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  • As we count down the days to the group exhibition ‘FLOW – Stories from the Wetlands’, at The Hive Gallery, 31 May to 30 June 2024, we share with you insights from...

  • Hosting a group exhibition as broad as ‘FLOW – stories from the wetlands’ has given The Hive gallery in Ocean Grove another chance to grow and welcome many new creative faces for t...

  • Artists will tell stories of the region’s wetlands, one artwork at a time, through a free exhibition in Ocean Grove. The Hive Gallery will host FLOW Stories from the Wetlands...

  • ⁠Artist, Steve Sedgwick⁠, has wondered at (and in!) natural water sources since childhood, and his unique work reflects his experiences of and responses to nature. Here, he speaks ...

  • The Hive Gallery is pleased to share with you the first of several interviews with artists promoting sustainable wetlands management. Shot locally on our beautiful Bellarine Penins...

  • BARWON Heads artist Sophia Legoe has reignited her passion for art as her children have grown. With a studio overlooking the Barwon River, Legoe is in her element exploring ornate ...

  • ‘FLOW – Stories from our Wetlands’, has been created by the Hive Collective with the support of the Hive Gallery Ocean Grove. It films artists sharing the stories behin...

  • A local art gallery has been nominated for a 2023 Victorian Community Achievement Award for its contributions to the Ocean Grove and broader Bellarine community. Read More… A...

  • Young artists will be on display when the Hive Gallery hosts the 2023 Ocean Grove Primary School (OGPS) Art Show. Read More… Article courtesy Ocean Grove Voice, 08/09/23...

  • Artist Wayne Elliott tells captivating stories through his colourful interpretation of landscapes. He shares with Tessa Hayward what he loves about painting and the joy it brings. ...

  • Painter Linda Gallus and ceramicist Kay Clancy share a studio together in a character-filled, tiny 1860s cottage on Clancy’s property in Drysdale. Read More… Article courtesy...

  • Two Bellarine artists’ new exhibition, Consequences, makes an environmental statement on how invasive species affect the land. Read More… Article courtesy Geelong Independent...

  • THE Hive curator Karen Spreadborough said May was a time to reminisce on the incredible experiences at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Read More… Article courtesy Times News Gro...

  • An artist’s residence at a restored farmhouse in Denmark provided great inspiration for Torquay potter and pottery teacher Karen Steenbergen’s upcoming joint exhibition, Nicole May...

  • A STRONG ethos of supporting local artists pervades The Hive Gallery and gives it a real sense of belonging to and from the region. Read More… Article courtesy Times News Gro...

  • A project conceived during lockdown has sailed onward and upward, becoming far more than its original concept for contemporary sculptor Beatrice Magolotti. Read More… Article...

  • Linking art and health is the perfect fit for The Hive Gallery in Ocean Grove as they launch a 12 month program raising funds for the Royal Melbourne Hospital Foundation, one of Me...

  • When artist Georgie Gall approached the Hive Gallery to enable her next exhibition to be a fundraiser for the Royal Melbourne Hospital Foundation, it seemed a natural fit for Karen ...

  • A new exhibition series launching this weekend at The Hive gallery in Ocean Grove will raise vital funds to support ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) The Hive, at...

  • We are thrilled to be part of Geelong Design Week 2022! Celebrating the theme ‘taur’ which means belonging in local Wadawurrung language, Geelong Design Week will celeb...

  • In November 2020, “A Brush with Birds” was The Hive Gallery’s most ambitious and prestigious Exhibition. Coinciding with the launch of Richard Weatherly OAM&#8217...

  • Outsider, naive artist Wayne Elliott has been with the Hive Gallery Ocean Grove since its inception in 2016. Well recognised internationally having exhibited in Magog, Canada, Finl...

  • Linda Gallus is an artist who is fascinated and endlessly inspired by rural Victoria. In fact, for the month of February, her current work will be on display in the Hive Gallery in...

  • It is very much the journey rather than the destination that excites Drysdale’s Linda Gallus on her regular country drives around Victoria. Read More… Article courtesy Times ...

  • Ocean Grove Primary School is once again hosting its annual art show at The Hive Gallery. Visual arts teacher Andrea Thompson said staff and students were really excited to get the...

  • The thrill experienced by Claire Gemes four years ago as she purchased her very first original piece of art for her soon to be re-opened luxury accommodation business Lon Retreat w...

  • Margie Delahunty Spencer translates her subjects into dreamlike interactions to celebrate the joys of the everyday. Zeyneb Mohammed writes. Read More… Article courtesy Zeyneb...

  • OCEAN Grove resident Matt Walters has experienced some dark and uncertain times. As Seen in Surfcoast Times / Armstrong Creek Times, Bellarine Times & Geelong Times. Read More&...

  • Known as one of the fi nest gardens in Australia, the cool climate Cloudehill Gardens of Olinda in the Dandenongs are the creation of owner Jeremy Francis… Read More… Articles...

  • Artist Margaret Delahunty Spencer’s four children are all grown up, but when they visit their grandma’s house the first thing they do is wander to the fish pond and check on the go...

  • One of Richard Weatherly’s standout childhood memories is of being held aloft by his grandmother as a shark swam dangerously close in the shallows of the estuary at Barwon Heads… R...

  • Mansfield artist Wendy Jagger has recently returned from an artist residency at BigCi in the Blue Mountains. Surrounded by the landscapes of Wollemi and the Gardens of Stone Nation...

  • OCEAN Grove sculptor Will Wilson and director of Australia’s Great Southern Touring Route Roger Grant received a very special visitor to their stand at the Chelsea Flower Show… the...

  • Will Wilson is an Aussie designer who has been crafting birdbaths and uniquely Australian wildlife sculptures for almost 20 years. Inspired by his passion for native wildlife, Will...

  • The Hive Gallery celebrated its first birthday at the weekend. The event on Saturday featured special guest artists, including Vayu, Jill Barber Richardson and Margie Delahunty Spe...

  • Ocean Grove’s Will Wilson, the artist behind Willie Wildlife Sculptures, featured at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the ninth time in May this year. His beautiful disp...

  • The Hive Gallery in Ocean Grove is delighted to be celebrating its first birthday on Saturday July 8. From 2-4pm there will be live music from One Shoe Highway, warming mulled wine...

  • A BRONZE sculptor is realising his creative dream by expanding from the garage to the gallery in a collaborative venture launching in Ocean Grove this month. The Hive gallery is th...

  • Imagine spotting a couple of metre-high 100-kilogram chooks in the garden warily eyeing off a three-metre blue-tounge lizard, and a 750 kilogram giant turtle. You’d be forgiven for...

  • THE recent Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show provided a blooming cavalcade of flowers and fabulous designs, but once again, it was the swag of clever ideas that set ...