“OUR FRIENDS” Exhibiting from Saturday July 3-29th.

The Exhibition “OUR FRIENDS” at Selwyn Gallery, Darfield, is a tribute to the support base of ‘Friends’ who enable the Gallery to function.
As a Volunteer-run Gallery, we depend on support from our Friends both financially and logistically.
Most of our Friends have an interest in art, and quite a number practice various disciplines, so it was a natural step to provide a platform from which they could exhibit.

As a result, this exhibition will be an eclectic mix of painting, mosaic work and textile art. This potentially cumbersome cross-disciplinary expression of art will be refined by raw talent, ongoing personal development and a pure passion for self-expression.

Such a love for the arts will define the very nature of the works, and a strong theme of landscape emerges. “As a usual Canterbury perspective, landscape and nature dominate our consciousness, and this pervades the works in this exhibition”, notes Arts
Co-ordinator, Anna Norris.

“As a Gallery, we need to acknowledge the value of our Friends’ contribution to our success, and this is a wonderful way to express our thanks”, says Malvern Community Arts Council Chairperson, Ruth Warren. “We hope the community joins us in supporting the people who support us”, she concludes.
The strength in any voluntary organization is the community it serves, and the Selwyn Gallery is an impressive example of what comes from passionate locals.

For any queries or comments, please contact the Arts Co-ordinator, Anna Norris using the information above.