2024
HELEN PYNOR
93 % HUMAN
28 September - 24 November 2024
93% Human is an exhibition exploring the multi species nature of being ‘human’ and our ‘promiscuous’ exchanges of DNA with others. Through an investigation of DNA we exhale in our breath and inhale from others, the work highlights the intimacy of our unnoticed exchanges with human and non-human others, and ‘contamination’ as a necessary condition of being.
A performance video depicts artist Helen Pynor and bioinformatician Jimmy Breen collecting a shared breath sample. DNA extracted from this breath was found to comprise 93% human DNA, with the remaining 7% belonging to around 6,700 microbial species. Based on a sound score by composer Amanda Cole, classically trained singers sing and whisper the Latin names of hundreds of these species, brought into the gallery as an 8-channel sound work.
ARTIST TALK: Saturday 28 September, 2pm
Image Credit: 93% Human (video still), Helen Pynor, 2023. Single channel video projection (10.20 min), 7-channel video on screens (4.55 min), 8-channel sound (20.09 min), scientific glassware objects. Lead Collaborators: Amanda Cole, Composer; Associate Professor Jimmy Breen, Bioinformatician and Geneticist, Chief Data Scientist, Black Ochre Data Labs at Telethon Kids and The Australian National University. Image courtesy of the artist.
WYNNE PRIZE 2024
28 September - 24 November 2024
The annual Wynne Prize was first awarded in 1897 in honour of the official opening of the Art Gallery of New South Wales at its present site.
Judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery, the prize is awarded to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery or for the best example of figure sculpture by an Australian artist.
The Wynne Prize reflects the diversity of figurative sculptural practice, while the paintings are a dynamic reflection of Australian artists’ response to the land, reflecting contemporary aesthetics, environmental and stewardship concerns, and conceptions of Country.
This touring exhibition is an opportunity to see the finalists in the Wynne Prize 2024.
Image Credit: Djakaŋu Yunupiŋu, Nyalala Gurmilili, 2024, (detail), earth pigment on bark. Winner of the 2024 Wynne Prize.
LIFE AT HOME IN A WORLD AT WAR
CAPTURING THE HOME FRONT
17 August - 17 November 2024
Famous American photographer Dorothea Lange established her reputation as a documentarian when she was commissioned by the government to travel the United States in the 1930s to capture and reveal the devastation wrought on Americans by The Great Depression.
During WWII Lange was commissioned by the US Office of War Information to photograph America’s factories, shipyards and farms as the nation went to war.
Her unvarnished depictions of the forced internment of Japanese Americans from coastal California to inland camps in 1942 were considered too realistic and raw for public consumption and Ansel Adams was commissioned to document the desolate camp at Manzanar in a better light.
In Australia photographers Sam Hood, William Cranstone, Jim Fitzpatrick and Hedley Cullen captured the WWII home front, the sad farewells, the factories, the country towns and our remote internment camps for Japanese and other enemy aliens.
Produced by the Australian National Maritime Museum.
An exhibition supported by the USA Bicentennial Gift Fund.
Image Credit: Smiling Soldier, Edward Cranstone (Reproduction). Collection Australian War Memorial.
RAUSCHENBERG AND JOHNS
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
1 June - 15 September 2024
Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns are considered two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. While their work is credited with changing the course of American art history, their individual artistic styles are a result of a private creative dialogue that began when they were young artists in a relationship. Deliberately moving against the grain of Abstract Expressionism, the dominant art movement of the time, became the crucible for both their lifelong practices.
Rauschenberg and Johns: Significant Others draws upon the National Gallery’s Kenneth Tyler Collection of prints by both Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns produced between 1968 – 1973.
Image credit: Jasper Johns, Figure 7 from Color numeral series, 1968–69, (detail), published by Gemini Graphic Editions Limited, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973 © Jasper Johns/Copyright Agency, 2023
LEILA JEFFREYS
NATURE IS NOT A PLACE TO VISIT. IT IS HOME.
27 July - 15 September 2024
Highly acclaimed Australian artist, Leila Jeffreys’ work focuses on diversity within bird species. Through her photographic process she can enlarge them, or slow them down, allowing us to inspect them in detail - getting much closer than possible in real life.
This exhibition features the photographic series Ornithurae - a selection of 15 portraits of native pigeons and doves from across Australia and New Guinea printed to human scale; and a multi-channel digital video work entitled Nature Is Not A Place To Visit. It Is Home - featuring budgerigars filmed in extreme slow motion.
All works were donated by the artist to the Western Plains Cultural Centre collection in 2020, through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.
Image: Leila Jeffreys, Nature Is Not A Place To Visit. It Is Home. (still), 2019, multi-channel digital video. 8 minutes 20 seconds (loop), AP 2/2. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Leila Jeffreys, 2020.
JODI CRAMOND
ORNIBIOGRAPHY
25 May - 15 September 2024
Ornibiography is a mixed media exhibition by Dubbo-based artist Jodi Cramond that explores her relationships with birds and the similarities she views between her struggles with mental health and how society perceives beauty. Cramond’s practice incorporates mediums such as clay, paint and carbon to transform and challenge society’s perception and definition of societal beauty standards. Ornibiography is a body of work that highlights the delicate and fragile nature of birds in relation to the human psyche, emphasising and appreciating their idiosyncrasies, as a way to transform current societal perceptions.
Curated by Mariam Abboud.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by the WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
OFFICIAL OPENING: Saturday 25 May, 2pm
Image Credit : Jodi Cramond, Collection of Birds, 2023, BRT clay with underglaze and glaze. Image courtesy © artist
THE BEST OF THE BALD ARCHY PRIZE
20 April - 11 August 2024
The Bald Archy Prize, is a comic portrait competition established to satirise similar art competitions, such as the renowned Archibald Prize. It has grown to become one of the leading art events on the Australian Art calendar. These irreverent and provocative caricatures of news worthy Australians, are now held permanently by the Museum of the Riverina. The Best of the Bald Archy Prize is a survey exhibitions featuring past winners from the last 15 years.
Image Credit: Marty Steel, Never a Dull Moment, 2023, Acrylic on paper. Image courtesy © Museum of the Riverina
YEAR OF PACKAGING
WASTE 2 ART
25 May - 21 July 2024
Waste 2 Art is an annual community art exhibition and competition that features artworks created by community members using recycled and unwanted materials. The results are imaginative and thought-provoking with the artworks showcasing recycling and sustainable living.
With this creative use of waste materials, Waste 2 Art also provides an innovative approach to waste education. Schools and community groups take up the challenge and create artworks out of materials that might otherwise be thrown away.
The theme for this year's exhibition is Packaging.
Dubbo Regional Council is a proud NetWaste member and supports commitment to re-use and recycle through creative expression.
OFFICIAL OPENING: Saturday 1 June, 2pm
Image Credit: Jemima Tink, Dancing Queen, 2023, Mixed Media- Coles plastic bags, chicken wire, papier mache, baling twine and Coke cans, image courtesy of Dubbo Regional Council
4TH NATIONAL INDIGENOUS
ART TRIENNIAL
CEREMONY
27 January - 19 May 2024
Ceremony remains central to the creative practice of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. This exhibition and program of events will animate and heal to reveal how ceremony is at the nexus of Country, of culture and of community.
From the intimate and personal to the collective and collaborative, ceremonies manifest through visual art, film, music and dance. Ceremonial practice has a performative element. At its heart is the concept of iteration, the artist’s conscious engagement with what has come before. Iteration can be expressed in the painted minutiae of tali (sandhills) or the click of a shutter.
The Triennial is the National Gallery’s flagship exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. The National Indigenous Art Triennial is made possible through the continued generosity of the National Gallery’s Indigenous Arts Partner Wesfarmers Arts and key philanthropic supporters.
Curated by Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, Senior Curator-at-large, with National Gallery Curators
OPENING EVENT: 10 February 2024, 2pm
Image credit: Joel Bray, Wiradjuri people, Giraaru Galing Gaanhagirri (still), 2022, commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra for the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, created in consultation with Uncle James Ingram and Wagga Wagga Elders, and with support from City of Melbourne, Phillip Keir and Sarah Benjamin (the Keir Foundation), City of Port Phillip, Create NSW, Blacktown Arts, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Yirramboi Festival 2020, image courtesy and © the artist
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FROM THE VAULT
BEST IN SHOW:
150 YEARS OF THE DUBBO SHOW
16 October 2023 - 5 May 2024
Are you going to the show? - a question asked each year as the Dubbo showground is transformed, with rides and stalls, animals and ribbons, handmade cakes, quilts and of course the Dagwood Dog.
The Show, a distinctly Australian event, is more than just an agricultural festival promoting farming and produce, it offers a blend of entertainment, commerce, and education that celebrates our communities. Even today, more Australian’s visit their local show each year than any other single event. This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Dubbo Show with an exhibition that explores the history and significance of this cultural icon.
From the Vault is supported by Create NSW
Curated by Simone Taylor
Image Credit: L-R: Simone Taylor, Dubbo Show 2023, Dubbo Regional Council; Photographer Unknown, Horse and rider in demonstration, Dubbo Agricultural Show, April 1932. Local studies Collection, Dubbo Regional Council, 1994_425_PHO/ Simone Taylor, Dubbo Show 2023, Dubbo Regional Council
ALL AT SEA
CATS & DOGS
20 January - 14 April 2024
Cats and dogs have been cherished on board ships for as long as people have made sea voyages.
In a life from which children and families are usually missing, and are often very much missed, pets provide a focus for emotions and affection.
Sydney photographer Sam Hood went on board countless ships between 1900 and the 1950s. He took hundreds of photographs of crew members for souvenirs of their visit or to send home to families.
This selection of photographs shows how much pets meant to many seafarers. We do not know who most of the people are – detailed records have not survived. But their attachment to their little shipmates is very apparent.
Cats & Dogs - All at Sea is a touring exhibition from the Australian National Maritime Museum
Image Credit: Samuel J Hood Studio, Strathgarry crew, circa 1910, Collection Australian National Maritime Museum Collection 00020185.
2023
ART IN CONFLICT
4 November 2023 - 14 January 2024
Art in Conflict is an exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Three major bodies of work debuted in this exhibition: two recent official war art commissions – Susan Norrie (Iraq, 2016) and Megan Cope (Middle East, 2017) – and a landmark commemorative work by Angelica Mesiti.
A showcase of diverse responses to war, the exhibition includes more than seventy paintings, drawings, films, prints, photography and sculptures. Leading Australian artists are represented, such as Khadim Ali, Rushdi Anwar, eX de Medici, Denise Green, Richard Lewer, Mike Parr, Tony Albert, Paddy Bedford, Robert Campbell Jr, Michael Cook, Shirley Macnamara and Betty Muffler.
Contemporary artists’ responses to conflict bring to light untold stories, reveal neglected histories and deepen our understanding of Australia’s experience of conflict, both past and present.
An Australia War Memorial Touring Exhibition
Image credit: Simon Gende, Plane crash into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, 2012, acrylic on canvas, ART96124, Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.
RONDA SHARPE
INTERWOVEN CONNECTIONS
4 November 2023 - 14 January 2024
Interwoven Connections is a fibre art exhibition by Parkes-based Wiradjuri artist Ronda Sharpe that explores her connections to Wiradjuri culture, country, artefacts and Mother Earth. Sharpe’s practice incorporates recycled mediums and natural fibres, combined with cultural weaving practices to explore the links between Wiradjuri culture and our current throwaway society. Interwoven Connections is a body of work that explores Sharpe’s journey of reconnecting and embracing her unspoken and lost Wiradjuri cultural identity, as she reflects on the ongoing role that cultural artefacts play in the survival and resilience of the voices of the Aboriginal community.
Curated by Mariam Abboud.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by the WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
IN CONVERSATION SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2PM
Image Credit: Ronda Sharpe, The Wiradjuri land and people of the three rivers, 2020, recycled fibre optic cables, aluminium rings, palm fronds. Image © artist.
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HAYDEN FOWLER
BEHAVIOUR
4 November 2023 - 14 January 2024
Hayden Fowler's practice engages with the natural world, animals, and humanity's impact on both. His work acknowledges the psychological, spiritual and cultural significance of the human-nature relationship; and explores animist, indigenous and mythological world views.
Fowler’s practice involves long periods of research and the development of conceptually layered works - depicting scenes ranging from pristine futuristic interiors, to apocalyptic/post-human landscapes and speculative regenerative ecologies. Within these spaces, relationships between plants, animals and technology unfold, weaving mysticism, architecture, technology and life forms into strange new systems.
This exhibition presents newly acquired works to the Western Plains Cultural Centre Collection.
Curated by Kent Buchanan
Image Credit: Hayden Fowler, Australia (detail), 2017, polymer, plaster, sound, 140 x 100 x 100cm. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.
1X4
8 July - 14 January 2024
Museums use objects to tell stories. It sounds simple but it’s complicated. Objects can tell multiple stories from many points of view. So, who chooses the story? Which story is the truth? In museums, curators choose an interpretation but 1X4 turns this upside down. Each object in this exhibition tells four distinct stories. You can listen to or read each of the four stories … or some … or none and just enjoy the beauty of the objects. Every story is the truth about the object and is a valid way to view the object, but they are all different.
A touring exhibition developed by Newcastle Museum
Image Credit: Newcastle Museum
BOB MONTGOMERY
FIFTY FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
4 March - 22 October 2023
"I am naïve enough to believe that art has a definite relation to what may be called beauty." - Ansell Adams
Bob Montgomery is well-known to many locals as the proprietor of the former Montgomery's Photographic Studio which operated in Dubbo for many years. But they may not know that Montgomery produced photographs in his spare time. Inspired by the great American landscape photographer, Ansell Adams (1902 - 1984), Montgomery produced hundreds of photographs of the Australian landscape taken during family holidays around the country. This exhibition presents a selection of Montgomery's works over a 40 year period.
Image Credit: Bob Montgomery, Frost on Paterson's Curse, Dubbo NSW, 2nd July 1987. 5" x 4" Arca Swiss monorail camera with roll film back. Negative #87 362B. Plus-X 120 roll film exposed through a 150mm Sironar-N lens for 1 second @ f22/32 and developed 50% more than normal.
BOLD
8 August - 22 October 2023
Utilising works from the Western Plains Cultural Centre collection, Bold examines the ways artists express themselves using colour, and the ways we as viewers are influenced by it. Colour can be used to elicit emotion, signal action, and affect us psychologically. It is an integral element in how we engage with the world, and one that has fascinated artists for centuries. This selection of works presents colour as a reflection of the real as well as a way to express feelings, ideas and artifice.
Curated By Kent Buchanan
Image credit: Joan Ross Touching other people’s butterflies (still), 2013, single channel digital animation, 2mins 45secs. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre, purchased with funds provided by Friends of the Western Plains Cultural Centre.
PLIABLE PLANES: EXPANDED TEXTILES & FIBRE PRACTICES
5 August - 15 October 2023
Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices draws together twelve Australian practitioners who reimagine practices in textiles and fibre art. The project takes its title from a 1957 essay by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers that sought to rethink the use of weaving through an architectural lens, interpreting textiles as fundamentally structural and endlessly mutable. Using this concept as a point of departure, the exhibition presents the work of contemporary practitioners experimenting with the boundaries of materiality and spatiality through unexpected approaches to making.
Exhibiting artists reflect on the use of textiles to chart social and cultural change, responding to historical modes of production and presentation, and underlying histories of domesticity and gendered labour. Works seamlessly incorporate traditional textile approaches including weaving, embroidery, knitting, and sewing while exploring broader conceptual and aesthetic possibilities that alter perceptions of material, form, and function. Through expanded painting, assemblage, performative gesture, sound, video, and installation, Pliable Planes disrupts our understanding of how textiles and fibre are defined and used in contemporary practice.
Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices is a UNSW Galleries touring exhibition presented with the support of the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia touring initiative, the Australia Council for the Arts, and Museums & Galleries NSW on behalf of the NSW Government.
Curated by Karen Hall & Catherine Woolley
Image credit: Lucia Dohrmann, Quatrefoil 1 – Weft 2022, acrylic on canvas, aluminium bars, unravelled, knotted. Courtesy of the artist, Adelaide. Photo: Jacquie Manning
FROM THE VAULT
DUBBO A HUB OF PROGRESS
18 March - 8 October 2023
Dubbo's first banker, James Holmes arrived in 1865 carrying (as the story goes) £15, 000 in cash to open a branch of the Commercial Banking Co. in the village of Dubbo. A trusted local bank manager, James Holmes was intimately involved in Dubbo's commercial life and was one of several influential businessmen who helped shape Dubbo's future.
Personal mementoes and family records often make their way into historical records due to their transitory nature; business records often do not. It is for this reason that the collection of commercial records relating to Dubbo's early history, held in our Local Studies Collection, is so unique.
Through the legal documents and financial records of James Holmes and solicitors George Taylor and his son George Henry Taylor, we can trace the early progress of Dubbo as it developed into a thriving township.
Curated by Simone Taylor
Image Credit: Photographer Unknown, Commercial Bank, Macquarie Street, Dubbo, c.1873, Local Studies Collections, Dubbo Regional Council.
ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2022
3 June - 30 July 2023
Prestigious and often controversial, the Archibald Prize is Australia's foremost portraiture prize. The trustees of the Art Gallery judge the entries, and the winner receives $100 000, courtesy of ANZ.
First awarded in 1921, the Archibald Prize was established following a bequest from former Art Gallery trustee and founder of the Bulletin magazine, JF Archibald (1856-1919), whose aim was to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of extraordinary Australians.
The most important and popular arts prize in Australia, the Archibald, is a snapshot of Australia each year, our heroes, villains, tastemakers and rule shakers. Not just a celebration of visual culture; it is a touchstone of what we as a nation are thinking and talking about.
An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
This exhibition is ticketed.
EVENT OPENING FRIDAY 2 JUNE 6PM
Image Credit: Archibald Prize 2022 finalist, Claus Stangl, Taika Waititi, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 245 x 195.1cm © the artist, image © AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins.
KATE KENWORTHY
CAN YOU HEAR WHAT I SEE?
27 May - 30 July 2023
Can You Hear What I See? is an exhibition by Wellington-based artist Kate Kenworthy that explores her connection to water. Drawing on her heightened senses of touch and hearing due to a visual impairment, Kenworthy's exhibition questions the very thing that many of us take for granted: sight. Can You Hear What I See? is a body of work that focuses on the beauty of the Bell and Macquarie (Wambuul) rivers and the element of water; a substance that Kenworthy can only touch and sometimes hear, leaving her to imagine what it must look like. The paintings featured in this exhibition are Kenworthy's interpretations of her surroundings and how the river systems entwined into them.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
IN CONVERSATION SATURDAY 27 MAY 2PM
Image Credit: Kate Kenworthy, Catching Up, 2022, acrylic on canvas © the artist.
THE BAND FROM DUBBO: A HISTORY OF THE REELS
3 December - 2 July 2023
Dubbo in 1976 had only been officially a city for 10 years. It had one radio station and two TV channels. From this context sprang a band that would redefine Australian music in the 1980s and beyond. The Reels were a band that defied categorisation, and were quickly embraced by audiences across the country. An endlessly innovative and idiosyncratic band, they skillfully re-interpreted “Golden Oldies” from music’s past into chart topping contemporary hits, and produced original material that quickly saw them enter the annals of Australian Rock history, in spite of chart success.
THE BAND FROM DUBBO charts the bands history from its humble beginnings in Dubbo, its evolution through the 80s and 90s and its unique place in Australian Rock Music history.
Curated by Kent Buchanan
100 YEARS OF THE ASTLEY CUP
On exhibition until 30 July
Dubbo College, Orange High School and Denison College Bathurst High Campus mark 100 years of the Astley Cup this year, with the century of hotly contested competition being celebrated by an exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre.
The competition consists of tennis, boys' and girls' soccer, netball, basketball, athletics and rugby league, as well as the Mulvey Cup debating competition.
The Cup itself has direct ties to Dubbo, having been bought from a local jeweller and donated by Joseph Lawrence Astley after having the words “play the game” engraved on it.
The exhibition features newspaper clippings, photographs, uniforms, programs, mascot and other objects, as well as some priceless footage from the Astley Cup in the late 60’s. Items have been loaned to the WPCC for display by Jill McCann, Wayne Garnsey, Judy O’Connor and Dubbo College Senior Campus.
YOUNG ARCHIE DUBBO
6 May - 28 May 2023
The Archibald Prize is Australia's pre-eminent portraiture event and an icon of Australian artistic endeavour. Its junior extension, the Young Archie - which celebrates its 10-year anniversary - provides an excellent platform for the talented young creating moving and thought-provoking art. The Young Archie invites artists between the ages of five and 18 to submit a portrait of 'someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life.'
EVENT OPENING SATURDAY 6 MAY 2PM
Image Credit: Gideon Baker, Gideon the Great, (Detail) Age 8. © Art Gallery of NSW
WASTE 2 ART
TEXTILES & FAST FASHION
4 March - 28 May 2023
Waste 2 Art is an annual community art exhibition and competition that features artworks created by community members using recycled and unwanted materials. The results are imaginative and thought-provoking with the artworks showcasing recycling and sustainable living.
With this creative use of waste materials, Waste 2 Art also provides an innovative approach to waste education. Schools and community groups take up the challenge and create artworks out of materials that might otherwise be thrown away.
The theme for this year's exhibition is Textiles & Fast Fashion.
Dubbo Regional Council is a proud NetWaste member and supports commitment to re-use and recycle through creative expression.
EVENT OPENING SATURDAY 18 MARCH 2PM
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Image Credit: Waterlooplein market in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Image © iStock Photo
SHANI NOTTINGHAM
A LOT OF LITTLE NOTHINGS
4 March - 21 May 2023
A Lot of Little Nothings is an exhibition of mixed media works by Cowra-based artist Shani Nottingham, that explores the issues of waste,mass consumption and our impact on the environment. Nottingham fashions large sculptures that echo and mimic forms of nature, produced from found, donated and collected single-use bread tags to create an ultra-dimensional world. A Lot of Little Nothings is an installation that aims to highlight the hyper-abundance of single-use plastic, its impact on our environment and our relationship with plastic on both a small and large scale.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
IN CONVERSATION SATURDAY 11 MARCH 2PM
Image Credit: Shani Nottingham, Plasticus Organicus, 2020 - Ongoing, salvaged single-use plastic bread tags and lampshades. Image © the artist.
ARTEXPRESS
18 February - 30 April 2023
ARTEXPRESS showcases Higher School Certificate Bodies of Work completed by final-year students in 2022. Representing best practices in visual arts education, it highlights the passion, insight and perspectives of students across NSW. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of approaches and expressive forms, including ceramics, a collection of works, documented forms, drawing, graphic design, painting, photo media, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and fibre, and time-based forms.
These highly skilled and thoughtful bodies of work demonstrate creativity, resilience and sustained investigation of the very complex world and times in which we live.
This years selection was curated by local Visual Arts Teacher Tamara Lawry
EVENT OPENING FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 6PM
Image Credit: Keira May Bussey, Back to Grandma, 2022, painting.
FROM THE VAULT
VICTORIA PARK OUR PLACE OF RECREATION, CELEBRATION AND COMMEMORATION
15 July - 12 March 2023
Located in the heart of Dubbo, Victoria Park plays a central role as a place were our community meets for recreation, celebration and commemoration. This exhibition explores how Victoria Park has changed inline with changes attitudes and uses of urban parks from pleasure gardens to urban green spaces.
Image Credit: Aerial View of Victoria Park, Dubbo, 1938, Photograph, Local Studies Collection, Dubbo Regional Council, D0001099
ANDREW SULLIVAN
SURVEY INTO THE CRETACEOUS
10 December - 26 February 2023
“Human courage and endurance have conquered-the explorer must change his methods.” - Roy Chapman Andrews.
Survey into the Cretaceous is a journey into the painters imagination.
The painter has imagined himself as being an assigned artist with a team of paleontologists, scientists and geographers on a survey expedition into the late Cretaceous period. His brief is to record the fauna and express the experience through an artist’s eye. A broad cross-section of species is represented, some now extinct, some still extant today.
Boundaries of reality are not of relevance, barriers between disciplines blurred, this is an act of imagination. The work presented being the product of the journey, tangible evidence of an impossible story.
The analogy of the journey is paramount. As with each individual’s human journey, it is a journey of struggle, learning, growth and ultimately evolution and perhaps, transcendence.
This exhibition is managed and toured by Pompom Gallery
Image Credit: Andrew Sullivan, Out of Purgatory (Purgatorius, Diabloceratops and Dante) 2019?, oil canvas, 137 × 137cm. Image © the artist.
DANDALOOSU
DECOLONISE
10 December - 26 February 2023
Decolonise is an exhibition of textiles by Wellington-based artist DandalooSu, that explores the importance and value of native fauna and flora in agricultural and fashion industries. Drawing on cultural practices of native fibre crafts, knowledge of Gilgai’s (small water holes) and three pivotal dates where imported fibres were introduced into the Australian landscapes, DandalooSu fashion garments, headdresses and ornaments made with native materials is an attempt to highlight our current patterns of consumption. Decolonise is a body of work that aims to reclaim and elevate the use of native fibres within the textile world, and draw awareness to the environmental impact of their modes of production.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
Image Credit: DandalooSu, Celebration, 2017, native fibre spiny sedge and imported raffia. Image © Chenoa.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
THE COLLECTION
PREDATOR BECOMES PREY
1 October - 26 February 2023
When the word Predator comes to mind, we may naturally think of animals that hunt, or prey on other animals. We perhaps overlook that the smallest of insects can become predators to the most fearsome of creatures in the animal kingdom. Predator becomes Prey is an exhibition that explores the delicate balance of nature and the complex relationship between animals and humans that interconnects us both from birth until death. This continual connection is expressed through our interaction and intrigue with the animal world, ensuring our place within the cycle of life.
Image Credit: Petrina Hicks, Bird Fingers, 2013, pigment prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl paper 320gsm. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre, Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Western Plains Cultural Centre.
EUAN MACLEOD AND RODNEY POPLE
2°
1 October - 12 February 2023
Friends and well-known Australian artists Euan Macleod and Rodney Pople undertook artist residencies in Dubbo during 2021, observing people and animals in Zoos produced sketches and preparatory studies and expanded on these later in the studio. For their first two-person exhibition they have produced large scale paintings and portraits of animals and humans, revealing a sustained engagement with the act of looking and its reverse – being looked at. In different ways characteristic of each artists’ established practice, the paintings explore notions of captivity and freedom, drawing out the absurdity at the heart of our own ideas around dominance and survival.
Curated by Kent Buchanan
This exhibition has been supported by funding from Create NSW.
Image Credits:
Euan Macleod, Zoo larger crowd, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 100 x 124cm. Image © the artist.
Rodney Pople, Roulette, 2021, oil on linen, 145 x 184cm. Image © the artist.
2022
CAPTURING NATURE
Early photography at the Australian Museum 1857- 1893
4 June - 23 October 2022
In Capturing Nature, we travel back to a time when photography was revolutionising science, art and society.
These never-before-seen images dating from 1857 to 1893 have been printed from the Australian Museum’s collection of glass plate negatives and are some of Australia’s earliest natural history photographs. Sitting at the nexus of science and art, they tell both the story of pioneering research as well as the advent of photography in the young colony less than 20 years after the birth of photography in Europe.
A touring exhibition created by the Australian Museum.
Image Credit: Gerard Kreft with the newly discovered manta ray, Manta alfredi, in the Museum’s courtyard in 1869. Photos © Australian Museum.
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BEHIND THE LINES: THE YEAR IN POLITICAL CARTOONS 2021:
PROPHECY & CHANCE
29 October - 4 December 2022
Behind the Lines 2021 is rummaging in the fortune-teller’s chest for the crystal ball. Just as predictive models have become ever-present in the news cycle, the exhibition’s current theme, Prophecy & Chance, acknowledges our discomfort with uncertainty and our quest to know what the future holds. Peering into the swirling mists of the ‘Canberra bubble’ our talented political cartoonists have illuminated the complex issues of 2021’s ‘new normal’ - a year peppered with big reports, unexpected outcomes and floundering forecasts. From COVID-19, case numbers to house prices and employment levels, 2021 was a year to expect the unexpected.
