The Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival has been recognised as the ‘The Australia Day 2022 Community Event of the Year’ by the Cessnock City Council at an Australia Day Awards Ceremony. Festival Director Susan Leith-Miller, Festival President Graham Skeates and Festival Founding Members Phillipa Heslop and Jane Hamshere attended the Australia Day Ceremony and were delighted to accept the award on behalf of the Committee and …
The 2021 Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival is adapting to current circumstances and will become an online event this for year. Finalists had already been selected for exhibition at this year’s festival when NSW was plunged progressively into lockdown from late June. Rather than deprive the community of the fantastic collection of works that had come together, the organisers decided to run an online version. According …
Steve Abrahams Kylie Adele aletosept Helen Alajajian Karen Alexandra Catherine Anderson Pat Anderson Joseph Apollonio Mauro Badii David Ball Robert Barnstone Anthony Battaglia Kylie Beynon Wendy Black Gwenda Blackwell Oscar Browning Elly Buckley Amanda Charge Chidzey Stephen Paul Coburn Carol Lehrer Crawford Adam Crewes Aaron Crowe Nicole de Mestre Guy Dickerson Ross Farrelly Harrie Fasher Isidoro Felman John Fitzmaurice Christina Frank Kate Gorman Catherine Gorrie …
Sculptors keen to enter the 2021 Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival can start preparing their works! Entries for one of NSW’s most scenic arts events will open on Saturday 1 May and close on Wednesday 19 June. The festival is going from strength to strength, becoming one of the prominent dates in the arts calendar of the State. 2021 is shaping up to be the biggest …
The Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival was honoured by a visit from the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, on Thursday 29th October. Governor Beazley, accompanied by her husband Mr Dennis Wilson, was greeted by Cessnock City Mayor Bob Pynsent, Festival Director Susan Leith-Miller and Curator Wendy Black. Also attending the lunch that followed were restaurateur and sculpture devotee …
