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Holding Ground for Arthurs Seat
2 Mins Read Silver Leaf Art Box’s Chiara Finnigan, artist Rosie Weiss and Holding Ground curator Penelope Gebhardt at Silver Leaf Artbox. Picture: Elizabeth Clancy Share
Rachel Derum’s ‘Improbable, Beautiful as though I had wings’, 2021 paper collage
WORKS by 76 contemporary artists come together in Holding Ground, an online art exhibition and fundraiser being held to stop the proposed expansion of a contentious granite quarry at Arthurs Seat.
Charitable organisation the Ross Trust, and the company it owns, Hillview Quarries, plan to dig the quarry on the north face of Arthurs Seat which would destroy remnant old-growth bushland that is home to koalas and 27 threatened or endangered species.
Art works to help ‘save’ Western Port
IN a jubilant moment last week organisers of the fundraising exhibition Art is in Our Nature met with members of the Save Westernport committee to hand over $87,000 raised from their campaign in October.
The handover took place at Woolley’s Beach at Crib Point, the site of AGL’s proposed gas import terminal.
The online exhibition was hosted by Silver Leaf Art Box and Merricks General Wine Store.
“It’s been our great privilege to bring this project together and support the important work of the Save Westernport committee and the Western Port community,” exhibition curator Penelope Gebhardt said.