorations of working with and on paper. Shortlisted artists include: Raymond Arnold, Jon Campbell, Danica Chappell, Katherine Hattam, Locust Jones, Viv Miller, John Nixon, Louise Paramor, Jo Scicluna and TextaQueen among others.
Since 1973 the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery have been acquiring works on paper for the permanent collection through acquisitive exhibitions. Works acquired through the former Spring Festival of Drawing and Prints Acquisitive as well as the current National Works on Paper include artists such as Fred Williams, George Baldessin, John Olsen, Rick Amor, Jan Senbergs, Pam Hallandal, Noel Counihan, Mary Macqueen, Richard Larter, Gareth Sansom and Jess Johnson. The 2018 National Works on Paper exhibition will be held at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 20 July to 9 September 2018. Visit mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au to find out more about exhibitions and events, including the Gallery’s pre-schooler program Young at Art, and to listen to podcasts with artists from the 2018 National Works on Paper.