Artistic freedom at Rotary showcase

Murtoa artist and Horsham East Rotary Art Fair exhibitor Peter Hill has lauded the creative control and community involvement the event provides a burgeoning Wimmera art community.

Hill will showcase a variety of oil-on-canvas work at Horsham Town Hall this week for the fair’s 44th edition, including several landscapes, aviation-themed paintings and still-life work.

He said artists benefited from the event committee’s inclination to allow artists to exercise creative control over individual displays.

“Many art fairs ask for an entry fee per work, however in Horsham artists can submit as many pieces as they want, depending on size, for the price of a single-entry fee. The committee also gave artists the freedom to hang all their own work in a defined space within the hall,” he said.

“This gives artists the freedom to determine how their work is presented, given there is so much more to art than simply its construction.

“And with all your work in one area, an artist can really define their own space. It provides an enhanced artist-visitor interaction experience.”

Hill said he was most excited to display several of his recent sunflower-field paintings.

“Some of my work for this year’s fair also takes cue from the Wimmera and southern Mallee landscapes,” he said.

Hill said he was ‘extremely’ happy to support the Rotary Club of Horsham East and contribute to the re-emergence of the artistic community POST-COVID-19. • For more on the art show, see pages 30 and 31.