Lot19

Play Ground: Opening Night - Group Exhibition by CCH Exhibition Design Course participants
2024-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Opening Night celebration of Play Ground – A visual art exhibition by Alastair Gratton, Colleen Gale, Irma Zimmermann, Jodie Parker and Samantha Baring.

These artists are recent participants in the Exhibition Design Course at Castlemaine Community House, and have brought together a diverse array of assemblage sculpture, installation, print, and paintings by local and regional artists.

Participants have been guided by experienced artist and arts worker Lucas Maddock and have refined their own body of work for exhibition.

Play Ground continues:Saturday 2 – Tuesday 5 November, 11am – 2pm&Saturday 7 & Sun 8 November, 11am – 2pm

Bonsoy Wallet Workshop
2024-10-26 14:00 - 15:00
Free Workshop

In 2024, we’re lot19 was honoured to announce the newly created Chloe Gunn Memorial Prize. This is a new prize in memory of the bright spark that Chloe was, for sculptures and art works made entirely from recycled materials. The inaugural Chloe Gunn Memorial Prize was awarded by Chloe’s father, Trevor Scott, to Taron Stanley for his work A Meeting of Minds…, with an honourable mention going to Melissa Clark for her work 24/02/2022.

Chloe Scott Gunn was born in Castlemaine and completed a course in Theatre Studies at Griffith University QLD. She loved to make things from discarded rubbish and, in the latter years of her life, held workshops where she taught people how to make wallets from Bonsoy cartons. An emerging artist herself, she was only thirty when she died suddenly in 2021.

On Saturday 26 October, lot19 will host a free Bonsoy Wallet Workshop, with Chole’s family and friends. We would love to see you there.

All materials supplied.

lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize
2024-10-13 11:00 - 2024-10-27 17:00
The annual lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize returns in October.

Since its inception in 2006, The Spring Sculpture Prize has been a key event in the Central Victorian artistic calendar.

Featuring over $8,000 worth of prizes, independent judges and a three-week exhibition, the prize is beloved by artists and visitors alike.

There is an extraordinary array of works in this year’s Prize, a truly eclectic collection of works from young, emerging and established artists. And as always, lot19 is honoured to be able to showcase these works in our gallery and grounds.

We have posted the full list of winners alongside a gallery of images here and will add to the gallery over the course of the exhibition, which is open Saturdays & Sundays 11am-5pm until 27 October. Please encourage your friends and family to pay us a visit.

The Spring Sculpture Prize is open weekends, 11am-5pm until Sunday 27 October.

Spring Sculpture Prize: Youth Workshop with Jodie Goldring
2024-10-13 11:00 - 13:00
Make a Basket using recycled materials!

Use recycled materials such as wool and cardboard boxes to make a colourful basket.

Humans have been making baskets for thousands of years to hold and carry food and other objects. They look beautiful and are fun to make, so come along and learn a new skill! There are many ways to make baskets, and in this workshop, you will learn a basic stake and strand weaving technique.

This workshop, run by artist and teacher Jodie Goldring, will be held in the unique surrounds of the lot19 W-Class Melbourne Tram, as part of the 2024 Spring Sculpture Prize.

Recommended for ages 8-12 and limited to 12 participants.

Jodie Goldring is a Sculptor and Art Teacher who has a broad range of creative experiences to share. Materials will be provided.

Sunday October 13, 11am-1pm. $12 + booking fee

BOOK A PLACE HERE

lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize: Opening Celebration
2024-10-12 14:00 - 17:00
The annual lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize returns in October, and as is tradition, we are throwing an opening celebration.

The 2024 lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize opening party will take place on Saturday 12 October from 2pm, and will feature prize-giving, live music, the lot19 bar by Shedshaker Brewing, and food from Castlemaine Fringe.

And of course – ART!

Since its inception in 2006, The Spring Sculpture Prize has been a keyevent in the Central Victorian artistic calendar. Featuring over $8,000worth of prizes, independent judges and three-week exhibition, the prizeis beloved by artists & visitors alike. In 2024, we’re also honoured toannounce the Chloe Gunn Prize for emerging artists.

Judges for the 2024 prize are Jock Clutterbuck, Laura Woodward andSimone Ewenson. Previous judges include Naomi Cass (Castlemaine ArtMuseum), visual artists Lucas Maddock and Zoe Amor and more.

