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The Former Cowwarr Butter Factory is a splendid example of the success of recycling industrial buildings. The building is listed with Heritage Victoria as it is of architectural and historical significance as a rare example of an industrial building employing Arts and Crafts design traditions, which went on to form the basis of the architectural work of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin.
The Cowwarr Butter Factory Company Limited began operations in 1893 but the present building was erected in 1918 on a new site close to the railway (now closed) and the main road to Walhalla gold fields.(still accessible) It ceased operations in 1959. The Cowwarr Art Space is located between Traralgon and Heyfield just 2.5 hours easy drive from Melbourne situated on the Gippsland red gum plains and surounded by prime dairy country that stretches South and East from the Great Dividing Range. It contains a flexible range of exhibition or performance spaces, gardens, residential studios a fully equipped ceramics studio and the Australian marble sculpture studio of noted artist Clive Murray-White. It has an ever changing range of contemporary art work on display encompassing work from young and emerging Gippsland Artists to established major Australian artists. It is open to the public Wednesday to Friday 2-5 Saturday Sunday 11-5 or by appointment. We cater for group bookings or independant visitors. So make it part of your next trip to Gippsland. |
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CAN Inc. Cowwarr Arts Network
Central Gippsland Tourist Information Centre
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