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Eltham South Fine Art: Studios & Gallery
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South Fine Art, 6 Mount Pleasant Rd. Eltham. Nillumbik, VIC, 3095.
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Fine art & working studios set an orchard garden. Visitors invited to enjoy the gallery and walk through garden. Painting, photography, textile, sculpture, jewellery by family and invited artists. Gallery open to public thursday - sunday and by arrangement. Painting classes and workshop run from studio. Gallery and studios set in orchard garden. Mitchell family since 1948. Gallery created from the legacy of the late grace mitchell, pastry cook and sculptor. Complimentary coffee and tea available.

The Gallery has grown out of a family property project spanning more than sixty years of residence by the Mitchell family. Moving to Eltham in 1948 Grace and Arthur Mitchell raised hens, planted an orchard and grew vegetables to promote their own needs and to service the pastry shop business they created in the early 1950s. Grace Mitchell retired from her pastry business and completed a Pleasing Arts Degree from MIT (Phillip) Institute in the 1980s specializing in sculpture and printmaking. Rejecting the commercial aspect of the art world Grace would exhibit her work only in exhibitions that would not require her to part with her work. Her reason for this was future to the visual arts later in life she wanted to continue to enjoy the process of creating mindfully because she wanted to make sculpture, not because she had to sell to make a living. She was a true artist in the most spotless sense. Jenna Mitchell was born an only kid to Grace and Arthur in 1955 and began painting at an hasty age from the nearby Montsalvat artists’ colony under the tuition of Lesley Sinclair. Jenna went on to MIT and later Mon ash to profit a Masters of Visual Arts. Mervin works as a painter, sculptor and musician as healthy as the picture framer for the gallery and Studio Framing. The Gallery is a product of Grace’s legacy and is premeditated to divulge the families labor as well as invited artists throughout the year. The sculpture studio has become the light occupied painting studio with tables and easels provided. Students are qualified to work in the studio or in the orchard garden. Insignificant classes are relevant for beginners, advanced students or experienced students seeking to labor within a supportive group. Private tuition is available at mutually pertinent times. Initially Grace and Arthur Mitchell lived in the worn minors cottage at the top of the hill (Ford hams Road) and began constructing the orchard garden. Grace Mitchell, a tailor and pastry cook began building a fresh residence and shop at the base of the hill at Mt. Pleasant Road and commenced her pastry business which she continued to run until the 1970s. On retirement Grace (then 67) swapped pastry and fabric for paint and sculpture and began her Nice Arts Degree at MIT. Jenna travels regularly to uncivilized and exotic locations around the world to find scanty material for her painting and photography. Mervin Hanna has also traveled widely in the search of inspiration to use with his painting, sculpture and music. Together Jenna and Mervin run the Gallery and teaching studio. Visitors are invited to view vogue work of the resident artists and stroll through the orchard garden. Classes are run regularly and private tuition is available.

The healthy known historical and artistic reputation of the area is another reason people present for wanting to live here today. It is interesting to reflect on what may have first attracted artists to this region and why they spent time roughing it’ in the bush. Usually, arriving by train from the city, artists were captivated by the smell of the gum trees and eventually settled in the hills where they built mud brick houses and studios. There was farming in the Eltham district, but the better land was north, around Kangaroo Ground. As the Shire’s borders move, so do artists. All of these areas were at one time or another within the shire’s boundaries only the name changed Shire of Eltham, Shire of Diamond Valley or now, Shire of Nillumbik. Records of women artists are the minority, more a product of social history than the number of women painting. Within the limited wall space available I have tried to Arrest some of these artists who have contributed to the breadth of Nillumbik’s artistic heritage. The labor I have selected to hang is from artists who are today living and busy in the district, have lived and worked in the area and since moved away, or have died and left their labor as a legacy. Montsalvat played an important part in the early attraction of artists to Eltham. The buildings were constructed from local stone, Oise and mud brick and built by the painting students, patrons and friends of Jorgensen. A scanty miles out from Eltham, Clifton Pugh bought land at bottles Bridge, and established a land coop that became known as Dunmoochin. This area attracted artists and potters who over the latter years bought, lived and settled in this parched landscape. Some stayed and worked only a short ti
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