The 2021 Cartoonist of the Year is Glen Le Lievre, cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, MAD, Private Eye, Reader’s Digest, The New Yorker, Time and The Wall Street Journal.
Behind the lines is an annual onsite and travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
Curated by Holly Williams, The Curator’s Department
Image Credit: Glen Le Livre, Prophecy & change, Behind the Lines 2021 Image © artist.
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JESS JOHNSON & SIMON WARD
TERMINUS
1 October - 4 December 2022
Inspired by Sci-Fi, comics and fantasy movies, Jess Johnson and Simon Ward: Terminus is a virtual reality (VR) installation that transports the viewer into an imaginary landscape of colour and pattern populated by human clones, moving walkways and gateways to new realms.
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward hold a unique position amongst contemporary art practitioners. Johnson’s drawings are transformed from analogue into digital, and from solo practice into cross-disciplinary collaboration, forming the basis of this virtual experience. Animated by Ward and enriched with input from Smith and Clarke, the result is Terminus: a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, explored via a network of travellators and gateways.
Terminus presents a quest, a choose-your-own adventure into the technological. Prepare yourself for a slippage of time and space as your journey propels you through five distinct realms.
Jess Johnson and Simon Ward is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by Visions of Australia and the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program. Terminus was commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation.
Image Credit Jess Johnson and Simon Ward Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Terminus (still), 2017 - 2018, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2017, purchased 2018 © Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, courtesy of Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney; Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland and Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
MELISSA KELLY
NOT FRAGILE LIKE A FLOWER
9 July - 18 September 2022
Not Fragile Like a Flower is an exhibition of ceramics by Gilgandra-based artist Melissa Kelly, that explores and challenges the ways society has indoctrinated women into traditional roles. Drawing on lived experiences, Kelly fashions figurative zoomorphised forms that reflect and contemplate the various stages of life for women during marriage, motherhood and after. Not Fragile Like a Flower is a body of work that explores resilience, transformation and growth, allowing for adaptation through life’s continual changes.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
IN CONVERSATION SATURDAY 9 JULY 2PM
Image Credit Melissa Kelly, Bird Woman, 2021, Stoneware and paint. Image © the artist.
EXPERIMENTA LIFE FORMS: INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
2 July - 18 September 2022
Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art features 26
contemporary Australian and International artists working across diverse artforms – including robotics, bio-art, screen-based works, installations, participatory and generative art. The exhibition explores the changing notions of life in response to new scientific research and technological change. While the focus is on biological life, there are also artworks that look to a future with sentient machines and the possibilities afforded by biotechnology research. In unexpected, playful and challenging ways the exhibition connects us to the complexity and messiness of the life that envelops us.
Curated by Jonathan Parsons and Lubi Thomas
Associate Curator: Jessica Clark
EVENT OPENING FRIDAY 8 JULY 6PM
Image Credit: Justine Emard, Soul Shift, 2018. Video still. Image courtesy of the artist.
WASTE TO ART
SOFT PLASTICS
7th May - 26th June
Waste to Art is an annual competition that features artworks created by community members using recycled and unwanted materials. The results are highly imaginative and thought-provoking with the collected artworks celebrating recycling and sustainable living. This year’s theme is Soft Plastics.
Curated by Phil Aitken, WPCC.
OFFICIAL OPENING AND PRIZE: SATURDAY 21 MAY 2PM
Image Credit: William Munro, The Motorbike, 2021, found metal. Image © WPCC.
TAYLA MARTIN
FLOOD TO DUST
7 May - 3 July 2022
Flood to Dust is an exhibition by Wagga Wagga based artist, Tayla Martin featuring a series of photographic and video works documenting the ever changing landscapes across regional NSW. Martin adopts a documentary style approach highlighting the major environmental challenges that have swept across the region over the past several years, and the social impacts that these brought with them. Martin’s body of work focuses on embodying the true essence of human resilience and spirit within communities affected by these events.
ARTIST TALK SATURDAY 7 MAY 2PM
Curated by Mariam Abboud
Image Credit: Tayla Martin, Checking the Dam Level, 2020, photographic print. Image © the artist.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts.
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This exhibition has been supported by funding from Create NSW.
FROM THE VAULT
THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY IS REQUESTED: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BALL
14 March - 3 July 2022
Attending a Ball was the epitome of social interaction in the 19th and early twentieth centuries. More than just a pleasurable activity, it had an important social function. Held to celebrate important local events, to raise funds for charities and to showcase the latest debutantes, they provided one of the few public spaces where young men and women could interact, and dancing offered an opportunity to flirt, admire and attract. This exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre will explore the world of the Ball, and its importance to the social fabric of the region.
Image Credit: Hospital Ball at Empire Hall, Macquarie Street, Dubbo, 9 August 1912, Local Studies Collection, Dubbo Regional Council, D0000510
ARLO MOUNTFORD
THE FOLLY, THE TRIUMPH & THE LAMENT
4 June - 26 June 2022
Arlo Mountford is one of Australia's most interesting contemporary artists. His diverse practice mines art history, mass media, screen culture and the internet; working with large-scale interactive installations that integrate sound, video and animation. From 2009-2011, Mountford produced animations based on paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c1525-1569) and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), in which he meticulously reproduced the original works with the addition of sound and movement. These works reinvigorate these iconic paintings, becoming new works that explore the act of making, the history of western art and its relationship to contemporary art practice, and how we engage with the past, narrative and myth. The Folly (2009), The Triumph (2010) and The Lament (2011) are presented together for the very first time.
Curated by Kent Buchanan
Image Credit Arlo Mountford, The Folly [still], 2008, 3-channel digital animation and 4-channel audio, 9 mins. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of Western Plains Cultural Centre, 2009
THE QUEEN'S ALBUM
12 February - 29 May 2022
Curated by senior curator, Dr Penny Stannard and curator, Bonnie Wildie, The Queen’s Album explores the unique story of an album of photographs gifted to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1882 on behalf of the people of NSW. The album contained 64 photographic images of sites and scenes in Sydney and regional NSW that were constructed to promote NSW as a progressive and desirable place, and to consolidate its position within the British Empire. At the time, the album was described as a ‘graceful tribute of loyalty’ to Queen Victoria. Today, its whereabouts are unknown.
In 2018 NSW State Archives rediscovered most of the original photographic glass plate negatives in the State Archives Collection which were conserved, digitised and reproduced for the exhibition project.
Image Credit: Photographer unknown. Picton Viaduct over Stonequarry Creek 1870 Digital reproduction from glass plate negative [detail] NSW State Archives, NRS 4481 SH1117
SPOWERS & SYME
26 February - 29 May 2022
Celebrating the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, the National Gallery Touring Exhibition Spowers & Syme will present the changing face of Inter-war Australia through the perspective of two pioneering, modern women artists.
The exhibition offers rare insight into the unlikely collaboration between the daughters of rival media families. Studying together in Paris and later with avant-garde printmaker Claude Flight in London, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme returned to the conservative art world of Australia – where they became enthusiastic exponents of modern art in Melbourne during the 1930s and ‘40s.
Spowers & Syme is a National Gallery of Australia Touring Exhibition supported by Visions of Australia, Major Patron David Thomas AM and the Gordon Darling Foundation. Spowers & Syme is a Know My Name project.
EVENT OPENING FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 6PM
Image Credit: Eveline Syme, The Factory, 1933, Colour linocut, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1979, © Estate of Eveline Syme.
JACK RANDELL
ANIMAL STUDIES
12 February - 1 May 2022
We’ve been pretty good at adopting animals as tribal symbols, footy codes, advertising, and astrology. These are nuanced ways of describing ourselves. “She has the courage of a lion” or “He was as meek as a lamb.” Humans have recently had to consider their own potential collective demise and been witness to extinction of dozens of other species. Animal Studies explores a shared existence. Each artwork in this series considers a shared space, a shared presence. We say that elephants never forget - what is it that they think? What is it that a rhinoceros senses with its gaze and tough dry skin?
Animal Studies is a body of work that has occupied Jack Randell for the last two years and features drawings, paintings, and media studies of singular creatures animated for the viewer to consider the animal’s gaze upon us. What do they see? What do they think and dream? If they thought like us, and I suspect they don’t, what would they think of our use of their shared ecology?
Curated by Dr Andrew Frost
EVENT OPENING FRIDAY 11 FEBRUARY 6PM
ARTIST TALK SATURDAY 12 FEBRUARY 11AM
Image Credit: Jack Randell, Przewalski’s Horse, 2020, mixed media on polypropylene. Image © the artist.
GEOFF THOMAS
ALL ABOUT THE MATERIAL
12 February - 1 May 2022
All About the Material is an exhibition that showcases the prolific practice of Gilgandra-based potter, Geoff Thomas as he explores both the materiality and processes involved in creating wood-fired pottery. Drawing on East Asian pottery practices, Thomas reflects on his own identity and roles as farmer and potter, using clay as the medium to convey beauty within both worlds. All About the Material is a body of work that combines process, experimentation and chance as overarching elements that influence the outcome.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
Image Credit: Geoff Thomas, Anagama Jar and Bowl, 2020, Anagama fired, fire box pot, clay, natural fly ash glaze, shell wads, four-day firing, cypress pine fuel and ash glaze, clay, 18-hour firing, bourry box kiln. Image © the artist.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts.
2021
MEL O'CALLAGHAN
CENTRE OF THE CENTRE
20 November 2021 - 20 February 2022
Centre of the Centre is inspired by a small mineral containing a tiny pocket of water, possibly millions of years old, which was gifted to the artist by her grandfather, renowned Australian mineralogist, Albert Chapman.
During 2018 and 2019 Mel O’Callaghan travelled to two underwater locations, the East Pacific Rise, and the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines – one of the World’s most productive and concentrated ecosystems in the world, dubbed the ‘centre of the centre’.
For this exhibition, O’Callaghan has engaged some of the world’s leading scientists. Filming deep underwater, the team observed microscopic ‘extremophiles’ – organisms that thrive in extreme environmental conditions. The footage captures these organisms moving in and out of gases from simultaneously freezing ocean temperatures and superheated hydrothermal vents.
O’Callaghan has translated these investigations into an immersive exhibition experience that features a large-scale video work, accompanied by glass forms that entwine a choreography of performance, breathing and sculpture.
Mel O'Callaghan's Centre of the Centre was curated and developed by Artspace and is touring nationally with Museum and Galleries of NSW. Centre of the Centre is co-commissioned by Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, Artspace, Sydney, and the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane with commissioning partners Andrew Cameron AM, Cathy Cameron, Peter Wilson and James Emmett, and lead supporter, Kronenberg Mais Wright.
The development and presentation of Centre of the Centre is supported by the Fondation des Artistes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the US National Science Foundation. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australian Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Image Credit: Mel O’Callaghan, Respire, Respire, 2019, performance and installation view, Artspace, Sydney, courtesy the artist and Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney; Galerie Allen, Paris; Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon. Photo - Document Photography.
THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS: CAZNEAUX BY THE WATER
21 December 2021 - 6 February 2022
Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953), was a giant in the history of Australian photography. ‘Through a Different Lens’ takes us back in time to Cazneaux’s soft focus Australia and gives us an insight into this significant photographer’s life.
This exhibition of more than 50 original pieces presents this aspect of Cazneaux’s art, reflecting how water and Sydney Harbour fits within his work, his signature pictorial photographic style and his foray into modernism and abstract form.
SCOTT HOWIE
HOW GOOD IS UNAUSTRALIA
4 December 2021 - 6 February 2022
how good is unaustralia is an exhibition of work by Wagga Wagga-based artist, Scott Howie featuring a series of screen-based performances, sculptures and installations that offer a cheeky and provocative view
to imagining the possibility of an unaustralia. Howie adopts a satirical
lens as he questions the nationalistic values associated with being Australian, revealing a body of work that allows us to question those unfulfilled promises and hopes of being Australian.
LEILA JEFFREYS
FLOCK
20 October - 28 November 2021
Leila Jeffreys utilises photography and video to create intimate images of birds as a means to highlight their idiosyncratic beauty and their unique relationship to humans and the natural world. Eschewing any outside elements that would distract from her subjects, Jeffreys’ human-sized portraits of native pigeons and doves of New Guinea and Australia, featured in this exhibition, revealing them to be surprisingly diverse, unlike the everyday image we may have of them. The series, titled ‘Ornithurae’, allows us to see these busy birds up close and in minute detail, which would otherwise be impossible in real life.
Image Credit Leila Jeffreys, ‘Nature Is Not A Place To Visit. It Is Home.’, 2019. Production still of multi-channel digital video. 8min 20sec on continuous loop. Western Plains Cultural Centre Collection, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts program by Leila Jeffreys.
BUILDING COMMUNITY:
WALLACE & McGEE, WALMAC AND THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE WEST
31 July - 7 November 2021
What do the RAAF Base, St Raphael’s Church in Cowra, St Mary’s School, Wellington, the Nyngan RSL Club, the Forbes Olympic Pool and the Amaroo Hotel have in common? A Dubbo-based company built them all.
This exhibition will explore the history of the company as well as its impact on the establishment and consolidation of communities across the western region.
Image Credit: Photographer unknown, Believed to be Phil McGee in front of Wallace and McGee’s shed in Wingewarra Street, Dubbo c1930s, gelatin silver print, Local Studies Collection, Dubbo Regional Council.
JAMFACTORY ICON ANGELA VALAMANESH
ABOUT BEING HERE
20 October - 7 November 2021
JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in craft-based media. Inspired by the symbiosis between science and poetry, Angela Valamanesh’s artworks elicit intrigue and a strong sense of personal investigation as she manipulates seemingly familiar anatomical, botanical and parasitic forms in beguiling and unusual ways. Primarily known for her biomorphic ceramic sculptures, this exhibition also celebrates the artist’s evocative drawings, watercolours, and mixed media works from her developing style of the late 1990s until present.
Image Credit Angela Valamanesh, Various friends and enemies no. 6, 2016. Photo: Michael Kluvanek.
LINDY LEE
MOON IN A DEW DROP
22 May - 1 August 2021
Moon in a Dew Drop is an exhibition of the work of influential Australian Chinese artist Lindy Lee. Lee’s shimmering, meditative and thought-provoking works feature in this major national touring exhibition, which draws on her experience of living between two cultures.
Using a spectacular array of processes which include flinging molten bronze, burning paper and allowing the rain to transform surfaces, Lee draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to develop works that engage with the history of art, cultural authenticity, personal identity and the cosmos. Key influences are the philosophies of Daoism and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, which explore the connections between humanity and nature.
This exhibition will introduce audiences to works from across the artist’s extensive career, from early photocopy artworks, to her research into her family history and recent paintings and sculptures created using fire and water.
Exhibition organised and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.
Curated by MCA Director, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE
Image Credit: Lindy Lee, The Silence of Painters, 1989, photocopy, synthetic polymer paint on paper, Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Loti Smorgon AO and Victor Smorgon AC, 1995, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art, Image © artist
BEHIND THE LINES: THE YEAR IN POLITICAL CARTOONS
2020 A DOG'S BREAKFAST
29 May - 18 July 2021
In a year that some have politely described as ‘a dog’s breakfast’, this year’s theme encompasses 2020’s mix of disruption and uncertainty. The term seems particularly fitting for something so unappealing – a year filled with mess, turmoil and failed attempts.
From the bushfire summer to the pandemic and global economic woes, Australia’s political cartoonists have had plenty to work with. They have cast their eyes over the whole dog and pony show. There’s the usual dog-eat-dog world of politics, with its top dogs, sly dogs and people thrown to the dogs. But they’ve also watched on as we’ve embraced panic buying, curves (on graphs and on ourselves) and experts in our midst (or at least at our press conferences). And masks. It’s been a year with plenty of masks.
In this year’s exhibition, visual cues from overlapping crises pepper the cartoons: Hawaiian shirts and burnt trees give way to masks and spiky balls. Fortunately, our cartoonists have also captured moments of goodness and humour amid the rolling drama. With luck, we can look back on 2020 – a masked, sloppy mess of a year – and send it firmly back to the doghouse where it belongs. The 2020 Cartoonist of the Year is Cathy Wilcox, cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.
Behind the Lines is an annual onsite and travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
Curated by Holly Williams, The Curator’s Department
Image Credit Cathy Wilcox, A Dog’s Breakfast, Behind the Lines 2020. Image © artist.
TRUE TO LIFE LIKENESS: A HISTORY OF VINCENT'S STUDIO
24 October - 23 May 2021
Vincent's Studio was a photographic studio that operated in Dubbo and region from the early 1900s to the late 1970s. Before phone cameras and social media, photographic studios played a crucial role within a community, documenting and producing photographs of weddings, debutante balls, engagements, couples, nurses, service personnel, elected officials, sporting teams, portraits, passport photographs, families, children, babies, and assorted buildings.
The collection of negatives, logbooks, and other materials that make up the Vincent's Studio collection had begun to significantly deteriorate by the time they were donated to the Dubbo & District Family History Society (DDFHS). Over a number of years, DDFHS volunteers have tirelessly cleaned, scanned, catalogued, and researched the collection, allowing it to be accessed and utilised by the general public.
This exhibition charts the history of photographic studios, the Vincent's Studio collection and the invaluable work of volunteer-run organisations like DDFHS in preserving our material culture.
This exhibition is a collaboration between Western Plains Cultural Centre, Local Studies and Dubbo & District Family History Society.
Any new information on the images in our exhibit will help us learn more about the archive and ultimately about our community. If you recognise anyone in the photos - let us know! If you suspect your family may have had photos taken by Vincent's Studio, click on the link below and check the Index on the Dubbo & District Family History Society website.
Image Credit: A.J. Vincent; Vincent's Studio, Hospital Ball at Empire Hall, Macquarie Street; Dubbo, 9th August 1912. 1912 silver gelatin print; Image (C) Local Studies collection, Dubbo Regional Council
WASTE 2 ART
13 March - 16 May 2021
Waste To Art is a community art exhibition and competition showcasing reused & recyclable waste materials. This exciting and innovative challenge invites schools, community groups and individuals to transform rubbish into art and design.
Dubbo Regional Council is a proud NetWaste member and supports community's commitment to re-use and recycle through creative expression. While the artworks do not have to be made using the theme Aluminium and Steel Cans, the theme provides a focus for waste challenges and education programs.
2020 JACARANDA ACQUISITIVE DRAWING AWARD
13 March - 16 May 2021
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) is Grafton Regional Gallery's flagship art prize, sponsored by the Friends of the Gallery.
Established in 1988 the JADA celebrates drawing in all its splendour from hyper-realism to the expressive and abstract, each evokes a poetic and emotional response to the human condition and our environment. Many of the works question and challenge the notion of traditional drawing; while others provide a contemporary perspective and reinvigorate those traditions.
In 2020 the $35,000 prize received a record 659 entries from 521 artists throughout Australia with 56 finalists selected for the exhibition and subsequent tour.
EVENT OPENING 19 MARCH 6PM
Image Credit: Teo Treloar This is impermanence, (detail), 2019, graphite pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm u/f. Courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer. Image © artist.
CORAL DOLAN
HERSTORY
13 February - 16 May 2021
Official Opening: 20 February 2pm
Herstory by Dubbo based artist Coral Dolan features works that explore and celebrate the lives of women in regional NSW. Inspired by their courageous stories of travelling and settling in isolated areas, Dolan fashions multi-layered works from found ‘women’s objects’, eco printed fabrics, and preserved botanicals; sealing them with preserving wax, with the intent to create artefacts that encapsulate the hitherto untold stories of these women.
Herstory is an exhibition where Dolan sheds light on the importance of preserving these historic personal and cultural stories of regional women, before they risk being forgotten.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
Herstory is an exhibition, which explores and celebrates the personal and cultural stories of regional women throughout history. Join us for this artist talk, as Coral Dolan discuss how these women have inspired this multi-layered body of work, paying homage to their memory.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, WPCCs emerging regional artist program. The HomeGround program is proudly supported by: Wingewarra Dental
Image Credit Coral Dolan, Həːst(ə)ré, 2020, Cyanotype print, wax, botanical material, eco printed linen and silk, gold leaf, thread. Image courtesy of artist
NERIDAH STOCKLEY
A SECULAR VIEW
30 January - 7 March 2021
Neridah Stockley: A Secular View is an exhibition spanning twenty-five years of sustained practice by Northern Territory based artist Neridah Stockley. Whilst Stockley is best known as a painter, this survey reveals the diversity of her practice including drawings, collage, dry point etchings and a growing body of ceramic work.
Stockley's work is characterised by abstracted compositions that hint at narrative or symbolic content, traversing memory and experience in an ongoing dialogue with visual interpretation. Domestic in scale, she invites the viewer to encounter a section of surveyed and deconstructed landscape, through a process of re-visioning the natural and manufactured world into linear and geometric planes and forms.
Curated by Gillian Shaw, Art Curator, University of Newcastle Art Gallery.
EVENT OPENING 29 JANUARY 6PM
Image Credit: Summer 1, 2012, acrylic on hardboard, 50 x 50cm. Image c Christine Godden
LET ME BE MYSELF
30 November 2019 - 27 January 2020
Official Opening: 30 November 2.00pm
Let Me Be Myself was an exhibition that enabled visitors to identify with the personal story of Anne Frank. The exhibition connected the personal story of the Frank family with the important historical events of that time: the rise of the national socialists, the isolation and discrimination of the Jewish population, eventually escalating in the Holocaust. The connection between the personal story of Anne Frank and the historical context shows the consequences the anti-Jewish measures had on one particular person. It reminds us that all out actions have the ability to impact on a single individual.
Image Credit Photo collection of the Anne Frank Stitching (Amsterdam)
EYE OF THE CORVUS:
MESSENGER OF TRUTH
14 December 2019 - 2 February 2020
Official Opening: 14 December 2:00pm
From the ancient stories of indigenous cultures of the world to the more contemporary sagas and fables of western civilisations, birds of the Corvidae family (ravens and crows) are highly symbolic - representing the presence of death, all-seeing knowledge, evil, good luck and protection.Using multi-channel video projection with layers of ambient and constructed, amplified sounds, triggered by motion sensors, and recorded on location in Australia and Iceland, Eye of the Corvus, explores the range of these birds in two of their native lands – drawing the participant into a new narrative through the avian eye. It will be an immersive experience, throwing the viewer into the expansive field of view of the raven, reimagining landscapes familiar in one aspect, made unfamiliar through additional layers of information.
Adaptation, narrative, myth-making and interdependence collide in the raven. It is a marker not just for our time and culture but for many times and many cultures. This is a WPCC exhibition.
Image Credit Kim V. Goldsmith, Eye of the Corvus: Messenger of Truth, detail, 2019, Image courtesy of artist
ART OF THREATENED SPECIES
9 November 2019 - 2 February 2020
Official Opening: 8 November 6.00pm
Art of Threatened Species explores threatened flora, fauna and the environments that sustain them in New South Wales, by enabling artists and scientists to collaborate. Each artist has travelled vast distances and spent many hours researching and observing species and environments. Each has partnered with a scientist working within each specific field. The resulting works will attempt to communicate the issues, politics, and emotions that surround at-risk animals, plants and environments. This project is a partnership between Orana Arts (OA) and the Office of Planning, Industry and Environment.
A collaboration between Western Plains Cultural Centre, Orana Arts and the Office of Planning, Industry and Environment
Image Credit Anna Glynn Marooned (video still) 2019
ROCHELLE SUMMERFIELD
CROSSROADS
7 December 2019 - 16 February 2020
Official Opening: 7 December 2.00pm
Crossroads is an exhibition that uses visual storytelling to explore themes on loss and transformation. Summerfield's bold experimentations through animation and mixed media shadow works disrupt traditional art forms as she combines new technologies to create dialogues around female subjectivity, nature and transformation. Crossroads examines the relationships between humans and the environment which Summerfield believes are intrinsically bound to our sense of self, well-being and connections within communities. This is a HomeGround exhibition, WPCC's emerging regional artist programme, and produced in collaboration between WPCC and Orana Arts.
Image Credit Rochelle Summerfield ‘Doomed Innocent: Macquarie Perch’’ 2019, Mixed Media drawing and shadow projection, courtesy of the artist
FLEUR MACDONALD
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
22 February - 19 April 2020
Based on a true story is an exhibition that explores and pays homage to the traditional craft of doily making. Inspired by the legacy of historical Kandos local Lucy Williams, artist Fleur MacDonald reimagines this traditional practice of doily making by painting renditions of traditional doilies on found domestic wooden serving bowls. Through this the process, the artist’s intention is to highlight the importance of this craft, and to emphasise the potential for past handicrafts and their associated intricacies, to be lost through time.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by the WPCC and supported by Orana Arts.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
Image Credit Fleur MacDonald, Destination, 2019, pigment and vanish on wood. Image © Fleur MacDonald 2019
TO SERVE!: WOMEN, WORLD WAR II & THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
1 February - 3 May 2020
In 1953 the writer L.P Hartley declared “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. These words speak to the challenges of archiving history and the stories and lessons we glean from it. Photographs, letters, clothing, keepsakes, etc. all play active roles in helping us to create a picture of the events of the past, but in the end we are all in service to memory. To Serve examines the role of women in the Central West of NSW and the myriad contributions made by them to the World War 2 war effort at home and abroad. The exhibition highlights the ways in which these stories are passed down through time and the role of Museums and Local History Studies in helping to reconstruct the past for future generations.
Image Credit: Group portrait of the Merrymakers in the Grand Finale - "The Allies" tableau, Dubbo, 24th September 1945, black and white photograph. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre, Local Studies Collection.
ARLO MOUNTFORD:
DEEP REVOLT
8 February - 19 April 2020
This survey of significant works by Melbourne-based artist Arlo Mountford, spans 15 years of the artist’s practice, from 2003 to 2018. Mountford’s large scale video installations, kinetic sculptures and animations take a wry look at the artistic canon, throwing light on visual art’s ongoing meaning and relevance in contemporary society. Amusing, strange and laden with references from art history and pop culture, Mountford’s animated films are hand drawn with a mouse directly into a computer. He reimagines both real and created spaces from the art world, digitally reconstructing the interiors of iconic museums or retracing the brushstrokes of European masterpieces, well known and loved for centuries.
A Goulburn Regional Art Gallery exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW.
Image Credit Arlo Mountford, Murder in the Museum (still), 2005, single channel digital animation, 4:3 aspect ratio, stereo sound, 4:27 minutes. Image courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery Melbourne. Image © Arlo Mountford 2019
LEO CREMONESE
THE COLOUR OF INVISIBLE
23 June - 6 September 2020
The Colour of the Invisible by Kandos-based artist Leo Cremonese, features work that offers access to realms outside of the human domain. Using a combination of painting and installation, the artist fuses disparate materials and colours in an effort to create harmony within the physical and giving form to what is usually invisible. The exhibition asks us to reflect on our natural surroundings and allow ourselves to embrace the unknown and unseen. The Colour of the Invisible highlights the artist’s adaptability in transforming an outdoor private experience into the context of the gallery space, and bringing the non-human to the human domain. This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts and Wingewarra Dental. The Colour of the Invisible is also supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, WPCCs emerging regional artist program. The HomeGround program is proudly supported by: Wingewarra Dental
Image Credit: Leo Cremonese, Earthly Fire and Celestial Fire (detail), 2019, mixed media on linen, courtesy of artist.
FRESH ARTS 20/20
1 June - 4 October 2020
Fresh Arts Inc. is a group of artists who live and work in Dubbo, Warren, Gilgandra and surrounds. A co-operative vehicle for exhibiting, professional development and social opportunities, Fresh Arts has exhibited widely since its establishment in 2004. The Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) has collaborated with the group in a number of ways, with many individual artists exhibiting over that time. Fresh Arts: 20/20 presents the work of 18 artists from its current membership and presents a focused survey of current artistic practice within their ranks, as well as that of the region as a whole. The exhibition reveals the diversity of practice as well as the interests and concerns of artists living in regional NSW in 2020.
