The Craigieburn art show is exhibiting the work of a group that is connecting the community through art.
A part of the annual Craigieburn Festival, the show runs from the February 28 until March 2.
The Craigieburn Art Group, founded 35 years ago, encourages adult artists to develop their skills, create meaningful time to work on their art and builds a community of likeminded and encouraging individuals. Gursewak Singh, member of the group since 2022, has found the group to be an inspiration, pushing him to create his own exhibit which showed at the local library last year.
“It is a wonderful community of artists and I’ve made a lot of good friends and people who are really supportive of the works I’ve created. They have taught me a lot about their techniques but also the entire ecosystem,” he said.
The art show will exhibit works in a variety of mediums including paint, photography, mosaics, stone art, jewellery, woodwork, printmaking sculpture and mixed medias.
“There are extremely detailed pencil drawings of horses and mosaic works that are repurposing old material—putting a new perspective on the things that we see everyday as trash—that’s what a lot of art is about,” Singh said.
Singh’s work includes paintings inspired by the landscapes from his recent trip to Europe and others symbolic of his identity and his sense of diaspora.
The event is held at the Hume Global Learning Centre in Craigieburn and opens at 7pm on February 28 and closes at 4pm on March 2. Entry is free.
Kaija Du