Entries for the 2024 Prize close on Wednesday 18 September. For more details, click here.

Castlemaine Press: In My Backyard
2024-10-12 11:00 - 2024-10-13 16:00
In My Backyard:

7th Annual International Print Exchange

Printmakers from around the world are invited to join Castlemaine Press in the 7th year of their International Print Exchange.

An exhibition and sale of prints will be held at Castlemaine Press, Lot19 on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October 2024.

This will coincide with the wonderful lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize. There will also be an online exhibition of all received prints on the Castlemaine Press website.

All works (two prints from each artist) will be exhibited on the exhibition weekend, and be available for purchase for AUD$65 each.

Proceeds will support Castlemaine Press, a volunteer organisation run by local artists. This is our main fundraiser for the year and allows Castlemaine Press to remain as a well-equipped open-access print studio for the surrounding community.

10% of the proceeds raised will be donated to the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre).

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 October, 11am-4pm.

Image credit: 2023 IMBY entry – Robyn Gibson, ‘Walking Lines – Djaara Country’, 2023

Speaking of Renewal: Spring Community Philosophy Workshop
2024-09-22 10:00 - 12:00
The days grow longer. The weather warms. The wind changes.Trees draw their sap up from their roots. New shoots emerge.What wisdom have we gathered from our winter hibernation?What nourishment might we offer our new shoots?Reading is a pathway into other times/worlds/perspectives. It is a way of drawing meaning up from the roots of the collective unconscious. This spring workshop presents reading together as a collective philosophical practice. Through collective reading and reflection we will draw out and share wisdom gleaned from pages of poetry, fragments of essays and other writing that nourishes and help us grow.Participants are invited to bring an excerpt of text to share.

All other materials and morning tea provided.

Registrations required. If finance is a barrier to attendance, please get in touch with lot19.

FAQs

What is community philosophy?Community Philosophy is a practice of thinking together about the big ideas with compassion, humility and tenderness.Who is running this workshop?This workshop is run by Dr Kelly Lee Hickey, an artist and community philosopher. She developed her community philosophy practice through her creative PhD, which developed a series of creative and place based practices to support communities responding to social and ecological crisis. She has delivered community philosophy workshops and events at arts festivals and conferences across Australia, and online. Who is this workshop for?Anyone who is wondering how to navigate these times, or struggling to find direction and hope in the current political and social climate. It is especially useful for activists, and others involved in front line struggles for social and ecological justice.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP IS NOT A THERAPEUTIC SPACE, NOR IS IT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THERAPY. WHILE WE AIM FOR A CARE-FULL SPACE, ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WELL BEING AND ACTIONS, DURING AND AFTER THE EVENT.

Wordspoken: Felicity Cripps and Thumbnail Green
2024-09-21 19:30 - 21:30
WORDSPOKEN: Spoken Word in the W-Class Tram

Join us at lot19 for a very special equinox edition of WORDSPOKEN. This edition, we dance with poetic balance and the tension between dream and reality, light and dark. Featuring local and much loved singer/songwriter Felicity Cripps and sharp witted Thumbnail Green, with appearances from Sam Thomas and Claudia Lang.

An honouring of the eternal now, this is lo-fi, lo-lit evening will usher you into the season of light with grace, honesty and equilibrium.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Having just released her second ‘FCB’ album, singer/songwriter Felicity Cripps is softly launching her new album, Chasing Volcanoes – a heartfelt offering, shimmering with nostalgia and psychedelic tinctures. The new recording features a full band, creating lush soundscapes, supporting Felicity’s dreamy, dark and ethereal vocals.The power of these songs is undeniable when performed solo – each song is brought to life in an acoustic setting, just vocals and acoustic guitar, with occasional drum machines and glimmers of the band, backing an otherwise minimal set. The stories and subtleties behind each song really shine in this stripped-back arrangement, as Felicity draws her audience into another realm; searching for meaningful connections and portals into other worlds.