BEHIND THE LINES: THE YEAR'S BEST POLITICAL CARTOONS 2019: THE GREATEST HITS TOURS
8 August - 18 October 2020
Behind the Lines is an annual exhibition from the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House that celebrates the role of political cartoonists in Australia and highlights the power that their drawings have in contributing to our daily political and social discourse.
Framed by the world of rock music and under this year’s theme song of The Greatest Hits Tour, Australia’s leading political cartoonists amped up the satire on 2019’s greatest political hits. Behind the Lines features over 80 artworks from over 30 political cartoonists from across Australia.
This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians
ANNA NORDSTROM
SANG INTO EXISTENCE
12 September - 22 November 2020
Sang into Existence by Lismore-based artist Anna Nordstrom is an investigation into the continual environmental, societal, and climatic changes that Australia has faced in recent years. Inspired by her journey from Lismore to Dubbo; these mixed media works, primarily created from discarded construction materials from renovated and destroyed houses, explore and reflect on the meaning embedded within the materiality that surrounds us. Sang into Existence is an exhibition that explores notions of history and memory associated with life in Australia, by reinterpreting the unwanted materials that once formed our home.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by WPCC and supported by Orana Arts and Wingewarra Dental.
Image Credit Anna Nordstrom, Talbragar Silo Dubbo (detail), 2020, Linoleum and pressed metal, image courtesy of artist.
CONCRETE: ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE
5 December 2020 - 24 January 2021
CONCRETE: art design architecture is a major exhibition exploring innovative ways that concrete is being used by artists, designers and architects in Australia in the 21st century. Curated by JamFactory’s Margaret Hancock Davis (Senior Curator) and Brian Parkes (CEO), the exhibition includes 21 artists, designers and architects from across
Australia and brings together products, projects and works of art that reflect many of the current preoccupations with concrete within contemporary art, design and architecture in Australia.
CONCRETE: art design architecture is supported by Visions of Australia funding through Australian Government’s Department of Communications and Arts and the South Australian Government through the Department of Skills and Industry.
The Principal Sponsor for CONCRETE: art design architecture is Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia, the peak body for the cement, concrete and quarry industry in Australia.
Curated by Margaret Hancock Davis & Brian Parkes, Jam Factory
Image Credit: Sanné Mestrom, Untitled (Self Portrait, Underground), 2017, bronze, concrete, steel, 156 x 100 x 83cm. Image © Sullivan+Strumpf.
RONNIE GRAMMATICA
200 YEARS ON
27 November 2020 - 7 February 2021
200 Years On features photographic works by Crescent Head-based artist Ronnie Grammatica. In this body of work, the artist retraces the journey of 19th Century British explorer John Oxley through regional Australia. In acknowledging his own cultural identity and sense of belonging, Grammatica has documented some of the individuals he encountered along the way, revealing a diverse and interconnected hiuman landscape.
200 Yeas on highlights the growing diversity of our communities in regio9nal NSW, exploring the stories of individuals and places, and how each has developed since Oxley's day.
Curated by Mariam Abboud
Image Credit Ronnie Grammatica: Anthony (detail), 2020 archival
MAKE THE MARK: HSC WORKS FROM THE DUBBO REGION
5 December 2020 - 7 March 2021
An exhibition of this year's Dubbo senior students' works produced for HSC Visual Arts. In spite of all that the region, the nation and the world has experienced, this exhibition is once again a demonstration of the strengths and tenacity of the youth of the region as they use the power of the visual image to stimulate the imagination and to story emotion.
Curated by Dr Phil Aitken
Image Credit: Chatchawarn Visetsiri, Drifting Silent Night Thoughts, 2020, oil on canvas, St Johns College Dubbo. Image c of artist.
TWISTED SISTERS
IMPERFECT
15 December -10 February
2019
The Twisted Sisters, Cecily Walters and Toni Morrison, recreate the spirit of the universe in wool. Employing modern techniques to one of the oldest fabrics they construct energetic three dimensional pods and sculptures that bring together the vastness of the solar system to the earthy familiarity of our natural world.
A HomeGround exhibition.
Image Credit: Cecily Walter, Wave, 2018, Merino Wool and Silk Waste. Image courtesy of the artist.
MAKE THE MARK
HSC WORKS
15 December - 3 March 2019
Dubbo and Wellington's senior students display their HSC works. The voice of youth is always iconoclastic, hopeful and searching - this year's collection of works will no doubt showcase the concerns and sharp intellect of todays young people.
Image Credit: Sebastian Clarke, Bleating Drought, 2018, drawing and water colour
UPON A BROKEN WORLD
LIFE AFTER WWI
3 November - 10 March 2019
As the world emerged from the horrors the war, it realised that something had fundamentlaly changed. Sprawling Empires and powerful families had vanished, replaced by a new breed of young, energetic and world-aware citizens. The world had become Modern. This WPCC curated exhibition examines the great upheavals that followed 1918 and shows that the entire modern age is a memorial to the Great War.
Image Credit: Armistice Day, Sydney, 1918, Australian War Memorial, H11563
GREG PRITCHARD
THE FOREST
23 February - 28 April 2019
In February 2019, Greg Pritchard will create a major gaffer tape installation called The Forest. The exhibition will represent a great forest of branches, projecting moving elements like waterfalls, animals and birds. The Forest will submerge audiences giving them a sense of being surrounded by a great forest, with trees overarching around them accompanied by recordings projected back into the installation. Since 2006 Greg Pritchard has worked with gaffer tape and is one of the few artists in the world who uses it in a figurative way. The Forest will be unique in scale and will be created over a two week period in situ. This is a HomeGround exhibition.
Image Credit: Image from Tatiana and the Ruby Wombat, Old Fire Station, 2016, Dubbo, Image courtesy of the artist.
DEFYING EMPIRE
3RD NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART TRIENNIAL
9 March - 5 May 2019
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country into the national spotlight. From the National Gallery of Australia, Defying Empire 50th anniversary of 1967 Referendum that recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australians for the first time. It explores the ongoing resilience of Australia’s Indigenous people since first contact, through to the historical fight for recognition and ongoing activism in the present day.
Image Credit: Daniel Boyd Untitled (DOC) 2016 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 2016
WASTE TO ART
11 May - 16 June 2019
Waste to Art is an annual competition and exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded materials through art and craft. Engaging with the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members and encourages them to challenge perceptions about ‘rubbish’ and its impact upon the environment. The result is a highly imaginative and thought provoking collection of artworks celebrating recycling and living sustainably. This is a WPCC exhibition in association with NetWaste.
Image Credit: Alan Stanger, Wake Up and Smell the Roses, 2017, recycled coffee waste
DENDROGLYPHS
CARVED COUNTRY
16 March - 23 June 2019
Carved trees (Dendroglyphs) are powerful markers of Aboriginal occupation of the land and of the distinct and distinctive visual style of the Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi peoples. The practice of carving elaborate designs into trees is common in only a small part of Australia, and these trees, now rare and closely held by local communities, are striking testaments of continued culture. The exhibition is supplemented by a commissioned artwork from local Aboriginal artist Paris Norton. This is a WPCC exhibition.
Image Credit: Dendroglyph in situ, c1960. Photographer unknown.
JACOB RAUPACH
ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO DUST
4 May - 30 June 2019
All That Is Solid Melts into Dust is an exhibition of new photographic and film works by Wagga Wagga-based artist Jacob Raupach, created during his residency in Beijing China in 2018. The works move between the village and the city, examining the shifting relationships between the urban, social and the architectural. Raupach uses photography and film to transform the everyday into a theatrical stage to reframe our understanding of the present and revaluate the economic, material and global realities of our time.
Image Credit: Jacob Raupach, Untitled (Beijing III), 2018, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
STEEL
ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE
22 June - 21 July 2019
Steel is a medium rich in human history. An alloy of iron and carbon, steel dates back to 4,000 years ago and traces the technical and cultural development of multiple civilisations. First forged in hand-made furnaces, steel production and its subsequent use, expanded in the 17th century with the technical innovations of blister and crucible steel. By the 19th century mass steel production had been invented and steel burgeoned as a material of choice. Steel: Art Design Architecture allows the viewer to think about the way this material responds to the various disciplines and how it blurs the boundary between utilitarian and precious. This is a Jam Factory exhibition.
Image Credit: Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Narrbong (fibre bags) Koolimans (coolamon/bush bowl) and Digging Sticks,2016, rusted iron and pipe, dimensions variable. Image taken by Tom Roschi
ART EXPRESS
27 July - 25 August 2019
A selection of exemplary works submitted for the 2018 HSC Visual Arts practical examination. At once vibrant, melancholic, serious, playful, vehement and sublime, the works created are a snapshot of a new generation’s hopes and fears. Often spectacular in their technical skills, these works also bring a maturity of thought and understanding often denied of the younger generation.
A partnership between NSW Department of Education and the NSW Education Standards Authority
SAM PAINE
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
6 July - 8 September 2019
Sam Paine is a Mudgee based artist whose medium is traditional representational painting. Inspired by the Lars Von Trier film The Five Obstructions, his exhibition will feature five paintings created based on a series of rules which have been placed before him by five contemporary artists hailing from the city and country. These obstructions will ultimately challenge Paine’s traditional practice and alter the very nature of his work as he explores and immerses himself in different art thoughts and practices. The result is an exploration of experimental ideas from varied art fields used in collaboration with traditional painting processes. This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced in collaboration between WPCC and Orana Arts.
Image Credit: Sam Paine, Experiment in Ochre #2, ochre tempera. Image courtesy of artist
CONTAINER
10 August - 13 October 2019
In today’s global world you may have drunk coffee from Brazil or a smoothie containing frozen fruit from China. You could be wearing clothes made in India, watching a TV made in Japan while sitting on a sofa containing wood from Argentina on a laminate floor manufactured in Sweden. All of this has been made possible by a rectangular steel box – the shipping container.
Container is an exhibition housed entirely in six 20-foot shipping containers that lifts the lid on the history and impact of containerisation and the way the humble shipping container has revolutionised the way we live.
Visitors can literally ‘step inside the box’ to learn about shipping, ports, cargo, the impact of containerisation on the ocean, the origins of everyday objects and even container architecture.
PLAY ON
THE ART OF SPORT
31 August - 4 November 2019
Play On: The art of sport celebrates 10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize, the prestigious and distinctively Australian biennial exhibition that reflects upon one of our great national obsessions – sport. Featuring the winners and other key works from all five installments of the Prize, Play On: The art of sport brings together diverse explorations of the personal and collective significance of sport and sporting culture from some of Australia’s most accomplished artists. The exhibition encompasses a dynamic range of media, with works that respond to an equally extensive range of sporting genres, including community footy, women’s boxing, ground-keeping, gymnastics and AFL.
10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize.
A NETS Victoria and Ian Potter Museum of Art touring exhibition.
Image Credit: Khaled Sabsabi, Wonderland(still, detail), 2014, dual-channel HD video; 16:9 ratio, not synched, colour, sound, 25:30 minutes This work was made with the assistance of Guido Gonzalez and Saif Jari.
Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
MERRYN SOMMERVILLE
THIS HAUNTED HOUSE
14 September - 1 December 2019
This Haunted House by Bega based artist Merryn Sommerville explores the internal oppression of being raised in the Christian religion, and the complexity of negotiating issues of social injustice and identity as a condemned agnostic. Sommerville’s emotive drawings touch on issues of female autonomy, sexuality, disability, morality and mortality. She uses an unexpected psychological presence in her female subjects as a surrogate to explore her space within society. This exhibition will explore the shift in social identity as women reach the age of thirty and are expected to reproduce. This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced in collaboration between WPCC and Orana Arts.
Image credit: Merryn Sommerville, Rainbow Chan, 2018, soft pastel, pencil on paper. Image courtesy of artist.
NEW ACQUISITIONS: JOAN ROSS
9 November - 8 December 2019
Joan Ross is one of Australias' leading contemporary Artists, whose practice explores Australian History, landscape, and the imagery and materials of Australian native fauna. This section of works recently donated to the WPCC by the artist, is a unique insight into her diverse practice and features video, sculpture and installation.
Image Credit: Joan Ross Heart of abstraction, 2008 stuffed kangaroo fur Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Joan Ross.
GEORGINA POLLARD
LINES ARE DRAWN
9 December 2017 - 4 February 2018
Painting on canvas is an invention of the 15th century and for artist Georgina Pollard it represents a convergence of architecture and textiles. By removing the stretcher bars, and thereby removing the element of architecture, the paintings emphasise textiles and its relationship to the architecture of the space. Pollard creates her paintings by pouring paint in different directions to create a fabric out of the surface of the walls. The works in this exhibition consider the lines drawn between architecture and textiles, permanence and transience, space and surface, male and female.
Image credit: Georgina Pollard, Unconditional 2017, 52x70cm, acrylic housepaint.
ART NOW WITH TEXT CLASSICS
21 December 2017 - 28 January 2018
Mudgee Readers’ Festival partnered with Text Publishing during its 2017 event to stage an exhibition showcasing the Text Classics collection. A group of artists from around the Central West were each given a passage from a classic Australian work and asked to create an illustration in their own style. The results were striking and varied – mediums included watercolours, oil paintings, sculpture, photography and textile art. This touring exhibition comprises a selection of works from the original Art Now with Text Classics exhibition that took place during 2017 Mudgee Readers' Festival. It includes works by Denise Faulkner, Ruth Gobbitt, Dylan Goolagong, Charles Smith, Kelly Leonard, Kay Norton-Knight and Margot Stephens.
Image credit: Charles Smith, “In the Morning She Lay Calm.”
MAKE THE MARK
HSC ARTWORKS FROM THE DUBBO REGION
9 December 2017 - 4 March 2018
A vibrant exhibition of outstanding artworks produced by local Year 12 Visual Arts students for the 2017 HSC examination. Too often amazing HSC artworks, the products of months of concentrated effort and the manifestations of inspiration, talent and angst, never see the light of day again after being marked by the examiners. This multi-media exhibition gives everyone an opportunity to celebrate and marvel at the high standards and diversity achieved by local Year 12 Visual Arts students.
Image credit: Nastasia Reynolds (Dubbo School of Distance Education), Catatonic Light, 2016, photography. Courtesy the artist.
DEBORAH KELLY
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (IN ALL OUR GLORY)
9 December 2017 - 4 March 2018
No Human Being Is Ilegal (in all our glory) is an epic life-sized portrait project, initially commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014). The 20 photographic portraits have evolved into intriguing collage works through the collaborative creativity of teams of public participants over the course of many months. Conceived and organised by artist Deborah Kelly, the work continues to unfold throughout its tour of regional galleries and museums around Australia.
For the better part of three decades, Kelly has created a prolific body of mixed-media artworks that are at once unexpected, humorous, provocative, and profound. Often politically motivated, Kelly’s artworks explore ideas of power in all its manifestations, negotiating racial, sexual and religious prejudices and histories.
Image credit: Deborah Kelly & collaborators; Ramesh Mario Nitiyendran from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) (detail), 2014, pigment ink print on Hahnemühle papers bonded to aluminium, with collage from books and found materials, glue and UV protective varnishes, 200 x 109 cm. Courtesy the artist. Portrait Photographer: Sebastian Kriete. Created for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014).
<HELLO, WORLD!>
WOMEN IN CODE
16 December 2017 - 18 March 2018
Software development is one of the fastest growing job sectors in the world economy. However, less than a quarter of computer science graduates are women and even less will become software developers. <Hello, World!> Women CODE tracks the historical and contemporary contribution of women to computer science and explores how cultural mindsets, stereotypes and educational hurdles have contributed to the shortage of women programmers and discusses how this gender gap, if not addressed, may shape our engagement with technology in the future.
Image credit: Portrait of software developer Isis Anchalee (digitally altered).
MARALINGA AND AUSTRALIAN ART
BLACK MIST, BURNT COUNTRY: TESTING THE BOMB
9 December 2017 - 25 March 2018
Black Mist Burnt Country commemorates the 60th anniversary of the British atomic test series at Maralinga. It revisits the events and its location through artworks by Indigenous and non-Indigenous post-war and contemporary artists across the mediums of painting, print-making, sculpture, installation, photography and video. The exhibition explores the various perspectives and ways in which artists have explored the subject matter, either as contemporaries of the tests or as visitors to the former Maralinga test site or as traditional owners of the land.
A Burrinja national touring exhibition
Image credit: Paul Ogier, One Tree, carbon pigment on rag paper, 94 x 117 cm, 2010. Copyright: the artist
JAMES FARLEY
WORKING WITHIN
10 February - 15 April 2018
Working Within presents an approach to landscape photography that is grounded in ecological thinking. Created between a working flower farm and a flood-prone community commons, this project uses a technique of camera-less photography called lumen printing to explore an ecological aesthetic. Lumen prints are made without a camera, creating an image of themselves through a tactile exchange of materials. Working Within is a departure from enduring European aesthetic traditions of beauty and the sublime, and seeks to challenge historical hierarchies that contribute to the classification and exploitation of the earth. The artist facilitates a slow, collaborative and chaotic creation of a unique photographic object, exploring an ecological worldview grounded in openness, reciprocity and respect.
Image credit: James Farley, Working Within (detail), 2016/17, lumen print, image © the artist
MARION HALL BEST: INTERIORS
10 March - 3 June 2018
This exhibition colourfully charts the work of Marion Hall Best (1905-1988), one of Australia’s first and most influential independent interior designers, displaying original furniture, fabrics, furnishings and design schemes. Born in Dubbo, Best’s career spanned four decades - from the mid–1930s, a period of transition from the department store decorators and art furnishers of the 1920s, to the independent, professional designers of today. Her interiors vibrated with bold colours and patterns and a signature of her commissioned interiors was her vibrant glazed painted finishes on walls and ceilings. Best introduced the latest of international modernism in design to Australians through her shops in Rowe Street Sydney and Queen Street Woollahra, which were an inspiration to the local design profession.
Marion Hall Best: Interiors is a travelling exhibition from Sydney Living Museums.
Image credit: ‘A room for Mary Quant’, display room designed by Marion Best for the Rooms on View exhibition, Daily Telegraph Home Centre, Sydney, 1967 Mary White, 1967 Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums. Photo © Estate of Mary White.
WASTE TO ART
31 March - 10 June 2018
Waste to Art is an annual competition and exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded materials through art and craft. Engaging with the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members and encourages them to challenge perceptions about ‘rubbish’ and its impact upon the environment. The result is a highly imaginative and thought provoking collection of artworks celebrating recycling and living sustainably. This year's theme is Polystyrene.
Image credit: Paul Tonniges, Vexing Times, 2017, scrap steel
OBSOLETE? ARTIST, OBJECT, SMALL MUSEUM
24 March - 18 June 2018
Artists Nicole Barakat, Aleshia Lonsdale and Fiona MacDonald apply their creative and investigatory flair to considering a community museum in Kandos, NSW. Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum asks a central question: how can ordinary lives, then and now, and randomly collected provincial objects, illuminate Big Picture issues? The artists have each engaged with the Kandos museum and region, with a starting point of looking at Australia’s ongoing dispossession of First Nation peoples. The artists’ works are a theatrical mix of assemblage and performance, the making and unmaking of everyday objects or sublime artefacts, their strategies shedding light on how history is claimed and valued.
A Cross Arts Exhibition in collaboration with WPCC
Image Credit: Fiona MacDonald, Obsolete no 5, 2017, inkjet print from digital image on archival paper. Source images: Kandos Museum collection object, photograph by Mike Oakey. Image courtesy of the artist.
KAREN GOLLAND
SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS
21 April - 24 June 2018
Spells for Lost Things is a series of works by Bathurst-based artist Karen Golland. Using her own personal archives alongside inherited collections, Golland explores the role that objects play in conjuring personal narratives and histories. Mimicking the techniques used by museums to document new acquisitions, each collection is researched, counted and recorded. Unlike a museum, Golland then re-works the object by drawing, photographing, copying, reducing and enlarging, changing its meaning and the physical space it inhabits. Spells for Lost Things uses these generated materials as possible ingredients for magic, exploring the multidimensional nature of human existence and reflecting on the complexities inherent in remembering the dead.
Image credit: Karen Golland, Softly wired, breathing deeply, 2017, hankerchief and wire. Image © the artist
ACO VIRTUAL
23 June - 12 August 2018
ACO Virtual, the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s world-first digital installation, was built using state-of-the-art technology. This ground-breaking interactive installation allows the audience to conduct and even play with the Orchestra. Audiences can see how fast the musician’s fingers move in a way not possible in a concert hall, hear the unique sounds of the ACO’s multi-million-dollar collection of instruments and take the helm of the “greatest chamber orchestra on earth” and stand in for Richard Tognetti himself. Developed by Sydney digital media company production Mod Productions, ACO Virtual features projections of 13 musicians surrounding you on all sides, with the sound of each player coming from the direction of their projection. It’s like standing in the middle of the Orchestra during a concert. A touch-screen allows users to feature and listen to one musician, a section of instruments or their desired selection of players.
Image Credit: ACO VIRTUAL Goldfields Arts Centre Kalgoorlie
MICHELLE NIKOU
a e i o u
16 June - 2 September 2018
Adelaide-based artist Michelle Nikou draws on surrealism in a reflective and productive way to transform mundane domestic objects and materials into sculptures of humour and marvel. In this exhibition of new and recent work she utilises surrealist strategies such as chance, psychological metaphor, deadpan wit and juxtaposition, and inventively mingles high and low art sources and cultural references. Her work intentionally blurs and extends the boundaries between fine art and craft and often invests unremarkable or overlooked facets of daily existence with new and unexpected significance.
A NETS Victoria and Heide Museum of Modern Art touring exhibition, curated by Melissa Keys & Kendrah Morgan.
Image credit: Michelle Nikou, Vacancy (detail), 2014, cast lead alloy, lead, neon, latex, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. Photograph: Sam Roberts. © Michelle Nikou
BOWERBIRD
CLINTON BRADLEY AND THE ART OF COLLECTING
9 June - 26 August 2018
For Clinton Bradley collecting is more than just amassing works by his favourite artists, it is a creative dialogue with the artist, dealer and audience. Born and raised near Molong, NSW, Bradley has been collecting art since 2007 and has curated a collection of works by some of Australasia’s most sought-after artists, spanning sculpture, digital and conceptual art. This exhibition explores his ongoing interest in collecting and surveys his collection to the present day. Featuring the work of Brook Andrew, Glenn Barkley, Mitch Cairns, Marley Dawson, Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Ryan Hancock, Christopher Hanrahan, Anastasia Klose, Ryota Miyahira, Michael Parekowhai, Jason Phu, Sarah Rodigari, Koji Ryui, Charlie Sofo, Geoff Thomas and Louise Weaver.
Image credit: Michael Parekowhai (New Zealand, b.1968) Cosmo McMurtry 2006 woven nylon substrate, pigment, 330 x 180 x 280 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of Clinton Bradley 2015. Founding Governor of the Friends of New Zealand Art. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program © Michael Parekowhai Photo: Diana Panuccio, AGNSW 333.2015 .
SARAH MCEWAN
UNBIND ME
30 June - 2 September 2018
Unbind Me is Sarah McEwan's 'installation conversation' about key philosophers, poets, authors, historians, economists, activists and artists who have contributed to the world with their various beliefs over the last 2700 years. Unbind Me travels through time beginning with Hesiod (c700BCE) in the Iron Age and running through to contemporary artist 'Truth Tellers' who look back and face complex and competing ideologies. The installation incorporates painting, some of them spilling with fabric, to more intimate works on paper, board or fabric to tell a feminist version of Western history.
Image credit: Sarah McEwan, I am the background (foreground/background/denial), 2017, ink and fabric on paper. Image courtesy the artist
MICHAEL COOK
UNDISCOVERED
18 August - 28 October 2018
Undiscovered is a striking series of large-scale photographic works by Michael Cook, from the Bidjara people of south-west Queensland. Undiscovered provides a contemporary Indigenous perspective of European settlement in Australia, a land already populated by its original people. Cook’s artworks shift roles and perspectives around the notion of European ‘discovery’ of Australia, reflecting upon our habitual ways of thinking and seeing our history. This series questions who really discovered Australia while making reference to what was always here, what has been introduced and the effect this had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their culture and country.
Image credit: Michael Cook, Undiscovered #9, 2010, inkjet print. Image courtesy ANMM Collection.
MCA COLLECTION
PRIMAVERA AT 25
1 September - 9 December 2018
Established in 1992, Primavera showcases the work of young Australian artists aged 35 years and under. One of the longest-running exhibition series in the country, Primavera has become a significant platform for early career artists, 206 artists have exhibited in the annual exhibition. Many have gone on to exhibit both nationally and internationally, to become influential educators, and to play a significant role in the development of contemporary art practice in Australia. Primavera at 25 showcases 19 of these artists and collectives in a stunning retrospective.
This special exhibition marks 25 years of Primavera, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's annual exhibition of Australian artists aged 35 years and under.
Image Credit: Abdul Abdullah, Caliban (detail) 2015, oil on board, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2016, image courtesy and © the artist, 2016, photograph: Jessica Maurer
HANDMADE TALES
8 September - 9 December 2018
Featuring an exemplar selection of recent quilts from the Dubbo Patchwork and Quilters Group, HandMade Tales explores the continued practice of quiltmaking in the Dubbo region today. The works featured present both an ode to and departure from tradition and the historical standing of quilts as utilitarian objects, repositioning these highly technical pieces within the realm of 'high art'.
NGUNGGILANHA
GIVE TO EACH OTHER
18 November - 22 December 2017
Ngu-ng-gila-nha: Give to each other is an exhibition in the WPCC Community Arts Centre of artworks by local primary school students. The highly diverse and beautiful artworks were produced by the students during a visual arts project which engaged them in local Wiradjuri Aboriginal art practice, language and culture. The students and their teachers were inspired by specialist workshops supported by the Arts Unit of the NSW Department of Education and Communities, a tour of the Western Plains Cultural Centre collection, and a virtual excursion of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Image credit: Cudgegong Valley Public School, Cudgee Landscape (detail), 2016, ink on paper.
FROM THE BOER WAR TO THE PRESENT
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS AT WAR
26 October - 10 December 2017
Indigenous Australians have served Australia in all major conflicts from the Boer War to the present. The armed services would provide a first experience of equal opportunity, although sadly not an enduring one. This Shrine of Remembrance travelling exhibition celebrates the courage, tenacity and resourcefulness of Indigenous Australians in the armed forces. Indigenous Australians at War uncovers the individual and family stories of service and sacrifice of the First Australians.
This Shrine of Remembrance travelling exhibition is proudly sponsored by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Australia and Linfox.
Image credit: Graduation Day 25 November 1944, Seymour, Victoria, photographer unknown. Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial 083166.
ANOTHER GREEN WORLD
THE LANDSCAPE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
26 August - 3 December 2017
As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, we don't really need to be reminded just how contested the landscape is. From its state of crisis in a changing climate, to disputes over resources and use, to questions of ownership and sovereignty, the landscape continues to be of vital importance as a subject in both wider culture, and in contemporary art. Another Green World surveys the concept of an art of the landscape in contemporary art, and traces themes of history, ecology, culture and utopianism in the work of Kylie Banyard, Erin Coates, Megan Cope, Ashleigh Garwood, Sian McIntyre, Perdita Phillips, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin and Caroline Rothwell. Another Green World is curated by Dr. Andrew Frost.
Image credit: Ashleigh Garwood, The Gap, 2014, digital photograph. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
SHADED
THE OTHER AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE
26 August - 3 December 2017
In Australian Art lore, the moment that we have 'discovered' an artistic identity was the moment that the artists were first able to accurately capture the uniqueness of Australian light. Its bright starkness celebrated while the dark, hidden recesses remain unexplored. In the absence of light, shaded and shadowy areas of our landscape have become potent symbols, full of mystery and trepidation of the Australian Landscape. Shaded: The other Australian landscape explores this overlooked aspect of the landscape, bringing light to the shadows.
