The Deepwater Art and Pottery Group will opens its gallery doors to the public, on Sunday 24th November from 10am to 3pm, for its Annual Art Fair.
The original works of more than 20 artists, makers and creatives from local areas including Deepwater, Emmaville, Torrington, Bolivia, Tenterfield, Glen Innes and beyond are on display and available for purchase at affordable prices.
“This is a great art and rural experience for visitors who will drive through a working sheep property until they reach the more than 70-year old corrugated iron-clad shed housing Gallery 4779.” said Jude Cox, event coordinator.
“Gallery 4779 is unlike any other gallery you might have seen. It is a large old goat and shearing shed that has been lightly converted to a creative space and gallery. It is not a conservative conventional art gallery!”
The gallery is located at 4779 New England Highway, Deepwater.
Intermingled with many hundreds of finished works are historic finds from the property’s paddocks and tools of the creatives such as pottery wheels, clay-working implements and paints.
The wide variety of items available reflects the amount and fantastic quality of creative talent in the New England region. These items include practical and sculptural pottery and ceramics, hanging art (acrylic, oil and water colour), textile prints, garden pots, felting, mosaics, macrame and more.
The Annual Art Fair not only allows visitors to acquire original affordable art from local creative people but also meet the makers.
In addition to original creative art works, there will be tea and coffee with home-cooked cakes and slices, and pre-loved hard-cover coffee table books and jigsaw puzzles available for sale in the marquee outside the gallery.
The Deepwater Art and Pottery Group is a self-funded group of local individuals from the New England region that gathers weekly at Gallery 4779 to ‘make and create’ and to share inspiration and creative skills. The Group also runs workshops for adults and school kids.
The Annual Art Fair showcases local talent. It also raises operating funds and frees up studio space so our makers can keep on creating!
Jude Cox, a long-standing Deepwater local, is one of the founding members of and driving force behind the Deepwater Art and Pottery Group. Jude grew up on the neighbouring property and raised her children on this property. She recalls playing and working in the goat shed before it became a studio and Gallery 4779.
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