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Entry fees to help maintain future success of renowned art gallery

The Gippsland Art Gallery•Sale, which is supported by Wellington Shire Council, is re-introducing a nominal entry fee for visitors from 1 July, to help maintain the facility’s enviable reputation as one of regional Victoria’s leading art galleries.

By Wellington Shire Council - 24th June 2003 - Back to News

The move follows 18 months of free admissions and is necessary to help offset rising costs associated with attracting and staging high quality exhibitions. It will also help support and enhance the facility’s very popular education programme, which is run in conjunction with Wellington schools and designed to promote greater awareness and understanding of the arts. In particular this aims to increase arts accessibility for those schools lying in the more remote areas of the Shire.

In the eight years since the gallery opened it has established a well-deserved reputation in the arts field, attracting more than 10,000 visitors annually to view an ever-changing schedule of leading art exhibitions - many rarely seen outside Australia’s state capitals. These have included such recent highlights as John Leslie National Art Prize winner Landscapes in Sets and Series from the National Gallery of Australia and Shearing the Rams – a picture in focus from the National Gallery of Victoria.

The re-introduction of fees will help support a number of compelling exhibitions coming to the Gippsland Art Gallery·Sale over the coming months, some of them unique to Victoria. These include:

  • Points of Entry - an exhibition of interactive electronic arts from Australia, New Zealand and Canada;
  • Native Title Business - powerful contemporary aboriginal art from the regional galleries of Queensland;
  • Stuffed and Mounted - about art and birds from the Museum of Victoria; and,
  • some ten exhibitions directly related to art and artists of this region.

Under the new pricing arrangement anyone joining the Gallery Society will continue to benefit from free admissions. For other visitors the following entry fees will apply:

  • Adult $3.00
  • Adult concession (for those on social benefit) $2.00
  • Child under 14 $1.50
  • Group concession (over 20 students) $1.00 each
  • Group concession (over 20 adults) $2.00 each

Scaled subscription fees for schools will increase by 10%, making the maximum for the next 12 months $242.00 and the minimum $60.50. These charges pay for a package of benefits that include free bus trips to the gallery for schools outside the Sale area, free entry for pupils, ‘outreach’ visits to schools by the Gallery’s Education Coordinator, teacher training and information sessions, and the provision of exhibition and associated material.

Said Wellington’s Chief Executive Officer, Lyndon Webb: "The Gippsland Art Gallery·Sale is an excellent facility, providing the Wellington community with the rare opportunity to view some fantastic exhibitions which would otherwise miss the area.

"We thought long and hard before re-introducing entry fees. However, we are confident that visitors to the gallery, and participating schools, will find the benefits more than worthwhile in terms of the high quality exhibitions that the facility attracts, and knowing that these standards are set to be maintained."

The gallery receives the majority of its funding from the Council, with assistance also coming from the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.


Source: www.gippsland.com

Published by: news@gippsland.com



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