Hidden Away – celebrating art & community

After a fabulous evening auctioning art generously donated by artists and collectors, we still have some great works available plus new artworks and a stunning collectible!

Our silent auction process will conclude on Sunday 19 December. Drop into the Hub and put in your silent (and secret) bid. All art works have a reserve price.

This is an important fund raiser for the Arts Hub.

Details of what’s on offer below – please have a look!

Newstead!

Newstead railway sign

No it’s not the original railway station sign. It’s bigger and bolder and just so perfect for your garage or shed. Display your love for Newstead proudly, without having to steal any of our current town signs. And be a railway buff to boot.

We have two of these large enameled signs for you to bid on. Don’t delay – best bid wins.

Size 140W x 80H

Jennifer Barnett – Sunday visit at Uncle Jim’s

Oil on Linen
Size: 60cm x 50cm (HxW) 
Stretched canvas
Date: 2021

Jennifer Barnett initially trained as a draftsperson. Former courtroom artist for Channel 9 (Adelaide). Jennifer has won numerous art prizes for drawing, painting and portrait. Teaches art.
Instagram: jenniferbarnett222

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Milton Moss – Asian Delight

Acrylic on canvas
Size:  90cm x 60cm (HxW)
Date: 2018
Stretched canvas, wired

Milton Moss loves colour. He paints in oils and acrylics, often using a photograph of nature or landscapes. He says he always has a canvas on the go.

Provenance: Donated by the artist

John Perry – from his collection

Steel engraving (copy): Scene in Versailles  (c1678  or later)
Size: 56 cm x65 cm
Framed: Framed in maple veneer frame

John worked as a private art conservator for over 30 years, has been dealing in art all his adult life and also curated hundreds exhibitions for his brother Peter, who was director of The Castlemaine Art Gallery for 38 years.

Provenance: John’s wife Pamela purchased this work when visiting The Louvre some years ago.

Provenance: Donated by John Perry

Catherine Pilgrim – Pleasure Garden (Buda series)

Lithograph layered with reproduction historic photo (Buda Collection)
Size: 35cm x 40cm (HxW)
Date: 2014
Unframed, on archival mount

Catherine Pilgrim is based in Castlemaine. She has exhibited widely and her work is included in public, corporate and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Geelong Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery.

Meticulous, considered drawing is the basis for Catherine Pilgrim’s practice including lithographs, drawings and textiles – with absence, contemporary still life and historical narratives influencing much of the subject matter. Website

Provenance: Donated by the artist.

Vivienne Sterndale – Hurstbridge

Pastel on paper
Size:  25cm x 30cm (HxW)
Date: 1993
Framing: framed; new mount needed.

Vivienne Sterndale belongs to the Doncaster Artist Group. She exhibits at Doncaster Gallery.

Provenance: In 1994 Lynne Grocke’s mother gave this beautiful artwork to Lynne as a present in appreciation and thanks for looking after her father in 1993.

Trevor Streader – from The Tool Shed of Pietro Venosta series

Photograph (digital print) – from The Tool Shed of Pietro Venosta (Counihan Gallery, 2001)
Size:  45cm x 45cm – framed size 66cm x 66cm (HxW)
Date: 2001
Framing: archival framing

Trevor Streader’s photographic practice searches for beauty in the ordinary. He is motivated by a need to capture aspects of the everyday we often take for granted.

His series The Tool Shed of Pietro Venosta (Counihan Gallery, 2001) preserved a small piece of Brunswick history through a photographic view of the inside of a domestic tool shed that had been lovingly occupied and maintained by a Brunswick man across fifty years. Linked In

Provenance: Purchased from the exhibition by the donor. Framed professionally.

Ungakini Tjangala – Minyma Kutjara

Acrylic
Size:  63cm x 50cm (HxW)
Date: May 2007
Stretched canvas

Ungakini Tjangala was born in 1934 at Blackstone, Western Australia, and lives and works at Ernabella. ‘I came to Ernabella mission as a young woman with my mother, father and two younger brothers. I began working in the craft room and I made floor rugs from the wool the older women were spinning and I helped rolling them into bales. I first started to make art in 2002. First, mukata (beanies) from emu feathers, then I made figures from tjanpi (Spinifex grass) and now I am painting on canvas – for the first time’. For more see Ernabella Arts

Provenance: Purchased by donor from Ernabella Arts Centre at Art Mob in Alice Springs. Certificate of authenticity available. Includes story.

Ungakini Tjangala – Wati Kutju – Minyma Kutju

Acrylic
26 H x 75 W
Stretched canvas

This painting is about a husband and wife travelling through country. Certificate of Authenticity included.

Ungakini Tjangala was born in 1934 at Blackstone, Western Australia, and lives and works at Ernabella. ‘I came to Ernabella mission as a young woman with my mother, father and two younger brothers. I began working in the craft room and I made floor rugs from the wool the older women were spinning and I helped rolling them into bales. I first started to make art in 2002. First, mukata (beanies) from emu feathers, then I made figures from tjanpi (Spinifex grass) and now I am painting on canvas – for the first time’. For more see Ernabella Arts

Provenance: Purchased by donor from Ernabella Arts Centre at Art Mob in Alice Springs. Certificate of authenticity available. Includes story.

Flora Holt – Bush Foods

Acrylic
62 H x 80 W
Stretched canvas

See more about Flora Holt at: Nyinkka Nyunyu – her home art centre (https://www.nyinkkanyunyu.org.au/featured-artists) and at Merenda Gallery https://merendagallery.com.au/artist/flora-holt/

Flora is a popular artist for Julalikari Arts and Crafts (Nyinkka Nyunyu). We are proud to have a wonderful selection of her works still on sale. Flora’s works continue to attract attention and acclaim for their whimsical approach and extraordinary colour application. She was born at Brunette Downs Station and lived there most of her life she worked as a cook and cleaner. She was a Wambaya women who lived among the Warumungu women. She had one son and one daughter and was known for her participation in Women’s dancing (Yawulyu).

Provenance: Purchased by donor from Nyinkka Nyunyu Arts Centre.