Image credit: Nancy Goldfinch, Merrigang Street, Bowral 1937, Oil on canvas, 38x42cm. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of NSW.
MICHAEL RILEY
CLOUD
9 September - 22 October 2017
Michael Riley (1960-2004) was a ground-breaking Australian artist born in Dubbo. Riley’s photographic and film works explore Indigenous identity, spirituality, symbolism and social history, often with pathos and humour. Cloud was the last body of work produced by the artist before his untimely passing in 2004. The works have become Riley’s most well-known images and have been exhibited all over the world.
Through the generosity of John Armati OAM (1940-2017) and his family, the Western Plains Cultural Centre was able to acquire the complete series of 10 works that comprise Cloud. Armati was a highly respected businessman who grew up in Dubbo, eventually becoming Managing Director of Macquarie Publications in 1962. Whilst he was a resident of Sydney in the latter part of his life, he still cared deeply for his home town, donating funds to a number of institutions in Dubbo including Western Plains Cultural Centre.
Presented in honour of John Armati OAM who died at his home in Hunters Hill on June 4, 2017.
Image credit: Michael Riley, Untitled (Feather) from the series Cloud 2000, Chromogenic pigment print,106x150 cm. Purchased with funds from the Armati Bequest and Friends of Dubbo Regional Gallery, 2007. Reproduced with permission of Viscopy and the Michael Riley Foundation
PORTRAITS OF LANGUAGE
27 May - 3 September 2017
Language defines a culture; it gives expression to the experiences of those who speak it. Preserving and growing languages is an important step in preserving and growing a culture. Acclaimed photographer Mervyn Bishop and The State Library of NSW worked with community to create Portraits of Language, a photographic and oral documentation exhibition highlighting the Local Elders of Dubbo and reion and thei relationship to traditional language.
This exhibition is supported by Arts NSW and in partnership with the North West Wiradjuri Language and Culture Nest.
Image credit: Portrait of Uncle Ray Peckham by Mervyn Bishop.
ARCHIBALD PRIZE
8 July - 20 August 2017
The Archibald Prize is an annual exhibition eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. Awarded to the best painting of a notable Australian, the Archibald Prize is a who's who of Australian culture, from politicians and celebrities to sporting heroes and artists. Prestigious and controversial, the Archibald Prize is Australia's foremost portraiture prize. This year the Archibald features a local artist for the first time in many years. The exhibition is supported by a full public programme including a portrait competition for young people.
Image credit: Archibald Prize finalist Mark Horton, Troy, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 140x190cm © the artist. Photo: © AGNSW, Nick Kreisler.
YOUNG ARCHIE
12 August - 20 August 2017
Young Archie is a celebration of young Australian talent, inviting artists between the ages of 5 and 18 to submit a portrait 'of someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life.'
Image Credit: Shannon Kassell, Today I am…, 2017, mixed media. Image courtesy of the artist.
GREGORY CAROSI
365
24 June - 20 August 2017
Gregory Carosi’s 365 immerses audiences in the visual and temporal compression of 365 days of seasonal shift. The exhibition explores the subtle, elusive influence of the weather on our lives and, more broadly, the ways in which cycles underpin everything we do. Sweeping gestural marks, set in counterpoint to expansive zones of negative space, establish complex and incongruous rhythms that seek to embody the increasing unpredictability of accelerated climate change. The large-format works offer an experience on the human scale, confronting viewers with the existential truth of a universe stripped back to its fundamental components. Unable to be taken in from any single vantage point, 365 asks audiences to move through the gallery space in order to grapple with, and reflect upon, the elemental forces that shape our everyday experience.
Image credit: Gregory Carosi, 365 (detail), 2017, oil on aluminium, 2400x2400mm.
PARIS NORTON
WHITE WASH
3 June - 20 August 2017
White Wash is an exhibition that explores concepts surrounding the history of the Stolen Generation and its failed role in the attempt to breed out Indigenous heritage through policy based on skin pigmentation.
Paris Norton is a Gamilaroi woman who lives in Dubbo with her young family. She sees her photography her way of passing knowledge and stories to younger generations, getting them to challenge and express what it means to be Aboriginal in modern Australia.
image credit: Paris Norton, White Wash, 2016.
DOBELL AUSTRALIAN DRAWING BIENNIAL 2016
CLOSE TO HOME
6 May - 2 July 2017
The second Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial bring together the drawings of Jumaadi, Maria Kontis, Richard Lewer, Noel McKenna, Catherine O'Donnell and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. Collectively they investigate the possibilities of the medium to express complex themes that resonate on both a personal and a shared level. The WPCC is the only venue outside of Sydney to host this exhibition.
An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition. Founding sponsor the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.
Image credit: Noel McKenna, Untitled from animals I have known (detail), 2015 -16, pencil, pen and ink wash on paper © Noel McKenna. Photo: © AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins.
ANNA KAINEDER
CONTRIBUTION
6 May - 2 July 2017
After living in Sydney on and off for nearly 20 years, artist Anna Kaineder made the move to rural New South Wales and in doing so has found a place of personal peace and joy. Contribution is the artist's response and celebration of the powerful impact of the region and its rituals, asking if this impact could be universal. Kaineder uses ceramics to explore the concept of 'the ordinary', and the uncelebrated people and places that make rural life inexplicably powerful.
A HomeGround Exhibition.
Image credit: Anna Kaineder, Overlooking the ordinary (detail), 2016, hand built huts, lumina clay with shellac resist. Photography by: Available soon.
WASTE TO ART
1 April - 28 May 2017
Waste to Art is an annual competition and exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded materials through art and craft. Engaging with the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members and encourages them to challenge perceptions about 'rubbish' and its impact upon the environment. The result is a highly imaginative and thought provoking collection of artworks celebrating recycling and living sustainably.
Presented in collaboration with NetWaste.
Image credit: Jeffrey Hallinan, The World's First Time Machine
CREATIVE ACCOUNTING
4 March - 28 May 2017
Money, money, money. Drawing from old currencies, banking archives and contemporary art, Creative Accounting scratches below the surface of our economic system to reveal money's enigmatic side. Money is many things at once: an abstract concept of value; an agent of propaganda; a tool of the powerful; and a decorative device. It plays a central role in all of our lives yet is often overlooked as an object of contemplation. At a time when money is becoming increasingly abstract, Creative Accounting speculates on its wider value.
An exhibition curated by Holly Williams, in conjunction with Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW's Curatorial Support Initiative grant, a devolved funding program administered by Museums & Galleries of NSW on behalf of the NSW Government. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Image credit: Selection of vintage adding machines, 1920s - 1980s, including Burrows, Facit and Singer and Marchant brands. On loan from Westpac Archives. Photo: silversalt.
100 YEARS OF PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION IN DUBBO
CHALK IT UP
18 February - 21 May 2017
Marking the centennial celebration of secondary education within the Dubbo region, Chalk It Up charts the growth and development of Dubbo public high schools over the past 100 years. It documents the struggle of a fledgling village and town to provide quality education for its children. It recounts the successes of the schools and documents the important social impact the high schools have had on Dubbo.
THE ART OF WOOL
4 March - 30 April 2017
Discover fashion and fine art in The Art of Wool exhibition, which matches award-winning garments by Woolmark Prize designers with inspirational paintings and artworks by leading Australian artists. The exhibition shows the significance of wool in the artistic and design imagination of Australia from the 19th century through to today.
This exhibition is a joint partnership between NERAM and The Woolmark Company, with funding support from Visions Australia.
Image credit: Miss Chu Yan, China, International Woolmark Prizze 2014, Asia Region. International Woolmark Prize archive at Australian Wool Innovation. Photograph by Michael Taylor.
VICTORIA LOVECCHIO
BREATHING SPACE
11 February - 16 April 2017
Victoria Lovecchio's Breathing Space is an immersive experience that is at once familiar and disorientating. The visitor will be confronted by the interface between the internal landscape of our mind and the external landscape we move through. It brings together these memories and current experiences with real and imagined landscapes, asking the question of whether we create the landscape or the landscape creates us.
Image credit: Victoria Lovecchio, Falling I, 2016, video still.
COLONIAL AFTERLIVES
4 February - 26 March 2017
Colonial Afterlives showcases a range of contemporary art responses to British colonisation. Including the works of artists living in Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados and Canada, it incorporates a diversity of views ranging from melancholic eulogies to passionate and sometimes scathing polemics. It questions how a post-colonial identity can survive in an increasingly globalised work and if it cannot, whether its demise will be noticed.
Colonial Afterlives is a Salamanca Arts Centre exhibition toured by Contemporary Art Tasmania. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
Image credit: Christian Thompson, Invaded Dreams, 2012, from the We Bury Our Own series, C-type print, 100x100cm. Christian Thompson is represented by Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne and Michael Reid Sydney and Berlin.
WUNDERKAMMER AND AFTERLIFE
ANIMAL STORIES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: ROD MCRAE
3 December - 26 February 2017
Wonder seems like such an outmoded notion in our technological age where everything is so readily explained by the scientific method. Wonder however does exist in the human imagination often triggered, yet not fully explained - by an object. Combining two exhibitions, Wunderkammer & After-life is a collection of portals into what was, what is, and what could be. Each work explores an animal story using real preserved animal bodies (taxidermy). Each work touches on a different aspect of the human-animal relationship including biodiversity, pollution, climate change, conservation and stewardship.
Image credit: Rod McRae, Crying out loud in the age of Stupid, 2010, polar bear skin, glass, plastic, mdf, high density foam, 2 pack epoxy paint
THE BELGIANS HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN
12 January - 5 February 2017
The Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) has become emblematic of the horror and futility of the Western Front in WWI. This exhibition from the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Belgium investigates and explores the complex history and aftermath of this battle. It focuses on the experience of Australian and New Zealand troops (ANZACs), the landscape then and now, and the efforts of modern-day Belgium to remember and honour the sacrifice of those who took part.
The Belgians Have Not Forgetten: a travelling exhibition about the involvement of Anzacs in WWI in Belgium is a Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 exhibition.
Image credit: Two French soldiers at a cemetery near Passchendaele, 1917.
KEITH YAP
TWENTY-SEVEN
10 December - 5 February 2017
twenty—seven comes from a place of amalgamating some recurring and significant themes for artist Kieth Yap. Yap’s training as an Art Teacher has enabled a resourcefulness that has influenced this body of work. The artist’s interprets the concept ‘Zones of Proximal Development’ from Russian theorist, Lev Vygotsky, whereby instructions are challenged and “ah-ha!” moments are embedded into each piece. twenty—seven is an autobiographical exercise that explores the search for the authentic self, using Yap’s using techniques such as repetitive mark making and finding both movement and stillness within the illustrated portraits.
A HomeGround exhibition
Image credit: Kieth Yap, the daydreamer and his bed, 2016, graphite, felt pen, posca pen and whiteout on archival paper. Photo courtesy of the artist.
WESTERN COLLEGE ART PRIZE
10 December - 29 January 2017
The Western College Art Prize is run every two years and is an acquisitive art prize promoting emerging artists of the Orana region. The prize reflects Western College’s philosophy and this year the theme is ‘social justice.' Western College values inclusion, acceptance and the pursuit of education across all sections of the community. The Prize celebrates the expression of knowledge through art.
HSC ARTWORKS FROM THE DUBBO REGION
MAKE THE MARK
3 December - 29 January 2017
A vibrant exhibition of outstanding artworks produced by local Year 12 Visual Arts students for the 2016 HSC examination. Too often amazing HSC artworks, the products of months of concentrated effort and the manifestations of inspiration, talent and angst, never see the light of day again after being marked by the examiners. This multi-media exhibition gives everyone an opportunity to celebrate and marvel at the high standards and diversity achieved by local Year 12 Visual Arts students.
GIVE TO EACH OTHER
NGU-NG-GILA-NHA
12 November - 22 January 2017
Ngu-Ng-Gila-Nha: Give to Each Other is an exhibition in the WPCC Community Arts Centre of artworks by local primary school students. The highly diverse and beautiful artworks were produced by the students during a visual arts project which engaged them in local Wiradjuri Aboriginal art practice, language and culture. The students and their teachers were inspired by specialist workshops supported by the Arts Unit of the NSW Department of Education and Communities, a tour of the Western Plains Cultural Centre collection, and a virtual excursion of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Image credit: Cudgegong Valley Public School, Detail from Cudgee Landscape 2016, ink on paper.
BELINDA MASON
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
12 November - 8 January 2017
Unfinished Business reveals the stories of 30 people with disability from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Through their involvement in the project each participant draws much-needed attention to critical issues that impact on their lives. Each participant’s story is complex and intertwined with Australia’s political and social history, which has resulted in today’s high rates of disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities.
Image credit: Belinda Mason, Aunty Gayle, 2012, 3D holographic lenticular
MATILDA JULIAN
A ROOM OF HER OWN
15 October - 4 December 2016
This exhibition is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay “A Room of one’s own" containing Woolf’s theory that for a woman to create a great work (in the arts) it is mandatory for her to have a degree of financial independence and an uninterrupted room of her own. Matilda Julian explores what this ‘room of her own’ could be today, finding inspiration in the genres of still life and landscape painting. The exhibition represents a move towards figurative subjects, concentrating on the study of the female nude.
A HomeGround Exhibition.
Image Credit: Matilda Julian, Body Study 1,2016, oil on canvas on board. Photo courtesy of the artist
OLD LAND NEW MARKS
8 October - 27 November 2016
Old Land, New Marks is a new exhibition featuring the work of regional NSW Aboriginal artists specially commissioned for ARTLANDS Dubbo, 2016 and opening at the Western Plain Cultural Centre 5 October. Djon Mundine OAM, renowned independent Bandjalung curator will explore the premise that we live not in the past nor the future but in the active ‘now’! This art has a story and a meaning for everything in our contemporary lives.
Image credit: Sunrise Station Band 1909
Collaborative work by 38 descendants of the band based on 1909 photograph. Coordinated by Djon Mundine and Julie Slavin. Used with permission. Manning Regional Art Gallery.
THE WPCC COLLECTION
CADENCE
24 September - 27 November 2016
Collections speak of permanence; they capture objects, gathering them together from various times and places. We expect them to act as a marker or guide, telling us about the world they came from. How should we view collections made over time with the input of many people? Does this add diversity and richness to a collection or do competing agendas dilute its value?
We look at collections as flowing, transitory experiences. They shift overtime, having periods of great activity followed by periods of great quiet. The collection of the Western Plains Cultural has been touched by this ebb and flow. As a collection that has grown primarily through donation, it contains works that have originated from a myriad of sources and for a variety of reasons. There are works in the collection that could now be seen as anachronistic, there are works that respond to current ideas and trends. They exist side by side but can they share the same space as equals? Cadence aims to show the rhythms of the collection, its flowing nature through time, taste and function to demonstrate that divergence can be a strength.
25 YEARS OF CIRCUS WEST
RISK & REWARD
6 August - 6 November 2016
In 2016 Circus West celebrates 25 years of helping young people in school and life through the extraordinary performances seen in the circus. Founded in 1991 by its Director Paul Woodhead, Circus West has given thousands of students the confidence to take risks and enjoy the rewards. Based at the Delroy Campus of Dubbo College, Circus West’s influence has spread well beyond the schoolyard fence and Risk & Reward is both a chronological history of the Circus West as well as a celebration of the achievements of Circus itself and the students who have moved through its tent.
ALESHIA LONSDALE
DHUULUU-YALA (TALK STRAIGHT)
6 August - 9 October 2016
Dhuuluu-Yala explores the Child Protection system in New South Wales, highlighting the high rate of removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities. Lonsdale hopes to give a voice to the families within the system as well as looking at the broader social and cultural impacts of government policy within Family and Community Services. Based in Mudgee, NSW, Lonsdale started out as a painter and weaver, and in Dhuuluu-Yala continues her exploration of installation and sculptural works in this powerful and thought-provoking exhibition.
A HomeGround Exhibition.
Image Credit: Aleshia Lonsdale, So many Children, 2016, mixed media. Photo by Alex Wisser
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE
13 August - 2 October 2016
The National Photographic Portrait Prize is a prize held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, ACT. Held annually, the exhibition is selected from a national field of entries that reflect the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. This is the first time that the prize has been held at the Western Plains Cultural Centre and is a fascinating insight into Australia’s national psyche.
An exhibition of works selected from the National Photographic Portrait Prize, held annually at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, ACT.
A National Portrait Gallery exhibition
Image Credit: James Geer, Neato with Daniel, 2015, Type C print
SALTWATER COUNTRY
13 August - 2 October 2016
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practice is notably very different from the contemporary painting movement that has emerged from the western desert. This exhibition seeks to capture that distinctive cultural and creative experience. The resonance of the coastline is examined as the historic site of first contact and colonial engagement layers the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders render this meeting point between land and sea. Many reflect that it is also the site charged with more contemporary concerns over environmental change, pollution and human impact. In making artworks about these issues they are redefining the practice of caring for country in contemporary ways that create new insights and relevance for wider audiences.
Saltwater Country has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Ministry for the Arts’ Visions of Australia program, and through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. It is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory governments. This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland’s Backing Indigenous Arts program. The project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and by the City of Gold Coast.
Saltwater Country is a travelling exhibition developed in partnership between Museums & Galleries Queensland and Gold Coast City Gallery. Curated by Michael Aird and Virginia Rigney.
Image Credit: Daniel Boyd, Untitled, 2014, Oil and archival glue on linen. Photo by Jessica Maurer. Private Collection and courtesy of the artist
ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE
GLASS
2 July - 18 September 2016
GLASS: art design architecture explores the most innovative and outstanding ways that glass is being used by artists, designers and architects in Australia in the 21st century and examines our relationship to this extraordinary material. The exhibition will feature art and functional objects, sculptural works, installations as well as video documentary, models and sectional prototypes related to specific interiors, buildings and environments. The exhibition will focus exclusively on Australian works and projects and place those works in a dynamic international context.
GLASS: art design architecture is a JamFactory touring exhibition.
GLASS: art design architecture is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the developement and touring of Austalian cultural material across Australia.
Image Credit: Nicholas Foland, Blunder, 2010, chandeliers, dimensions variable. Photo: courtesy of the artist
STRONG WOMEN
STRONG PAINTING
STRONG CULTURE
7 May - 7 August 2016
Strong Women Strong Painting Strong Culture is an exhibition of Aboriginal women’s contemporary art from the Central and Western Deserts. Featuring the work of nearly 60 senior women artists, it includes exuberant paintings, batik, soft sculpture, carvings, etchings and tjanpi desert grass sculptures, all alive with stunning colour and energy. It reveals the success of women's art from some of Australia's most remote and disadvantaged communities, an achievement of major artistic and political significance.
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
A Cessnock Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
Image Credit: Tali Tali Pompey, Ananmura Tjukurpa, 2011, acrylic on linen
WASTE TO ART
7 May - 7 August 2016
Waste to Art is an annual exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded recycled materials. Engaging with the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members who explore recycling and conserving the environment in their works. The exhibition explores the creativity of our region as well as highlighting the importance of recycling to sustainable living.
Presented in collaboration with Netwaste
Image Credit: Cody Tickle, Chook Chook, 2015, mixed media
CHRIS KUNKO
FAMILY GOLD PASS
4 June - 31 July 2016
Growing up in Adelaide, Chris Kunko would visit his Ukrainian grandparents every Sunday. Kunko’s father and grandparents were displaced by WW2 and came to Australia as refugees in 1949 and for Kunko visiting them was like a magical connection to another culture. Family Gold Pass is inspired by the contents of an old tin box recently given to the artist by his mother, filled with old photographs, immigration papers and Christmas cards and letters written in Ukrainian. Kunko uses this source material to create expressive oil paintings that investigate his family’s story of survival. Kunko’s paintings reflect his own exploration of identity and how displacement has affected generations of his family.
Image Credit: Chris Kunko, No Flowers No Chocolates (detail), 2016, oil on canvas
DRAWN TO DUBBO
30 April - 31 July 2016
The earliest known world maps date back to around 600 BCE. They were less accurate drawings of the real world, but rather spiritual, religious or cultural interpretations of what the world meant. Since then, cartographers have increased their technical skills to make maps that are precise down to the metre or less. What has been lost however is what these precisely drawn worlds actually mean to those who live there. Drawn to Dubbo invites the community to rediscover the meaning of their city in a large scale map of Dubbo by adding their marks, their activities and their lives.
A Western Plains Cultural Centre Exhibition
Image Credit: Image taken from Dekho system map of Dubbo.
ANNE FERRAN
SHADOW LAND
23 April - 26 June 2016
Anne Ferran has been a leading figure in photo-media since the 1980’s and Shadow Land is the largest exhibition of her work ever held. From a career spanning 30 years this exhibition includes photographic, textile, video and text works from her most significant projects. Ferran’s work examines and re-discovers Australia’s colonial past by utilising museum collections, photographic archives and archaeological sites. She is drawn to the gaps and the silences in the records and the personal histories of those incarcerated in prisons, hospitals, mental asylums and workhouses.
Image Credit: Anne Ferran, Untitled from Soft Caps, 1985. Image courtesy and © the artist
PAUL ANDREWS
FIELD STUDIES
2 April - 29 May 2016
Field Studies is a collection of works by artist Paul Andrews, using his adopted home of Dubbo as inspiration. Field Studies captures the ebb and flow of life in the country by focusing on objects that are considered desirable, such as a prize winning meat tray or high-vis work-wear. These coveted items are shown alongside the undesirable; evaporative air conditioners and assorted domestic items, arranged on the street like sculptures, waiting for the council pick up. Field Studies reveals a secret life of Dubbo, each drawing becoming a portrait of the small and often overlooked details of daily life.
A HomeGround Exhibition
Image Credit: Paul Andrews Field Study #1, 2015, pencil on paper, Image courtesy of the artist
AMERICAN ART OF THE 21ST CENTURY FROM THE GOLDBERG COLLECTION
STARS + STRIPES
6 February - 1 May 2016
Drawn from the private collection of Sydney-based Lisa and Danny Goldberg, Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection is a vibrant selection of new American art by some of America’s hottest young names, many of the works have been made within the last three years. The exhibition brings together 51 works across the mediums of painting, drawing, photography and sculpture and highlights the cutting edge practices of a generation of American artists that explore the creative and conceptual possibilities these mediums hold.
A Bathurst Regional Art Gallery exhibition in conjunction with Lisa and Danny Goldberg, toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW. Curated by Richard Perram OAM.
Image Credit: Dylan Lynch, Sucked in Juice Box, 2013, acrylic on steel, 53.3 x 66 x 71.1 cm. Courtesy the artist and The Still House Group.
KAY NORTON-KNIGHT
THREADS
30 January - 27 March 2016
A recent residency in Alice Springs inspired Kay Norton-Knight to create Threads, a series of works exploring the idea of the journey: both real and imaginary. Based in Mudgee, Norton-Knight travelled to central Australia and was struck by the power of the desert landscape. Using the intense colours of the interior, Threads meditates on the line, and the way it acts as a common thread through our lives and through nature. Norton-Knight’s study of the line is manifested through woodblock prints, drawings and sculptural works.
A HomeGround Exhibition
Image Credit: Kay Norton-Knight, The Glow West MacDonnell Ranges NT, 2014, intaglio woodcut with viscosity roll. Image courtesy the artist.
SHAPESHIFTERS
23 January - 17 April 2016
Launching in 2016, in collaboration with Western Plains Cultural Centre, Shapeshifters explores creative innovation made possible by 3D printing. Works by Australia’s leading sculptural, furniture, fashion, architectural and jewellery practitioners give us a glimpse into the future, enabling us to celebrate new ideas and inform our creative practice. Would you wear a 3D printed dress? Can you print a kidney? Join us to uncover how digital technology can change our lives.
Image Credit: Lukasz Karluk (Code on Canvas) HoloDecks Peaks, 2014. 3d print using MakerBot. 3d render (Credit: Lukasz Karluk). 350mm long x 270mm deep x 160mm high
PEN TO POWER
30 January - 24 April 2016
“Pen to Power – Map your mind to recovery is an interactive, multi-media exhibition charting journeys to recovery through mind mapping. At the heart of the exhibition is a collection of artworks produced by everyday people facing significant health challenges. Using mind maps as a therapeutic tool, the participants have brought clarity to their thoughts and begun to identify paths to positive life changes. By courageously sharing their deeply personal journeys the participants hope to raise awareness, increase understanding and inspire others facing mental or physical health issues to take positive steps towards recovery.
A joint initiative of NEAMI and the Rotary Club of South Dubbo and WPCC.
Image Credit: Elizabeth Knight Self Portrait- Blue, 2007, drawing. Image courtesy the artist.
CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS
HYPERCLAY
8 November 2014 - 26 January 2015
HYPERCLAY profiles eight Australian artists whose current pratice is taking cermics into bold new territories. Whether printing with clay, transforming rejected ceramic objects or playing at the intersection of the digital and the handmade, the artists in HYPERCLAY are forging new pathways in Australian ceramics. HYPERCLAY alos features extensive digital content, with over 30 short videos providing greater audience engagement with the works. The exhibition highlights the versatility of this time-honoured material and, in doing so, re-imagines its possibilities
Image Credit: Paul Wood, Guardians of a goddess (detail), 2011.
RESOLVED
15 November 2014 - 26 January 2015
Resolved will take you on the designer's journey, allowing you to experience the process and act of design. Resolved features twelve Australian designers and will exmaine the many ways to define 'success.' The exhibition is a collaboration between Object and Workshopped, which has discovered, nutured and launched the careers of some of Australia's most talented designers. Resolved highlights the stories and inspiration that motivates each designer's work and more boradly explores creative collaborations, sustainable design, experimental use of materials and production, and innovation within emerging technologies.
Image Credit: Kate Stokes, CoCo Pendant.
SARAH BREEN LOVETT, ONA JANZEN, JACQUELINE SPEDDING AND KAYO YOKOYAMA
SHADOW WEAVE
6 December 2014 - 1 February 2015
The cast of a shadow is a multidimensional phenomenon, eliciting various, distinct and interwoven experiences. Shadow Weave is a collaborative exhibition by four Blue Mountains based artists, Sarah Breen Lovett, Ona Janzen, Jacqueline Spedding and Kayo Yokoyama, each drawing new dimensions from the shadows specific to their own practice. An installation of sculptural objects, paper cuts, projections and photographs, the exhibition will be immersive and experimental and will explore the intersection between transient new media and tangible art forms.
Image Credit: Sarah Breen Lovett, Shadow Orphan, 2014. Digital image.
BELLYCAST
6 December 2014 - 1 March 2015
A belly case is made as a celebration of the mother's pregnancy and the bond she has developed with her unborn baby. Belly casting is offered to all clients of the Australian Nurse Family Partnership Program, which provides first time mothers of Aboriginal babies with knowledge and support. It is used to acknowledge and commemorate the pregnancy journey that each mother has experienced and what is unique to her. The belly casts represent life and the celebration of strong mothers.
Image Credit: Belly casts drying, production still. Copyright: the artusts.
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
DRAWN FROM AFRICA
31 January - 29 March 2015
William Kentridge is an exceptional South African artist whose works are inspired by some of the most topical subjects in South African society and politics. A brilliant practitioner in a variety of media such as film, tapestry design, drawing and printmaking, he uses these with what the Metropolitan Museum of Art called a 'deep intellectual rigor.' This National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition will reveal the breadth of the Gallery's holdings of this important artist to the Australian public.
Image Credit: William Kentridge, from the Bird catching set, 2006, intaglio, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, The Poynton Bequest 2013.
WASTE TO ART
31 January - 29 March 2015
Waste to Art is an annual exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded and recycled materials. Engaging the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members who explore recycling and conserving the environment in their works. The exhibition explores the creativity of our region as well as highlighting the importance of recycling to sustainable living.
