It’s on again – get ready to be part of the

Scarecrow Trail

29 February – 30 March 2012

If you missed out last time be sure to be part of EGAG’s regional Scarecrow Trail in March 2012. This time, the scarecrows will coincide with Women on Farms Gathering at Buchan, 16, 17 and 18 March.

Building a scarecrow is great fun and they can be made quickly and easily out of absolutely anything or they can become quite a work of art. Last time there were fishermen, foresters, CFA & SES scarecrows, little old ladies with baskets and bonnets, kids waiting at the bus stop and even a skeleton scarecrow! If you need inspiration there are lots of ideas to be found on the internet.

Everyone is invited to make a scarecrow. Individuals, community/service groups, schools, businesses, Red Cross, CWA, farmers, fishermen, resource centres – anyone.

Scarecrows need to be placed within participant’s boundary, but still visible from the nearest road, from Wednesday, 29 February to Friday, 30 March. A photograph of all registered scarecrows and their location will be included in a Trail guide which will be available from 14 March.

Registration is essential – register by Tuesday, 21 February >> Register

Digressions, detours and side tracks · eclectic contributions to a traveling Journal

A project initiative of Friends of East Gippsland Art Gallery

10 journals will travel around East Gippsland inviting ‘eclectic contributions’ over a two-year period.

The spirit of the travelling journals is diversity – diversity of content, art forms, styles and media. Contributions may be purely visual such as collage, paintings, pastel/charcoal, photographs or prints. They may be text as in poetry, short stories or songs or even brief descriptions of ‘place’. Textiles, embroidery or stitching is also welcome. And the works may be drawn or written directly onto the page, placed in an envelope that is glued to the page, a concertina or fold out section secured on the page or the work created on special paper and then fixed into the journal.

The journals have begun their journey. Artists in Mallacoota, Swifts Creek, Nicholson, Lakes Entrance, Orbost, Bairnsdale and Bruthen have made their contribution and passed the journal onto someone else.

Each artist has the journal for two or three weeks before passing it onto the next person. As the journal is passed on EGAG is notified and its location is logged. It’s quite exciting to track the movements of each individual journal.

Digressions, detours and side-tracks will be a wonderful collection of works from many, many people from right across East Gippsland and will represent something of the diverse range of media and art forms practiced in this region.

For East Gippsland artists who would like to be part of this very special project ask around to see if there is a journal in their area.