Just in time for Port Macquarie’s own racing carnival, a celebration of the Melbourne Cup is taking place at the Glasshouse Gallery.
The Melbourne Cup trophy of 1888 was known as the Centennial Cup and was commissioned from England. This valuable award is on loan from the National Gallery of Australia and features three magnificent horses cast in solid silver, each weighing 800 grams, mounted on a large silver-plated base. The trophy was particularly large due to the importance of the centenary and because the Melbourne Cup was at the time the most valuable handicap in the world.
1888 was the one hundredth anniversary of British settlement in Australia and, although the various colonies were not yet welded into one federated nation, all the colonies joined in a year of celebrations to mark the first century of the new land.
In Melbourne the climax of the celebrations was the Centennial Fair and the Melbourne Cup.
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The BuildingBlox Boosting The Artistic Economy Forum will be held at the Glasshouse Arts, Conference and Entertainment Centre in the Ross Family Studio on Saturday August 22nd between 10.00am & 4.00pm. The forum will be an exciting event focused on building industry and business knowledge for visual artists and craftspeople.
The forum program includes presentations from artists from our region who have exhibited and sold their work nationally and internationally. Speakers include acclaimed Mid North Coast artists John Van Der Kolk and Wendy Stokes, who will share their knowledge and experiences about exhibitions, collections and commissions beyond the Mid North Coast. Learn about online selling from Coffs Harbour artist Jan Allsopp who meets the market with her ETSY online virtual gallery Little Shop of Horus. And hear from our Regional Gallery Directors about how local exhibitions and galleries come about in your region. Later in the day artists and craftspeople can have a speed dating session with Gallery Directors.
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More than 300 people attended the launch of the three debut exhibitions at the Glasshouse Regional Gallery last night.
The exhibitions range from historical photography of the region’s Aboriginal community taken by local Thomas Dick in the early 1900s, to jewellery designed inspired by images of insects and the science of entomology, to 32 works by local artists connected by the theme: dislocate, locate, relocate.
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