Image Credit: Jaymee Hyland, White Trash, 2013, mixed media.
RICHARD BELL
IMAGINING VICTORY
7 February - 12 April 2015
Imagining Victory is centred on a triology of recent video projects by leading Australian artists Richard Bell. Drawing heavily on his political and social activism, the artist frequently interrogates expressions of political, cultural, social and economic disenchantment. These expressions, often emerging out of the uneasy relationship between Aboriginal peoples and more recent arrivals to Australia are reinvented in scenes that are sometimes farcial, often comical, but always confronting.
Image Credit: Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008, still from HD video, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
ASHER MILGATE
...SURVIVORS...
7 March - 10 May 2015
Artist/curator Asher Milgate returns to the town he grew up in, Wellington, NSW, to document the life of the traditional owners, the Binjang people of the Wiradjuri nation. ...Survivors...records stories from Wellington's elders - and edlers in waiting - about life at Nanima, the Common, and on the outskirts of town. In 1832, the first inland Aboriginal mission was established in Wellington, which became the Nanima mission in 1910.
This mission became the longest continually operating Aboriginal reserve in Australia. The elders of Wellington shared with him some of their most intimate memories; tales of their families, of love, regrets and hardships. ...Survivors... uses photography, audio and video to tell their stories.
Image Credit: Asher Milgate, Gran’s House (Bell) The Common, (detail), 2014
JOYCE HINTERDING, AGNES MARTIN & LINDA MATALON
OBJECTS & ENERGIES:
18 April - 31 May 2015
Objects & Energies features three artists from different backgrounds who share a fascination with making the invisible visible. Joyce Hinterding, Agnes Martin and Linda Matalon have an abiding interest in natural phenomena and in creating abstract images that convey our experience of the wrold. The exhibtion will focus primarily on drawing; a medium that is central to each of the artists. Whilst their works are divergent and distinct what they share is an engagement in repitition, the process of marking time and the delineation of spaces.
Image Credit: Joyce Hinterding Dirty Drawings: Loops and fields Induction Drawings series 4-25/11/2010-6/7/2011, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2010, graphite ink and metal contacts on Arches 100% rag watercolour paper 58 x 76 cm. Collection of the artist. Photo: Anthony Wheelan Courtesy the artist.
A MARTU EXPERIENCE OF THE WESTERN DESERT
WE DON'T NEED A MAP
4 April - 31 May 2015
Bringing together traditional culture and knowledge of the Martu people with new media artists from across Australia We don't need a map features paintings, digital animation, immersive video installations, aerial desert photography and sculptural objects. The Martu are the traditional owners of a vast area of the Western Desert and their stories are illustrated in a distinctive visual language. This exhibition provides insight into the Martu way of life and invites audiences to celebrate this lively and enduring culture.
Image Credit: Marra! (catch it!)(detail), Kumpaya Gigirba and Ngamaru Bidu, 2010, photo: Gabrielle Sullivan
LOLA GREENO
CULTURAL JEWELS
18 April - 28 June 2015
Lola Greeno is a an internationally respected Indigenous artist and one of only a handful of Tasmanian Aboriginal women practising the art of shell stringing. The themes of the exhibition, which features natural materials such as Echidna quill, kelp, feather, rare Marieener shell and bone, are strongly woven around the traditions of her island home. This is shown alongside more contemporary sculptural works, her response to concerns for the environmental and the cultural and familial future of shell stringing in northern Tasmania.
Image Credit: Lola Greeno, laewurrar necklace (detail) 2014, scallop shells, leather cord. Photo by John Leeming. Image courtesy of Lola Greeno
THE LAST SUPPER
KEN + JULIA YONETANI
4 April - 28 June 2015
The Last Supper is a large scale sculptural installation comprimsing of a table laid with a variety of foodstuffs made entirely from Murray River salt. The work draws on the still life genre as an artistic tradition that emerged at the same time as current agricultural practices were being developed. The themes of consumption, luxury and mortality portrayed in these early paintings will be re-enacted in this installation. Using salt as the medium brings focus to the environemental cost of agricultural production and connects with the historical associations of salt - as a powerful, sacred substance that maintains and destroys life.
Image Credit: Ken + Julia Yonetani, The Last Supper (detail) 2014. Commissioned by Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. Photography by Silversalt. Image courtesy of the artists and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre.
PAT BRASSINGTON
Á REBOURS
6 June - 19 July 2015
Pat Brassington: Á Rebours is a major survey by one of Australia's most important and influential photo-based artists. Brassington was one of the first artists to recognise the potential of the digital format and has used it to create an enormous body of work. The exhibition title is inspired by the banned 1884 Frech novel of the same name, which translates as 'against nature' or 'against the grain.' Her works make reference to surrealism and the media of cinema and are deeply psychological.
An Australian Centre for Contemporary Art touring exhibition
Image Credit: Pat Brassington, By the Way, 2010, piment print. Courtesy of the artist, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne and Stills Gallery, Sydney.
DANIEL CRAWSHAW
HIGH COUNTRY GOTHIC
6 June - 2 August 2015
For the last two decades, London-based Welsh artist, Daniel Crawshaw, has been travelling the world seeking out spectactular landscapes yet to be altered or damaged by mankind. In 2012, he visited Australia, spending two months in Central Gippsland, VIC, exploring an often inhospitable Australian landscape. Drawn from both Welsh and Australian subjects, High Country Gothic presents landscapes that are powerfully evocative of nineteenth century Romantic art through a critical, post-photographic gaze.
A Gippsland Art GalleryTouring Exhibition
Image credit: Daniel Crawshaw, Afon Glaslyn, 2013, oil on canvas.
ENLISTMENT AND WORLD WAR ONE
FALL - IN!
15 May - 2 August 2015
Despite the initial rush of patriotism and imperial fervour, the harsh realities of war soon became common knowledge. Gallipoli was a shock to the nation and the need to replace those men lost in battle, as well as fuel the trenches of France and Belgium, meant that recruitment had to increase. A range of posters from the period shows how the arts of persuasion and propaganda were employed to ensure that our boys did not let the side down.
Image credit: Destroy this Mad Brute: Enlist c1917, lithograph on paper, 96x72 cm. Artist: Harry Ryle Hopps, published by US Army, printer unknown. Collection Australian War Memorial ARTV01195
4 DECADES OF AUSTRALIAN MEDIA ART
SCANLINES
25 July - 13 September 2015
Scanlines comes from the archive of dLux MediaArts, one of Australia’s foremost media and screen arts organisations. This selection of works spans a period of thirty years, from the activities of the Super 8 Collective right through to the video and new media practioners of today. Scanlines demonstrates that new media has both informed and responded to Australian culture. As well as highlighting the recent tradition of media art, Scanlines is designed to make accessible the philosophy and techniques of new media practice.
A dLux Media Arts touring exhibition
Image credit: Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith, Trailer for Hollywood Burn, 2011, Digital video, Duration of trailer: 1.34 min, Duration of Hollywood Burn: 52 mins
THE ANIMAL IN ART
WILDSIDE
25 July - 13 September 2015
Artists have long featured animals in their work to communicate everything from domestic affection to violent life-and-death struggles. Representations of animals offer opportunities to explore daily life and symbolic – often fantastic – associations, and they also introduce important social and ethical issues. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this considers humankind’s relationship with the greater animal kingdom. A body of work has been produced by Hunter-based artist Peter Gardiner specifically for this exhibition project during a residency at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. The exhibition also includes works from the WPCC collection and works from the Lake Macquarie Art Gallery's collection.
Wild side is a gallery partnership between Lake Macquarie City art Gallery and Western Plains Cultural Centre.
Image: Peter Gardiner Rhinoceros (after Dürer) 2014 enamel on board 360 x 600cm courtesy the artist
THE PRINTS OF JESSIE TRAILL
STARS IN THE RIVER
15 August - 11 October 2015
This exhibition celebrates the artistic career of one of Australia’s most important printmakers of the twentieth century, Jessie Traill. Embracing the medium of etching in the early 1900s, Jessie Traill forged a radical path for printmaking in Australia through the duality of her vision. Depicting the beauty of the natural environment alongside dynamic images of industry, her lyrical response showed a profound understanding of the dilemma which requires nature to be sacrificed in order for the modern world to progress.
Image: Jessie Triall, Good night in the gully where the white gums grow, 1922, etching and aquatinit, printed in brown ink, from one plate, plate-mark 49.7 x 46.5cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1977 (c) Estate of Jessie Triall
EMERGENCE
25 October
Emergence profiles up and coming Wiradjuri artists. It pays witness to the innovation, diversity and cultural significance of a distinct Wiradjuri visual language. Every eight weeks Emergence will feature a new emerging artist, examining those who are using art to explore the land, its people and its nature and in the process those who transcend stereotypes.
AN EXHIBITION BY KAREN MCCARTNEY
ICONIC AUSTRALIAN HOUSES
8 August - 1 November 2015
From the 1950s Australia experienced an economic boom and broadening of horizons that heralded a whole new approach to domestic design. Led by a new generation of Australian architects along with a number of European migrants, this approach melded European and international influences with the Australian climatic and topographic conditions to create highly individual houses in often dramatic and inaccessible locations. Iconic Australian Houses will explore the emergence of distinctive home design in modern Australia and its role in the formation of an Australia lifestyle and culture. The exhibition will display 29 seminal houses of the period from the 1950s to the 1990s with photographs, text, models, interviews with architects and residents and specific details of the architecture and interior design, focusing on such aspects as materials, furniture, fixtures, lighting and decorative themes including comprehensive reference to classic design items.
A travelling exhibition from Sydney Living Museums
Image: The Philip Island House, architect Barrie Marshall. Photograph © Michael Wee
ARTEXPRESS
19 September - 22 November 2015
A selection of the best works submitted for the 2014 HSC Visual Arts course. At once vibrant, melancholy, serious and sublime, the works created by these young artists will again amaze the viewer.
Image Credit: Leila May Kirkness, Pain and Rapture (detail), 2014, drawing. School: Dubbo College Senior Campus
NASCA STORIES THROUGH VOICE
17 September - 21 November 2015
NASCA Stories Through Voice is an Oral History project that encompasses the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Dubbo Senior, South and Delroy Campuses and Wellington High. Although young these students have a lot to share. The NASCA Stories through voice exhibition will showcases oral histories of local students and Aboriginal community members. Come and listen and learn about their lives so far. The tales of the young will be accompanied by stories from the older generation, which provides a fascinating contrast as well as interesting similarities.
In terms 2 & 3students embarked on a journey of discovery and learning. They have learnt about Totems and Kinship with Aunty Beth and attended sessions at the local Macquarie Regional libraries in Dubbo & Wellington where they learnt how to research their family history.
Finally students participated in a full day workshop with D-Lux media where they pieced together their oral histories through; story boarding, learning about interview techniques and finally using media such as audio recording devices, motion film and still photography to create the finish product.
Throughout the project students have learnt to treat the family and community members like living history books and to have a yarn and learn their stories and their families history.
BEASTARIUM
19 September - 22 November 2015
Artist Rona Green curates a show from fellow print-makers devoted to the animal. Taking in some of Australia's best artists, Green has selected a body of work that features printmaker's who explore the animal as as subject. The breadth and scope of both the print and the animal will be on full display.
A Western Plains Cultural Centre Exhibition
Image: RonaGreen,Brett, 2014, Linocut, pigmented ink and watercolour, Gift of the Artist, Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre (c) Rona Green
THE RIVER
28 November - 31 January 2015
Can art be used to communicate between two cultures? This is the question posed by The River, an exhibition inspired by the relationship between the city of Dubbo and one of its sister cities, Minokamo, Japan. Both Dubbo and Minokamo have a major river that flows through each city,which has inspired generations of artists in both countries. Using the river as a common subject, WPCC has invited six artists from Dubbo to respond to the Macquarie River, juxtaposed with artists from Minokamo responding to the Kisogawa River. This presents alternate views of a shared natural phenomenon. The project aims to make cultural and artistic connections and strengthen ties with our sister city.
A Western Plains Cultural Centre Exhibition.
Image credit: Macquarie River, Dubbo. Imagery by De Bruin Spatial Technology on behalf of Dubbo City Council (March 2014)
THIS INVERTED WORLD
28 November 2015 - 31 January 2016
This Inverted World explores how we as a society turn to art as a way of understanding our place in the world. Is this the world that was promised to us by first religion and then science? As the speed of technological advancement gathers pace, do our ethics keep up? The exhibition is drawn entirely from the collection of the WPCC, a collection devoted to the animal in art. This Inverted World considers the use of animals as representative of mankind, and how this portrayal can become a moral compass to navigate our uncertain future.
Image: Hayden Fowler White Australia 2004, digital video, sound, 23mins 52sec (loop). Purchased with funds provided by Friends of Dubbo Regional Gallery Inc. Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre.
OPERATION ART
28 November - 26 January 2016
Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the NSW Department of Education and Communities. This program encourages students from Kindergarten to Year 10 in all NSW schools to create artworks for children in hospital. It is an important visual arts exhibition that focuses on creating a positive environment to aid the healing and recovery process of young patients.
Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, in association with the NSW Department of Education and Communities. Proudly supported by ANSTO.
Image: Mathilda Marjoram, T Rex Dinosaur, 2014, drawing
CIRCA 1915
7 November - 31 January 2016
The world in 1915 was dominated by war but it was not conusmed. Life continued as normal, after a fashion, as people and governments adjusted themsleves to the new regime of toal war. This exhibiton provides a snapshot of the world the soldiers and nurses left behind. Featuring objects, prints and photographs it portrays the home front as the home, not the front.
A Western Plains Cultural Centre Exhibition.
2ND TAMWORTH TEXTILE TRIENNIAL 2014
GROUP EXCHANGE
17 October 2015 - 17 January 2016
This exhibition presents the work of twenty-two artists from around Australia who explore themes around collaboration, interdisciplinary relationships and the cross pollination of ideas. Group Exchange presents the extraordinary work that has emerged from this enquiry. In this Textile Triennial, collaboration has opened up many and varied interpretations of the theme. Each artist has provided unique insights through their rich and diverse experience and introduced us to new original ways of viewing practice.
This exhibition has been developed and toured by Tamworth Regional Gallery
Image: Gwen Egg, The Gathering (detail) 2014, saggs (Lomandra longifolia) Photographer: Farina Fotographics, Lou Farina
ABC OPEN
STORIES FROM OUR PLACE
19 October - 2 February
From Mudgee to Lightning Ridge and Coonabarabran to Bourke, communities across the Western Plains region have been telling their stories and publishing them on the ABC. This diverse exhibition showcases community made content from a range of ABC Open projects. Stories from our Place brings together photographs, video, written and audio stories showcasing the stunning surroundings and extraordinary people that make the Western Plains unique. Celebrate the creativity of local ABC Open contributors from the Western Plains and perhaps even be inspired to share your own story.
DAVID ROSETZKY SELECTED WORKS
TRUE SELF
23 November - 26 January 2014
One of Australia's foremost exponents of video art, David Rosetzky creates intensely beautiful videos, photo-collages and installations exploring identity, subjectivity and interpersonal relationships. This is the first comprehensive survey of his work to date and will present a selection of early portraits and longer duration videos, photographs, photo-collages and sculptures.
Image: David Rosetzky, How to feel (detail) 2011, high definition digital video,
colour, sound, 108 min, 39 sec. Image © the artist.
LOCAL COLLECTIONS
30 November - 12 January 2014
This exhibition features works from the art collections of residents of Dubbo and surrounds. It presents an alternate view of the region by examining the tastes and possessions of its citizens. Local Collections features artworks that reveal stories about the past, the aspirations of the region and personal histories.
Image: Clarice Beckett (1887-1935) Purple Road Beaumaris (detail) c 1929, oil on board, 38 x 45cm. Private collection, Dubbo.
JUDE CRAWFORD
WANDERLUST
7 December - 26 January 2014
In Wanderlust Jude Crawford has produced a series of large abstract paintings that focus on the atmosphere of a place rather than its physical appearance. Crawford takes inspiration from the traditions of Calligraphy and Colourfield painting within the Abstract Expressionist movement and uses these to create meditations on the enormity of the Australian landscape. A playful use of the micro and the macro evokes an immersive experience that attempts to fathom the vastness of the country that surrounds us.
Image: Jude Crawford, Pond (detail) 2013, acrylic on canvas. Image © Jude Crawford.
BILL MOSELEY
NIGHT SHADE
7 December - 2 February 2014
Using the 19th century medium of wet plate collodion photography, the loosely based narrative in Nightshade follows the turmoil surrounding the life of the central character, the 'running man.' At the heart of this narrative is the concept of the 'white settlers' alienation and the often illusionary world of reminiscence. This patchiness of recollection is reflected in the unpredictable and often strange results produced by this antiquated process.
Image: Bill Moseley, Dark Pool, 2013, tintype photograph, 20 x25cm. Image © the artist
THE ANTIPODEAN STEAMPUNK SHOW
18 January - 2 March 2014
The Steampunk movement takes mass produced products and transforms them into unique and finely crafted objects of desire.
Image: Cliff Overton (maduncle), Rocket pack, 2010. Found backpack frame, fuel tanks, brass gauges, vases and levers, ACME air brake, copper petrol bowser parts, brass chandelier parts. 80 x 60 x 30cm. Image © Hannah Spence
BEN QUILTY
AFTER AFGHANISTAN
1 February - 30 March 2014
Ben Quilty, Archibald and Moran Prize Winner, was appointed as an official war artist by the Australian War Memorial in 2011, and deployed to Afghanistan from 11 October until 3 November. During this time he observed the Australians’ activities in Kabul, Kandahar and Tarin Kot. His task was to record and interpret the experiences of Australian servicemen and women who are deployed as part of Operation Slipper. Ben Quilty: after Afghanistan showcases 21 studio paintings, along with 16 works on paper sketched by the artist during his tour. The works, many featuring the heavy use of paint the artists is known for, also reveal Ben’s key eye for the human aspect of war and battle.
Image: Ben Quilty Trooper Luke Korman painted in Robertson, New South Wales, 2012
aerosol and oil on linen, 190 x 140 cm acquired under the official art scheme in 2012
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JUDE FLEMING
BONES AND BREATH
1 February - 16 April 2014
In Bones and Breath Warren based artist Jude Fleming uses trees as a symbol of our relationship with the environment and as way of viewing our place within it. The exhibition uses installations of found objects, animal bones and fibre works to create a space of contemplation and reflection on the forces of nature. To Flemming, trees represent endurance and strength, shelter and sustenance, as well as spanning the divide between the temporal and the ethereal. The exhibition also includes collages in vivid colour to contrast with the earthy colours of the materials appropriated from the artist’s environment.
Image: Jude Flemming, Bonfire, 2013, paper collage, 210 x 295mm. Image © the artist.
52 SUBURBS AROUND THE WORLD
8 February - 30 March 2014
Cities are usually known only for their icons, monuments and ‘top 10’ tourist attractions. In 52 suburbs around the world, photographer Louise Hawson ignores the postcard clichés, finding beauty in the places where ordinary people live. Hawson, along with her eight-year-old daughter, Coco, travelled to 10 countries, 14 cities and 52 suburbs to find the unusual and lesser known neighbourhoods of famous cities. Hawson’s vibrant photographs turn the ordinary into extraordinary, capturing not only the differences between countries and cultures but also the remarkable similarities. This exhibition is supported by Momento.
Image: Sultana at the subway, Jamaica, New York, USA. Photograph © Louise Hawson
SHERRIE KNIPE
COMBOVER
8 February - 2 March 2014
In Comb Over artist Sherrie Knipe explores her interest in the humble comb, which becomes oversized and playful in this large installation. Knipe has a fascination with everyday domestic objects, and throughout her practice items such as shoes, teapots and watering cans create a template upon which the audience can project their own interpretations. Within this collective storytelling, Comb Over offers an opportunity to explore a household item in a new and enticing way.
Image: Sherrie Knipe, Comb Over, 2011, plywood
ART & AUSTRALIA COLLECTION 2003 - 2013
8 March - 4 May 2014
The Art & Australia Collection 2003 - 2013 features works from the Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award. The award was established by the respected art journal Art & Australia, to promote the work of artists from Australia and New Zealand in the first five years of their careers and is an exhilarating glimpse into the diversity and complexity of contemporary art in Australia. It includes a variety of innovative works of art including video, painting, sculpture, light installation, sound art and photography.
Image: Christian de Vietri, 2nd law, 2004, Installation view, polyurethane, fibreglass, metal fridge, Art and Australia Emerging Artist Collection.
JASON BENJAMIN
EVERYONE IS HERE
8 March - 25 May 2014
Everyone is Here an exhibition by painter Jason Benjamin is a distillation of deep-felt encounters around particular landscape sites, where the artist has concentrated his energies and talent on shaping a pared back vision of light and space. The series had its origins on the austere expanse of the Hay Plain and the Monaro regions of New South Wales. Lengthy field trips to these sites resulted in the series, which reveals the artist’s re-affirmation of a landscape tradition that lies at the heart of the Australian experience.
Image: Jason Benjamin, She's searching for you too, 2010, oil on linen. Image © the artist.
LEWIS BURNS
SURROUNDED BY SOCIETY
22 March - 4 May 2014
In Surrounded by Society, Dubbo based Indigenous artist Lewis Burns uses native animals as a metaphor for the adjustment of Aboriginal cultures to contemporary life. The exhibition is inspired by the artist’s ideas on the changing roles for Aboriginal men, now that the daily role of hunting and providing food and shelter for the family has been made redundant. Burns depicts native animals trapped in unnatural environments, seeing them as symbolic for many of the social issues facing Aboriginal people.
Image: Lewis Burns, Surrounded by Society, 2003. Image © the artist.
SELFIE
5 April - 8 June 2014
In 2013 the word 'selfie' was voted the Word of the Year by Oxford University Press. This exhibition will examine the social media phenomenon of the selfie and its historical precedents. Using self-portraiture as the focus, the exhibition will crowd source selfies, allowing members of the public to contribute to the exhibition. By examining the selfies of a particular age group in a particular locale, a slice of society can be made visible – its aspirations writ large. A selection of historical photographs (from the collections of WPCC and the Art Gallery of NSW) will provide a context for the development of photographic processes as well as the shifting social use of photography.
Image: Unknown maker, American, daguerreotypist Portrait of Unidentified Daguerreotypist, 1845, handcoloured 1/6 plate Image: 6.7 x 5.2cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
EMMA THOMSON
TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT
5 April - 15 June 2014
Produced as part of an Artist-in-Residence at Western Plains Cultural Centre, Take Your Best Shot presents large-scale photographic portraits of women who partake in hunting in the Central West. Thomson placed ads in the local Classifieds for models and collaborated with her subjects to produce the portraits. The resulting images present young contemporary women posed within the Australian landscape.
Image: Emma Thomson, Rachel, 2013, pigment print. © Emma Thomson
LYRA BURGHAUS
WRAPPED UP
31 May - 13 July 2014
In 1960 Yves Klein created “Anthropometry”, in which models covered themselves with blue paint and printed their body imprints onto paper. Lyra Burghaus takes this seminal work as her inspiration and transports the use of these expressionistic markings onto her textile designs. An established textile designer, the German born Burghaus creates garments and corresponding photographs that explore issues of personal responsibility, body awareness and behaviour. Throughout the exhibition, Burghaus uses the colour blue as a symbol, an expression and as a medium.
Image: Lyra Burghaus, love, 2012, printed silk, cotton, lace. Image © the artist (detail)
DEBORAH KELLY
THE MIRACLES
31 May - 13 July 2014
This work, completed in 2012, comprises 37 photographic portraits of families with children conceived through the various Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), from turkey baster to IVF. In the images are single parents, opposite sex couples, same sex and transgender couples, families who are recipients of egg or sperm donation, gamete donors, families made through surrogacy and other child-rearing arrangements involving extended kinships and familial innovations made possible by ART. The families contain children born (or expected) through the use of ART; technically, miraculously, the products of virgin births.
Image: Deborah Kelly, After Madonna della Sedia, 2012. Image © the artist.(Detail)
CUSP
10 May - 3 August 2014
Design has always affected the way that we live. From furniture to gadgets, clothing and housing, design’s ability to improve the way we look, move, work and feel has long been evident. In recent times, design has increasingly been recognised as a virtuosity that offers the world more than simply utility and beauty. CUSP: Designing into the Next Decade explores this terrain, presenting twelve outstanding Australian designers with ideas that could change the way we inhabit the world.
Image: Leah Heiss, Seed Sensor,2011. Image (c) Narelle Sheean
ANNE FRANK
A HISTORY FOR TODAY
14 June - 10 August 2014
The exhibition ‘Anne Frank – A History for Today’ was created by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam (Holland), which was established in 1957 to preserve and maintain the Secret Annex, where Anne and seven other Jews hid for more than two years during the Second World War. Today, the Anne Frank House maintains the Annex as a museum and spreads Anne Frank’s ideals as outlined in her diary, which she wrote in hiding. Anne Frank’s life story encourages people to work together for a free and democratic society, in which people tolerate each other despite their differences.
Image: Entrance to secret annex via bookcase. Image © Anne Frank House
REGIONAL EXHIBITION
WASTE TO ART
21 June - 24 August 2014
Waste 2 Art has been a community institution for many years now, inspiring hundreds of locals, young and old alike, to recycle potential waste into quirky, thoughtful, and often beautiful, works of art. The Regional Exhibition brings together winners from 28 local exhibitions and is a compelling insight into the ingenuity of the rural mind.
Image: Jackson Scott, Piston Pup, found materials.
STEPHEN KING
SCULPTURE
28 June - 24 August 2014
Stephen King is best known for his work in Sculpture by the Sea where he has been invited to exhibit for the past 15 years and awarded a main prize in 2013 for his work Fallout. King employs humour and storytelling in his work to address the more serious questions about our relationship with the environment. As a grazier King has become interested in genetics and the continuum of life. Moving from carving into lino to using a chainsaw to sculpt logs; the land continues to influence his art. This exhibition looks back at 30 years of work and showcases the achievements of an artist who has quietly achieved prominence through commitment and dedication to his practice.
Image: Stephen King Horse and rider III 2012 Stringybark. Image © the artist
FOUR DECADES OF AUSTRALIAN ART
CREAM
30 August - 19 October 2014
Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art chronicles the development of modernism in Australia from 1940 to 1980 and articulates influences and stylistic diversity within the movement. Artists including John Perceval, Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman, Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale, John Brack, Grace Cossington Smith and Fred Williams are represented. In the mid 1970’s Rockhampton Art Gallery began collecting art, resulting in a significant national collection. The location of this collection highlights the development of modernism in other regional centres; challenging the view that Australian modernism belonged to Sydney and Melbourne.
Image: Sidney Nolan (1921-1992) Burke in central Australia 1964 oil on composition board. Collection Rockhampton Art Gallery
REMAIN IN LIGHT
9 August - 2 November 2014
Remain in Light: Photography from the MCA Collection provides a broad overview of contemporary photographic practice from the 1960s to the present day. During this period photography underwent a tumultuous redefinition by contemporary artists and broke free of its constrictive, solely media based context. Photography is a ubiquitous form of representation and a highly accessible art form. All visitors to Remain in Light will have been involved with it either as photographer or subject.
Image: Polixeni Papapetrou, Wrestlers: Mr. Wrestling 1992, silver gelatin print, Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of the artist, 1993, image courtesy the artist and stills Gallery.
5TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
EXPERIMENTA SPEAK TO ME
10 August - 9 November
Our ability to communicate with each other anywhere, all of the time - ultimate interconnectivity - has been with us for some time. In a rapidly changing technological field, how do we consider these new relationships to the world, technology and each other? Experimenta Speak to Me brings together works that offer multiple perspectives as to how we form connections with others and how we negotiate intimacy in our lives. The exhibition features significant Australian and international artists, and has a focus on the Asia Pacific region.