THUMBNAIL GREEN

Thumbnail Green writes dissident politihop for the times. Hip Hop started as ‘information music’ so protest and awareness could spread from African American neighborhoods. In the true spirit of the art form, and with a repudiation of the consumerist music landfilling our air waves, Thumbnail Green writes large about big issues that impact almost everyone on some level. Seeking to make palatable that which is often hard to swallow, the current round of releases combine humour, imagery, funk and serious wordplay. The single ‘Doomsday Prepper’ was a self-effacing look at self-preservation. ‘On a Watch List’ is a scathing retort to the phone surveillance we all live with. The latest release ‘Bounty Hunter’ is a dark fantasy where Aussie farmers find creative and gothic ways to dispose of useless eliters. It’s clever music so keep your mind sharp and your ears open – you may get triggered but you won’t be disappointed.

Snacks & drinks available for purchase or by donation.

Inter Alia: Castlemaine Press
2024-09-14 11:00 - 2024-09-29 16:00
‘Inter Alia’

Inaugural Castlemaine Press members’ exhibition

In a celebration of diversity in print, over 30 Castlemaine Press members will be exhibiting work at the beautiful Lot19 Gallery this September. Come and see what Castlemaine Press members have been exploring in print, made both at the Press studio just down from the Gallery, and in their own studios.

Come and support your local open-access community-run Press! Works will be for sale directly through the artists.

Open Saturday & Sunday, 11:00am – 5:00pm, from 14 – 29 September.

Opening celebration: Saturday 14th September 2024, 2:00 – 4:00pm

Image: Peter Ward, ‘Crow/Skull’ unique state, hand-coloured linocut, 25x28cm, 2023

Chrisanne Blennerhassett: Owl

Geoff Hannon: Loop

Michael Wolfe: Mary Wardell

Castlemaine Clay: Smoke & Mirrors Exhibition & Auction
2024-08-30 11:00 - 2024-09-01 16:00
Smoke & Mirrors: Exhibition, Celebration & Auction

Castlemaine Clay present an exhibition and auction of works emerging from their specially built smoke-fired kiln. The kiln and works were built in a series of workshops, and the kin fired up as part of Castlemaine Fringe’s Winter Warmer, Smoke & Mirrors.

A fundraising exhibition and auction of smoke fired pottery, plus exceptional pieces from local makers. Come find a treasure!

Exhibition: Saturday 31 August / Sunday 1 September from 10am – 4pm

Celebration & Auction: Sunday 1 September at 2pm

A partnership project with Castlemaine Fringe Festival – our friends and local legends.

Augury: Ken Killeen
2024-08-10 11:00 - 2024-08-25 16:00
Augury: Ken Killeen

Opens Saturday 10 August, 2pm

Augury: prophetic divining of the future by observation of natural phenomena – particularly the behaviour of birds and their flight patterns or the examination of their entrails and other parts.Exploring the totemic qualities of birds, Ken Killeen’s latest series of works are painted in a range of styles and with a range of media, including acrylic and oil paint, watercolour and ink.Augury is Ken Killeen’s first solo show for several years, but making art has been a constant factor in his life alongside teaching art. This exhibition is a collection of paintings mostly of birds with an occasional snake or spider, demonstrating a deep understanding of the formal elements of artmaking, technical prowess and a certain whimsy. The paintings contain layers of meaning, where the birds are symbols of ‘freedom, hope, spirit, transition, initiation and new opportunities. These paintings are allegorical and mythic, with allusions to arcane lore and totemism.Beyond the literal, the major motivation for these works was the use of birds as symbols, the mythological dimension of birds, and birds as spirit messengers. Ken has been making art for the last 50 years, and has exhibited in Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney, as well as having work in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Hamilton Regional Art Gallery and Artbank, as well as numerous private collections. Augury is open 11am-4pm,Saturday & Sunday, from 10 – 25 August.

Smoke & Mirrors: Castlemaine Fringe Winter Warmer
2024-08-03 19:00 - 23:00
SMOKE & MIRRORS

Dust off your sequins, bring out your bling

There’s excitement brewing at lot19

A night of sparkle, glimmer and shine

Delicious cocktails and spiced mulled wine

With our friends at Castlemaine Clay

We bring you a night of fire and play

Fire sculptures and pretty lights

A night of entertainment and suprise delights

Grab a ticket and lock in the date

See you on the dance floor, we cannot wait!

