"Write Where You Are - Every Story Tells a Picture" is a multigenerational collaborative art exhibition exploring the concept of place through a collaboration between Wombat Regional Arts Network Inc and Moorabool student writers.
The opening exhibition is based around submissions into the 2025 Moorabool Young Writers Awards, which was open to students from Moorabool from Foundation to Year 12. Students were asked to write a narrative which included a Moorabool location or landmark in their story.
The role of the artists was to interpret and visually depict the stories written by students, in their selected medium, creating a dialogue between written narrative and visual representation.
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The Half Church
Author: Kate Nicholson
Artists: Leann Brown
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The Caretaker
Author: Jem Tyley Miller
Artist: Lou Callow
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Ballan Post Office
Author: Angie Paolini
Artist: Lou Callow, assisted by Otis Rizzo age 3
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The Scary Shortcut
Author: Jackson Dole
Artist: Nanette Coy
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Haunted Lal Lal Falls
Author: Denzel Tuilau
Artist: Daniela Sheen
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Blackwood Cricket Club
Author: Hattie Papashalis and Ana Van Gossum
Artist: Brendan O’Sullivan
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Destiny
Author: Evie Hill
Artist: Donna Hughes
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Forget-me-not
Author: Maddison Szalay
Artist: Norman Arvidson
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Lost
Author: Charlotte Wilkinson
Artist: Lili Eggleston
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Pykes
Author: Ilijana Kodric
Artist: Michael Rizzo
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Ghost
Author: Serena Barker
Artist: Tracey Taylor
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The Day the apple was eaten
Author: Divine Bwihambi
Artist: Mel Sheeley
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The Moorabool Legend
Author: Ebony Smith
Artist: Karen Longhurst
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The echo of the theatre bell
Author: Ivy Tyley-Miller
Artist:Jenette Callow
Hallucination
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Author: Hunter Walker-Veal
Artist: Susan Watson
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Bruce
Author: Wayne Marshall
Artist: Wendy Hoogenraad
The little boy and the strawberry
Author: Abel De Domenico
Artist: Miranda Howard
This exhbition will open on Wednesday 5 September and can be viewed at the new Ballan Library and Community Hub, 127 Inglis Street, Ballan, for the remainder of 2025.