Easter treat from island artists

The Southern Moreton Bay Islands (SMBI) are home to many arts workers, including writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, mosaicists, potters, 3D artists, print makers and more, whose skills levels range from emerging to those with national and international reputations, and Easter is your chance to meet them and see them at work.

Each day, from Good Friday, April 6, to Easter Monday, April 9, a selection of island artists will demonstrate their skills at the Macleay Island Progress Hall, from 9.30am to 5pm (3pm on the Monday).

The event is designed to give the Redland community the opportunity to see and enjoy the vast and diverse range of artistic talent on the SMBI.

Some of the artists working and exhibiting at the event will be winner of the 2011 d’Arcy Doyle portrait award, painter David Wells; painter Karen Foster; mosaicist Dianne Little; musician and visual artist Elo Rolandson; 3D artist and teacher Angie Beighton; writer Trish Cation; writer and actor Desmond Kelly; writer, artist and silversmith Linda Upton; artist and teacher Maz Thompson; artist John Dickinson;

sculptor Ted Upton; and artist Madeleine Ekeblad, who also runs her own motivational art school.

Potters will also be attending the event and responses from other artists and musicians currently working interstate and overseas are still to arrive.

Entry is free and transport to the Macleay Island Art Gallery, where a special exhibition of pottery will be showing, and where potters and artists will also be working, will be available.

Simply ask at the Progress Hall about the transport.

To get to Macleay Island from the mainland, catch a Bay Islands Transit System (BITS) water bus from Weinam Creek Marina, Banana Street, Redland Bay.

From the Macleay Island jetty, the Progress Hall is located a short walk up the hill (please note it is a steep incline) to the first road on the right. BITS timetables

can be found online at www.transitsystems.com.au