Smoke & Mirrors is a Castlemaine Fringe Festival Winter Warmer, in collaboration with Castlemaine Clay and lot19.

A night of warmth, creativity and spontaneity, as well as a fundraiser for Castlemaine Fringe Festival & Castlemaine Clay, Smoke & Mirrors will also feature a kiln being built especially for the event, works from which will be presented in an exhibition to follow the event.

Food, drinks, dancing, creations and of course, costumes galore!More details to come – save the date

Wordspoken: Noa Dakota, Derry Doyle, Ezra Demcy
2024-07-27 19:30 - 21:30
WORDSPOKEN: Spoken Word in the W-Class Tram

Join us at LOT 19 for the next edition of WORDSPOKEN. This edition is a celebration of magic of oral tradition, and not-so-tradition.

Local creatives Noa Dakota , Derry Doyle and Ezra Demchy make up this not-to-be-missed triple bill of local creation. Immerse yourself in the magic of language and a celebration of human stories. An honouring of the present moment, this is lo-fi, lo-lit evening designed to tickle the corners of your mind that you didn’t even know you’d left to catch dust.

Noa Dakota ~ Intrepid with her wanderings and her words, Noa Dakota has always found some kind of solace in and with the written word. A desire to return more deeply to self-expression found her writing poetry daily for a good four and a half years, before adopting a slightly less fixed but still near daily practice. Fascinated by poetry’s capacity to tell much with little, Noa writes stream of consciousness to explore the poetry of everyday existence.

Derry Doyle is the fly on the wall that rummages for romance in the mundane and spins yarns with a fiercely Australian tongue. He swears like a saint, is sensitive as a sailor, and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.

Ezra Demchy ~ An honest to god shape from the 17th dimension. Ezra the Messenger makes his own beats, rhymes, breakfast, lunch and dinner. An unmistakable talent, you’ll be kicking rocks if you miss him. So, if god be willing and the river don’t rise, he will see you at Lot19 on the 27th of July!

Snacks & drinks available for purchase. =

YODHI FEST: A benefit & celebration
2024-07-20 14:00 - 23:55
lot19 & friends are throwing a party for our friend Yodhi – a benefit to help her through cancer treatment and recovery.

SATURDAY 20 JULY, 2pm – Late

.A celebration of the wonder that is Yodhi, hosted by Jimay Falcon and featuring:

SUGARFED LEOPARDS

DAVO (Central Vic’s best & only Devo tribute act)

LUCIE THORNE

BENCH PRESS

J.P. SHILO

GOLD COAST LEATHERS

S.F.X.

DJ’s Jen Moore & Mikey Young

Performers Emilie Bloom, Briega Young & Carly Fern

Art Show

Food & Bar

DRESS CODE: Resplendent! Come in your best Shivoo garb and / or accessorise with a splash of Boob energy.

Castlemaine Press: Saturday Sessions (Workshop)
2024-07-20 12:30 - 2024-08-03 15:30
Castlemaine Press: Saturday Sessions

Saturday Sessions: Get Printing for ‘In My Back Yard’

Join master printmaker Diana Orinda Burns for four Saturday afternoons at Castlemaine Press. Suitable for beginners or experienced printmakers, this lightly guided workshop is an opportunity to explore printmaking in a supportive and creative learning environment. Even if you’ve never made a print before, this is your doorway to endless exploration and fun!

Take this opportunity to work towards a small edition of prints for the annual ‘In My Backyard’ international print exchange. Create a work focussing on the concept of your ‘back yard’ in a 12 x 12cm format. Diana can then guide you in how to make a limited edition of the print to be shared around the globe. Be part of our annual exhibition scheduled for October this year.You can view an online exhibition of last year’s In My Back Yard print exchange here.

Image by Kate John, A Sunny Afternoon, Feet Up, Ahh (detail), linocut, 2023

Solstice: CCH Group Exhibition
2024-06-22 11:00 - 2024-06-30 16:00
Solstice: Castlemaine Community House Professional Practice Students Group Exhibition

SOLSTICE is a group exhibition of work by local artists, opening on the winter solstice following a course on professional art practice at the Castlemaine Community House.

Artists Sally Berridge, Jade Ferguson and Georgia Laughton have created new work to show at lot19 Gallery.

