Easter feast of art in Grampians
T
he Grampians will again offer art-lovers an Easter weekend feast with preparations in place for an annual Grampians Art Trail. The art trail, centred on Halls Gap but also including Ararat, Stawell, Wartook, Landsborough, Great Western and Callawadda, again features several highly acclaimed artists exhibiting and showcasing how they produce their work. Galleries and exhibition areas will open between 10am to 4pm on every day of the weekend, providing visitors with insight into art works and a chance to gain an understanding of the influences of individual artists.
The art trail has been a feature of the Easter weekend in the Wimmera for several years and attracts art enthusiasts from across Victoria and interstate. The range of artwork is diverse – from ceramics, textiles and redgum furniture to painting, sculpture and print and mask-making. Artists include high-profile meticulous environmental painter Steve Morvell, quilter and air-brush painter Ingrid Rudolph and wildlife pastels master Helen Leach. Others featuring in the trail are weaver Steve Gliese, felter Judith Burke, sculptor Andy Cross, redgum furniture maker Tim Butler,
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still-life and landscape artist Ros McArthur and photographer John Tiddy – all in Halls Gap.
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Mask maker Meryl Bowers and Vija and John Harris from TollGate Studio Gallery and print-maker Pauline Latta from Ararat will be at Great Western. Limestone figurine creator Kevin Free will be at Landsborough and painter and calligrapher Phil Eustace at Callawadda. More information is available from Ararat, Stawell and Halls Gap information centres. DIVERSE ART: Ararat photographer and printmaker Pauline Latta displays some of her creations.
Team wins science award A Horsham pathology team working at Grains Innovation Park in Horsham has won a major science award for its work on ways to manage stubble-born diseases and rusts.
iel McAlpine DPI Science Excellence Award.
The Cereal Crop Pathology team, including Dr Grant Hollaway, Dr Mark McLean, Frank Henry and Graham Exell, won the $5000 Dan-
The team is developing disease-management solutions for the industry and trained more than 150 agronomists over the past three years.
Grain disease costs the Australian cereal industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year – almost 20 percent of the average annual value of national wheat and barley production.
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BIG NIGHT: Horsham College 2013 debutants, from left, Maddy Kerrison, Makayla Secombe and Kate Elphinstone soak up the occasion in Wimmera Events Centre’s Moore Pavilion. More than 1000 people attended for the ball. Picture: DEAN LAWSON
Wattle walk success Rural Northwest Health is considering more fund-raising walks after a 62-kilometre Walk for Wattle from Hopetoun to Warracknabeal last weekend raised more than $3000.
The money will go towards a pergola and men’s shed in the backyard of the health service’s award-winning Wattle unit which cares for people living with dementia.
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