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2021 JOHN COPES PRIZE FOR WATERCOLOUR PAINTING
Sponsored by Tim & Patricia Copes

1st Prize: $3,000. 2nd Prize: $600. 3rd Prize: $400. Peoples Choice: $200

Judge: Ian Grant

Open daily from 10am till 4pm from 20 November – 5 December. Opening & Prize Presentation: Saturday 20 November at 4pm.

Works from BDAS Tuesday morning watercolour group

We are ready and raring to go … and coming out of the lockdown with more energy and enthusiasm than ever.
The Bowral Art Gallery is opening up again and it will be a celebration of colour and watercolour at its best.
Awash with Colour is an annual exhibition by the Tuesday morning Watercolour group who are just so happy to be out of lockdown and able to celebrate the beauty and magic of watercolour.
We are really more family than a group of students and are very lucky to have two fabulous tutors throughout the year in Kim Shannon and Wayne Davis. Who somehow manage to put up with us and even seem to enjoy the process of guiding us and mentoring us through the wonderful mystical world that is watercolour.
So please come and share the excitement of being back in the gallery and marvel at the mystery of watercolour and embrace the ‘happy accidents’ with us.

Sturt Gallery is delighted to present Landscape with Rock – a new exhibition of prints and drawings by renowned printmaker Tony Ameneiro inspired by Fred Williams’ visit to bush land near Mittagong during the late 1950s.

The much loved annual exhibition by the Southern Highlands Textile and Fibre Network is to be held from Friday 13 August to Monday 23 August 10-4 daily at BDAS gallery, Short St, Bowral.The title is “Treasured Fragments” and will feature interpretations of this theme in garments, wall pieces,3D items, wearables created by felt makers, machine embroiderers, stitchers, installationists, textile artists. Each fragment weaves its own tale of memories, sometimes thought provoking.Creative Textile postcards based on the COVID theme will be displayed as well as the group project on a Circle theme which aimed to keep us all inspired and united in 2020. The Fashion Parade opening at 1pm on Saturday 14 August will showcase some of the wearable art.

Gates open 5.00pm, Lights out at 7.30pm for Earthhour

Join us for our fourth annual Earth Hour event, which includes our Sculpture in the Gardens competition. Live music, entertainment, sustainability stalls, children’s workshops and a family fun Science Show. Refreshments available or bring your own picnic.