General News
5 October, 2023
Arts Trail weekend: Basil and Ross ready to welcome
ARTIST Ross Currie has dotted Loddon roadsides with colourful bush art over the last decade. An old culvert metres from his Wedderburn home had just been added to creations that pop up in unusual places. Power poles, garbage bins and more...
ARTIST Ross Currie has dotted Loddon roadsides with colourful bush art over the last decade.
An old culvert metres from his Wedderburn home had just been added to creations that pop up in unusual places.
Power poles, garbage bins and more conventional murals are part of the rural portfolio crafted by Ross who says he sees opportunities and turns fallen branches, trees and stumps into new works of art.
The roadside beacons will help steer arts enthusiasts to his Wedderburn gallery this weekend for the inaugural Loddon Valley Arts Trail.
“I’m looking forward to the weekend and sharing art with visitors,” he said. “And there’s the studio manager on deck too. (Dog) Basil oversees everything I do and is always popular with visitors to the studio.”
Ross started his artistic journey as a woodburner, still displaying large works on the studio wall.
But it is the roadside art, bins and poles that are now his focus.
“The colours are evolving. I prefer to use a spray can these days in creating the art,” he said.
Many are applied with what has become his signature bushland silhouette that strikingly stands out from rustic backgrounds.
“I once saw a stump ... it was either going to be Ned Kelly or the Black Knight from Monty Python. In the end it was Ned.
“If you see something, you just create it. But I’m definitely no Claude Monet!”
- CHRIS EARL