{"id":391,"date":"2023-11-16T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/?p=391"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:49:24","slug":"the-artists-choice-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/the-artists-choice-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist&#8217;s Choice 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s a bright and colourful exhibition with everything from paintings, ceramics to fibre and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"174\" data-id=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-84.png\" alt=\"Wastelander Grubb by Christine Wynyard\" class=\"wp-image-397\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wastelander Grubb by Christine Wynyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"275\" data-id=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-82.png\" alt=\"Tree of Reflection by Lessi Rees\" class=\"wp-image-395\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tree of Reflection by Lessi Rees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"295\" data-id=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-80.png\" alt=\"Earrings by Amanda Doran\" class=\"wp-image-398\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Earrings by Amanda Doran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" data-id=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-79.png\" alt=\"Red Hat by Peter Aland\" class=\"wp-image-392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-79.png 340w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-79-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-79-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Red Hat by Peter Aland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have had a great year of exhibitions and this one has seen some artists exhibiting for the first time at the Gallery. &nbsp;There is always an opportunity at this time of year for people to purchase a great piece of art or gifts for the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"285\" data-id=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-77.png\" alt=\"Kane of Kawelka by bendee\" class=\"wp-image-388\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kane of Kawelka by bendee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"328\" data-id=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-83.png\" alt=\"Black Cockatoo by Gito von Schlippe\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-83.png 220w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-83-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Black Cockatoo by Gito von Schlippe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"261\" data-id=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-81.png\" alt=\"Looking from the Outside In\nby Hiske Tas Bain\" class=\"wp-image-399\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Looking from the Outside In\nby Hiske Tas Bain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Opening event was held on Sun Nov 19th Nov,&nbsp; 2.30 \u2013 4.30pm, with nibbles provided by Blue Knob Cafe and music by local musician Andy Walker, playing some pieces from his recent album &#8216;Calico Moonrise&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Artist\u2019s Choice\u2019 is the final exhibition for 2023 and with no designated theme the artists could bring in any works they wish to exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,15],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-17","tag-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}