Daylesford-based artist Vanessa Craven will showcase her wide-ranging creative talents in a new solo exhibition, Intersections: Art, Music, Words, running from May 8 to June 19 at the Daylesford Regional Visitor Information Centre.
A multidisciplinary artist, Vanessa works in acrylics, oils, mixed media, ink and pencil. Her visual work often draws inspiration from the natural world, captured not only on canvas but through her lens as a nature photographer. The exhibition explores the convergence of her visual art, poetry, and music—mediums that together express her deep connection to place, environment, and storytelling.
Vanessa is also an accomplished musician and songwriter, performing both solo and with her bands Lunar Dust and Lake Mist. She has recorded three albums—Filtered Light, Forbidden Dance, and Homebrew—and has received recognition from the Australian Songwriting Association for her work. Her poetry and prose have been published in five anthologies with the Moorabool Writers Craft group, and her children’s book Birds in My Tree: The Magic of Birds and the Joy of Singing (2022) and poetry collection Under the Mop Top Tree (2023) have been warmly received. Most recently, she was awarded the 2025 ‘Poe-Tree’ prize at the Bendigo Sustainability Festival.
Intersections offers a rare opportunity to experience the interconnectedness of Vanessa’s creative practice—where a painted canvas might echo the rhythm of a song, or a photograph may pair with a poem to tell a deeper story.
Dates: May 8 – June 19
Times: Open daily, 10am–4pm
Venue: Daylesford Regional Visitor Information Centre, 98 Vincent St, Daylesford
Entry: Free entry. All are welcome.