Image: Scenocosme Lights Contacts 2010 (Installation view) Image courtesy the artist
JACQUES CALLOT
16 August - 30 November 2014
This exhibition from the collection of Albury City features Jacques Callot, who was one of the great artists of 17th Century Europe and influential in turning the technique of etching into an art. Born and raised in France, he travelled to Italy to be trained under the great masters of the time and with the patronage of the powerful Medici family he became one of the most significant artists in Europe. The printmaking techniques pioneered by Callot continue to be used by artists today.
Image: Jacques Callot 1592 – 1635 Man in Military Costume etching 1624 Daniel Gift AlburyCity Collection ( Detail)
EMPIRE
I'M GONNA MISS YOU
25 October - 9 November 2014
The development of the Dubbo Regional Gallery collection is enabled through the generosity of the Friends of WPCC and individual donors. This group of new acquisitions (some of which were acquired through the Federal Government's Cultural Gifts program) include works by Francis Lymburger, McLean Edwards, Elizabeth Cummings, Rew Hanks and Joseph McGlennon, significantly bolstering the Animal in Art collection.
Donated through Cultural Gifts, an Australian Government Program
Image: Daniel Boyd I’m Gonna Miss You 2009. Oil on canvas. Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery. Gift of the artist. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2013
WESTERN COLLEGE ART PRIZE
18 October - 30 November 2014
The third Western College Art Prize will be held at WPCC. This acquisitive art prize is open to artists in the Dubbo area and features a general award, an Indigenous prize and a student prize. The theme this year is ‘Inclusion’ and selected artists will be judged on this theme. The Western College Art Prize was established with the intention of exhibiting emerging artists in the region.
KATHIELYN JOB
THE DAY AFTER YESTERDAY
1 December 2012 - 26 January 2013
Kathielyn Job is a Dubbo based artist who uses the fundamentals of painting to create a unique means of communication. The Day after Yesterday focuses on Job’s uncompromising use of colour and reveals the artist’s unbounded imagination. Her practice explores notions of energy and existence, focusing on the idea that human beings are intrinsically connected to the earth through matter. Job investigates the tension between energy and its containment in form, with these ideas surfacing on the canvas in imagined organic shapes rendered in brilliant colour.
Image: Kathielyn Job, Ocean/Iris2012, Acrylic on canvas
Image courtesy the artist and WPCC
© Kathielyn Job
CUT WITH A KITCHEN KNIFE
8 December 2012 - 27 January 2013
Cut with a Kitchen Knife is a survey of the current manifestations of collage in contemporary art and more than a nod to the absurdist collages that arose from the brief and highly influential Dadaist movement of the early 20th Century. Less concerned with addressing the problems of the picture plane and more those of an existential nature, works on paper have been selected from nine contemporary artists who traverse the surface, relay absurdisms and reorganise obsessive collections - Christian Capurro, Simon Evans, Elizabeth Gower, Nathan Gray, Mandy Gunn, Deborah Kelly, Nick Mangan and Stuart Ringholt.
Image: Stuart Ringholt, Circles Passing (Page 43) 2007
Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
WASTE TO ART
24 November 2012 - 26 January 2013
The annual Waste to Art exhibition enables the community to create works of art using everyday waste as the medium. With every passing year, Waste to Art grows in popularity, and is a highlight on the calendar for many creative people in the community. The exhibition celebrates “thinking outside the box”, it shocks and surprises the viewer whilst commenting on our throw-away culture. Waste to Art is presented in collaboration with NetWaste and in 2012 is coordinated by Amy Griffiths.
Image: Jackson Scott, Piston Pup2011
Found materials
Image courtesy WPCC
FLIGHT
30 November 2012 - 26 January 2013
The Western Plains Cultural Centre’s collections feature many objects and artworks that depict birds. These range from well known species such as magpies and finches through to flightless birds such as emus and cassowaries. Their depiction by artists and artisans expresses our fascination with these creatures that abundantly cover our Earth and are distant relatives of the dinosaurs.
Flight will feature objects from the Museum and Gallery collections, juxtaposing their depictions in artworks and as decorative motifs on utilitarian objects.
Image: David Wilson
Frogmouth 1990
Oil on canvas board
Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery
Purchased with the assistance of NSW Ministry for the Arts and Friends of DRG Inc
Image © David Wilson
MICHAEL RILEY
CLOUD
30 November 2012 - 26 January 2013
Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) was born and raised in Dubbo, going on to become one of Australia’s most successful and highly respected contemporary artists. Cloud produced in 2000 is his best known and much-loved photographic series. An endless blue sky becomes the backdrop for objects relating to Aboriginal life and culture. Influenced by the artist’s early years in his hometown, the works are a meditation on belief, spirituality, childhood and memory.
Image: Michael Riley
Untitled, from the series Cloud 2000
Chromogenic pigment print
106 x 150cm
Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery.
Purchased with funds from the Armati Bequest and Friends of Dubbo Regional Gallery Inc.
Image © Michael Riley Foundation. Licensed by Viscopy, 2012
ARLO MOUNTFORD
THE FOLLY
3 November 2012 - 26 January 2013
Arlo Mountford’s The Folly was acquired by Dubbo Regional Gallery in 2009 with funds raised by the Friends of the WPCC. In the three channel digital animation, Mountford has re-imagined three paintings by Flemish painter Pieter Breughel the Elder, “Hunters in the Snow” (1565), “The Corn Harvest” (1565) and “The Fall of Icarus” (1558) and has infiltrated these timeless pastoral scenes with new life.
Image: Arlo Mountford
The Folly (detail) 2008-09
3-channel video and 4-channel audio, digital animation
duration: 9 minutes
Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Western Plains Cultural Centre 2009
Image © Arlo Mountford
DREAMWEAVERS
9 March - 28 April 2013
Featuring the work of six artists, Dreamweavers plots a strange and enchanting course through the world of dreams, nightmares and the imagination. It imagines a world with the lights turned off, where monsters come out to play and reality becomes a flickering memory. Dreamweavers is a multi-sensory experience that is more like entering another world than an art exhibition. It combines sculpture, digital media, photography and painting, in an intoxicating visual feast.
A Gippsland Art Gallery & NETS Victoria touring exhibition.
Image:
Aly Aitken, In Sheep's Clothing, 2008.
Timber, pine tree branches, calico, velvet, antler, stuffing, zip, found objects.
Courtesy the artist. © Aly Aitken
NICOLA DICKSON
BIRDS FROM A NEW WORLD
2 March - 28 April 2013
Inspired by the recently discovered natural history illustrations of George Raper, a midshipman on the First Fleet, artist Nicola Dickson transports these delicate images into a new world. Whilst keeping true to George's high level of observation and aesthetic detail, Nicola moves the birds into new contexts in order to explore a diversity of themes such as colonisation, species loss and the importation and use of technology.
Image: Nicola Dickson, Raper's Providence Petrels, 2012, acrylic and oil on linen. © the artist.
IDA JAROS
FAMILY ALBUM
2 March - 19 April 2013
Family Album is a collection of works exploring the relationships between the members of Ida Jaros’ family, their relationship with the lands of Australia and the Czech Republic. Her parents left Czechoslovakia in 1980 with nothing but their two children. They told no one they were leaving, so were unable to farewell loved ones. Ida was only 7 when she left for what she was told was a ‘holiday’. The effects of this migration continue to reverberate throughout her family and are investigated in Ida’s intimate but stark works.
Image: Ida Jaros
Twins in landscape with snow, 2012
Mixed media on paper
Image courtesy the artist © Ida Jaros.
LAGUA DUNALAIG
2 March - 12 May 2013
Lagau Dunalaig (island lifestyle) is a significant exhibition of works of art on paper by Cairns-based Torres Strait Islander artists Brian Robinson and Joel Sam. Both Brian and Joel use a variety of printmaking techniques for the 55 limited edition works in this exhibition, including linocut, etching, and embossing. The artists explored these techniques while reflecting on their experiences in the land and sea scapes of Australia’s far north. The prints were made at the Djumbunji Press KickArts Fine Art Printmaking Studio in Cairns, Far North Queensland.
Image: Joel Sam
Marrkai gub (Cyclone Yasi), 2011
Linocut.
Photography: Michael Marzik.
Image © Joel Sam.
150 YEARS OF NSW POLICE
THE FORCE
2 March - 21 April 2013
The NSW Police Force was formed on 1 March 1862. It is the oldest and largest police force in Australia with operations on land, on sea and from the air. From wooden rattles and phrenology to taser guns and forensics, policing in New South Wales has continued to expand and develop according to the needs, attitudes and technology of the day. This exhibition celebrates 150 years of policing through a rich collection of photographs, objects and film footage. It charts the formation of specialist units, the science of crime investigation, the role of women in the force, changes in police duties and equipment, and also pays tribute to the thousands of officers who have served their community.
Presented in partnership with the NSW Police Force and the Historic Houses Trust of NSW.
Image: Police pistol practice at Redfern Depot. Ballistics expert Sergeant Albert Brown is in plain clothes, examining the revolver, c. 1930s, Justice and Police Museum Collection, Historic Houses Trust of NSW.
JANET LAURENCE
VANISHING
9 March - 12 May 2013
Janet Laurence’s work often explores time, movement, space and interaction. In Vanishing, she fuses these concerns together into a mesmerising experience. A twin projection shimmers through tulle veils, whilst a series of mirrors reflect both the projections and the viewer, making the audience a part of the work rather than a passive observer. A soundscape of shifting breaths encourages the audience to connect with both the work and each other. A work that encourages participation whilst emphasising the fragility of the experience, Vanishing is one of Laurence’s most immersive works.
Image: Janet Laurence
Vanishing
2-channel video, mixed media
Image courtesy the artist and Breenspace © Janet Laurence.
RANAMOK GLASS PRIZE
4 May - 30 June 2013
The Ranamok Glass Prize is an annual acquisitive award for glass artists who are resident in Australia and New Zealand. The Prize was founded in 1994 by Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill as a way to promote glass as an art form to the public.Featuring almost 30 artists, the 2012 Ranamok Glass Prize showcases the surprising and challenging, world of modern glass makers, who use glass in ways that often defy the imagination.
Image: Estelle Dean, Banquet (detail), 2012, free formed pate de verre with Nori sheets. Image courtesy the artist and Ranamok Glass Prize.
MARTIN PARR
NO WORRIES
4 May - 14 July 2013
In 2011 famed British photographer Martin Parr, as a special project for the FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Photography Festival, set out to photograph three Western Australian port cities, Fremantle, Port Hedland and Broome. Using his unmistakably intimate and satirical style, Parr went about photographing Australian clichés, full of saturated colours and flash photography. The resulting photographs are an invaluable collection of portraits of Australians and Australian identity through the eyes of an outsider.
Image: Martin Parr, Cable Beach. Broome. Australia, 2011. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.
KIRK WATTS
CUT & FLOW
20 April - 2 June 2013
In the driest inhabited continent on Earth water management in the Murray-Darling Basin is something we must get right. The abundance of information and misinformation has muddied the waters. Possible impacts of past, present and future water use in the basin has polarized communities. The scale of past mistakes necessitates drastic and in many cases painful change. To do nothing is not an option. The people depicted in this exhibition all realise that business as usual is unsustainable. Much like the collages in this exhibition a solution to this issue is multi layered, will take time and requires patience.
Image: Kirk Watts, Connect/Respect (detail) 2012, collage on paper 120 x 80cm
GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS
18 May - 21 July 2013
The Garden of Forking Paths exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary computer games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules. The presented pieces span the last three decades, a period which has seen incredible advances in technology and the birth of the information age. All of the pieces in the show can be played by visitors, some on ‘antique’ computers that have been sourced so the older pieces can be experienced with authenticity.
The Garden of Forking Paths is a dLux MediaArts touring exhibition.
Image: Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier, CuteXDoom II (screenshot) (detail), 2008, Computer game/video projection and customised 'wallpaper' interior. © Anita Fontaine ans Mike Pelletier
MATHIEU GALLOIS
WELLINGTON
6 July - 13 October 2013
Mathieu Gallois’ project centres on the history and community of Wellington, a small town located in central New South Wales, traditional home to the Wiradjuri people. Gallois’ grandfather Ernest Moulton (1905–1966), a British migrant who settled in Wellington in 1944, purchased the local paper, the Wellington Times, and as editor became a prominent conservative voice in the community for the next twenty-one years. Taking form as an historical analysis To Move Forward To Destiny of Full Epuality: The Wellington Times 1944–1965 (2012) features a series of twenty-one front pages of the paper selected for their rare reference to the Aboriginal communities of the region.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
ART OF THE SCOTT SISTERS
BEAUTY FROM NATURE
27 April - 30 June 2013
Beautiful and intricate, this stunning exhibition features delicate watercolours, notebooks, handwritten manuscripts, sketches and letters, which together form a fascinating record of the lives of Harriet (Hattie) and Helena (Nellie) Scott. The Scott sisters were among the first to illustrate the life histories and immature stages of Australian moths and butterflies. The highlights of the exhibition are watercoloured paintings created between 1846 and 1851 for their father A.W Scott's landmark publication Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations.
Exhibition Developed & Toured by the Australian Museum.
Image: Helena Scott, Xylopsyche stacyi (Scott). Current name: Zelotypia staci Scott, Hepialidae. Watercolour and ink. © Australian Museum Archives.
HEIDI LEFEBVRE
THE COURAGE CHRONICLES
8 June - 21 July 2013
The Courage Chronicles is an installation of drawings, paintings and costumes representing a freestyle interpretation of fairytale mythology, folklore and heroism. Heidi Lefebvre works a strange stew of the real and imagined, mimicking childhood experiences. The child's world, real or imagined, is reinvented and informs their reality. The exhibition aims to highlight the way stories heard in childhood influence our adult interpretation of more complex experiences.
Heidi Lefebrve is a Molong-based artist.
Image: Heidi Lefebvre, Bogeyman Whiskers,2013, mixed media, dimensions variable. Image © the artist.
MICHAEL WINTERS
DISSECTED BY TIME AND SPACE
6 July - 18 August 2013
This exhibition features sculptural landscapes and linocuts of Greece by painter and printmaker Michael Winters. The work explores topography and landscape merged with the elements of time and space. The linocuts, produced in Greece, reveal a country straddling the past and the present. The sculptural reliefs present the artist's view of the Australian landscape, using a combination of materials with paint. These works provide multiple views of two very different landscapes.
A WPCC curated project.
Image: Michael Winters, A Cowra Landscape Disturbed By Time And Space (detail) 2011, gouache on card, 77 x 100cm. Image © the artist.
JULIE WILLIAMS, JANET HASLETT AND GENEVIEVE CARROLL
THE LONG VIEW
24 August - 13 October 2013
This exhibition presents three artists' distinctly individual responses to the remote, historically charged village of Hill End. Carroll's autobiographical work is meditation on still life, mortality and bees. Haslett explores painting through the 1870's Holtermann Collection photographic archive. Williams' paintings from the Hunts Creek Parramatta and Hill End continue her rigorous exploration of the relationship between the natural and built environment.
A WPCC curated project.
Image: Genieve Carroll, To be or not to bee (detail) 2013, oil on canvas, 45cm x 58c. Image © the artist.
2ND NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART TRIENNIAL
UNDISCLOSED
3 August - 6 October 2013
The 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, unDisclosed presents visitors with the opportunity to experience dynamic visual expression of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. From across the country, 20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists have been selected to represented Indigenous arts today.
This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians; and by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
Image: Naata Nungurrayi, Pintupi people, Untitled (detail) 2010, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 122 x 122cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2010. Image © the artist, represented by Aboriginal Artists Agency.
ANNETTE SIMPSON AND JACK RANDELL
TRACKS
19 October - 1 December 2013
This exhibition features four public engagement artworks, as well as individual works and collaborations between the two artists. This is the most ambitious collaborative project for the artists so far incorporating the work of over 400 participants. The pictures in Tracks embody collective identity of experience and place. Two of the works will realized from start to finish in the gallery space during the exhibition.
A WPCC curated project.
Image: Jack Randell and Annette Simpson, Bodice Back (detail), 2012, Acrylic, collage, ink on board, 60x60cm, Image © the artists
40 YEARS OF JAMFACTORY
DESIGNING CRAFT/CRAFTING DESI
19 October - 17 November 2013
In 2013 JamFactory celebrates 40 years of nurturing and promoting contemporary craft and design in Australia with a landmark exhibition. Curated by Margaret Hancock Davis, Margot Osborne and Brian Parkes, Crafting Design/Designing Craft presents new work by 40 selected artists, craftspeople and designers who have had significant involvement with the JamFactory during its 40-year history and who are continue to produce work of outstanding quality.
Designing Craft/ Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory is a JamFactory and Country Arts SA touring exhibition.
Designing Craft/ Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory is supported by Arts SA's New Exhibitions Fund and by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
Image: Honor Freeman, Every Cloud, 2012, Slipcast, hand built porcelain, silver lustre
280 x 500 x 400 mm Image © the artist
WASTE TO ART
19 October - 24 November 2013
Waste to Art is an annual exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded recyclable materials. Engaging with the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members who explore recycling and the environment in their artworks. The exhibition explores the creativity of our region as well as highlighting the importance of recycling to sustainable living.
Presented in collaboration with Netwaste.
MANDY SCHONE-SALTER
DEGRADATION & REFLECTION
19 October - 1 December 2013
Degradation & Reflection is about the constant change of life and objects around us. These photographs of subjects either living or inanimate, explore effects of decay, from once new, useful or young to the point of their inevitable deterioration. These are objects often dismissed as ugly, worn out, run down or faded. The reflections that occur in each image represent how something fresh and unique can emerge from the aged.
Mandy Schöne-Salter is a Blue Mountains-based artist.
Image: Mandy Schone-Salter
Bend 2013 Digital photograph
84.1 x 118.9 cm
Image © the artist
STORIES FROM OUR PLACE
ABC OPEN
19 October - 2 February 2014
A diverse exhibition celebrating content made by Western Plains locals from a range of ABC Open projects since 2011. Look into the region’s past with Now and Then photographs that re-capture old photos in their contemporary setting. Witness the passion of local sportspeople featured in 110% sports mad videos. Check out the 500 Words multimedia display, in which short stories are read by their authors. Showcasing the creativity of ABC Open contributors from the Western Plains, this exhibition might just inspire you to share your own story!
An ABC Open curated exhibition in partnership with WPCC
Image: 28 - spotted ladybird contributed by Miranda Kerr, Dubbo
2011
Digital photograph
Image © the artist.
HOSSEIN & ANGELA VALAMENASH
WHAT REMAINS...
19 October - 1 December 2013
Hossein & Angela Valamanesh have, for thirty years admired the trails left by the nocturnal wandering of snails on their garden path, often wondering how they might record these accidental but poetic 'drawings'. Working with their son, Nassiem, they have produced a suite of drawings and a video work that shows the undulating 'foot' of the snail as it slithers across the screen. From this unexpected perspective, the unpredictable journeys of the animals is both playful and irreverent.
A WPCC curated project.
Image:
Hoissein and Angela Valamanesh
What remains.... (video still) 2012
HD video, looped, 10:08 minutes.
Videography: Nassiem Valamanesh.
Image courtesy the artists and BREENSPACE, Sydney. Image © the artists
BILL MOSELEY
NIGHTSHADE
7 December - 2 February 2014
Using the 19th century medium of wet plate collodion photography, the loosely based narrative in Nightshade follows the turmoil surrounding the life of the central character, the ‘running man’. Central to this is the concept of the white settler’s alienation and the often illusionary world of reminiscence. This patchiness of recollection is reflected in the unpredictable and often strange results produced by the collodion process.
A WPCC curated exhibition
Image:
Bill Moseley
Dark Pool (detail) 2013
Tintype photograph, 20 x 25 cm, Image © the artist
2012 ARCHIBALD PRIZE
20 October - 2 December 2012
The Archibald Prize is an annual exhibition eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. It never ceases to create lively debate in both the arts community and wider public. First awarded in 1921, the Archibald Prize is one of Australia's oldest and most prestigious art prizes. It is awarded to the best portrait painting, preferentially of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics. The Archibald Prize is an Art Gallery of NSW exhibition toured by Museums and Galleries NSW.
Image:
Paul Ryan Cullen, been feudin' 2011, oil on linen. Image courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW
SIX YEARS OF THE REGIONAL ART SPACE
HARVEST
13 October - 25 November 2012
The Regional Art Space (RAS) has become one the most dynamic and popular exhibition spaces in the WPCC. Set up as a means to profile the work of emerging regionally-based artists, the program has grown to become an important professional development opportunity. Artists's proposals are assessed and awarded a 12-month period to realise their show, working with the WPCC curatorial team in all aspects of exhibition development and delivery.
This exhibition looks back over the six years of the program, revisiting some of the artists and finding out where they are now, what the RAS means to them and how it affected their career.
Image: The Regional Art Space. Image © WPCC
2012 WESTERN COLLEGE ART PRIZE
8 October - 25 November 2012
The second annual Western College Art Prize will this year be held at the WPCC. This acquisitive art prize is open to residents in the Dubbo area and features a general award, an Indigenous prize and a student prize. The theme this year is Passion and selected artists will be judged on their responses to this theme. The Western College Art Prize was established with the intention of exhibition emerging artists from the regio. Pictured is the winner of the inaugural Western College Art Prize, Kathielyn Job's 2011 painting Integrity, reflection and emulation
FRANK NOWLAN
MAN OF THE SERIES
29 September - 18 November 2012
Frank Nowlan came to art relatively late in life, when he retired after 40 years of teaching. Art was something of which he always dreamed. Frank called himself a 'Sunday painter' and friends would drop in at his house ad comment on the 'stick men' in his paintings. Throughout the years, Nowlan's work has developed, becoming enriched with multi-layered concepts, political themes and hidden meanings. Man of the Series: Frank Nowlan is a Hawkesbury Regional Gallery touring exhibition, curated by Peter Fay
Image:
Frank Nowlan The Chameleon (from the series Daisy Bates 2011, oil on canvas
Private collection, Sydney
© Frank Nowlan
ODDITOREUM
7 September - 14 October 2012
This wonderfully innovative and playful exhibition is a unique concept based upon the successful collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and Oscar winning children's book author Shaun Tan. Tan's brief was to concoct fantastical stories behind 11 especially unusual Museum objects, while the rest is left up to the visitor in this delightful exhibition for children of all ages.
Image:
Dr Louise Thomas Jerome Auzoux
Hand-painted anatomical model of a female silkworm moth made from papier-mache, metal and plaster (detail)
Image courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum
EDDY HARRIS
WILCANNIA: STORIES FROM MY HOMELAND
25 August - 7 October 2012
Eddy Harris is a Barkandji man, born and raised in Wilcannia, the traditional homelands of the Barkandji people. For many years Harris has learned kinship practices from his elders and has been crafting these stories into unique and dynamic forms. Harris works in a multi-disciplinary fashion, utilising painting, printmaking, ceramics, carving and woodwork. Through his works, Harris aims to educate audiences about Barkandji culture and foster a greater understanding of the way kinship works within tribal culture. A Regional Art Space Exhibition.
DR WADE MARYNOWSKY
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOIS ROBOT 2
25 August - 28 October 2012
With his work, The discreet Charm of the Bourgeois Robot 2, Dr Wade Marynowsky pays homage to Surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel's 1972 film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Marynowsky works in a number of artistic mediums including performance, video, roboti, immersive or interactive installation. In this interactive work he explores the human-like performance of robots who mimic human characteristics without ever achieving humanity. Marynowksy animates his robots with humour, describing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois Robot 2 as the 'decadent disco diva of doom.'
ARTEXPRESS
18 August - 23 September 2012
ARTEXPRESS is the annual exhibition of exemplary artworks created by students sitting the 2011 Higher School Certificate. This year the WPCC has teamed up with ARTEXPRESS Coordinator Susanne Jones to create an exclusive collection that examines the very best of each expressive art form. Each of the 16 works on exhibition achieved high grades in its category. ARTEXPRESS is a joint venture of the Board of Studies New South Wales and the NSW Departments of Education and Communities, managed by the Department's Arts Unit.
Image:
Jordan Kyle Munns (Model Farms High School)
Long After I Am Gone 2011
Photomedia
Image courtesy of ARTEXPRESS
© Jordan Kyle Munns
BUILT FOR THE BUSH
GREEN ARCHITECTURE FOR RURAL AUSTRALIA
21 July - 28 October 2012
Built for the Bush explores some of the energy-efficient strategies that were practised in traditional rural building techniques and their reappearance in the contemporary sustainable architecture. Discover how early builders, using mud, timber and corrugated iron, built some of the most energy efficient buildings possible. Built for the Bush is a touring exhibition from the Historic Houses Trust.
Image: Casey Brown Architecture, Permanent Camping Mudgee, Image © Penny Clay
MATTHEW BEGG
A SECOND GLANCE
7 July - 19 August 2012
Matthew Begg is a Dubbo-based artist who has created a body of work that keenly observes the urban landscapes of Dubbo and its surrounds. His paintings offer both the joys of familiarity as well as a note of intrigue; what stories are hidden within the deserted streets and darkened windows? Begg employs a realist style to depict the instantly recognisable streetscapes, but at the same time suggests the inner narratives of these urban facades. Secrets, untold stories and long forgotten histories linger within his works. This is an exhibition that reminds us to take a moment to relish our surroundings, and look twice, no matter how familiar these building appear to be. A Regional Art Space Exhibition.
Image:
Matthew Begg, Aunt Elle's (detail) 2011, Acrylic on canvas
Image © Matthew Begg
JOHN CONOMOS
LAKE GEORGE (AFTER MARK ROTHKO)
7 July - 19 August 2012
John Conomos' video work Lake George (After Mark Rothko) refers to the experience common to so many car travellers in Australia, that of driving past Lake George and day-dreaming about its elusive qualities. Conomos wondered, "What was this strange lake that could appear and disappear?" For Conomos, Lake George became a metaphor for creativity; a virtual place to explore artistic and existential ideas. Lake George (After Mark Rothko) is the artist;s attempt to capture the landscape and render Lake George as an exploration of video as a form of electronic painting.
Image:
John Conomos
Lake George (After Mark Rothko) (detail) 2008
Video and audio installation
Image © John Conomos
IVISUALISE
30 July - 12 August 2012
A selection of artworks made by students from across the Greater Western Region,
iVisualise showcases and encourages the talents, passions and concerns of the regions youth. Covering those just entering primary school to those about to leave, the exhibition is a wide ranging exploration of growing up in the west. Presented in partnership with NSW Department of Education and Communities.
OCULI
TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA A PHOTGRAPHIC SURVEY
30 June - 2 September 2012
Terra Australis Incognita is a vision of Australia that is empathic, humourous, interpretative, defiant, questioning and critical. Oculi, a collective of ten Australian photographers who have worked together for twelve years, presents a selection of work that is an unflinching vision of life in contemporary Australia. Oculi is curated by Sandy Edwards and is a touring exhibition from Manly Art Gallery and Museum.
Image:
Donna Bailey
Fog 2003
Pigment print on Epson premium photo paper
Image courtesy the artist
© Donna Bailey
DJALKIRI
WE ARE STANDING ON THEIR NAMES BLUE MUD BAY
30 June - 12 August 2012
This exquisite series of prints is the culmination of a vibrant and intensive cross-cultural exchange between five highly respected Yithuwa Madarrpa artists and four renowned artists from across Australia. The 23 selected exhibition works resulting from this exchange capture essential aspects of country at Blue Mud Bay in eastern Arnhem Land, recognised as one of the most pristine and culturally signicant places in Australia. This exhibition is a National Touring Exhibition from Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring and has been curated by Angus Cameron of Nomad Art Productions.
