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Situated in Foster amid the rolling hills of South Gippsland and only 45 minutes from Wilsons Promontory National Park, Stockyard Gallery is a community not-for-profit art gallery run entirely by volunteers. In our well-lit exhibition space, we mount a new show every 2 - 4 weeks and with our small but dynamic gift shop and involvement in community events throughout the year, we provide opportunity for Gippsland artists to expose their work to both the local community and to the many visitors to this region, especially in the summer season. Under the auspices of the South Gippsland Shire Council, the gallery opened in May 1991 and with the wonderful work of successive teams of volunteers the gallery and its activities have steadily developed. We are open from 10am to 4 pm every day except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Good Friday. Where to find usLook for the Tourist Information Centre next to the roundabout. Cnr Main & McDonald Streets
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Sculpture in the Gallery Garden - Collaborating with ChaosThe "Collaboration with Chaos" project began with a public forum held in April 2008 as a way to help make the gallery, the library and the tourist information office more visible and more readily identifiable as a cultural precinct. The "Collaboration" forum was held by Professor Michael Barnsley, world-renowned leader in the field of "chaos mathematics" and part-time resident of South Gippsland.
At the April forum Professor Barnsley explained how mathematics, particularly "the geometry of nature", can provide insight into the development of natural structures, for example the way a sea shell repeats and rescales a pattern as it grows, or the way the smallest visible component of a fern frond resembles the whole leaf. After the forum, a series of volunteer workshops were held to give interested people further opportunity to help create the sculptures. Foster/North Waratah sculptor Trevor Wheeler, using these theories, designed, co-ordinated and constructed the sculptures (both titled "Foliage") from steel, recycled aluminium and cement tiles. He has used repeated themes of waves, shells, fish and the long curve of gum leaves to reflect our South Gippsland environment situated as we are between the hills and the sea. Local artists Grant Flather, Jane Power, Kim McDonald, Andrew Stacey, Catherine Blamey and Kerry Spokes also assisted with the art installation project. 'The whole project has been one of collaboration in one form or another,' Trevor said. 'Aside from regional arts funding and great assistance from South Gippsland Council and Parks Victoria, support has come from many businesses and groups with the community.' These groups include Bendigo Bank, Aherns Fruit Market, Landmark, Paragreen Real Estate, Foster Foodworks, Smith's Steel, Prom Coast Arts, Prom Coast Tourism, Stockyard Gallery and Foster Community Association. It is hoped that Trevor's works are the first of several sculptures to eventually form a sculpture park outside our gallery. Many thanks to The Mirror, whose March 2009 article was the source of this information.
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