Arts Focus

  • Tiny treasures hiding in region

    Colac and district residents can be on the lookout with a community treasure hunt underway, in the form of painted rocks.

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  • Marvellous marquee for artists

    About 20 Colac Otway artists have created a luxurious, moveable marquee that will pop up across the shire for arts events. 

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  • UK expat painter at home at Birre

    English expat and abstract landscape painter David Lancashire draws inspiration from the Australian landscape, from Alice Springs to the Otways. 

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  • Bright idea for formerly drab teapots

    A Camperdown artist’s journey with alcohol inks has culminated in a tea-riffic, colourful exhibition of up-cycled artworks.

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  • Beautiful Bay coast stirs Polish painter

    The Otways coast has reignited a Polish expat’s passion for art, after the demands of fine arts training as a teen stifled her creativity.

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  • Evolution of artistic passions

    A young artist is blending her love of writing and drawing by creating picture books.

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  • Global footprint for digital artist

    Libby Clarke is getting stuck into paving a career as a professional artist, with a dream of opening an art studio for Colac youth.

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  • Alpaca wool becomes art

    Ferguson’s Lauris Jephcott hopes to pass on her appreciation of alpacas by exhibiting the artistic use of their fibres.

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