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October 29, 2006
We are off to the Lake Breeze Winery on the banks of the Bremer River in the premium red wine district of Langhorne Creek region of the Fleurieu Peninsula for lunch. It's a picnic of wine, food and music.
From pre-European settlement to the present day art has played a distinctive role in defining a sense of relationship with this geographical region. This relationship continues today. The Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize is the nation's richest landscape art prize. It is the flagship of a number of art prizes, that form the Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale. What attracts me is The Fleurieu Peninsula Water Prize and this is one of the entrants:
Ken Orchard, Onkaparinga Estuary SA, Ink, Shellac and Pastel on Paper, 2006
It is one of the few images of water in the region. From pre-European settlement to the present day art has played a distinctive role in defining a sense of relationship with this geographical region.
Art means painting ---not drawing, prints, photography or digital imagery---and therein lies the conservatism.
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