Third Exhibition In Short History
The Town and Country Art Group’s display in Rangiora during Festivity Week will be only the third in its brief history.
The group was formed about a year ago by Mr Frank Gross to help foster exhibitions of group members and inter-district painting. It has 150 members between Ashburton and Cheviot. This is the membership limit decided upon when the group was formed and it now has an increasing waiting list.
To offset expenses the group takes 15 per cent from all sales at its exhibitions.
Its first exhibition was held in the Durham Street
Art Gallery early in the year and subsequently another was held in Ashburton. At both these shows the total sales were more than £2OO.
It is hoped to make the show at the Durham street Gallery an annual event. The pictures, which will be shown in Rangiora, were chosen last Saturday
from more than 400. At least one by each member of the group will be exhibited but some members will have more.
The pictures will be hung at Herons garage, The Farmers’ Co-op, and Wood and Cathcart, with a token display at the Drill hall. In addition,
several paintings will be hung in other shops.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 25
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