Kingaroy Heritage Museum Project

In the middle of 2019 Robyn was approached to do a series of Five paintings to represent the history of peanut harvesting for the Kingaroy Heritage Museum. It was originally meant to be one metre by one metre boards. They were to depict horse drawn implements up to the modern day machines. From 1920 through to 2020 to celebrate the centenary of peanut harvesting in Kingaroy. Of course, as usual, the project got bigger than expected with the original ideas expanded on to make it visually more appealing

The actual picture ended up spanning over 8.3 metres. With each picture creating it’s own challenges.

“The first challenges where changing black and white photos to colour. The next was marrying up photos to create the image required, this was sometimes up to four different images for one painting. This also required me to get people to model in order to get the right images. The pure size of the pieces made them difficult to move around and work on, not to mention the space it took up around my house. This whole project was a great challenge with lots of lessons learnt. It is now up in place and although it wasn’t the easiest thing I have done I am very proud of the finished product.”

Robyn Dower