There are times when our members have to step outside the normal activities at the gallery to serve the wonderful tourists who travel through Port Augusta. On Saturday Anne met a woman who wanted to purchase a pastel but was reluctant to take a framed piece along for the rest of the family journey in the caravan. By Sunday morning Georgie had contacted the woman and arranged for the art piece to be   transferred out of the frame,  blanketed snuggly between 2 sheets of paper,  and placed into a postal cylinder. It was picked up at the gallery at 10am and is now on it's way around Australia. Big smiles all round.   On Tuesday Georgie was putting the gallery bin out when she noticed a group of people looking at the railway station and mural. She asked if they would like to look through the gallery. Half an our later they had purchased all of Morgan's Frozen Chrysanthemum pieces (including cushion). There was even some light hearted argy-bargy about who saw the large piece

I thought we may have had a quiet month as we lead up to the AGM on July 28th but it seems things have been  as busy as ever. FIBRESPACE INC.  Regularly meet at The Platform and several  Curdnatta Members are also members of this textile group. This month saw the unveiling of new pieces for the theme "Naturally Techni-Savvy". This exhibition will be on show at the Platform early next year. Kaz Peterson really challenged participants at the Portrait Drawing and Painting workshop. Results definitely had the WOW! factor. We think people will be wanting Kaz to return next year. Thanks to Tammy Colman for organising and running the HEXAGONS workshop. This beginning quilting workshop certainly appealed to a wide range of people.  People often ask what we sell the most of at The Platform. The range is very diverse and sometimes things go so quickly we don't get the opportunity to photograph them. This is a selection of some of the things that have s