Timeline
2019
Christmas Lunch 2019
7 December 2019 | Posted by Katya Mortensen
More pics - here
Workshop: Acrylics Landscapes with Janette
McGuffog
November 2019 | Posted by Alex Mortensen
More pics - here
GWC Annual Art Prize 2019
11 October 2019 | Posted by Alex Mortensen
This is the Goulburn & District Art Society's major exhibition each and every year. This was another very successful exhibition with 74 artists submitting 275 art works. The quality of the hung works was again very high to excellent in anyone's eyes. The opening night was very well... Read more
GDAS in Lilac FestivalParade 2019
6 October 2019 | Posted by Alex Mortensen
Our art society entered a float in the Lilac Festival in October. GDAS member, Bryce Ronning kindly donated the use... Read more
Thursday Painting Days Resumed
19 September 2019 | Posted by Katya Mortensen
2019 AGM & August Meeting
17 August 2019 | Posted by Katya Mortensen
AGM 2019: 14 in attendance. (Photo by Ekaterina Mortensen)
July Meeting
29 July 2019 | Posted by Katya Mortensen
Cold day forced us to fit into the office with the heater:)
The winner of
the People's Choice Award at Taralga Show
10 June 2019 | Posted by Katya Mortensen
Another wonderful
Taralga Art Show is over and we would just like to congratulate the winner of the People's Choice Award for the second year in a
row, Michelle Peddle with Highland Dreaming. Well done Michelle!
Source: Facebook post
First Meeting at GDAS Art Studio
10 May 2019 | Posted by Katya Mortensen
Chan's Watercolour Workshop
7 April 2019 | Posted by Lesley Whitten
Artists from Camden and Canberra joined GDAS members in our new premises, The Art Studio, at the weekend for 2 days of watercolour tuition. Chan Dissananyake, master watercolourist, shared lots of tips and techniques with 14 eager students who produced 2 completed paintings each day.
Our New Home
4 April 2019 | Posted by Alex Mortensen
We are now taking
up residence in our new and permanent home - at long, long last (in the Council's Old Depot,
cnr Combermere & Bourke Sts.)
Rose Festival Exhibition 2019
10-11 March 2019 | Posted by Ekaterina Mortensen
99 paintings, 8 paintings sold! See photos here
ASOC Summer School
7-11 January 2019 | Posted by Ekaterina Mortensen
Six our members participated ASOC Summer School this year.
From the Archives
1904
First Annual Exhibition
Goulburn Evening Penny Post, Saturday 19 November 1904, page 3
"First Annual Exhibition, November 22-26, 3-5.30pm daily. Thirty pictures by Sydney artists, thirty pictures by local artists. Publicly opened by the Mayor (W. R. Costley Esq.) London Bank Chambers, Auburn St."
Source:www.trove.nla.gov.au
Image source: Ziegler, O.I. 1946. Goulburn - Queen City of South.
1904
First Meeting place of Art Society of Goulburn
Goulburn Herald Friday 3 June 1904, p2 | Photo: Pinterest by Sammy Leigh Interior Design
"A meeting of persons favourable
to the formation of an art society
in Goulburn was held at the Town
Hall yesterday afternoon. The
mayor presided and there were
present about 20 persons.
The chairman, after explaining
the objects of the meeting, called
on Archdeacon Bartlett to move
the first resolution.
Archdeacon Bartlett said he came there to see whether he could do
anything in the way of a Phillistine, and he hoped they would not
consider it cheek on his part as he could not paint a haystack to save
his life. But he could tell a good picture from a bad one, and he hoped
he would be excused for what he was going to say now regarding the
pictures he had seen in Goulburn..."
Full text at
www.trove.nla.gov.au
1897
First Art Classes in Islington House
Photo from Photograph Town and Country Journal, 1899 courtesy of Goulburn Historic
Society
"First organised art classes in Goulburn were commenced above Foxall's Music Warehouse in Auburn St, opposite Belmore Park in 1897 - the beginnings of forming our Art Society in Goulburn." Newsletter April 2019