President: Cecily Walters
Vice President: Loretta Kervin
Secretary/Treasurer: Kerryn Hughes

“Cecily and Loretta from Barry, two serious amateur artists, who have come up with a great concept to run a three-day art and craft exhibition in Blayney next year, called Textures of One. They're planning a few spinoff activities, too, and the aim is to bring more people into Blayney shire for the veent to showcase our creativity.” - Blayney Chronicle

Winners:

Exhibition Champion ($1000 prize money): Wanda Driscoll ‘Spirit of the land’

First Prize, Other Medium $100 prize money: Wendy Smith ‘Earth Harmony’

Other Medium Category, Highly Commended: Donna Seage ‘From my garden’

Textile Category, First Prize $100 prize money: Sandy and Tom Fullerton ‘And from the Ashes’

Art Category, First Prize $100 prize money: Wanda Driscoll, ‘Spirit of the Land’

Art Category, Highly Commended: Jan Dickie ‘The Crossing’

People’s Choice $100: Lisa Davis ‘Memorial of War’

Keith Walter Encouragement Award $50: Leonie Kervin


Sponsors: Essential Energy & Blayney Shire Council, Arts Out West, Blayney High School P & C & Blayney Anglican Church.

Exhibition statement: “Textures Of One is non profit organisation. It is a Diverse Exhibition where any medium is accepted. eg. Paint, Fabric, Glass, Sculpture etc. The Committee will choose a specific motif each year which must be included in your work. We want your imagination to take you on a journey of colours, season, who & what to create you pieces."

Winners:

EXHIBITION CHAMPION - Drops of Time by Penny May

1st Art - Drops of Time by Penny May

Highly Commended Art - A-M-Azing by Donna Seage

1st Textiles - Time Piece by Gloria Muddle

Highly Commended Textiles - Time Waits For No Man - Lyle Fullerton

1st Decorative - Making the 7:32 by Tim Kervin

Highly Commended Decorative - Don't Be A Passenger by Donna Seage

Keith Walters Encouragement Award - Time Piece by Gloria Muddle

Dean Mobbs Colourization Award - What A Way To Go by Rachel Macpherson

Deans Mobbs Encouragement Awards - Moment Of Ruin by Emma Chapman & Drops Of Time by Penny May

Blayney Shire Council Acquisitive Prize - A Moment In Time by Wanda Driscoll

People's Choice - 7:30 Bathurst to Newbridge by Jan Dickie

First exhibition held at Platform Arts Hub Blayney.

To honour ten years and all of the volunteers, community groups and local artists that have participated over the past decade, the motif of “tin” was selected for 2024.

Congratulations to Vivianna Hamilton who is the recipient of the 2024 Textures of One Major Prize with her work 'Tales from the Old Farm Dump'.

Congratulations to Ruth Durose who is the recipient of the 2024 Blayney Shire Council Acquisitive Prize with her work 'Three Sheets'.

Congratulations to Peta Taylor who is the recipient of the 2024 Loretta Kervin Encouragement Award with her work 'They Have A Story And So Do I'.

A harvest is more than the gathering of crops; it is the culmination of time, effort, and care. It speaks to the rhythms of nature, the rewards of labour, and the traditions that sustain us. It evokes golden fields and laden baskets, the turning of seasons, and the hands that toil and celebrate. Harvest could also be personal - it can be the fruition of ideas, the gathering of memories, or the creative process itself.

Congratulations to Dean Lavers who is the recipient of the 2025 Blayney Shire Council Acquisitive Prize with his work ‘The 4 Bag Paddock’.

Congratulations to Edward Ronald who is the recipient of the 2025 Loretta Kervin Encouragement Award with his work ‘Apple Harvest’.

Congratulations to Chelsea Howarth who is the 2025 People’s Choice Winner for her entry ‘Gathering the Seasons’.