Over the next two weekends Morpeth Gallery will host some of Australia’s most renowned artists in a nod to an event that changed the art collecting world more than a century ago.
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In August 1889 several artists of the Heidelberg School, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin, staged a 9 by 5 inch Impression Exhibition in Melbourne.
These paintings are now worth small fortunes – proof that size doesn’t matter in the art world.
The Small Works Art Exhibition at Morpeth Gallery will commemorate this event.
The exhibition is a display of small original oils, acrylics and watercolours by award winning and internationally renowned Australian artists.
Works will be priced under $1500.
Landscape artist John Bradley, wildlife artist James Hough, and botanical artist Heidi Willis will all have works on display.
Mr Bradley and Mr Hughes will be at the gallery painting during the first weekend of the exhibition.
While Ms Willis will be joined by Natalie Jane Parker to paint live during the second weekend.
Small works art exhibitions are one of the most traditional forms of exhibition in Australia.
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition in Melbourne where most of the 183 works exhibited measured 23 x 13cm were painted on wooden cigar boxes.
Designs feature rolling hills and rippling streams, tall ships fleeing over waves, an intricate vase of delicate roses and a colourful rosella nestled in a tree.
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