Autumn is an inspiring time at Sturt with all the colours, sunshine and crisp air a treat for the senses. The Biogenesis exhibition has been a great success with strong support for local artist Libby Hobbs and her daughter Dimity Kidston along with Nettie and Mercy Sumner’s beautiful work celebrating creativity of mothers and daughters. There have been wonderful curator talks, visits from a number of Frensham Visual Art classes and on the 19 May, Gib Gate students will enjoy a special morning tea and interactive talk with one of the artists. This joyous, heartfelt exhibition ends on 23 May.

Sturt’s next exhibition, Drawn From the Garden, brings together Julie Ryder’s and Sharon Peoples’ unique textiles along with Fiona Hiscock’s finely detailed ceramics inspired by their observations and discoveries of their natural surroundings.  Drawn from the Garden will be opened by Genevieve Jacobs AM, Group Editor of Region Media Group, on Sunday 30 May, 11.00am and you are all warmly invited to attend. The exhibition runs from 30 May to 25 July.

Sturt School for Wood students are absorbing all they can from renowned master furniture maker David Upfill-Brown. This term is all about dovetail joints and then curves when Darren Oates joins the class for steam bending.

There is already strong demand for places for 2022 in Sturt’s year-long Certificate IV in Fine Furniture Design which has the coveted reputation of being the best school for fine furniture design in Australia. To find out more please visit https://www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/education/learning-at-sturt

Mrs Kristie Phelan
Head of Sturt