| Promoting the landscape & biodiversity values of Australia's Green Cauldron Caldera Art Gallery Murwillumbah Visitors Centre Local Artists Launch Tourism Initiative Artists based in the Caldera Art Gallery , Murwillumbah Visitors Centre, are using their creative endeavours to encourage visitors and residents to explore the places that have inspired their work. Paintings and photographs depicting the caldera's magnificent landscapes and significant variety of wildlife are on show not only at the gallery itself but now also on a new website Caldera Wildscapes [...] Continue reading... TSC Scenic Landscape Strategy Tweed Shire Council is currently producing a Scenic Landscape Strategy in order to identify the landscapes' scenic values and implement measures to manage and protect them, particularly in the context of vulnerability to development pressure. Council is inviting people to share their stories and photographs about scenic locations in the Tweed that are important to them. Go to What’s My Scene – Share you scenic landscape to upload images and stories to help develop the strategy [...] Continue reading... Tyalgum Music Festival Collaboration As part of the Tyalgum Music Festival’s Sunday Closing Gala, the Lunaire Collective will perform “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Russian composer Mussorgsky, in collaboration with Caldera Art. This world-famous piece of music depicts an imaginary tour of an art collection. Mussorgsky based his music on drawings and watercolours by Viktor Hartmann, an artist friend of his, produced during the painter's travels, and the individual movements have wonderfully evocative titles [...] Continue reading... Kingscliff Osprey Nest Drama Work is now complete to repair and reinstall a nesting platform for an Osprey breeding pair at Cudgen Creek, after the artificial cradle collapsed on 4 August during strong winds. Tweed Shire Council sourced an extra high cherry picker and crane to reattach the structure to a tower at Kingscliff. Council had been notified a few months previously that the pole holding the cradle was on a noticeable lean but was unable to undertake repairs at the time because the nest already contained eggs [...] Continue reading... Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize The winners of the 2016 Waterhouse have been announced. This Natural Science Art Prize commemorates the birth of the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse. The biennial prize is an opportunity for artists to investigate the world around them, and present their perspectives on natural science. It encourages artists to make a statement about the scientific issues facing our planet, and offers a valuable platform for them to contribute to the environmental debate [...] Continue reading... Artist of the month - Jeff Gant Jeff Gant (Caldera Art Gallery resident tutor - Mondays and Tuesdays) was appointed as guest judge for the recent Murwillumbah Rotary Art Prize 2016.His own career is 'bearing fruit' with several recent sales, especially a newly completed painting of the riverboat 'Spirit of Wollumbin ' (cropped image below) being promptly purchased by the captain of the vessel. The recently launched ' Spirit ' is the first riverboat since the 1930's to ferry passengers up the Tweed River to Murwillumbah [...] Continue reading... World Heritage Rainforest Centre (WHRC) The Murwillumbah Visitors Centre and Caldera Art Gallery are housed within the building known as the World Heritage Rainforest Centre. Visitors to the centre can now appreciate the diversity of rainforest trees that were planted around the building during the 1980's and 90's with the publication of a brochure/map listing the species names and their locality . This project was an initiative of Caldera Wildscapes with voluntary input involving extensive research by Helen Manning [...] Continue reading... Card Sharks Greg Newland, an accomplished zoological illustrator specialising in marine creatures is a regular entrant in Caldera Art exhibitions. A series of Art Cards was printed depicting his highly detailed and accurate watercolours of shark and ray species found within our waters. Recently, a young lad was 'taken' by Greg Newland's shark art cards on display in the Caldera Art Gallery. His mum purchased a couple of the cards for him, and he was absolutely CHUFFED [...] Continue reading... Tweed Landcare Tweed Landcare supports people caring for our unique environment and natural resources through practical community projects. The monthly newsletter makes for interesting reading. Committed volunteers and landowners in the local Landcare network are working to protect and rehabilitate this precious landscape [...] Continue reading... Birds in Backyards In order to help increase awareness of our native birds, readers are invited to forward a photo of a bird seen in their 'backyard' (or front-yard) along with an accompanying sentence or two describing 'what, why and where' (approximate locality) the photo was taken. We will upload onto the CW website along with some interesting facts about the species [...] Continue reading... Caldera Wildscapes Quiz A fascinating part of exploring the rural roads of the Tweed region is discovering new viewing places of landforms we get used to seeing from our usual main driving routes. Within each CW e-news, a 'mystery' photo of an unusual view of a natural feature taken from the side of a public road, will be included [...] Continue reading... |
Promoting the landscape & biodiversity values of Australia's Green Cauldron
Caldera Art Gallery Murwillumbah Visitors Centre
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Local Artists Launch Tourism Initiative
Artists based in the Caldera Art Gallery, Murwillumbah Visitors Centre, are using their creative endeavours to encourage visitors and residents to explore the places that have inspired their work. Paintings and photographs depicting the caldera's magnificent landscapes and significant variety of wildlife are on show not only at the gallery itself but now also on a new website Caldera Wildscapes [...]
Continue reading...
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TSC Scenic Landscape Strategy
Tweed Shire Council is currently producing a Scenic Landscape Strategy in order to identify the landscapes' scenic values and implement measures to manage and protect them, particularly in the context of vulnerability to development pressure. Council is inviting people to share their stories and photographs about scenic locations in the Tweed that are important to them. Go to What’s My Scene – Share you scenic landscape to upload images and stories to help develop the strategy [...]
Continue reading...
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Tyalgum Music Festival Collaboration
As part of the Tyalgum Music Festival’s Sunday Closing Gala, the Lunaire Collective will perform “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Russian composer Mussorgsky, in collaboration with Caldera Art. This world-famous piece of music depicts an imaginary tour of an art collection. Mussorgsky based his music on drawings and watercolours by Viktor Hartmann, an artist friend of his, produced during the painter's travels, and the individual movements have wonderfully evocative titles [...]
Continue reading...
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Kingscliff Osprey Nest Drama
Work is now complete to repair and reinstall a nesting platform for an Osprey breeding pair at Cudgen Creek, after the artificial cradle collapsed on 4 August during strong winds. Tweed Shire Council sourced an extra high cherry picker and crane to reattach the structure to a tower at Kingscliff. Council had been notified a few months previously that the pole holding the cradle was on a noticeable lean but was unable to undertake repairs at the time because the nest already contained eggs [...]
Continue reading...
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Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
The winners of the 2016 Waterhouse have been announced. This Natural Science Art Prize commemorates the birth of the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse. The biennial prize is an opportunity for artists to investigate the world around them, and present their perspectives on natural science. It encourages artists to make a statement about the scientific issues facing our planet, and offers a valuable platform for them to contribute to the environmental debate [...]
Continue reading...
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Artist of the month - Jeff Gant
Jeff Gant (Caldera Art Gallery resident tutor - Mondays and Tuesdays) was appointed as guest judge for the recent Murwillumbah Rotary Art Prize 2016.His own career is 'bearing fruit' with several recent sales, especially a newly completed painting of the riverboat 'Spirit of Wollumbin' (cropped image below) being promptly purchased by the captain of the vessel. The recently launched 'Spirit' is the first riverboat since the 1930's to ferry passengers up the Tweed River to Murwillumbah [...]
Continue reading...
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World Heritage Rainforest Centre (WHRC)
The Murwillumbah Visitors Centre and Caldera Art Gallery are housed within the building known as the World Heritage Rainforest Centre. Visitors to the centre can now appreciate the diversity of rainforest trees that were planted around the building during the 1980's and 90's with the publication of a brochure/map listing the species names and their locality. This project was an initiative of Caldera Wildscapes with voluntary input involving extensive research by Helen Manning [...]
Continue reading...
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Card Sharks
Greg Newland, an accomplished zoological illustrator specialising in marine creatures is a regular entrant in Caldera Art exhibitions. A series of Art Cards was printed depicting his highly detailed and accurate watercolours of shark and ray species found within our waters. Recently, a young lad was 'taken' by Greg Newland's shark art cards on display in the Caldera Art Gallery. His mum purchased a couple of the cards for him, and he was absolutely CHUFFED [...]
Continue reading...
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Tweed Landcare
Tweed Landcare supports people caring for our unique environment and natural resources through practical community projects. The monthly newsletter makes for interesting reading. Committed volunteers and landowners in the local Landcare network are working to protect and rehabilitate this precious landscape [...]
Continue reading...
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Birds in Backyards
In order to help increase awareness of our native birds, readers are invited to forward a photo of a bird seen in their 'backyard' (or front-yard) along with an accompanying sentence or two describing 'what, why and where' (approximate locality) the photo was taken. We will upload onto the CW website along with some interesting facts about the species [...]
Continue reading...
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Caldera Wildscapes Quiz
A fascinating part of exploring the rural roads of the Tweed region is discovering new viewing places of landforms we get used to seeing from our usual main driving routes. Within each CW e-news, a 'mystery' photo of an unusual view of a natural feature taken from the side of a public road, will be included [...]
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