The RASart Exhition of Ecellemnce runs to 11th June
at the Redcliffe City Gallery.
Open to the public and entry is free.
Cr Rae Frawley with Ruth Cowen.
Thursday (19/5/11) night at The Redcliffe
City Art Gallery saw the opening by Cr
Rae Frawley of the Redcliffe Art Society’s
RASart Excellence Exhibition for 2011.
Cr Frawley recognised in her speech
that this was the beginning of
celebrations for The Redcliffe Art
Societies Golden Anniversary, 50 years
of bringing an appreciation of the visual
arts to Redcliffe, and a unique
contribution to the Redcliffe City Art
Collection. •
The opening was attended by some 150
interested parties many of whom had works on display.• 
Bob Aldons speaks about Northstar’s involvement with the arts.
NORTHSTAR motor group owners and
primary sponsors of the exhibition, Bob
and Suzie Aldons were present. Bob
Aldons made a short speech about his
company’s increasing involvement with
the local areas art community and Suzie
Aldons presented the sponsors cheque of $1000 to the First prize winner Marcia
Whyte with her work entitled “Medieval
Fest (Caboolture)”. Second prize winner
Heather Delaney with her work “At the
yards” received her prize of $450.00 from
joint sponsors Crs James Houghton and
Rae Frawley while Third prize was Julie
Wecker with her work “Amalfi Coast”
received Toy’s Mufflers and Mechanical
cheque from the RAS’s President John
Pollack.
The individual medium prizes, highly
commended and commended awards were
presented by the RAS’s retiring
Exhibitions manager Ruth Cowern, who
also conveyed the judge’s comments to
each winner.
The Redcliffe City Galleries curator
finished the speeches with a vote of thanks
to the volunteers who installed and
generally helped make the presentation
of entries a success.
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