Mar
12
2009
Welcome to YASSarts.
The Yass Valley Shire, just north of the Australian National Capital, Canberra, boasts a remarkable variety of talent in the field of arts, either in people who choose to live here or who have been raised in this region
The purpose of YASSarts is to draw attention to arts & culture in our region. This website’s broader purpose is to be that of an inventory – a kind of listing of all individuals or groups working within the arts, whether professional or amateur, within the Yass Valley Shire.
The amount of professional practitioners in the region is quite astounding – people with national and international standing – but the idea of the YASSarts website is to also provide a platform and profile for those who do not make a living from their art but whose work is no less noteworthy.
Homepage banner: Kim Nelson (concept and design) Anne Hind (artwork) Michelle Bond (photography) – ‘Bare Facts’ calendar project 2007
The artistic community of the Yass Valley are up to things again. Hot on the heels of last November’s highly successful Art Trail, a number of venues have organised another weekend treat.
Historic ‘Weetalabah’ a private home in Yass is hosting ‘Arts in the Garden’ featuring sculpture by Al Phemister and Steven Deronne, jewellery by Helen Thomas, photography by Elena Thomas, montage art by Lisa Fuller & paintings by James Shannon.
It is also a fundraiser for the Yass District Red Cross who are catering morning and afternoon teas, so your patronage will go to assisting a worthy cause.
Painter Jan Matson will be having an ‘Open Studio’. Artist in oils, Jan presents beautiful landscapes, country cottages and beach scenes. Her studio just happens to be located in the fantastic ‘Old Stationmaster’s’ house, another one of Yass’s classic buildings just behind the Catholic Church.
Finally, there is an exhibition by Adam Humphreys at the Crisp Galleries near Bowning just 15 minutes down the Hume Highway from Yass.
Chainsaw artist Adam Humphreys is artist in residence at Crisp Galleries this year and this exhibition runs from 7th March – 19th April 2010.
See the Calendar section for times and locations.
Location map can be viewed here (or downloaded as PDF).
A4 Poster can be viewed here (or downloaded as PDF)
Chainsaw artist Adam Humphreys is artist in residence at Crisp Galleries and hails from Wales in the UK. Adam also has a degree in outdoor and recreational management.
Crisp Galleries will stage an exhibition of his work from 7th March – 19th April 2010 to be opened by Mr David MacLaren director of the Bungendore Woodworks Gallery (thumb & expanded image)
It is with a heavy heart that we must report the passing of one of the Yass Valley’s great artists. Roger Moore died at Yass hospital on Monday morning 15th February 2010.
Roger was a ‘Renaissance man’ in the truest sense of the word. He had a thirst for knowledge and his interests were as diverse as the objects that filled his remarkable home. To be invited there was to walk into an artwork in progress with testaments to his life’s journey everywhere. He had a refined eye for design and things of beauty and this permeated his art.
Farewell Roger. You will be sadly missed.
