Save the date, Sunday, August 10, 2025 for a fascinating day out at the Orbost Arts Centre.
Hunt out your treasured heirlooms, art and jewellery and bring them along for a panel of three specialists to give you and idea of their worth and origins.
This is your opportunity to find out more about those pieces you’ve had sitting in the cupboard, hanging on your wall or handed down from ancestors.
Simon Storey covers the area of antiques.
For more than 30 years Simon has valued national, state and regional collections, including the National Museum of Australia and the entire collection of the Australian War Memorial among other important projects.
This has included everything from space aeronautics to colonial furniture.
Some of the more interesting objects were the recovered relics from wreck of the Batavia in Western Australia, Phar Lap’s heart, the painting Blue Poles, Ned Kelly’s original death mask at Melbourne University (there are other copies) and Ned’s armour at the State Library of Victoria.
Anne Rowland is the art specialist with several decades of experience working in art galleries and museums, both in Australia and overseas.
She also spent 16 years as the Registrar of the Art Gallery of Ballarat, with responsibility for the gallery’s building and collection.
In retirement, Anne is the Volunteer Collection Researcher for the Art Gallery of Ballarat and volunteers with collection cataloguing at the Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections, at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat.
Bronwyn Pratt has been a gold and silversmith jewellery creator and designer for more than 50 years.
Her expertise in this field includes creating bespoke items and she has owned several businesses making jewellery.
She is the past president of The Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia and is still on the National Council.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia.
These three highly experienced and dedicated specialists are volunteering their time and knowledge for the benefit of the local community to give us the opportunity for a unique day out and raise funds for the Orbost Arts Centre.
No items, no worries, just come along for a fun day and watch the wonderful specialists in action.
Doors open from 10am – 3pm.
No need to book, just turn up on the day.
Tea and coffee will also be available to purchase.