Image:
Fiona Hall
Pandanus - Gunga (detail) 2009
Etching
Courtesy Nomad Art Productions
Image © Fiona Hall
LYNETTE RILEY AND DIANE RILEY-MCNABOE
DHAGA NGIYANHI NGAN.GIRRA (WHERE WE ALL MEET)
7 April - 15 July 2012
Dhaga Ngiyanhi Ngan.Girra (Where We All Meet) uses Dubbo and in particular the site of the WPCC, a former swamp, as a historical meeting point for local Dubbo-ga (Aboriginal clans). The exhibition presents significant aspects of Wiradjuri culture through the use of traditional materials and techniques - body painting, weaving, pokerwork, language as well as traditional materials - possum skins native grasses, feathers and kangaroo hides. Dhaga Ngiyanhi Ngan.Girra is curated by Kent Buchanan, Caroline Edwards, Lynette Riley and Diane Riley-McNaboe.
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
100 YEARS OF RUGBY LEAGUE IN AUSTRALIA
4 February - 2 April 2012
An exhibition celebrating the history of Rugby League, League of Legends: 100 years of Rugby League in Australia captures some of the most iconic moments of the sport's history. Starting as a breakaway football competition established in defiance of the New South Wales Rugby Union, league has grown to become a skillful fast moving game that has the passionate support of its fans. The photographs in the exhibition are a memorable history of a port that has helped define Australian culture. A travelling exhibition developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia.
Image: Few players have combined the deceptiveness, unpredictability and try-scoring instinct of John 'Chicka' Ferguson. Here he leaves a wake of Maroon defenders as he bursts ahead during the first State of Origin match in 1985, won by New South Wales 22-14. Image courtesy of New South Rugby League.
STRIKE A POSE WITH LEE LIN CHIN
29 October 2011 - 26 January 2012
Strike a Pose...with Lee Lin Chin explores the world of Australian style up to 40 years ago, when trendsetters created a fashion revolution with a mix of mini skirts, space-aged garments and granny dresses. With fashion icon and SBS World News presenter Lee Lin Chin as guest curator, the exhibition celebrates the emerging local fashion industry of the time, along with its personalities, trends and influences. Posed fashion shots sit alongside the exuberance of street culture, catpuring the essence of a period when cultural change ruled. Strike a Pose...with Lee Lin Chin.
Image:
Pierre Cardin Fashion Parade at Canberra Theatre Centre, 1967.(A1500, K17370: National Archives)
JOSEPH MCGLENNON
STRANGE VOYAGE
11 May - 24 June 2012
A life in design and advertising have given photographer Joseph McGlennon an eye for the dramatic. His kangaroo studies are a continuation of his fascination with Cook's return to England in 1771, carrying a vast number of Australian specimens of plants and animals previously unknown to Europeans, the strangest of which was a kangaroo. His work seeks to locate the proud but (to European eyes) exotic animal with an unfamiliar (to Australian eyes) and equally exotic European landscape.
Image:
John McGlennon
Kangaroo Study Number 7 2010
Giclee digital print
100x100cm
Image © the artist
GOOD POWERFUL STRONG
24 March - 6 May 2012
Good Strong Powerful will showcase selected works from three innovative Northern Territory art studios, working with Indigenous artists with disability, from the tropical Top End to the desert heart of Central Australia. The exhibition contains extraordinary works by eleven established and emerging Indigenous whose work offers audiences a unique, quirky and highly original view of their surroundings. A touring exhibition from Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring in conjunction with the Australia Council for the Arts and Northern Territory Government Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport.
Image:
Kukula McDonald
Bindi Inc. Mwerre Anthurne Artists
Untitled 2010
Acrylic paint on Belgian linen
60x40cm
SYMBOLS OF AUSTRALIA
26 November 2011 - 18 March 2012
What symbolises Australian identity? For some it's the kangaroo, for others it is natural wonders like Uluru or man-made icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The exhibition explores the diverse range of the national symbols that define and represent Australia's national identity. Through the use of objects and multimedia Symbols of Australia presents stories surrounding ten symbolic themes: Kangaroo, Wattle, The Flag, Boomerang, Uluru, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Billy, Vegemite, Holden and The Southern Cross. A travelling exhibition developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia.
MENAGERIE
CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SCULPTURE
24 March - 24 June 2012
Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture is a unique and groundbreaking exhibition that exposes the richness and breadth of contemporary Indigenous sculpture in Australia. It includes both well-known and emerging artists, who have each produced outstanding sculptural works depicting a variety of animals. Through these works the artists share with us their cultural knowledge, expressions of identity and connections to country. Menagerie has been developed through an unusual and mutually rewarding collaboration between Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design and the Australian Museum.
Image:
Garth Lena
Echidna 2006
Mango wood and porcelain
36x51x67cm
Courtesy of the artist
Image © Australian Museum
SPACE INVADERS
AUSTRALIAN. STREET. STENCILS. POSTERS. PASTE UPS. ZINES. STICKETS
24 March - 24 June 2012
In the first exhibition of its kind in Australia, Space Invaders delves into the complex, compelling and challenging side of the contemporary Australian street art scene. This exhibition looks specifically at 'stencilling', poster-making and street press such as stickers and comics and documents the transition from the street to the gallery walls. Space Invaders explores the connections with the traditions of graffiti and Australian political print and poster making. This exhibition is supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative through Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and state and territory governments. The Cultural Partners are NewActon Nishi and Molonglo Group. This exhibition is also supposrted by Special Media Partner triple j.
THE GOVERNOR
LACHLAN MACQUARIE
6 August - 23 October 2011
The Governor is a major exhibition from the State Library of NSW which showcases the role of Govenor Macquarie in shaping NSW and the fledgling colony of Australia. Lachlan Macquarie was the fifth Governor of NSW appointed in 1809 and is often portrayed as one of the Colony's most visionary and effective leaders. Featuring documents and objects from his life and times, The Governor will look at the impact this dour Scotsman has had on modern Australia. The Governor is a State Library of NSW travelling exhibition.
Image credit: Governor Lachlan Macquarie, 1822, Richard Read snr Watercolour
KATE LEIGH, RUBY GREEN & JEAN LEE
ON THE SLY
26 March - 1 August 2011
As a town on the periphery of society, both literally and metaphorically, Dubbo has become home to battlers, transients, hard luck stories and dreams of new beginnings, and while many have triumphed, others through necessity or choice have chosen to follow a darker path. On the Sly will chart the story of three women who transgressed, following a path that ultimately lead to robbery, drug dealing prostitution, gang warfare and murder. On the Sly seeks to understand their lives and choices, and as such understand how those at the periphery of acceptable society have a role to play in the story of the nation. On the Sly is curated by Jessica Moore.
Image credit: Kate Leigh police photo 1930
SPACE INVADERS
AUSTRALIAN. STREET. STENCILS. POSTERS. PAST UPS. ZINES. STICKERS.
19 November 2011 - 18 March 2012
In the first exhibition of its kind in Australia, Space Invaders delves into the complex, compelling and challenging side of the contemporary Australian Street Art scene. This exhibition looks specifically at 'stencilling', poster-making and street press in works such as stickers and comics, and documents the transition from the street to the gallery walls. Space Invaders explores the connections with the traditions of graffiti and Australian political print and poster making. Space Invaders is a National Gallery of Australia Exhibition.
Image credit: Meek, Begging For Change, (detail) 2004, stencil. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gordon Darling Australia Pacific Print Fund 2007. © Meek
JULIA BURNS
DRIFTING
10 September - 13 November 2011
Drifting is an immersive, video-based installation, integrating real objects with full-scale interactive video characters. Viewers enter into a private domestic setting within the public space of the gallery, challenging the division of the public and private domains. Drifting
explores the idea that interactive web-based video such as YouTube invite anonymous spectatorship into private domestic settings like never before. These captured private events are being broadcast alongside popular media content. Drifiting challenges a re-examination of concepts of privacy and its deterioration under the public eye. This is a d/Lux Media Arts travelling exhibition.
Image credit: Julia Burns Drifting (detail) 2009, 3 x channel video installation, software: Adrian Hardjono. Image © Julia Burns 2011
ARTEXPRESS
2 July - 4 September 2011
ARTEXPRESS is an annual exhibition of exemplary artworks created by students for the Higher School Certificate. The works represent a broad range of subject matter, approached, styles and media and reflect the high quality of Visual Arts education in New South Wales. ARTEXPRESS is coordinated by the Arts Unit and jointly managed by the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Office of the Board of Studies. This exhibition has been co-ordinated by WPCC Education Officer Shona Lane and ARTEXPRESS Co-ordinator Susanne Jones.
Image credit: Madeleine Frith Illumination, 2010, collection of works
JULIE WILLIAMS
WHEN FIRST I KNEW THIS PLACE
10 September - 13 November 2011
Julie Williams is an artist who lives and works in Lightgow, NSW. When first I knew this place is an ongoing visual exploration, borne from the clutches of grief. Re-entering artistic practice after loss, the artist began photographing a waterhole in the River Lett, near Lithgow. Again and again, the artist returned to the same waterhole, where her attention was held for weeks, the months and now some years. The painterly, elusive quality of the flowing water appears as an unfathomable landscape, revealing a world much vaster than one could imagine.
Image credit: Julie Williams, Fleeting Image #31, digital photograph. Image © Julie Williams
LEANNE WATT
REMINISCENCE
23 July - 4 September 2011
Leanne Watt is an artist living and working in Dubbo. Reminiscence recalls the joys of a childhood spent outdoors, relishing an interaction with the environment, back to a time when one's imagination was the key to making sense of the world. Leanne Watt employs materials such as watercolour, oils, charcoal and pencil, establishing a visual communication through unconventional means of application, utilising hand-pressed papers and found materials such as charcoal, bark and rust.
PENNY VOLKOFSKY
ARTISTS AT WORK
15 October - 13 November 2011
The fourth in our Artist at Work series presents local artist Penny Volkofsky. Penny Volkofsky uses print-making, sculpture and mixed media forms and will transform the Children's Gallery into her studio. Children and adults alike are encouraged to enter the space and interact with Penny and her work. Visitors to the temporary studio can become active participants in developing Penny Volkofsky's latest project.
OPERATION ART
6 August - 9 October 2011
Operation Art provides opportunities for students from K - 10 to demonstrate their achievements in visual arts whilst helping children who find themselves in hospital. Thousands of students participate in this program which will eventually see hundreds of artworks placed in hospitals across the State, helping make them more pleasant places to visit and stay for young and old alike. Operation Art is a travelling exhibition from the NSW Department of Education and Communities and The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
WASTE TO ART
15 October - 13 November 2011
The annual Waste to Art exhibition enables the community to create works of art using everyday waste as the medium. Increasingly popular, Waste to Art celebrates thinking 'outside the box', it shocks and surprises the viewer whilst commenting on our throw away culture. It also unearths unlikely artists in the form of students, office workers, welders, teachers, grandparents and, of course, the humble garbo!
JUAN FORD
THE INSTANT
13 August - 9 October 2011
Painting in the 21st Century faces the challenges of an increasingly digital world. Our desire for exigency and directness, coupled with the pre-eminence of the digital image, has seen painting revive itself, becoming the focus of a return to tradition. Juan Ford creates slow, intense and concentrated paintings that reflect on the natural world, technology and contemporary culture. His meticulously painted images speak to our love of the Australian landscape and the magic of the painted surface. The Instant is curated by WPCC Curator Kent Buchanan.
SYMBOLS OF AUSTRALIA
26 November 2011 - 18 March 2012
What symbolises Australian identity? For some it's the kangaroo, for others it is natural wonders like Uluru or man-made icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The exhibition explores the diverse range of national symbols that define and represent Australia's national identity. Through the use of objects and multimedia Symbols of Australia presents stories surrounding ten symbolic themes: Kangaroo, Wattle, The Flag, Boomerang, Uluru, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Billy, Vegemite, Holden and the Southern Cross. A travelling exhibition developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia.
TRACEY MOFFATT
NARRATIVES
10 September - 20 November 2011
Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia's leading international contemporary artists, working in photography, film and video. Tracey Moffatt: Narratives features three important series of photographs that engage with story-telling, Scarred for Life (1994), Up in the Sky (1997) and Invocations (2000). Moffatt creates dream-like sequences, where the real and the imaginary unfold alongside each other, infusing the social reality of issues such as race relations and domestic violence with uncertainty and subconscious dimensions. The exhibition will be complemented by a selection of Moffatt's video works, Lip, Artist, Love, Doomed, Mother and Other. Tracey Moffatt: Narratives is a Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition supported by Arts Victoria through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy.
ON AIR
75 YEARS OF 2DU
5 June - 1 August 2011
Radio has played a crucial role in our lives since the first radio broadcast in Australia in 1919. The development of regional broadcasting saw the establishment of a radio station in Dubbo in 1936, servicing the township and its region. 2DU has remained a vital source of news, a conduit for community dialogue, and a touchstone for all the things that have heartened, outraged and amused the people of Dubbo as it grew from a town to a city. The exhibition will illustrate the history of this important community entity, through images, documents and objects relating to its 75 year history. On Air: 75 years of 2DU is curated by Kent Buchanan.
WARREN 1861 - 2011
ON THE BLACK SOIL PLAINS
5 February - 20 March 2011
On the Black Soil Plains: Warren 1861 - 2011 will present a history of the township of Warren in the central west of New South Wales on the occasion of its 150th birthday. The Warren Shire, situated on the banks of the Macquarie River and located on the Oxley Highway 120kms north west of Dubbo, NSW, is Australia's wool and cotton capital. Using the research and archives of the Warren Historical Society, the exhibition will chart the establishment and development of this significant regional community.
Stuart Ringholt
Circles Passing (Page 43) 2007
Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
MARION HALL BEST
MODERNISM & DUBBO
6 November 2010 - 30 January 2011
Regarded by many as the founder of Australian interior design, Marion Hall Best was the arbiter of modern taste from the 1930s through to the 1970s. Characterised by an adventurous and sophisticated use of colour Marion brought a variety of design classics to Australia for the first time, from Marimekko cottons to Thai silks to avant-garde Italian furniture. This exhibition is an exploration of the influences that shaped her designs and introduce this remarkable woman to a new generation. Marion Hall Best: Modernism & Dubbo has been developed in conjunction with the Historic Houses Trust and is curated by Jessica Moore.
Marion Hall Best dressed in Marimekko 1968 (detail)
Image Courtesy Australia Style produced and styled by Babette Hayes and photography by Rodney Weidland
Image © 2010 Australian Style
HAYDEN FOWLER
THE LONG FORGETTING
30 April - 26 June 2011
The Long Forgetting takes places within a cave complex of an indeterminate era. It strongly references the pre-historic, but typical of Hayden Fowler's work it is also aesthetically loaded with the futuristic and science fictional. Fowler researched and produced this new work during his Samstag Scholarship, where he undertook one year's study in Berlin, Germany. Interested in the tribal origins of European culture, Fowler underwent genetic tests to identify his own paleolithic culture of origin and visited a number of relevant cave sites across Spain, France and Germany. With particular interest in the art and symbolism of this period, Fowler taps into a deeper and historical spirituality surrounding Western humanities original place in nature, expanding the ongoing theme of his practice. The Long Forgetting is curated by Kent Buchanan.
Hayden Fowler
the Long Forgetting (detail) 2010
3-channel video projection, HDV, 16:9, sound, colour, 20 min loop (approx).
Image © 2010 Hayden Fowler
SODA_JERK
AFTER THE RAINBOW
12 February - 24 April 2011
After the Rainbow is a video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Through a imagining of the initial sequence of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland's sad life collide in much the same way as the worlds of Kansas and Oz in the original film. Instead of taking Dorothy to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Judy Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self. This is Soda_Jerk's second instalment in The Dark Matter Cycle, a series of video remix works that mobilise the conceptual framework of time travel to explore the relationship of recorded media to the passage of time. A D/Lux Media Arts touring exhibition.
Aoda_Jerk
After the Rainbow (detail) 2009
2-channel video installation.
Image © 2009 Soda_Jerk
GENEVIEVE GRIEVES
PICTURING THE OLD PEOPLE
16 October 2010 - 6 February 2011
In Picturing the Old People, Genevieve Grieves explores the pictorial construction of Aboriginality. Using examples from nineteenth century studio photography, she examines the relationship between photographers and their subjects, and the photographers' motives - ranging from the pursuit of anthropological information to the quest to record a 'dying race.' The use of video by the artist re-animates images from the past, while telling alternate stories of Aboriginal history.
Genevieve Grieves
Picturing The Old People (detail) 2005
5 channel video, single channel audio installation.
Created as part of the Creative Fellowship Program, State Library of Victoria
Image © 2010 Genevieve Grieves
MARAGRET MCCOLL, AMANDA TOUT, KEN TUCKET, HEATHER RANKIN, MARK MALOUF
PUSH
21 May - 17 July 2011
This exhibition features works by a group of artists who have completed studies together, and whom wish to make the push into the world beyond the strictures of the art school. Each artist has been sharing ideas and skills as well as technical explorations within their studies. this exhibition will present their individual works developed over the course of 12 months. The artists are based in Dubbo and surrounding region.
HEATHER PIKE & VICTORIA LOVECCHIO
RESIDUE
2 April - 15 May 2011
Residue is an exhibition exploring what remains of our personal histories when people make their homes in places far from their family and cultural origins. Victoria Lovecchio and Heather Pike have found that the absence of the bonds of extended family and culture has left them with the freedom to create their own cultural emblems, family heirlooms and signifiers. Despite the distance of time and geography, we all yearn to connect to our origins. This is a visual exploration of the physical and tangible aspects of family, individuality and inheritance as well as the metaphysical connection we hold to our ancestors.
Heather Pike
Forest 2010
Image © Heather Pike
VOLKER LEDER
PARALLEL WITH NATURE
12 February - 27 March 2011
This exhibition of paintings of the landscape of the northwest of New South Wales, offers the opportunity to observe this environment through the eyes of an outsider. German-born artist Volker Leder has spent the last 30 years living in Lightning Ridge carving out a successful career as a practising artist. His work is an attempt to express the peculiarities of this environment as well as come to grips with the ever-changing colours and shifting features of this unique landscape.
Volker Leder
Close to Walgett (detail) 2008
Oil on canvas
Image © Volker Leder
KATHERINE SIMMS
WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU
13 November 2010 - 6 February 2011
This exhibition explores the artist's relationship to her mother who passed away in 2000. A deeply personal exhibition, What I Wanted to Show You is an expression of an unspoken dialogue with her mother, recalling events of the artist's life. The works attempt to explore the 'facade of our public persona and our private hidden feelings.' Using printmaking (linocuts and embossing) as well as sculpture, Simms' work is a visual extrapolation of emotion, loss, aspirations, desires and regrets. Katherine Simms lives and works in Stanwell Park, NSW.
Katherine Simms
My Mother's Chair (detail) 2008
Linocut on paper 28x18.5cm
Image © Katherine Simms
DESIGNTECH
11 June - 24 July 2011
DesignTECH is an exhibition of outstanding major design projects from Higher School Certificate Design and Technology students. This annual exhibition, coordinated by the Board of Studies NSW and supported by the NSW Department of Education and Training, opens a window for us to view the creativity, innovation and achievement of NSW Higher SChool Certificate Design and Technology students.
Maggie Chang
Luzism Lighting 2010
Mixed media
Image © DesignTECH
WILLIAM LAMSON
19 February - 10 April 2011
William Lamson, is an artist based in Brooklyn, USA who works in performance and new media. He creates elaborate scenarios involving objects and their relationship to space, gravity and chance. This exhibition features a series of Actions - black balloons burst using a variety of eccentric means, as well as a selection of other video works. Lamson's work contains humour and playfulness, forcing us to examine our physical relationship to objects and the world at large. William Lamson is curatedby Kent Buchanan.
William Lamson
Actions 1 to 33 2008 from Actions
24:17 minute single channel video
Image courtesy the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
BROOD
11 June - 7 August 2011
The WPCC continues to grow its collections through the active acquisition of new works. These new works are a vital ingredient in the Gallery's ability to tell the story of the region and its people through the medium of art. Encompassing works across the gamut of artistic production, from internationally recognised artists with professional studios to those working in rusty farm sheds for the sheer enjoyment of creating, these new works at the WPCC will be a valuable addition to our cultural heritage. Brood is curated by Kent Buchanan.
WASTE TO ART
11 December 2010 - 13 February 2011
The annual Waste to Art exhibition enables the community to create works of art using everyday waste as the medium. Increasingly popular, Waste to Art celebrates thinking 'outside the box', shocking and surprising the viewer whilst commenting on our throw-away culture.
Waste to Art installation view 2009
Image © WPCC
JEFF MINCHAM
CERAMICS
16 April - 5 June 2011
Jeff Mincham is one of Australia's most prominent and influential ceramic artists. His exceptional craft skills and his deep knowledge of the materials and technology of ceramics are demonstrated in the robust elegance and diversity of the extraordinary body of work he has produced over three and a half decades. Much of this work is represented in major public collections throughout Australia and many more internationally. Jeff Mincham: Ceramics is an Object Gallery touring exhibition and is part of the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft Series.
Jeff Mincham
Dry lake detail 2009
multi-glazed mid-fired earthenware
25x40cm (dia)
Photographer: Grant Hancock
Image courtesy Object Gallery
FRANCISCO DE GOYA
LOS CAPRICHOS
5 March - 10 April 2011
Created during a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain, in Los Caprichos: Francisco de Goya set out to document the human condition and denounce social abuses, social backwardness, gnorance and intellectual oppression. This exhibition features an early edition of Los Caprichos, set a of eighty etchings first published in 1799. One of the most influential series of graphic images in the history of Western Art, Los Caprichos deals with themes as diverse as the Spanish Inquisition, the frivolity of young women, witchcraft, child rearing and avarice. This is an Albury Art Touring Exhibition.
Francisco de Goya
El sueno de la razon produce monstrous (The sleep of reason produces monsters)
Etching and Aquatint 1797 - 1798 5th Edition.
Published c1881.
Gift of Judith & Howard Daniel, Albury City Collection.
21ST CENTURY PAINTING
TWENTY/20
27 November 2010 - 27 February 2011
Twenty / 20 is a group exhibition of twenty emerging, mid-career and established painters who have each shown at the Sydney based Artist-Run Initiative MOP Projects. Despite the impact of digital creative practices, painting can and does remain a viable creative medium. Twenty / 20 offers audiences the opportunity to engage with diverse conceptual themes and contemporary creative techniques via the still highly accessible, engaging and relevant medium, paint. Twenty / 20 is curated by Ron & George Adams, founding members, MOP Projects.
Leo Coyte
No Fun 2010
Oil on canvas 125x93cm
Image © the artist
LOUISE HEARMAN & LOUISE WEAVER
ADAPTATION
7 May - 26 June 2011
Adaptation is an exhibition examining the Australian landscape through the works of Louise Hearman and Louise Weaver. Both artists mine their own unique vision of our environment and its fauna, through exquisitely painted depictions of twilight landscapes to meticulously hand-crafted sculptural forms, the artists induce complex and often surreal interpretations of the Australian environment. Their works present variations on the existing, whilst pondering the impossible. Speciation, morphogenesis and environmental diversity are played out via technically and aesthetically complex scenarios. Each features slippage from natural to un-natural realms. Adaptation is curated by Kent Buchanan.
Louise Weaver, Object of the sun 2009, Hand crotcheted lamb's wool over hand turned Japanese Birchwood, Cedar wood, sequins, human hair, silk, fabric, cotton thread, gold leaf, gesso, enamel paint, steel 71x32.5x12.5cm, Image courtesy of Louise Weaver and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
PHOTOGRAPHY & THE WORLD WARS
ICON AND ARCHIVE
4 February - 1 May 2011
Icon and Archive will present an engaging survey of the Australian War Memorial's extensive and highly significant photographic collection, drawing on material created during the two Wold Wars. The exhibition will feature many "iconic" photographs that have become part of the Australian psyche. It will also consider the photographic archive of which these "icons" are a part, drawing attention to many superb photographs that have, for one reason or another, not become so "iconic." This is an Australian War Memorial travelling exhibition.
Sydney Mail photograph of women and men waiting at the ANZAC buffet in Hyde Park (detail)
Image courtesy Australian War Memorial H11576
ROSS LAURIE + DAVID MCBRIDE
RECENT WORKS
27 November 2010 - 30 January 2011
An exhibition developed and curated by Tamworth Regional Gallery showcasing recent works by Walcha artist Ross Laurie and Mendooran artist David McBride. Inspired by their respective environments, both artists use colour intuitively, creating works of things seen and experienced. Laurie creates heavy impasto surfaces with paint, while McBridge uses thin washes but both create paintings that engage the eye and mind simultaneously.
David McBride, April 09 No. 2 2009, acrylic on canvas 152.5x122cm, Image © David McBride
GIL PEDRANA
PEOPLE MATTER
25 September - 7 November 2010
Gil Pedrana is an artist living and working in Dubbo. The exhibition features a cross section of outstanding people who contribute much to Dubbo society, from all walks of life, people who have made a career of fighting for improvements to the City, helping others through their anguish, or voluntarily helping folk in need.
Gil Pedrana, Kevin Saul (detail) 2010
Watercolour on canvas
Image © Gil Pedrana
EARLY WORK FROM THE MGA COLLECTION
BILL HENSON
9 October - 21 November 2010
Bill Henson: early work from the Monash Gallery of Art collection will provide local audiences with the opportunity to view some of the most powerful and beautiful photographs made by one of Australia’s best-known contemporary photographers. The exhibition includes fine examples of the artist’s major series from 1977―92, including his early photographs of crowds, his 1985―86 studies of suburban youth, and his wonderful Paris Opera series of 1990. While many of us are by now familiar with Henson’s images through reproduction, the opportunity to view his actual photographs offers a much richer visual experience, and a deeper appreciation of his art.
Bill Henson, Untitled 1985–86
from a series of 154
chromogenic print
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection
acquired 1988
Image © Bill Henson
MAX DUPAIN
ON ASSIGNMENT
14 August - 21 November 2010
From the National Archives of Australia, this exhibition features numerous Max Dupain photographs that have never been seen before. While Dupain is famous for his artistic photographs, over the years he also used his camera to earn a living, working for government departments and companies such as CSR Limited.
This exhibition features eye-catching examples of his government images from the National Archives’ collection, along with photographs he took for CSR Limited from the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra. They include corporate and advertising shots, as well as images of life on the canefields.
Max Dupain, Grocer Serving Sugar, 1948
Silver gelatin print
Image courtesy of National Archives of Australia
Image © Max Dupain
TIM WINTERS
ARTIST AT WORK
4 September - 5 December 2010
Tim Winters lives and works in Stuart Town. A painter and printmaker, Tim will transform, over a period of eight weeks, the gallery space into his studio. Visitors are encouraged to engage with Tim, adding their voice to his developing body of work.
Tim Winters
Mixed media on canvas
150x150cm
Collection of the artist
Image © Tim Winters
LEAH-NICOLE TORBAY
RED SHED
7 August - 19 September 2010
Leah-Nicole Torbay is an artist living and working in Armidale. The Regional Art Space will be transformed into a brainstormed chamber of eclectic ideas, offering a new perspective on what it means to live in country Australia.
Leah-Nicole Torbay, Red Shed, 2010
Acrylic on Plywood, 20x25cm
Image © 2010 Leah-Nicole Torbay.
LIFE IN AUSTRALIA'S CONVICT FEMALE FACTORIES
WOMEN TRANSPORTED
14 August - 3 October 2010
Women Transported – Life in Australia’s Convict Female Factories explores convict women’s experience in the 12 female factories established in early colonial Australia.
It is estimated that one in five Australians has a female factory ancestor, yet very little of their material culture survives. The contribution of these women is largely ignored and yet they are ‘mothers of the nation’ and were the women with grit who survived the dire conditions of late 18th Century and early 19th century Britain. They survived the high seas and were trans-located to a totally unfamiliar place to them. They were then subject to an experimental society, an often harsh penal system, and were outnumbered at times by men six to one. This exhibition includes objects and artworks that tell the stories of these forgotten women.
