Whittlesea’s Harmony Art exhibition, open until October 18 in the council’s Great Hall, features works by more than 100 local artists.
On show are paintings, wood carvings, jewellery, drawings, sculpture, etchings, photographs, mosaics and textiles.
“Artists were asked to respond to this year’s theme of harmony,” mayor Rex Griffin said.
“Some have expressed life lived in harmony with family, nature, people from different cultural backgrounds or global harmony.”
Japan-born Hiroku Wyatt, a member of Plenty Valley Arts, worked as an illustrator for Time magazine when she arrived in Australia 25 years ago.
Her watercolour of two kookaburras joins works by Kinglake artist Gay Chatfield, who is rebuilding her life after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Gay has created two sculptural works titled Interwoven Nests and Natural Collections.
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