Farm Art Feature
Rural woman, mother of eight, and self-confessed farm art lover, Amelia
McIntyre, will showcase her vast collection at this year’s Swan Hill-Murray
Downs Field Days to be held on Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 May at the Murray Downs
Reserve (opposite the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club).
Farm Art is garments created from things found, made or grown on a farm, with many different materials used by the McIntyre’s including inner tube rubber, car parts, sheep poo, horns, mummified rooster’s head and feet, grains, wool bales, wire, nuts and bolts, and cured lambs tail to name just a few!
Ms McIntyre has had great success at Field Days where Farm Art is a competition, winning the national competition and placing in the international competition in New Zealand twice, as well as numerous wins at local shows and Field Days.
Not to be outdone, Amelia’s family has also done very well and has won or placed many times in different competitions with daughter Sylvia (15 years old) winning the elegant school section at Wimmera two years in a row, as well as the viewer’s choice award, while husband Shane has also begun competing and won a novice section last year.
Amelia and her family will showcase their vast collection at the Swan Hill-Murray Downs Field Days with special parades at 11 am and 2 pm on Tuesday, and at 11 am on Wednesday near the Craft Marquee – a great opportunity to see a truly rural form of art and an innovative use of materials.