June 5, 2024
Interested in pottery or perhaps mosaics? Print-making or macrame? Or maybe making a terrarium is more your style … then the Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery is the place to explore over the next two months.
The gallery’s annual celebration of arts and crafts, which coincides with the official start of winter, officially began on Saturday, with displays in the main gallery spaces and demonstrations in the 1913 Council Chambers building at the rear of the complex.
The gallery hosts the Queensland Winter Craft Festival in June and July every year.
The aim is to offer local residents the opportunity to take part in workshops and watch displays of artists and craftspeople at work.
The first workshop, a pottery class led by Lyndell Petersen, was held on Sunday.
This weekend there will be a mosaics workshop (June 8) followed by silk scarf painting (June 15), prints for kids (June 22), terrarium making (June 22), printmaking (June 23) and pottery sculpture (June 29-30).
More information about these workshops – and what will be happening in July – is available by contacting the gallery on 0488-793-419 or 0488-194-850.
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The Quilt Trail, an annual “craft crawl” around the region, is on again this year, coinciding with the Winter Craft Festival.
On July 27 (9:00am-3:00pm) and July 28 (9:00am-1:00pm), visitors have been invited to drop in to:
- Alisellou Designs – 37 Alexander Street (Bunya Hwy), Wooroolin
- Cooinda Craft Group – Uniting Church Hall, Alfred Street, Kingaroy
- QCWA Kingaroy – 1938 Council Chambers, Youngman Street, Kingaroy
- Quilters Rest, 562 Weens Road, Gordonbrook
- Somethings Country, 18 Alford Street, Kingaroy
- Wooroolin De Stash, Wooroolin Memorial Hall, Alexander Street (Bunya Hwy), Wooroolin