Georgia Laughton has developed a collection of photographs reflecting her late-age autism diagnosis. Jade Ferguson has created symbolic oil paintings and black and white chiaroscuro portraits. Sally Berridge is exploring the effects of various papers and paints on watercolours, especially in Turner’s works.

SOLSTICE opens on the winter solstice, Friday 21 June, 5-7pm.

The exhibition is open for viewing Sat 22 + Sun 23 June, and Sat 29 + Sun 30 June from 11am – 4pm. There will be artist talks at 11.30am daily.

The Lantern & The Star: A Community Philosophy Workshop
2024-06-21 19:00 - 20:30
It can be hard to see in the dark.

Dark times are periods of instability and uncertainty, and are ever present in our world today.

Hosted by Kelly Lee Hickey, this workshop is an invitation to reflect and share our skills on navigating in the dark.

We will use two tarot cards, the hermit and the star, as our guides;The hermit wanders through darkness with only a lantern to light their way. The star appear above the rubble of the collapsed tower as a distant sign of hope.

How do we keep moving, when we can only see what is in front of us? How do we fix our eyes on a distant horizon, knowing we may never reach it?

Join us by the fire, for a facilitated conversation, followed by chai and cake. No tarot or philosophy experience necessary.

RSVP Requested

Solstice: Group Exhibition Opening
2024-06-21 17:00 - 19:00

Mount Alexander Greens: Art Auction
2024-06-16 14:00 - 17:00
MOUNT ALEXANDER GREENS

ART AUCTION

This October we have an opportunity to elect Greens representatives to the Mount Alexander Shire Council and work towards a more sustainable, equitable and just community.

Mount Alexander Greens have invited artists from across the shire to contribute to an art exhibition, hosted by lot19, which will culminate in an Art Auction.

Funds raised will go towards the Mount Alexander Greens local council election campaign.

Castlemaine Clay: All About Glaze (Workshop)
2024-06-16 09:30 - 12:30
All About Glaze: In-depth glaze knowledge and skills

All About Glaze: In-depth glaze knowledge and skills with Ella, Sunday 16 June (9.30am-12.30pm) with Castlemaine Clay Workshops

3 hours @ A$120.00

It’s the final step in finishing your work and you need to be part artist, part physicist and part chemist! Even then results aren’t guaranteed!In this class you’ll learn about the changes that happen in the kiln, the difference between clay, glaze, underglaze and oxides, and how to plan & test your glaze outcomes.

You’ll need to bring some bisque pieces to practice with, or you can purchase some from the studio. Our studio glazes will be available for use. (N.B. firing costs are additional)

Sunday 16 June, 9:30am

Book Now: www.castlemaineclay.com/clay-workshops

Wordspoken: Eliza Hull + Sam Thomas (Spoken Word)
2024-06-15 19:30 - 21:30
WORDSPOKEN: Spoken Word in the W-Class Tram

WORDSPOKEN is an event you won’t want to miss! Join us at lot19 for an evening filled with the magic of live performance. Eliza Hull and Sam Thomas will share their creativity and passion with you for the inaugural event.

This is a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in the love of language and a celebration of the human voice. Come and be inspired by the magic of WORDSPOKEN!

An entirely unique theatrical experience where storytelling, acapella singing, pensive dub poetry and slow circus sketches mingle into an old Melbourne tram. A live music and live Art Performance. Warm words on a cold night. This lo-fi, lo-lit event is an offline activity – a non digital space, where we remind ourselves of the present moment. An invitation to spend time without our devices. Honing our listening skills and nourishing our imagination.

Snacks & drinks available for purchase.

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Mount Alexander Greens: Fundraising Exhibition
2024-06-08 11:00 - 2024-06-16 17:00
MOUNT ALEXANDER GREENS

FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION AND AUCTION

Exhibition open Sat+Sun 11-5pm.

Live Art Auction Event – 16 June 2-5pm.

Online auction open JUNE 8 – 16. Please RSVP for the online auction link. REGISTER FOR ONLINE ART AUCTION

Supporting artists are invited to donate. Please use this form to register your interest: https://forms.gle/g6o9MHXdHqEN4sBMA

50% of the sale price goes to the artists. All artists and artforms welcome. Proceeds will support Mount Alexander Greens local government election campaign for a greener more sustainable mount alexander. Contact: lucas.maddock@vic.greens.org.au with any questions.

