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Wondai Art Galley curator Elaine Madill and South Burnett artist Garry Eyre admire the portrait of Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen which will be on display at Kingaroy Shoppingworld this week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 21, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visitors to Kingaroy Shoppingworld are in for a bit of a surprise this week.<\/p>\n

The Wondai Regional Art Gallery is mounting a temporary display in one of the centre’s vacant stores as a short-term promotion.<\/p>\n

Curator Elaine Madill has brought along a small selection of the Gallery’s permanent collection to decorate the store.<\/p>\n

And one piece sure to catch shoppers’ eyes is a giant portrait of Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen painted by Brisbane artist Jan Lewis, mother of sporting star Hayley Lewis.<\/p>\n

The portrait was unveiled in May this year and normally has pride of place on the Gallery’s walls.<\/p>\n

“The idea of running a promotion for the Gallery is to encourage more people from Kingaroy and Nanango to come visit us,” Elaine said.<\/p>\n

“We have great crowds from Murgon and Wondai at our opening nights, and we do have a lot of visitors from other South Burnett towns too.<\/p>\n

“But we thought that showing off a bit of the Gallery here at Shoppingworld might encourage other people to make the trip as well.”<\/p>\n

The Wondai Regional Art Galley is the region’s largest public art gallery and opens new exhibitions on the first Friday of every month (except January).<\/p>\n

Next month’s exhibition will open on Friday, November 1, and will feature works by well-known Cherbourg artists Venus Rabbitt and Stephen Bond in the main gallery; Kingaroy artist Jo O’Brien-Welch in the front gallery; and Nanango artist Karren Bolton in the rear gallery.<\/p>\n

The opening will be accompanied by hot and cold finger foods, wine tastings and live music.<\/p>\n

The Gallery’s Studio workspace, which opened in December last year, now hosts a wide range of arts, crafts and music workshops and training courses.<\/p>\n

Many of these are completely free, and visitors to the Shoppingworld site will also be able to pick up The Studio’s current schedule.<\/p>\n

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