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Hannah Deshon, 6, was fascinated with the yarnbombed flowers in the garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 3, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

What does a tractor named “Alice”, jumping ants, teapots, tractors and knitting have in common? \u00a0The answer is simple: Tractor Tattoo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And if you have to ask, you obviously weren’t at the Kingaroy Information Art and Heritage Precinct (ie the Kingaroy Art Gallery) on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

An exhibition, “Tea and Tractors” – the first major event of the South Burnett’s whimsical Spring festival of art and music – was officially opened on Saturday by the South Burnett Council’s General Manager Community and Economic Development Eleanor Sharpe.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features works by members of the Jumping Ant Arts<\/strong> group in the main gallery\u00a0as well as funky teapots crafted by local residents during an RADF-funded workshop earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The teapots, which are on display in Gallery 4, will be auctioned at 2:00pm on Tractor Tattoo Day (September 15) to raise funds for Lifeline.<\/p>\n

The Booie Spinners have works in the Back Gallery; while in the front gallery, local artist Susan Goddard has mandalas and other works with a tractor theme.<\/p>\n

But the big surprise is out the back of the gallery, where yarnbombed flowers and fruit have sprung up in the garden alongside a fully transformed 1939 Allis-Chalmers tractor.<\/p>\n

A team of local volunteers, led by Susan Goddard, have been knitting and crocheting for months to create the colourful \u00a0“coat” that the tractor is now wearing.<\/p>\n

Sadly this won’t be a permanent display – the tractor has to go back to the farm to become a tractor again, and its coat of many colours isn’t designed to last – but it will be at the Kingaroy Information Art and Heritage Precinct for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

More than 40 people, including local knitting groups the Knitter Knatters and Angel Knitters, worked for more than six months to prepare the pieces to “yarnbomb” the tractor.<\/p>\n

A highlight of the launch was the auction of ceramic birdbath crafted by Byron Bay artist Suvira McDonald when he hosted the funky teapots workshop.<\/p>\n

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