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Tom Roberts Start your journey at the Corowa Visitor Information Centre Trail. 1890 (detail) oil on canvas on composition board 100 Edward Street Corowa NSW 2646 122.4 x 183.3 cm Phone (02) 6033 3221 of , [email protected] Felton Bequest, 1932 (4654-3) northofthemurray.com.au 3. The Shearing Shed TOM ROBERTS RD REDLANDS NSW 2646 (UNSEALED ROAD)

While the actual shearing shed from Signs give visitors insights into the “Shearing the rams” is long-gone due reserve’s environment, plants and to a fire in 1960, a replica at Redlands Hill animals. The reserve also hosts Reserve still stands near the original site. information on Tommy McRae and Travel in Tom Roberts; one of Roberts’ other Just thirteen minutes drive from Corowa, famous paintings “A Break Away!”, the grey box grassy woodlands boasts painted in 1891 – is also based on the historic four bush walking trails. All the tracks are sketches he did in this landscape. rated easy with no bushwalking experience required, however they are genuinely footsteps of ‘bush’ tracks. Tom Roberts. 1. 2. 4. 5. Corowa Visitor Corowa Shearing the Corowa Saleyards Tom Roberts was a pioneering Information Centre Federation Museum Rams Sculpture 437 HONOUR AVE COROWA NSW 2646 Australian oil painter who specialised in painting landscapes and portraiture 100 EDWARD ST COROWA NSW 2646 56 QUEEN ST COROWA NSW 2646 7995 HWY Experience an authentic country of people in everyday situations. LOWESDALE NSW 2646 Start your journey on the self guided sheep auction at the Corowa Saleyards. Step back in time and discover Corowa’s Take in the sights, sounds - and yes, Shearing the rams Trail at the Corowa history and its role in the birth of Federation Travel along “Tom Roberts’ Road — In 1888 Tom Roberts was drawn the smells - as some of the country’s to Brocklesby Station, 20 minutes Visitor Information Centre. Here, the at the Corowa Federation Museum. a true replica of the roadways from knowledgeable staff will provide you yesteryear, until you meet the Riverina finest livestock find new homes. north-west of Corowa, where he Sales are held at 10am each Monday. spent his time making sketches with information and advice on the The Museum displays describe ’s Highway. Here you will find the Shearing in and around the shearing sheds. history and the key points of interest pathway from a series of independent the Rams Sculpture. surrounding Roberts’ visit. colonies to a single, unified nation, and the vital “Shearing the rams” is one of the role the town of Corowa played in this story. In 2018, sculptor Andrew Whitehead created 6. paintings that resulted from Roberts’ Check in with staff with regard to a life-size replica of a shearer using blade In 2020, to celebrate the 130th anniversary stay. Completed in 1890, the large the current operating hours of the shears to shear a curly horned ram, inspired of “Shearing the rams”, a large mural of canvas is his most well-known locations along the track. by the famous Tom Roberts painting. Gallery 294 the - an artist’s impression - iconic painting painting, and numbers amongst reproduced by local artist Tracy Hancock The artist met with local students 294 HONOUR AVE COROWA NSW 2646 Australia’s most iconic artworks. was unveiled at the Federation Museum. requesting that each student donate Make your last stop on the trail Gallery It was quickly purchased and is on an old cast iron cog to the project. Among other displays, art lovers will also The students’ initials were then carved 294. Discover the region from the proud display at the National Gallery perspectives of local artists, with of Victoria in Melbourne to date. Along enjoy seeing sketches by Tommy McRae, into their cog before the artist included an accomplished local indigenous artist. them in the sculpture. In this way, another traditional oil paint artworks like with other local paintings and artists, “Shearing the rams”, to creative it is still celebrated in our region today. generation of locals learned about this important Australian artist and his work. designs in locally sourced wool.