Cooktown Recycled Art Exhibition

Cooktown Recycled Art Exhibition organised bythe volunteers of the Cooktown School of Art Society opened 26th March 2011 with an afternoon tea at 2:30pm at the Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery in Charlotte Street. Entries were of a high standard and showed a lot of imagination in turning waste and old throw aways into useful and or beautiful art! The four categories of - Functional - furniture, craftwork, wearable objects; Garden Art - 3D free standing; Artistic with imagination being the key; and Environmental from materials and waste going to landfill, being functional and energy efficient and illustrating the pertinence of environmental issues. The competition was open to all Cook Shire community members, groups and organisations and had adult and junior sections in each category. Well done Cooktown!

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[grammy73]

People are so inventive