Laura Woodward
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Artwork to celebrate trailblazing women
A major public art commission by local artist Laura Woodward will celebrate the seven trailblazing women who established the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum in 1913 (now the Castlemaine Art Museum). Known as the first women of Castlemaine Art Museum, the group included Mary Leviny, Lilian Sheridan, Alice Waterhouse, Winifred Brotherton, Elsie Barlow, Mary Brough…
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Sculpture prize coup for Castlemaine artist
A Castlemaine artist has won this year’s prestigious Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture $40,000 Rural and Regional Development Award. Laura Woodward took out the award, which was judged on a body of the artist’s work spanning the past decade. “I am very appreciative and humbled,” said the artist who has her studio at Castlemaine’s Wesley…