Rhonda Miranda, a local artist and key player in the Art Gallery committee, said that they had seen support from the existing council but hadn't heard from new candidates regarding the gallery.

"Doug Curran and Christine Stead, they've been very encouraging. Anne Napoli was as well. We haven't spoken to the others as yet though," she said.

"Brian Simpson and Mike Neville instigated it all for us, they've been incredibly supportive but they;re not runnning again."

She described it was a waiting game, after the existing council committed to an art gallery - crucially, a location hasn't been set. The committee is hoping to build the gallery on the currently vacant lot next to the visitor's centre, but this hasn't yet been formally approved.

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"The gallery has been approved, but not in that specific position. We need to do a feasibility study, and we'll do that with the new council," Ms Miranda explained.

"A gallery needs parking, it needs loading docks which we can't do in some spaces."

She said she was hoping for an opportunity to question candidates on it herself, not content to wait.

"It's hard to tell anything at this stage, we're just treading time until the elections are over with,"

"Someone usually does a night or a day when the candidates line up and we can ask, we're hoping someone will do that so we can hear their opinion."

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