Stop Time: Ferntree Gully @ Monash Gallery of Art

I am delighted to announce that my latest Stop Time: Ferntree Gully series will show at the Ramp Gallery of Monash Gallery of Art from 25 September 2015.

Report on 'A Year in Ferntree Gully'

On 15 May 2013 I attended the Mountain District Learning Centre's AGM.

I was pleased to see the report by Anne Boyd, Project Co-ordinator of A YEAR IN FERNTREE GULLY in the MDLC 39th Annual Report 2012.

I would like to thank Anne Boyd in particular, the Mountain District Learning Centre, Knox City Council and everyone involved in this wonderful project.

'A Year in Ferntree Gully' at The Hut Gallery

I was invited to show A YEAR IN FERNTREE GULLY at The Hut Gallery in Ferntree Gully on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 September 2012.

 





© Barbara Oehring 2012

 

The Hut Gallery is the home of the Ferntree Gully Arts Society established in 1944.

History tells us that local potter Allan Lowe sent a letter to the Secretary of the Ferntree Gully Shire suggesting that an Art Exhibition be held to "develop the cultural and appreciative level of our residents and (the money raised) donated to the Red Cross to aid fighting men".

 

From a successful exhibition, including works on loan by such luminaries of Australian art as Arthur Streeton, Louis Buvelot, Phillips Fox, Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Julian Ashton, William Ricketts, Merrick Boyd and Albert Namatjira as well as works by local lesser known artists, the germ of a society was formed, the result of which is still going strong today.

 

 

'A Year in Ferntree Gully'
© Barbara Oehring 2012

Jill and Ian Wilson
© Barbara Oehring 2012
 

'A Year in Ferntree Gully'
© Barbara Oehring 2012

Anne Boyd
Editor, Ferntree Gully News
© Barbara Oehring 2012



Teresa Cannon, Shivanii and Jenny Cameron and Francis Reiss
© Barbara Oehring 2012