The eighth Sculptures in the Garden exhibition is a month away and is already looking like surpassing the normal number of entries, and the event will enter the third year of its partnership with Watershed Landcare’s Green Day.
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The annual two-day exhibition will again be held in the garden at Rosby vineyard in Mudgee and is expected to attract over 3,000 visitors.
“We got some wonderful sculptures from right around Australia, big ones too, more than usual,” curator Kay Norton-Knight said. “There’s a lot from Victoria, a couple of them have always come but I think they’ve been sprouting how wonderful Mudgee is and they’ve all jumped on the bandwagon.”
Next week SIG committee members will once again join the annual schools Green Day. Every 20 minutes 50 students will join in making three stick horses [see photo] as part of the art project.
From there the horses will make a publicity stop before going on sale at Sculptures, with the proceeds will go towards the restoration of the neighbouring Eurunderee Provisional School.
The site of poet Henry Lawson’s bark school is being developed as an education centre and tourist attraction. Fittingly it will be some of today’s students from across the region that will be doing their part to help out.
“So they’ll be taken to Flavours of Mudgee to promote Sculptures in the Garden and then they go onto SIG to sell,” Mrs Norton-Knight said.
“The Eurunderee School are trying to raise money to repair the toilet block, so when we sell the horses that the Year 5 and 6 students from the district make the money will go towards that refurbishment.”
This year will be Watershed Landcare's 10th annual Green Day, with 15 schools bringing a record total of 700 children to the Mudgee Showgrounds. ‘War on Waste’ is this year’s primary message and the keynote speaker will be Craig Reucassel – from the ABC’s Logie winning War on Waste program [see below].
Sculptures in the Garden (October 6-7) provides artists a unique avenue to exhibit their works and attracts local, regional, metropolitan and interstate artists and includes sculptors featured in Sydney’s ‘Sculptures by the Sea’.