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That's Just Rubbish: Candy Stevens / Haptic Biographies: Catherine Shields
2024-05-11 11:00 - 2024-05-25 16:00
That’s Just Rubbish: Candy Stevens / Haptic Biographies: Catherine Shields

This combined exhibition explores feminist ideas surrounding women and notions of domesticity and nurturing, reflecting on how we shop, consume, dress and dispose in a society that ‘packages’ women’s bodies and their roles in society.

As a medium, soft food packaging in particular is drawn upon to explore feminist ideas surrounding domesticity, the impact of womens’ return to work as well as the commodification or ‘packaging’ of women’s bodies.

Multidisciplinary artist Catherine Shields uses a variety of mediums and techniques to re-purpose found materials such as soft single use plastic, tin, fabric, hair and grasses to twist, sew and enmesh into new forms. Titles such as Entanglement, Enmeshed, Mother Lode, and Empty Nester suggest relations with others, including objects, the Earth, our bodies. Catherine continues to be passionate about the role of re-purposing and ‘making-do’ to speak about the complexity of of personal responsibility to the earth and to ourselves.

Sculptor, painter and installation artist Candy Stevens is also bent on recycling materials in her practice. Candy thinks that there is enough ‘stuff’ on the planet and so reinvigorates new from old. This at times extends to recycling her sculptures into new works. In the tradition of Arte Povera, creating works from everyday and discarded objects, her practice disregards power constructs and financial norms and becomes a meditation on the temporal and ephemeral nature of existence

That’s Just Rubbish will be open 11am-4pm from Saturday 11 – Sunday 25 May.

Castlemaine Clay: Intermediate Decorating Workshops
2024-05-11 01:30 - 2024-06-01 16:00
Intermediate decorating four week workshop

Saturday afternoons with Chandra, 11 May – 1 June (1.30-4pm) with Castlemaine Clay Workshops.

4 total appointments — 10 hours @ A$380.00

Learn all about decorative techniques using slips, underglazes, and ceramic oxides applied in multiple ways. You will explore sgraffito, mark making, water etching, tissue transfers, and more. Use these new skills on their own or in combination to create complex and layered surfaces. Extend your skills and make better pots!

May 11th, 2024 at 1:30 PM

May 18th, 2024 at 1:30 PM

May 25th, 2024 at 1:30 PM

June 1st, 2024 at 1:30 PM

Book Now: www.castlemaineclay.com/clay-workshops

Home: Paul Dunn
2024-04-13 11:00 - 2024-04-27 16:00
HOME by Photographer Paul Dunn was created as part of the Opening Doors project. It is a bold exhibition of large scale photographs of people living with a disability shot in their home environment, centering on the idea of ‘home’ – a universal concern for everyone.

The aim of the Opening Doors project (consisting of a website, films, booklet and photographs) was to assist people living with a disability in terms of information for renting, but also to break down barriers for those not living with a disability.

The project was managed by and features film from Melbourne Filmmaker Lawrence Johnson, best known for his films ETERNITY, about Sydney’s infamous ‘Mr Eternity’ for ABC, and FALLOUT, which explored the work of British Novelist Nevil Shute and his novel ‘On the Beach’ for SBS.

This suite of photographs have been acquired by The State Library of Victoria Photographic Collection and the gallery show was recently revisioned and commissioned by the Melbourne Metrotunnel Creative Program and exhibited at their Swanston Street site.

Home runs opens Saturday 13 April and is open Saturdays & Sundays 11:00am-4pm until Sunday 28 April.

Castlemaine Idyll 2024
2024-03-23 00:00 - 23:59
Castlemaine Idyll has been Central Victoria’s ultimate talent contest, a ridiculously fun event and fundraiser for lot19 for more than 12 years. And we’re back again in 2024! SATURDAY 23 MARCH. Idyll features hot local voices, a hugely talented professional band, celebrity judges and a community uniting joyously in support. Tickets for Castlemaine Idyll 2024 are SOLD OUT. There will be no tickets available on the door.

Click here for Event Info: IDYLL 2024 EVENT INFO

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Images: Diana Domonkos

Pretty/Ugly: Mixed Media Exhibition
2024-03-09 11:00 - 2024-03-24 16:00
Pretty/Ugly is a mixed media group show exploring the age old question- what is beauty?

Curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe and featuring works by Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Jackie Goring, Andy Jackson, Bill Sampson, Les Thornton and Rachael Wenona Guy, Pretty | Ugly will contemplate contemporary aesthetics and our complex relationship to beauty.

Pretty/Ugly will be open 11am-4pm weekends: 9-11 March, 16-17 March and 23-24 March *, with an opening party on Saturday 9 March, 2024 at 11am.

There will also be a panel discussion on Sunday 17 March at 2pm.

This exhibition is taking part during Arts Open 2024. We encourage our art-loving community to explore all that is on offer over that time!

* please note, the gallery will be accessible to Castlemaine Idyll ticket-holders only on Saturday 23 March.

Pretty/Ugly: Opening Party
2024-03-09 11:00 - 13:00
lot19 invite you to attend the Opening Party for Pretty/Ugly on Saturday 9 March, 2024 at 11am.

Pretty/Ugly is a mixed media group show exploring the age old question- what is beauty?

Curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe and featuring works by Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Jackie Gorring, Andy Jackson, Bill Sampson, Les Thornton and Rachael Wenona Guy, Pretty | Ugly will contemplate contemporary aesthetics and our complex relationship to beauty.

After the opening celebration, Pretty/Ugly will be open 11am-4pm weekends: 9-11 March, 16-17 March and 23-24 March *, with a panel discussion 2pm on Sunday 17th March.

This exhibition is taking part during Arts Open 2024. We encourage our art-loving community to explore all that is on offer over that time!

* please note, the gallery will only be accessible to Castlemaine Idyll ticket-holders on Saturday 23 March.

Arts Open 2024
2024-03-09 10:00 - 2024-03-24 16:00
Arts Open – Meet The Makers is an artist run event designed to celebrate and promote regional visual arts on Jaara Country in historic Castlemaine, Newstead, Maldon, Taradale and district. Offering a rare opportunity to visit studios and galleries and experience a behind the scenes, personal look at artists in their natural habitat, discuss their artwork and techniques, and purchase directly from the artist.

A selection of lot19 artists will be throwing open their studios during Arts Open 2024, alongside a mixed media group show in the lot19 gallery.

lot19 artists participating in Arts Open 2024 include Castlemaine Press, Ella Hughes, Jakob Schmidt, Karin Mainwaring, Liz Telford, Simon Dubbeld and Indija Mahjoeddin.

In the gallery – curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe, Pretty/Ugly will explore the age old question- what is beauty?, with works by Eliza Jane Gilchrist, Jackie Gorring, Andy Jackson, Les Thornton, Rachel Wenona Guy and Bill Sampson.

Arts Open Studios runs March 9/10/11 and 16/17, 10am-4pm.

Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu
2024-02-23 11:00 - 2024-02-25 16:00
Delighted to introduce Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu. This is the Anmatyerr people of Yuelamu’s new art centre and gallery. We are situated three hours northwest of Alice Springs at Yuelamu in the Tanami desert, Northern Territory, Australia.

We only just formed in October 2023 from a desire to assert Anmatyerre identity through art and this is our very first exhibition. We are presenting paintings from almost all of our artists and four of our most prolific painters including: Alison Ngal Daniels, Shonelle Pwerrerl Stafford, Lisa Mpetyan Cooke and Juliette Napaljarri Morris.

In Anmatyerr Inkwareny means ‘honey ant’ and is from the inkwareny altyerr (songline).This exhibition will express altyerr (songlines) of: inkwareny (honey ant); Irrkwely (women); mwelyar (stone curlew); arnperrk (centipede); ankara (emu); yerrakwerr (bush onion); anek (bush potato); anakety (bush tomato) and kwaty (water).

Inkwareny Artists of Yuelamu is self-funded and governed by the Anmatyerre people and artists of Yuelamu.

You are invited to join us for the opening Friday 9th February at 5-7pm. Where Kathryn Coff from Nalderun will open the exhibition. Three of the artists will be attending the opening and gallery sessions over the first two weekends.

The gallery will be open from 11am-4pm, Friday-Sunday from Friday 9 February until Sunday 25 February.
