By JESSE GRAHAM
HEALESVILLE’S Bowling Club is calling out for budding artists to come forward with ideas for a new clubhouse mural to revitalise the transforming and more progressive group.
Club member Helen Etty said the club’s current mural, which was created in the 1990s by a local artist, was in need of a replacement, due to the changing nature of the club.
“It’s not who we are anymore,” she said.
“We’re not an old-fashioned little bowling club anymore, in a small town – we’re a vibrant business now, and we want that to reflect with what’s there (on the mural).”
Ms Etty said that, with barefoot bowls and a number of younger club members coming on board, the club wanted its image to be more energetic and colourful – and the mural to be the same.
She said that, in the past, necklaces and earrings were forbidden on the bowling greens, and women had to have measurements taken from the bottom of their dresses to the ground – if the distance was too long, they were forbidden to play.
Ms Etty said the club was calling out to artists from the area, the Yarra Ranges or beyond to submit their ideas for the bowling club’s mural, and that the club would choose the one they felt best represented them.
“We just want something colourful, something vibrant, for people to go past and have a good look at it,” Ms Etty said.
Artists are asked to make their submission with a roughly A4-sized picture, and to submit before the end of May.
The winning artist will have their name and contact details featured on the mural, which is near the corner of River Street and Church Street.
Ms Etty said the mural is in a prime position to bring people into the club, and also to promote the winning artist to the town.
The current mural is on a large piece of metal, which can be removed from the building for re-painting, but the chosen artist will have to pay for their own artistic supplies.
Interested artists can email hwetty1@gmail.com or call 5962 2394 for more information.
