Condamine Country Art & Open Studio Trail

06/11/2022

Our big sister trail, the Granite Belt Art and Craft trail, have come to visit us today. Thanks for supporting and encouraging us "big sis"

06/11/2022

ART TRAIL HAPPENINGS // The first day of CCART wrapped up at last night's Art Dinner at Warwick Art Gallery. It was a wonderful night - delicious food and lots of great conversation.

Today our artists' studios will be open from 9am to 4pm. Enjoy the drive to Freestone, Yangan, Swan Creek and Killarney but don't forget to visit the Warwick Potters Association on Horsman Road Warwick. Leah, Cathy and Penny will be demonstrating potters and glass making techniques and the club gallery will be open all day.

Warwick Art Gallery is buzzing with activity. Artists Jayden Clacy, Annette Raff, Judy Currie, Corina Graham and the Demented Artist Group are running classes, demonstrating and talking to visitors about their art practice.

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

Thanks to our event sponsors Assumption College, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.
Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery

05/11/2022

A LITTLE UPDATE // Hope everyone is enjoying our Trail today. We have some new details/corrections to share:

📣All studios are open 9am to 4pm on both days. You don't have to be booked into a workshop to visit
📣 The address for Freestone Memorial Hall is 1244 Freestone Road Freestone (not Paynes Road as it is in the booklet) - sorry for the error.
📣 The POP UP Studio event at Warwick Art Gallery is on Sunday 6th only from 9.30am to 4.00pm

03/11/2022

PLAN YOUR ART ADVENTURE // Need help to decide on your meander through Condamine Country this weekend? Here is one suggested itinerary:
1. Start by travelling to Freestone Memorial Hall to meet arty friends Sue Keong and Debbie Deickmann
2. Drive along Jack Smith Gully Road, then turn right onto Warwick Yangan Road to Swan Creek School of Arts Hall where Helen McConville will be sharing her irresistible quirky metal character sculptures.
3. Back on Warwick Yangan Road in the direction you came from which will take you to Yangan to the stunning Yangan School of Arts hall. Inside will be paradise for admirers of fabric dying, textiles, natural fibre and recycled/repurposed clothing. Artist Catherine Elliot will be available to find out more about natural and indigo dying.
4. Keep driving east towards Emu Vale then continue onto Yangan Killarney Road to Tannymorel to find the latest large mural by our region's most accomplished outdoor artists Kerry and Malcolm Nicholsen.
5. Continue to Killarney to meet Jayne Deshon and other local artists at the Willow Gallery. Maybe lunch at the Killarney Pub?
6. Only visit the next studio if you are traveling in a 4x4! Paul Stumkat's studio is located off Condamine River Road about 8km from Killarney. This is a fantastic drive up the Cambanoora gorge but there are 5 water crossings to get over.
7. Drive back through Killarney and follow the signs to Warwick to the Warwick Potters Association Studio on Horsman Road where Laeh Kelly, Penny King and Cathy Holmes will share their love of clay.
8. Final stop, the Warwick Art Gallery, which has exhibitions by local artists Judy Currie, Corina Graham and the Demented Artists Group.

Safe travels and a warm welcome to all visitors.

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

Thanks to our event sponsors Assumption College, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.

Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery

02/11/2022

DINNER AT THE GALLERY // Warwick Art Gallery has tickets available for their CCART DINNER on Saturday 5th November at 6pm. Make friends, talk about art and enjoy a beautiful Indian meal prepared by Happy and Sarb who run the Mild Chilli food truck. Part of the night will be an informal conversation style presentation "Watercolours and the "art" of Teaching" featuring local artist/teacher Judy Currie and renowned watercolourist Annette Raff. Buy tickets for $35 pp online at www.warwicktickets.com.au or in person/by phone at Warwick Art Gallery. Numbers are limited for this lovely annual event presented by Warwick Art Gallery Inc.

Photographs by Samantha Bennett Photography

01/11/2022

GET YOUR PLAY CLOTHES READY // CCART is on this weekend and most of the workshops still have places available if you're keen to have a play with paint, natural dyes, recycled materials or experience what its like to be a palaeontologist. Book directly with the artists.

31/10/2022

Read about our Trail in Highlife Magazine. Only four more sleeps!

Returning for the third year, the Condamine Country Art and Open Studio Trail (CCART) on 5 and 6 November 2022 gives Southern Downs artists the opportunity to reveal their process […]

27/10/2022

GET YOUR TRAVEL MUGS READY // Not long now until our 2022 Condamine Country Art and Open Studio weekend. Some of our most generous and skilled artists will be opening their studios or setting up in local small halls to share their art and techniques with visitors over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of November. Many are offering workshops that you can pre-book. All will be ready to share their passion for art and the Southern Downs lifestyle.

