A brew-tea-ful exhibition

By Lachlan Ellis

A new exhibition will be held at Lerderderg Library throughout September, and if you’re a local artist, it might just be your cup of tea.

The ‘Not Just a Teapot’ exhibition, held by the Bacchus Marsh Arts Community (BMAC) Gallery, will feature teapots and tea cosies made and decorated by local artists, with the artist entry fee just $5 for one item, and $2 for any extras after that.

BMAC Gallery President Alison Durham said teapots were chosen for the upcoming exhibition’s theme as they provide “a wide scope” for artists to work with.

“It gives you scope to make a teapot, decorate a teapot, or make a tea cosy. Originally it was just going to be tea cosies, but because a lot of our artists are mosaic artists, I had to think about something that was a bit different,” Ms Durham told the Moorabool News.

“It lets the artists decide what medium they work in – if you’re a painter you can paint a teapot, if you’re a ceramicist you can make a teapot, if you’re a silly person like me you decorate it with teabags and so forth.”

The exhibition will open on Friday 2 September with a High Afternoon Tea at the Library from 3 to 5pm, and conclude on Friday 30 September.

Prizes will be presented to the most creative designs across the three categories of teapots made by artists, teapots decorated by artists, and tea cosies made by artists.

Entrants are asked to fill out an entry form available on the ‘B-MAC Gallery’ Facebook page, send it via email to – [email protected], and deliver their teapot or tea cosy to Lerderderg Library on Wednesday 31 August, between 10 am and 1 pm.

Teapots should be labelled with a name, and also the artist’s name and a price if you’d like to sell it. Any teapots sold at the exhibition will have a 15 per cent commission.

For any further enquiries, email Bev Baker at [email protected]