October at YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub will see a new exhibition, to be shown online, from artist member Christine Cafarella-Pearce.
Our restricted movements throughout 2020 have meant we are bound to stay local. While the first lockdown was taking place, Christine Cafarella-Pearce found herself noticing beautiful details around Healesville town and feeling compelled to paint them. She began to wonder about her town’s history, its buildings, its First Nations people. She has since produced a series of 73 paintings (oil paint, pen and wash) as a kind of ode to Healesville.
Christine painted local landmarks, buildings, back streets and alleys, gardenscapes and letter boxes. In wanting to give back to the people that make this town so great, she has priced her paintings affordably, intent that each painting will find its home.
Included in the exhibition is Christine’s visual diary, which shines a light on how dear she holds the town and, as she says, ‘the importance of finding joy and purpose in every day’.
Christine has also published a book of this series, with a limited run of 50 copies that will be available for sale via the YAVA website, alongside her works. Healesville Snapshot will be exhibited online throughout October, and is an impassioned reminder of how place builds character, and characters build place.
MAP QUEST
Join the YAVA x CCP Quest!
In celebration of Spring and the extra hour we have to get out of the house as COVID restrictions ease, YAVA together with Christine Cafarella-Pearce have developed the YAVA x CCP Quest for your enjoyment!
Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday we will post one of CCP’s artworks on Instagram and Facebook @yavaarts. Find and photograph of the Healesville location Christine has painted (following COVID-safe protocols, of course) and post your photo on either Facebook or Instagram. Make sure you tag us with both @yavaarts and #healesvillesnapshot. The first five posts of each day will be entered into the draw to win one of Christine's signed and limited edition books, Healesville Snapshot.
You can enter as many times as you like, but each of your entries must be of a different location.
So watch out for our posts each day and get questing!
Entries close October 31
1-31 october 2020
Gallery Hours:
By appointment only
03 5906 1149
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