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Potters exhibit to open in Nhill

A Potters of the Wimmera exhibition will open at Nhill’s Gallery Central on Friday.

The Queen’s Birthday weekend opening coincides with partial easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

The exhibition features five potters – Judy Hilbig, Richard Wade, Peter Colbert, Heather Dufty and the late Heather Phillips.

Hilbig is a professional ceramic artist who runs classes from her Clay Bowl Pottery studio at Halls Gap. 



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Wade trained at Latrobe University, Bendigo, from 1992 to 1994 and finished with a Bachelor of Arts in Ceramic Design and Honours. 

Nhill district farmer Colbert taught himself how to become a potter in the 1970s and has run pottery classes intermittently during the past 40 years.

Dufty has learnt the art of centring clay on the wheel by Anna Williams-Bale, Kate Wade and Peter Colbert.

Phillips’ work will feature at the exhibition. 

A gym teacher, environmentalist and former Horsham mayor, she lived at Natimuk and lost her fight with cancer in April, 2019. 

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