The Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 2020 launched last Saturday with a Deck Chair Art fundraising project displayed at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre.
The Noosa Open Studios Art Trail 10 day event runs from 9-18 October.
Noosa Open Studios have been overwhelmed with regional artists wanting to participate in the annual celebration of their craft with inspiring and informative studio visits, workshop opportunities and special events.
Sponsored by Tourism Noosa, the Noosa Open Studios committee led by Sunshine Beach artist Yanni van Zijl engaged 30 selected artists from the Open Studios trail to each paint a canvas for a beach deck chair in their unique painting style. The deck chair frames also encompass local provenance with a group of Cooroora Woodworkers having hand crafted each deckchair from local blue gum. The reserve price on each chair and canvas is just $200.
With Covid restrictions putting a stop to all previous forms of fund raising for the annual Noosa Open Studios Art Trail th Covid safe outdoors event also provides an inventive way to showcase the trail’s artists.
“It occurred to me that the beauty of this idea is that we get to showcase the beautiful hinterland and the multitude of artists living in this region and mirror this installation on the coast, further underpinning Noosa’s arts credentials. Given the diversity of the region it was a no brainer to me to install all these deck chairs painted by the local artists and create a promotional video of the art work in situ,” Yanni said.
“I often work on large scale site-specific art installations and this was a way to bring all these ideas together as both a means to promote our artists, and our region as a creative destination.“
The Deck Chairs on the Green picnic and public auction will start at Noosa Botanical Gardens amphitheatre at Lake MacDonald at 12pm on Saturday 3 October with the auction at 2.30pm.