First stop should be Warwick Art Gallery to pick up a Trail booklet (or download online). Then plan your route to Freestone, Glengallan, Yangan, Swan Creek, Killarney and Warwick. Plan to also stop at Tannymorel and the Hermitage to see two new public artworks.

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

Thanks to our event sponsors Assumption College, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.

Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery

15/10/2022

INTRODUCING OUR ARTISTS // Jayde Clacy is a Warwick artist who began her artistic journey doing fashion and textile work finding creative opportunities out of repurposing garments and fabric finds. In 2019, she discovered watercolours and was prolific in her exploration of the medium. Her love of textiles found its way back into her oeuvre as she started incorporating stitching and embellishment into her watercolour abstracts. Recently she has also started incorporating acrylic and oil paint and gouache into her paintings. Her colours are reminiscent of the art nouveau era and her subject’s pure imagination.

Jayde will be one of the artists participating in our inaugural POP UP STUDIO event on Sunday 6 November in the garden outside Warwick Art Gallery. She will be demonstrating her latest passion which is creating tiny little paintings only 7cm x 7cm. You can join Jayde and create your own painting at 10am and 1pm for $50 which includes all materials and a matte + frame for your little painting. To book phone or text Jayde at 0439 135 971

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

CCART also thanks sponsors Assumption College Warwick, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.

Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery
Photography by Samantha Bennett Photography

11/10/2022

INTRODUCING OUR ARTISTS // Helen McConville has always been interested in the creation of artworks. She is also passionate about nature and recycling and sustainable lifestyles. She has been able to combine these interests by creating artworks from discarded metal objects. Anything that is looking unloved, she likes to repurpose. She makes a variety of small native birds and reptiles as well as domesticated creatures including poultry.

Helen will be at the Swan Creek School of Arts Hall for CCART. Helen will be available to talk about her process and demonstrate her twisting and riveting techniques. Morning and afternoon tea will be served by the Swan Creek Hall Committee.

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

CCART also thanks sponsors Assumption college Warwick, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.

Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery
Photography by The Wife Creative

11/10/2022

INTRODUCING OUR ARTISTS // Corina Graham is a self taught artist and mental health advocate. She specialises in working in two dimensional graphic media such as pencil, markers, pastels and graphite pencil. Her latest work is a series of watercolour portraits. Corina will be exhibiting alongside members of the Demented Artist Group (DAGS) at Warwick Art Gallery over the CCART weekend. The group exhibition, Walk With Us, features artworks created by DAG members with differing skill levels and at different stages on their journey to wellness.

1 in 5 Australians will have a Mental Health issue during their lifetime. The Demented Artists Group Inc, a local Not-For-Profit, assists those in Recovery from Mental Health Issues to regain their Social Confidence through "Art, Friendship and Social Inclusion."

Corina will be one of the artists participating in our inaugural POP UP STUDIO event on Sunday 6 November in the garden outside Warwick Art Gallery.

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

CCART also thanks sponsors Assumption College Warwick, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.

Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery
Photography by Samantha Bennett Photography

10/10/2022

INTRODUCING OUR ARTISTS // Judy Currie began painting very recently after retiring from a demanding and sometimes stressful teaching career which she loved. Something had to fill the void so she chose watercolour painting even though she had no artistic experience whatsoever. It has been a therapy, a time to separate from her job and work, an avenue to find a new focus while maintaining the values and essence of the old ‘her’. It has grown into something she loves and something that she needs to do, something that encourages continual appreciation of the natural world.

Judy is having her first solo art exhibition at Warwick Art Gallery over the CCART weekend. The title of the exhibition "In pursuit of knowledge, excellence and service" was the motto of the school that was part of Judy's life for well over forty years. Exploring this hasn’t stopped with the cessation of a formal work life – it has been a way of living practised, absorbed and in continual refinement over time and consequently naturally and subtly influences her art.

You will be able to meet Judy at the inaugural POP UP STUDIO event on Sunday 6 November at the Gallery.

CCART has been supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Southern Downs Regional Council to support art and culture in regional Queensland.

CCART also thanks sponsors Assumption college Warwick, Warwick Credit Union, Rose City Shoppingworld and Condamine Accountants.

Proudly coordinated by Warwick Art Gallery
Photography by The Wife Creative