Betty Descovitch and Gwen Olm, from Wondai, at the Murgon Art Show’s opening night

September 12, 2014

The Murgon Art Show celebrated its opening night on Friday by chalking up an incredible $20,000 worth of sales … but art buyers still have this weekend to snap up good buys.

The show, now in its fourth year, is running at the Murgon PCYC in Macalister Street from 8:30am to 5:00pm on Saturday; and from 10:00am to 3:00pm on Sunday.

The art show was originally created by the Rotary Club of Murgon but two years ago was jointly taken over by the Murgon Show Society and the PCYC, who now use it as an annual fundraiser.

Artists from the South Burnett, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast are invited to exhibit, with prize money awarded to the winners in each of the major categories, and all works are available for sale.

This year the show attracted 73 entries, including six in a special section for children’s art.

The 2014 exhibition was opened on Friday night by Cr Kathy Duff who said it was “a wonderful exhibition” that underlined the need for Murgon to have a permanent art gallery or art display space the same as Blackbutt, Nanango, Kingaroy and Wondai.

“The lack of an art gallery in Murgon is something we should all address,” Cr Duff told the audience.

This year’s winners were:

Section 1 – Open
Winner: Janice Scullion (Beerwah)
Highly Commended: Kelly Crane (Kingaroy) and R.S. Smith (Chermside)

Section 2 – Traditional
Winner: Mr K. Blake – Mapleton
Highly Commended: Shannus O’Sullivan (Hivesville), Marjie Zimmermann (Kingaroy) and Tom McAuley (Mapleton)

Section 3 – Pastels
Winner: Marjie Zimmermann – Kingaroy
Highly Commended: Marion Cashion

Section 4 – Contemporary
Winner: R. Backhaus-Smith – Mapleton
Highly Commended: Shannus O’Sullivan (Hivesville) and Jan Sody (Wondai)

Section 5 – Indigenous
Winner: V. McGrath (Nanango)

Section 6 – Mixed Media
Winner: R. Backhaus-Smith (Mapleton)
Highly Commended: Thelma Archibald (Kingaroy)

Section 7 – Abstract
Winner: Jan Sody (Wondai)
Highly Commended: Robyn Dower (Tingoora)

Section 8 – Watercolours
Highly Commended: R. Backhaus-Smith (Mapleton) and Dot Rowland (Kingaroy)

Section 14 – Children Up To 4 Years
Winner: J. Crawford (Illinois, USA)
Highly Commended: Cash Crawford (Dingo) and Emma Crawford (Illinois, USA)

Murgon Art Show organisers Edna and Ritchie O’Neill, Jim Kingston, Murgon Show Society President-Secretary Aileen Williams and Evelyn Kingston were delighted with the bumper opening night sales

Cr Kathy Duff said the Murgon Art Show exhibition was wonderful

Murgon’s Joan Crawford entered grandson Jack’s painting; it won first prize
Wondai artist Jan Sody, who won first prize in the Abstract category, admired Hivesville artist Shannus O’Sullivan’s highly commended painting  “The Bush Undertaker”
Aileen Williams and Ritchie O’Neill held the ribbon Cr Duff cut to officially open this year’s Art Show

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