Event details
Join us for the official opening of two new community exhibitions at Town Hall Gallery: ‘Celebrating our Parks and Gardens' by U3A Hawthorn Art Groups and ‘Thresholds' by Amy Dwight.
Free, bookings encouraged.
Refreshments will be available for purchase.
About the exhibitions
Celebrating our Parks and Gardens by U3A Hawthorn Art Groups
‘Celebrating our Parks and Gardens’ by U3A Hawthorn Art Groups brings together a series of works inspired by the natural spaces enriching our community.
Outdoor spaces provide places to connect, have fun, exercise, relax or seek a quiet moment year-round. Whether sitting in a local park or private garden, appreciating a heritage tree, the details of a flower, or observing the colour changes of a season. U3A Hawthorn Art Groups meet regularly to exchange ideas, learn, nurture artistic growth and improve personal wellbeing.
Working across painting, drawing, printmaking and textiles, this exhibition highlights individual creativity and shared inspiration. ‘Celebrating our Parks and Gardens’ conveys the value of shared spaces and experiences, observing the way nature brings joy to community life.
Thresholds by Amy Dwight
‘Thresholds’ by Amy Dwight is a community exhibition that examines the artist’s personal experience of the sacred mystery: the ways in which beauty is born through moments of grief and loss.
Dwight’s exhibition reflects on personal loss and resilience, shaped by the passing of her father and brother and her own journey with illness. Through distorted photographs of nature, Dwight draws on metaphors of seasonal transformation through cycles of life, death and renewal. Combining images, poetry, and storytelling, Dwight shows how experiences of grief can connect and unite us.
Vibrant and abstracted, ‘Thresholds’ reflects on the memories and moments where pain blends with love, grief with remembrance and fear with hope.
Accessibility of this space
- Accessible car parking
- Accessible drop-off area
- Automatic doors
- Accessible toilets
- Ramps
- Clear signage
- Lifts
- Quiet areas
- Wide passageways.
Image credit: Visitors at the official opening of ‘Vivid Reverie, a Symphony in Still Life’ by Penelope Lau, Town Hall Gallery, 2024. Photography by ImagePlay.
