Ararat gallery opens doors

Ararat Gallery Textile Art Museum Australia, TAMA, has reopened to the public with coronavirus guidelines in place to ensure everyone’s health and safety.

The gallery is opening with one new exhibition, Inga Hunter: Works from the TAMA Collection.

Also showing are two returning exhibitions – a series of Lionel Lindsay’s sketches, and Collected, Saved and Combined, a range of textile pieces from the TAMA collection.

Ararat Rural City Council chief executive Tim Harrison said gallery staff had worked hard behind the scenes to ensure the facility was a safe place for everyone to visit.

He said this included installing hand-sanitising stations and signs with social distancing and other rules clearly explained.

There are also floor stickers to ensure people keep 1.5 metres away from each other.

Dr Harrison said the names and contact details of all visitors would be taken to help with contact tracing should an outbreak occur.

Groups of eight or more people must book before they arrive – and visitors can call the gallery on 5355 0220.

“We want to reassure the community that staff are following all the rules to ensure the gallery is a safe place to visit,” Dr Harrison said.

“Ararat Gallery TAMA and the council would like to invite the community back to the gallery – we would love to see you some time soon.”

For more information about Ararat Gallery TAMA and the exhibitions now showing, people can visit website www.araratgallerytama.com.au.