Dear BE Net, The drawing workshops have been going well and have been a good way to draw people to the park (no pun intended, but it is a bit funny). Several people who live close by have commented that they did not go to the park much, but after spending an hour or so there […]
Art Project for Pennyweight Park. The City of Ballarat is creating a new public art project and we need the help of the community of Ballarat East to help realise it. Stone sculptor, Joe Pratt has been commissioned to carve designs into 20 bluestone boulders sited at Pennyweight Park during April and May. Artist Forest […]
We’ve been asked by the City of Ballarat to provide some places of note in the East for a tour. The intention is that Ballarat East will be mentioned in the programme for the Ballarat Heritage Weekend. And why not, the whole thing started here yes? So we collected and collated your suggestions and the […]
What a great response to this lovely exhbition with lots of works that look at issues of development, people, places and areas… The exhbition is open until July 7th, hope you get in and take a look. This is Linda Franklin, one of the artists. Image by Erin McCuskey Two of the artists, Linda Franklin […]
Dear BE Net, I would like to invite you all for free drinks and nibbles at an art exhibition opening – featuring paintings addressing issues concerning Ballarat East and the Canadian Forest Corridor. Here is the flyer for your consideration. Sincerely Martin Hale (and all events details are here https://www.facebook.com/events/651005778260484/)
Welcome to Lucy our newest resident in Ballarat East… She is a strong sentinel looking out over all of her domain, her wild orange dress does not move with the wind, yet her eyes will follow all those who move through her field of vision. ‘Lucy’ by Mark Schaller (2004) is a large wooden chainsaw […]