Forbes Shire Council and the Platypus Gallery have paired up to offer one or two young locals with an opportunity to expand their artistic horizons.
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This year, as part of Forbes Heritage 2019, there will be a youth scholarship valued at $1000 for the first time.
Applications are open now and young people aged 15 to 21, living in the Forbes shire and involved in any form of the arts, are urged to apply.
The scholarship is open to all art forms including visual arts, curatorial arts, dance, design, digital arts, Aboriginal arts, history, writing, music, theatre and screen.
"We need people in our community who think with the creative side of their brains for new innovative ideas," Mayor Phyllis Miller said.
"The future needs young people with education and the imagination to create. We are very proud to support the inaugural Forbes Heritage Young Artist Scholarship."
The scholarship committee has the option to award one $1000 scholarship or two $500 scholarships.
Application forms are available through Forbes Shire Council, you can email forbesarts@gmail.com or deliver to the Platypus Gallery 111 Lachlan Street Forbes before 5pm Monday April 29.
Recipients will be announced at the Heritage Award night on Tuesday May 7 at the Platypus Gallery.
Activities may include: courses, workshops or other training; internship or work experience; creation of new work; exhibition of a body of work; marketing, publishing or performances.
Heritage art awards
The Platypus Gallery also hosts the Forbes Heritage 2019 presentation on May 7.
The heritage art competitions are open, and this year's theme is public buildings in the Forbes Shire.
Works should be representative of a public building in the shire such as the Town Hall or other council buildings, railway offices, any building owned or operated by or for any level of government.
Artists are asked to submit a small statement with their artwork as to why it represents a public building in the shire, and how it relates to the theme "connecting people, places and the past".
Entry forms are available at the Platypus Gallery and entries must be in by Friday April 26.
Driven by Colour
There's a new exhibition at the Platypus Gallery and it's popping with colour.
Works by local artists Wendy Hawthorn and Elsie Mahon include a whole range of mediums from painting to pottery and iron sculpture.
Wendy, a Forbes local, says she loves to explore colours and how they interact to affect our moods and emotions.
"I aim to express the excitement and joy I feel when surrounded by nature and hopefully share that with the viewer," she wrote.
Elsie's work is also very much inspired by nature: she is a keen observer of people and the environment around her.
She tries to combine colours, textures and found objects in her work, using recycled metals, wire with pottery pieces for sculpture and wall collage.
Driven By Colour is on exhibition until 14 April.
The Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm
