


This year the festival includes four exhibitions, the latest of which is Contemporary Arts Society of Victoria (CASV) show Contemporary By Nature, which opened on the weekend.Īrtists lined the jetty at Como Landing with their artworks on Friday, waiting for the punt to carry them across the water to the gallery. In 1922, Venice’s savvy medical officials, keen to capitalize on the island’s natural isolation, converted the hospital into a mental asylum. The festival, which runs until April 15, raises funds to maintain the island's public art. The Azores islands are a magnet for lovers of adventure Westend61 / Getty Images. The former Scouts building was transformed into a gallery, which for the past 12 years has been the venue for the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival. Azores Islands, San Miguel, Man looking at the Lake of Fire, seen from. Visiting UK artist and environmentalist Andy Goldsworthy built two site-specific works, the festival giving him the island's only valley for one of them, and Australian artists dotted the rest of the island with installations and sculptures.

Two-thirds of the public art on Herring Island is there from the 1997 Melbourne Festival. Now they have to survive Subscribe to Discovery. From secret gardens to enchanting little villages, we’ve uncovered 9 hidden gems in Rhode Island only locals know about. Robert Lee says the sculpture trail circles the island, ending at the Herring Island Gallery. Alison and Jonathan meet each other for the first time - completely naked. Reversing an earlier ban, in 1962 voters in Long Beach, California, approved petroleum exploration in their harbor.
