• The Karoo Art Hotel Barrydale

  • The Bioscope in the beams above the ballroom

All The Arts Of The Karoo Art Hotel

There’s the ‘conventional’ art of a hotel that’s a rolling exhibition space for exciting local and regional artists. Then there are all the other arts of a creatively driven Karoo country hotel.

The hotel is now open after a major renovation and redecoration. In the words of owners Rick & Sue Melvill "one never really owns places like these, you're really just the the custodians for another generation". Here's to a wonderful new chapter for the Karoo Art in the post Covid era 

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