Cooktown Recycled Art Exhibition 26th March 2011

As time allows I will upload artists names, details of art works - materials used and how made, as well as prize winners list.  In the meantime you can enjoy seeing the art works entered in theooktown Recycled Art Exhibition that opened on Saturday.

Cooktown Recycled Art Exhibition organised by Diana Burns and workers of Cooktown School of Art Society opened 26th March 2011 with an afternoon tea at 2:30pm at the Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery in Charlotte Street. Entries  were of a high standard and showed a lot og imagination in turning waste and old throw aways into useful and or beautiful art!  The four categories of  - Functional - furniture, craftwork, wearable objects; Garden Art -  3D free standing; Artistic with imagination being the key; and Environmental from materials and waste going to landfill, being functional and energy efficient and illustrating the pertinence of environmental issues.  The competition was pen to all Cook Shire community members, groups and organisations and had adult and junior sections in each category.  Well done Cooktown!