Art works well when it generates emotion and debate! That's exactly what the art and the gallery is doing on the Four Elements art trail.
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Gallery director Gordon Morrison has consistently presented art in ways that are vibrant and full of contemporary meaning ('Trouble on the art trail', 26/11). It would be incorrect to accuse the gallery of being one-sided in exploring hot topics. Remember the 2009 exhibition 'Reclaiming: artists responses to Lexton and the land'?
These paintings by local artists were a visual case 'for' and 'against' wind turbines on Victoria's volcanic plains and vistas so beautifully captured by Von Guerard and others.
The gallery presents art in a way that still allows those works - even "old" works of art - to speak to us today. Whatever our response, the fact that a response is triggered is testament to the intentions of the artist, the strength of the gallery's collection and the imagination of the curator.
Sari Baird
Blowhard