The Little Gallery’s 2025 Winter Art Show’s opening night was a huge success, bringing in hundreds of visitors to Trentham within its first week. In minutes of opening the doors, punters flowed through the doors eager to get a glimpse of the new art on show. The gallery was at full capacity with guests spilling out into the street.
This event has gained momentum over the years and is an annual calendar highlight for art in the region, for locals and visitors alike.
Founding member of the Little Gallery Rose Wilson said the gallery had run these fundraising art exhibition for years, each time endeavouring to exhibit new artists from around the region.
“This exhibition upholds its reputation of sourcing quality emerging, established and award-winning artists to exhibit in an outstanding lineup,” she said.
As a major fundraising event, the Little Gallery calls out for local support and volunteers to ensure expenses are kept to a minimum so as not to impede on the overall funds raised through the sale of art and the art raffle.
This year’s Winter Show event was overwhelmed with the generosity of wonderful donations and support from local retailers, pubs, cafes, newspapers and helpers. In addition, the Little Gallery was fortunate to receive a Community Events Grant from the Hepburn Shire to help with reducing costs.
Opening the event with Acknowledgement to Country was Hepburn Shire councillor Brian Hood, before guest speaker and exhibiting Indigenous artist Antionette Braybrook gave an inspiring address. Braybrook is CEO of Djirra and is a highly regarded advocate and public speaker who gives voice at state, national and international levels for Aboriginal women who have experienced family violence.
Following this, representatives from Trentham Health were invited to speak about the Treehouse Program, which is this year’s beneficiary for the Winter Show fundraising.
The Treehouse program supports local people living at home with dementia, and promotes independence and engagement by maintaining social and community connections in a positive, safe environment. This enables these residents to live well and to remain part of their local community. In addition, it provides families and carers an opportunity for some respite.
A percentage of all artwork sold goes towards the charity, and 100 per cent proceeds of the Little Gallery art raffle will be donated directly. The art raffle prizes are genorously donated by the Little Gallerys stable of current in house artists, to view the art and buy your ticket go directly to the link www.raffletix.com.au/2025wintershowraffle
The Winter Show ends on July 28, and even though there were many red dots flying around on the opening night, there is still a lot of amazing artworks available and it’s a wonderful way to celebrate the arts culture of our region as well as help a worthy community cause.
