Colours of the Country Travelling Exhibition

Colours of the Country- celebrating ten years of the Alice Springs Beanie Festival
The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is pleased to announce that a travelling exhibition, 'Colours of the Country' has been developed in partnership with Artback. The exhibition is currently on tour in Australia and will also be heading to New Zealand. The beanies- largely comprising our collection- have been selected to show the development of the beanie within our festival from the practical and fun through to the works of artistic merit. Many techniques have been used to make these pieces including crochet, knitting, felting, sewing and beading. Look out for the beanies from the Pitjantjatjara/ Anangu lands around Alice Springs. Many thanks to Artback for their assistance in touring this collection. Please support our show and get along to any venues near you and take your friends, your Nana and any one else you can find.
Itinerary
Ararat Art Gallery March 29 - May 4 2008 Town Hall, Vincent Street Ararat VIC 3377 T el: (03) 5352 2836 www.arts.vic.gov.au/arts/general/archive/postcards/AAG.htm Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 27 June – 3 August 2008 First St Booragul NSW 2284 Box 1906 Hunter Region MC NSW 2310 tel +61 2 4965 8260 fax +61 2 4965 8733 email: artgallery@lakemac.nsw.gov.au www.lakemac.com.au Texas Art Gallery, Queensland 16 Sept - 25 October 2008 email:Retreat8@bigpond.net.au Hawkesbury Art Gallery 12 December 2008 - 6 February 2009 Floor 1 Deerubbin Centre, 300 George Street, Windsor NSW 2756 T el: (02) 4560 4441 To be confirmed: La Trobe University 13 Feb 2009- 1 May 2009 La Trobe University, Victoria 3086 Tel:(03) 9479 1111 http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ Bega Regional Art Gallery, NSW 5 Jun 2009- 4 July 2009 Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW 17 Jul 2009- 22 Aug 2009 Wagga Art Gallery NSW Sept 2009 Riddoch Art Gallery Mt Gambier SA 10 Oct 2009- 15 Nov 2009 Territory Craft Katherine NT 2010

The exhibition travelled to
South Australian Museum 18 May - 15 July 2007 North Terrace Adelaide SA 5000 Tel : (08) 8207 7500 www.samuseum.sa.gov.au Floriade Festival 15 Sept - 14 October 2007 Commonwealth Park Canberra, ACT www.floriadeaustralia.com` Tweed River Regional Art Gallery 13 Dec 2007 - 3 Feb 2008 2 Mistral Road (Cnr Tweed Valley Way) Murwillumbah South NSW 2484 Australia www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/ArtGallery/ArtGalleryGeneralHome.aspx Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery 5 Kinchela Street Gladstone NSW 2440 Tel: 6567 5092
Thankyou to the following for assistance with the Colours of the Country exhibition: Special thanks to Nicole Sarfati from ArtBack. Also thanks to Nicky Schonkala, Liz Scott, Merran Hughes, Heather Smith, the Nixon and Nicholson clans; Especially Nell for behaving during our meetings and the artists who created the beanies. Thankyou to the following for loaning beanies to our collection Valmai McDonald, Liz Scott, Adi Dunlop, Megan Jack, Shaz Harrison-Williams, Jude Mapleson, Nancy Hall, Debbie Swanick-Howarth, Betty Murphy, Betty Brown, Gay Epstein, Merran Hughes, Jo Nixon, Nicole Sarfati, Beverly Parkin, Margot Lee and Emma Lee. Thankyou to the following for sponsoring beanies to our collection The Alice Springs Town Council, Chief Minister, Hon. Clare Martin, MLA, Northern Territory, The Minister for Central Australia,Hon. Elliott McAdam, MLA, Northern Territory, The Minister for Central Australia, Hon. Elliott McAdam, MLA, Northern Territory, Hon. Marion Scrymjour, Minister for the Arts, Northern Territory, Judy Preston-Stanley.