Raise a glass to inspiration – Logan, Kingower, Inglewood

This tour takes you from Inglewood, a haven for collectables, out to the wine country of Kingower, then out past the Kooyoora State Forest to the renowned Pub-in-the-Scrub at the Logan crossroads.

If you’re touring on the Sunday, you could start at Logan, in the south-west corner of Loddon shire on the junction of the Inglewood-Logan Road and the Wimmera Highway. The exhibition by Darron Davies, Cars People Passion, is open all three days but on Sunday, Coffee to Di For coffee van (and publican Keith) will welcome you, and Darron will be on hand to photograph any Rodders and car buffs, who will see this unique exhibition.

It’s 25k heading back along the Logan-Kingower Rd, where you’ll stop at the old St Mary’s Church, right across the road from Both Banks Vineyard. The Church is now the Community Hall, and for the very first time, it becomes the venue for a photographic art installation: “Nowhere but Somewhere”, six photographers’ works about landscape and meaning. In the Tasting Room of Both Banks, the photographic show is Landscape and meaning which is the topic of the conversation (and winetasting) with poet essayist Gregory Day, on Sunday at 1.30pm.

A short 12k drive takes you into Inglewood, where you might start at the Eucy Distillery Museum, to see the works entered in the very first Eucy Art Show and prizes. There’s an Inspirations: From the Ground Up show of all kinds of artworks at the Goods Shed, in Station Street, and, at the Neighbourhood House in the Town Hall complex, a Tribute to the Loddon installation and Re:Form that are not to be missed. If you fancy a cuppa and cake in one of the main street cafes, along with other pop-up exhibitions you’ll be able to pop in to see the memorabilia collection at the privately owned Masonic building called Aurora Lodge. For a look into an artist’s studio, Inglewood’s master landscape artist, Mal Gilmour, is showing the work of a Life at the Easel.