September 18, 2012
A brightly dressed crowd of 50 art buffs crowded into the Kingaroy Art Gallery last Saturday afternoon for a “Mad Hatters Tea Party”.
They were there to celebrate Tractor Tattoo, and also take part in a “Funky Teapots” charity auction to help raise funds for UnitingCare Community South Burnett’s domestic violence program.
Guests – many wearing striking hats, and some wearing quite unusual ones – tucked into a range of exotic finger foods, tea and coffee and admired the Gallery’s current exhibition of hand-crafted teapots, pottery, lino prints and paintings before auctioneer Bill Steffensen took the floor to get the sale underway.
Twenty hand-made teapots which were crafted at two RADF-supported workshops run by Jumping Ant Arts earlier this year went up for bids.
And within half an hour all of them had found homes with delighted new owners.
In all, the auction raised about $1500 for UnitingCare and brought a positive end to the Funky Teapots project.
Other teapots crafted by the Jumping Ant Arts group will remain on show at the Gallery until the end of the month.