Parramatta Female Factory, Undated,
Society of Australian Genealogists collection
THE PHILLIP HARDING COLLECTION
RELICS
31 July - 31 October 2010
Local resident Phillip Harding has been collecting for almost as long as he can remember. What began as an occasional interest has grown over the years into a stunning collection that ranges across some of the greatest civilisations the world has known. Egyptian, Roman, Persian, and Chinese objects (among many others), some dating back thousands of years, tell of humanity’s ingenuity, skill, and passion in making and remaking their material worlds. An exhibition that gets to the heart of what, and why, we collect.
Image © WPCC
RECYCLED LIBRARY
ALTERED BOOKS
3 July - 8 August 2010
Recycled Library: Altered Books is an exhibition that traces a history of altered books in Australia through the work of seventeen artists. The works featured in the exhibition incorporate found books presented as sculptures, wall-based collages, artists' books, or as photographs.
The exhibition focuses on works that have a conceptual, political or social concern. Many of the works in the exhibition explore the reliance on the printed text as a vehicle for cultural migration. This is a touring exhibition from Artspace Mackay.
David Sequeira Life and all its marvels 2007. Book, digital prints, collage.Collection Artspace Mackay, Mackay Regional Council.
THROUGH MY EYES
31 July - 8 August 2010
In 2009 the Greater Western Area Health Service initiated a project with the aim to provide people living with mental illness an opportunity to document their journey, stories and views using photography as a medium. This exhibition reveals the power of art to communicate complex social issues, encouraging understanding and conversation.
Artwork supplied by Janine Anderson
TONYA GRAHAM
RESIDUE AND REMAINS
26 June - 1 August 2010
Tonya Graham is an artist living and working in Millthorpe. This exhibition will explore the marks we make, which in turn become the residues we leave behind. By carefully building up, and erasing, layers, Tonya creates powerful images that confronts and challenges the viewer to consider the marks they make.
Tonya Graham, Number 1, 2010
Mixed media, 140x240cm
Image © Tonya Graham.
IVISUALISE
5 June - 29 August 2010
A selection of artworks made by students from across the Greater Western Region, iVisualise showcases and encourages the talents, passions, and concerns of the regions’ youth.
Artwork supplied by Janine Anderson.
IN LIVING MEMORY
15 May - 25 July 2010
From 1919 to 1966, the Aborigines Welfare Board (AWB) took thousands of pictures of Aborigines under its care. They include snaps of workmates at building sites, couples getting married, children at play and young women taken from their families to train as maids at Cootamundra Girls School.
In Living Memory, a touring exhibition from New South Wales State Records (which now holds the collection) brings these memories to life. Using a series of iconic images from the collection, as well as text to fill out the stories of some of those photographed, this exhibition touches on many issues that affected, and continue to affect people today, including the Stolen Generation and those living on reserves.
Wedding photo of Leslie Howell & Eileen Carrol
and Tom Jones & Minnie Howell, Brewarrina Mission 1925
Reproduced with permission of Lola Dennis, Walgett
and approval of NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs.
VIDEO DOME
29 May - 25 July 2010
Video Dome is an innovative, new media exhibition inspired by the sublime. It aims to capture the infinite and indefinable aspects of nature and the universe, and pushes the boundaries of contemporary art into the domain of planetariums and science museums.
The program features fish-eye projections which play continuously on a 20 minute loop, accompanied by a complimentary soundtrack. The viewer is immersed in a full sensory experience, surrounded with vision and sound, inside a 5 metre inflated dome. This exhibition runs every hour during weekdays, and every half hour on weekends. Please note the Dome is an enclosed dark space; some individuals may experience difficulty entering the Dome.
Mixmaster Aurora, 2003-08
Video still #3. 20min duration
Image © 2010 Brian Mclave/ George Millward
THE 58TH BLAKE PRIZE FOR REGLIOUS ART
15 May - 27 June 2010
The Blake Society, named after the visionary artist and poet, William Blake, is an independent organization that administers an annual Exhibition and Prize for contemporary religious and spiritual art.
The aim of the Blake Society is to encourage contemporary artists to explore the spiritual in art. They hoped that the establishment of a prize would encourage artists of disparate styles and religious allegiances to create significant works of art with religious content. Today its members hope to stimulate the interaction of ideas and spiritual thought in contemporary Australian art.
The Blake Prize for Religious Art is presented by the Blake Society.
John McRae Madonna – Ascension, 2009
Photographic print
105 x 80cm
Image © John McRae
ROSALIE RIGBY
NO PLACE LIKE HOME?
8 May - 20 June 2010
The paintings reflect the artist's ongoing relationship with the countryside in which she lives. In this sense it is local and in the application of the paint it is immediate. The artist's working process may include drawing, using collage, representational paint sketches etc prior to starting the main painting. These are done not to obtain a preliminary sketch which is then to be used on the canvas but as a way of increasing a sensitivity and perception of line, colour and the sense of the place at that particular time. The works can be seen as semi-abstract but all painting is an abstraction as a three-dimensional world becomes a two-dimensional one. The division between an object and its background is an arbitrary line determined not by our naïve seeing but rather by our knowing.
Rosalie Rigby Valley landscape
Oil on canvas 50cmx60cm
Image © Rosalie Rigby
KATIE BARTON
MEMORIAL EXHIBITION
8 May - 20 June 2010
A retrospective of a well renowned Wellington artist and great supporter of the arts.
Image © Katie Barton
JOSEPH BANKS AND THE FLORA OF THE AUSTRALIAN EAST COAST
24 April - 25 July 2010
This exhibition features coloured engravings of Sydney Parkinson's original drawings which recorded the coastal plants collected between Sydney and far north Queensland by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Carl SOlander, on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world, 1768-1771.
Sydney Parkinson completed 1,300 sketches and watercolours of botanical specimens and landscape views durind his voyage on the Endeavour. He died on the return leg to England.
Joseph Banks commissioned five artists to complete Parkinson's watercolours and eighteen engravers to cut copper printing plates to publish the illustrations in full colour. The Publication never eventuated and Banks' collection was transferred to the British Museum in 1827.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM TRAVELLING EXHIBITION
Banksia serrata
Artist John Frederick Miller
© Natural History Museum, London
ANMM Collection Gift from Dr and Mrs E Schiller
MADELINE WINCH
COME BY CHANCE
8 May - 20 June 2010
Come by Chance is a much loved and acclaimed children’s book by the highly regarded artist Madeleine Winch, who is based at Stuart Town
A warm and gentle story about friendship and the joy to be found in providing shelter and hospitality to those in need, Come by Chance …
Madeline Winch Come by Chance (Jacket Cover – Front), 1988
Colour pencil and watercolour on paper, 17.5 x 17.5 cm
Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of Dubbo Regional Gallery Inc
MARIAN HOSKING
JEWELLERY
20 March - 9 May 2010
With over 30 years professional experience, Marian Hosking is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary jewellers. Working almost exclusively with silver, Hosking has developed a distinctive vocabulary of techniques including casting, drilling and saw piercing. Her work is frequently concerned with surface pattern and the potential for subtle change to be
articulated through interaction with different light sources, often giving the metal an almost fibre-like texture. She translates her local natural world into the language of silver, creating jewellery and objects of astonishing beauty.
Marian Hosking
Twig Brooch 2007
925 silver, Iolite
7 x 6 x 2cm
Photographer: Julian Hutchens
PROJEKT VIDEO ART ARCHIVE
6 February - 23 May 2010
Projekt Video Art Archives shows the evolution of video art through a plethora of moving image works reflecting Australia’s diversity. The Projekt Video Art Archives contains Australian video art works exhibited between 1998 and 2003 in commercial, public and artist run galleries.
With cultural centres now dedicated to the moving image, and most public institutions screening video art in their programs, it was felt that an archive should be set up from the grass roots level.
Starlie Gelkie
O Mother
Video Still
SO YOU KNOW YOU CAN DANCE
13 February - 9 May 2010
Dance is a vital aspect of human culture, and its history corresponds to the evolution of other art forms in time. So you know you can dance will explore the history of Dance in Dubbo, from Saturday night socials to the heihgts achieved by many of our young dancers on the national and international stage. The story of Dance in Dubbo will be told via objects, photographs and recollections of many of the city's major players, including the matriarch of Dance and founder of the Dubbo Ballet Studio, Mrs Joyce Schneider.So You Know You Can Dance will inform, entertain and inspire through the achievements of dancers, teachers, and schools from their humble beginnings in the central west of New South Wales, to treading the boards of some of the world's greatest stages.
MOMENTUM
18TH TAMWORTH FIBRE TEXTILE BIENNIAL
6 February - 14 March 2010
From the early 1970’s the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial has continued to provide audiences with an exciting and vibrant survey exhibition of contemporary fibre textiles. Artists from across Australia have been selected to participate in this year’s exhibition. Curator, Valerie Kirk, has put together an exhibition that looks at the influences new technologies have had on traditional fibre textile practice and how these artists have combined their individual practice to incorporate new techniques.
A Tamworth Regional Gallery exhibition toured by Museums and Galleries NSW.
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia
Christine Atkins From the Heart I 2007
Machine thread, wool felt
1300mm x 1000mm x 100mm
Image © Christine Atkins
LARA SCOLARI
LATENT
19 December 2009 - 14 March 2010
Each of us is a vessel of conscious and subconscious expression. How this expression is shaped by the moral codes of individuals and society forms the basis of Latent by local artist Lara Scolari. The artist has sought to give expression to the complex, hidden undercirrents and agendas involved in human relationships that direct our lives on a daily basis. There is a complex of emotions and feelings layered within these paintings. Some soft and translucent and others running as a thin vein across the emotional landscape of dark, subtle forms punctuating apparent and real truths.
Lara Scolari
Latent 5 (detail) 2009
Acrylic and oil on board, 129x259cm
Image © Lara Scolari
FROM THE DRG COLLECTION
WORKING THE FRAME
12 December 2009 - 18 April 2010
Working the Frames is an exhibition of artworks from the Dubbo Regional Gallery collection using the NSW Visual Arts Curricula as the guiding principle. Although school specific, these curricula are effective instruments for the illumination of meaning, context, personal responses and other contributing factors that are contained within the forms and expression of artistic practice.
Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
The Younger Son
Soft ground etching, zinc plate, extant,
Image: 50.0x33.0 cm Paper: 75.0x52.7 cm
Dubbo Collection Regional Gallery
WASTE TO ART
12 December 2009 - 14 February 2010
The annual Waste to Art compettion takes up residence in the Chidlren's Gallery. This highly anticipated exhibition presents artworks created by members of the community using found or discarded materials.
Suzannah Babicci
Homo Sapien’s Fray
Found rubber (tyres)
Community – 3 Dimensional
COMMUNITY VOICES
DUBBO 10
5 September 2009 - 7 February 2010
Dubbo 10: Community Voices is a social history exhibition which interprets artefacts from Dubbo Regional Museum selected by ten members of Dubbo community.
These historical objects are collected for over fifty years and reflect life of Dubbo community from 1830 to 1950 and beyond.
Behind each of them rest a rich narrative; the stories about local people and events, local industries, trades and crafts, cultural activities, literacy and education, regional immigration, leisure activities, living conditions, religion, governance and customs and beliefs of the people who live here.
Clock c1890
Collection Dubbo Regional Museum
ANGELICA MESITI
THE LINE OF LODE & DEATH OF CHARLIE DAY
24 October 2009 - 31 January 2010
Inspired by the grandeur of its physical landscape and the unique place it occupies in our cultural consciousness, the artist used the outback mining town of Broken Hill in the far West of NSW as the location for this video work.
Focusing on social groups both animal and human that inhabit an Australian outback town, The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day is a meditation on the connections that link them to their landscapes and therefore each other. Streams of pre nocturnal images form independent scenes that interrelate without being bound by narrative; suburban kids riding bikes in the sunset shadows, a flock of pigeons released for their evening flight, the dusty twilight interiors of an out of business hotel, a goat enjoying the cool air of dusk.
A diversity of people including a local livestock trader, hotel proprietor, competition pigeon breeder, aboriginal land council elder, mining equipment engineer, local artists and historians were involved in the process. The bike-riding scene was developed out of a workshop involving 12 kids from the Broken Hill PCYC Youth Club.
Angelica Mesiti
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day 2008
15mins, HD Video transfered to DVD
Image © Angelica Mesiti
ANGELICA MESITI
THE LINE OF LODE & DEATH OF CHARLIE DAY
7 November - 31 January 2010
A is for Animals offers an A to Z of animals in war, from mascots and messengers to creepy-crawlies. Animals are put to many uses in war. Sometimes they have jobs to do, are used as mascots and pets, or are symbols on badges and flags. This exhibition also looks at the unwelcome animals that make life in the field even more difficult and dangerous.
The exhibition has been developed with a young audience in mind, but visitors of all ages will enjoy its fascinating and moving stories.
The Australian War Memorial’s Travelling Exhibitions Program is funded by the Australian Government’s Commemorations Program.
German gas mask for a dog c1914-18 AWM RELAWM04098
Image © AWM
THE UNION
HOOKED ON BOOKS
19 September - 6 December 2009
Hooked On Books is an exhibition of seventy-three framed artworks - the unique collection of original illustrations from Australian Children’s books acquired over the past 30 years by Albert Ullin, founding owner of the Little Bookroom, Melbourne’s specialist children’s bookshop.
Included in the exhibition are works by such well-known and loved illustrators as Jeannie Baker, May Gibbs, Peter Gouldthorpe, Bob Graham, Leigh Hobbs, Elizabeth Honey, Robert Ingpen, Alison Lester, Andrew McLean, Patricia Mullins, Donna Rawlins, Gregory Rogers, Shaun Tan, Jane Tanner, and Julie Vivas to name a few.
Madeleine Winch Illustration for The 1993 Little Ark Children’s Calendar,
compiled by Albert Ullin Cover and April image — Child and Lorikeets in a Tree
Watercolour and pencil
Published by Allen and Unwin Pty Ltd, 1992
Image © Allen & Unwin
PENNY VOLKOFSKY
SINGING
5 September - 13 December 2009
Dubbo-based artist Penny Volkofsky, has created an installation of printed dressed created using tissue paper and various relief printing techniques.
"I remember when as a child I first found a cicada shell clinging to the bark of a tree. It looked like a living creature basking in the sun. To find that it was just an empty shell was such a shock. How did the insect get out of there and leave its shell so intact?
Our bodies are like cicada shells that will one day be left behind; like clothes we take off at the end of the day; like crumpled wrapping paper for a precious gift. One day I’ll be unwrapped and the paper will be discarded; I’ll be stripped and re-clothed. One day someone will find my empty shell and know that I am out there singing." Penny Volkofsky
Penny Volkofsky
Singing 2008-9
Installation view
Image © Penny Volkofsky
JOAN FONTCUBERTA
GOOGLEGRAMS
26 September - 6 December 2009
One of Spain’s most prominent and innovative artists, Joan Fontcuberta is best known for exploring the gaps between art, science and illusion. In this series – first exhibited in Paris in November 2005 – he has used the popular internet search engine Google to create large, colourful photo-mosaics that construct an elegant metaphor for the current era’s liaisons between mass media and ideas of collective consciousness. The images are created by a generative process which automatically culls images from the internet. The artist’s only control is to select the initial larger image to be rebuilt and to define the specific key words for the search that generates the thousands of small ‘tiles’ from which the mosaic is constructed. Often-challenging, the results are a synthesis of language and a search-engine code that is designed for the market to generate results that satisfy more people more often. As such Google image search prioritises images that have, on previous searches, been selected by other users.
Joan Fontcuberta
Auschwitz 2005
Type C print 120 x 160cm
Image © Joan Fontcuberta
TRANSMUTE COLLECTION
INTIMATE TRANSACTIONS
19 September - 6 December 2009
Intimate Transactions is a new form of interactive installation that allows two people in geographically separate spaces to interact simultaneously using only their bodies. As this highly immersive experience evolves, each person begins to sense their place in a complex web of relations that connects them and everything else within the work.
Each participant uses a physical interface called a ‘Bodyshelf’. By gently moving their bodies on this ‘smart furniture’, they instigate ‘intimate transactions’, which influence an evolving ‘world’ created from digital imagery, multichannel sound and tactile feedback.
This shared experience allows each participant to gradually develop a form of sensory intimacy with the other, despite the fact that they are geographically separated and cannot physically see or hear each other.
Transmute Collective
Intimate Transactions 2009
Installation view WPCC
Image © WPCC
COSTUMES OF DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND FROM THE OPERA AUSTRALIA COLLECTION
COUTURE OF PASSION
19 September - 1 November 2009
The purpose of the exhibition is to provide an opportunity for regional audiences to gain an insight into the world of opera through a selection of costumes and outfits designed for the first lady of Australian Opera and one of the world's greatest opera singers, Dame Joan Sutherland.
The history of opera is the history of passion. Couture of Passion traces young Joan Sutherland’s zeal for singing and sequentially outlines her astonishingly successful career - from a secretary singing at music clubs in Sydney to performing the most applauded operas of all times in Covent Garden, La Scala and Metropolitan Opera in New York. The exhibition is designed to highlight retrospective of Dame’s artistic career through display and interpretation of opera couture designed to the roles she was playing in major operas. Most of the selected costumes were designed with the finest craftsmanship and are accompanied by a multitude of descriptive and stylistic narratives.
Couture of Passion is proudly sponsored by Dubbo Terrazzo & Concrete Industries.
Dame Joan Sutherland as Elettra in La Idomeneo
The Australian Opera, Sydney 1979.
Courtesy of Photographic Archive, Opera Australia.
Photographer Branco Gaica.
ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2009
25 July - 13 September 2009
The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards. JF Archibald’s primary aims were to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians.
Since its inception in 1921 the prize has been awarded to some of Australia’s most important artists, including George Lambert, William Dobell and Brett Whiteley.
The prize is awarded to the best portrait painting preferably of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics. The winner receives $50,000 in prize money.
Entry: $8 / $5 Friends / concession
An Art Gallery of NSW exhibition toured by Museums and Galleries NSW
Michael Zavros
Ars longa, vita brevis
Image courtesy Art Gallery NSW
Photographers: Carley Wright & Johan Palsson
ARLO MOUNTFORD
THE FOLLY
8 August - 13 September 2009
The Folly is a three-channel digitally animated video by Melbourne-based artist Arlo Mountford. Mountford has re-imagined three paintings by sixteenth century Flemish painter Pieter Breughel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (1565), The Corn Harvest (1565) and The Fall of Icarus (c1558). Mountford has animated the still images, adding an audio component, and inserting a range of contemporary references throughout the work.
Arlo Mountford
The Folly 2008-09
3 video channel 4 audio channel digital animation
duration: 9 minutes
Edition 2/5 + 2 AP
Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery
Image courtesy the artist and GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
COURAGE TO CARE
25 July - 30 August 2009
Since 1999 Courage to Care has been travelling New South Wales conveying a message of communal tolerance and living in harmony. Developed by B’nai B’rith, the exhibition emphasises the importance of standing up against racism and persecution, especially in relation to minority groups. This is done by focusing on rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust and the brave people who put themselves at enormous personal risk to save Jewish people. Overridingly the exhibition celebrates the difference one individual can make. The lessons of these events are as relevant for today as they were 60 years ago.
School groups will engage with the exhibition through workshops with Holocaust survivors and trained facilitators.
Students listening to Adrianus van As, Righteous Among the Nations
Image © Courage To Care
PAULA GARRARD
COLOURING SPACE
11 July - 6 September 2009
Colouring Space is an exhibition that explores how colour, tone, line and form work within space to create perceptual direction and a visual experience. It is an exploration into perceptual illusion, movement and space and strives to entertain painting as an experience, as opposed to an object placed in a space.
There are a series of canvasses which use formal painterly concepts mounted in the space, as well as an ephemeral work, which becomes a space.
Paula Garrard
Untitled No.2 2009
oil on canvas
160 x 160cm
NEW GOTHIC STORYTELLERS
COLOURING SPACE
4 July - 13 September 2009
Six of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists evoke a mesmerising woodland with intersecting storylines possessing both the charm and the implied menace of a Grimm’s fairytale. The enchanted forest: new gothic storytellers is a spellbinding touring exhibition that trails the uncanny, charmed and cursed, whilst revisiting a time when animals and trees were thought to speak, when man was at the mercy of the forest, and the boundary between civilisation and the wilderness was less clearly defined.
A Geelong Gallery and NETS Victoria touring Exhibition
Jazmina Cininas
Rima knows the curse of being born on Christmas Eve 2006
reduction linocut
Courtesy the artist and Port Jackson Press Australia (Melbourne
BILL O'SHEA
BEYOND THE SANDSTONE CURTAIN
23 May - 13 September 2009
Bill O’Shea paints rural life. Whilst the natural world dominates, the impact of man is shown as a sympathetic intruder: indeed, man becomes a part of the natural world itself.
Proudly a ‘bushie’, O’Shea comes from a great tradition of similar bush painters such as Pro Hart, who have explored and in a sense, defined, the myth of the Australian outback. In rich tones that add vitality to the often dry landscape, the artist depicts a way of life that has always been under threat. Far from the city, and its influence, the Australia O’Shea finds is simple, honest and diligent.
This Exhibition has been proudly sponsored by Peacockes Solicitors.
Bill O'Shea
Mallowran Shed 2008
Oil on board
50 x 30cm
Collection of the artist
Image © Bill O'Shea
NEW AUSTRALIAN VIDEO ART
LOOP
23 May - 2 August 2009
Loop: new Australian video art showcases innovative contemporary video art by five of Australia’s leading artists, including Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell, Jess MacNeil, Arlo Mountford and Daniel von Sturmer. Testing the boundaries of this visual medium, the works in Loop present a spliced meditation on time, space, motion, place and perspective.
Curated by Daniel McOwan, the Director of Hamilton Art Gallery, Loop provides regional audiences with the unique opportunity to access and engage with contemporary video art, which is rarely presented outside of metropolitan art spaces.
Daniel Crooks
Static No.9 (a small section of something larger) 2005
still from DVD
Hamilton Art Gallery Collection
Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
PERSPECTIVES.ART.ECOLOGY
23 May - 19 July 2009
Perspectives.Art.Ecology. is a curatorial framework which heralds an invitation to several Central West regional artists and communities to participate in discussions about their environment – the history, contemporary challenges and future responsibility of the place they share.
The exhibition also provides a platform for a cultural mapping of the history and memory of the Central West region. It traces the relationships shared between knowledge of biodiversity, communities, Indigenous spirituality and mythology, all forming the foundation for the artists’ holistic and interdisciplinary research.
Curated by Adnan Begic. Developed by WPCC in collaboration with Peter Charuk, Kim Goldsmith and Gail Naden.
Peter Charuk
Aqualux, 2005 Video still.
Image © Peter Charuk
FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE CENTRAL WEST
MAGIC LANTERN SHOW
4 April - 19 July 2009
Magic Lantern Show is a Dubbo Regional Museum curated exhibition that will explore the social impact of the medium of photography and film on Dubbo and the Central West.
The museum collection includes an array of photographs, glass cinema slides, cameras and film, Magic Lantern will explore the significance of these items and the role they played in developing our sense of identity and community as well as the connections they helped forge between Dubbo and the wider world.
The exhibition aims to revisit the excitement and wonder of emerging innovations in photographic technology from the late 1800s to the present day and aims to recreate this sense of wonder and engagement for contemporary audiences.
Curated by Jessica Moore & Andrew Glassop
Butler Air Transport Cinema advertisement c1940s
Glass cinema slide
Monarch Empire Theatre, Dubbo (1911-1959)
Collection Dubbo Regional Museum
MILENA SALLUSTIO
SHE LOOKED IN AND SAW HER DESTINY
23 May - 5 July 2009
The world of symbols opens itself up to the inspection of Milena Sallustio’s curious but insistent gaze. Working in drawing and ceramics, she explores the reaches of our understanding of the personal and inter-personal. The bowl, an everyday symbol of domestic life, becomes a multi-themed portent of much deeper meaning. Confronted with a series of bowls, the viewer is forced to examine how meanings can vary, and that each action of our own is actually a complex set of convergent and divergent symbols, allowing us to make our own meaning.
Milena Sallustio
She Looked In And Saw Her Destiny 2009
Charcoal on paper
Image © Milena Sallustio
GREAT COLLECTIONS
4 April - 10 May 2009
Picture the thrill of seeing Jurassic period fish specimens, Captain Cook’s sextant, an Arthur Streeton painting, bushranger Captain Moonlite’s death mask, along with major contemporary artworks for the first time in your home town.
Curated by John McPhee for Museums & Galleries NSW, this exhibition supports and promotes the vital role communities play in safeguarding their cultural heritage, and highlights the important work local and state government does in preserving and providing access to cultural material through their galleries, libraries and museums.
Drawn from the magnificent collections of New South Wales’ eight premier cultural institutions, these significant items are representative of Australia’s vibrant history. They shape our psyche, record our development, provide insight into our national spirit and inspire us for the future.
The Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Museum, Botanic Gardens Trust, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Powerhouse Museum, State Library of NSW and State Records NSW have embraced this ground-breaking exhibition’s innovative vision and made cultural material from their extensive collections available for inclusion.
This landmark exhibition brings iconic treasures together for the very first time and showcases them to metropolitan, regional and interstate audiences.
GREAT COLLECTIONS is an initiative of Museums & Galleries NSW (M&G NSW). M&G NSW is the key support agency for the museum and gallery sector in NSW.
CHINA, Yuan dynasty 1279 - 1368
Maitreya (Buddha of the Future) 1300s
gilt bronze
69.0 x 40.0 x 31.0cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Purchased 1996
SCHEMES AND DREAMS FOR A SUNBURNT COUNTRY
JUST ADD WATER
7 February - 29 March 2009
Water. Not a day goes by when we don’t think about it, talk about it, drink it, or in some cases pray for it. It’s a valuable resource. In Australia, we’ve stored more in dams per person than any other country. We’ve piped it, pumped it, and even dragged it down from the clouds, becoming a nation of plumbers in the process. This National Archives of Australia Exhibition taps into their vast collection to present this travelling exhibition which examines our historical relationship with water.
Devil’s Gate Dam, part of the Mersey-Forth hydro-electric scheme, Tasmania, 1971
National Archives of Australia: A1200, L96132
CHRISTINE MCMILLAN
ARTIST AT WORK
7 February - 29 March 2009
This second Artist At Work exhibition focuses on the practice of Kandos-based artist Christine McMillan. Christine uses materials that she finds near her home to create her artworks, arranging, ordering and manipulating them to create new forms and relationships. She also describes the built environment (the buildings and footpaths) and how it influences our lives. Some of the materials that the artist uses are grass seeds, echidna spines and cotton gauze. The stories told in the artworks are about our environment and natural world.
MERVYN BISHOP
JOURNEY OF A PHOTOGRAHPER
22 November 2008 - 22 March 2009
Journey of a Photographer is a carefully documented photographic essay which reveals the life of a wandering photographer in a striking retrospective exhibition.
This ehxibition documents the magical experiences of a young photographer from Brewarrina, North-Western NSW watching his first black and white prints developing in a small darkroom in the 1950s, through to the early works from Bishop's Sydney Morning Herald cadetship in the 1960s-70s and substantial documentary work with communities and events in the 1980s and 1990s. This significant exhibition provides a window into Mervyn Bishop's journey through the physical and social landscape of Australia.
Mervyn Bishop
Australia Day 2007 Lambda print Image © Mervyn Bishop
PETER MORTIMER
IMAGES OF BETWEEN
13 December 2008 - 15 March 2009
Images of Between features a new body of work by renowned Dubbo-based artist Peter Mortimore. His work depicts the inhabitants and landscape of regional Australia. "I want my paintings to cause the viewer to pause, and for a fleeting moment while they are viewing the work they are transported into my world. I would hope my paintings answer questions more than pose them."
Peter Mortimer
Half Hennessy 2008 pencil drawing and white chalk, 76 x 57cm
Image © Peter Mortimer
ANIMALS IN THE DRG COLLECTION
IN CAPTIVITY
8 November 2008 - 1 February 2009
The DRG collection features a specific interest in the depiction of Animals. As such the ways in which artists have described animals are especially varied, and the closer you examine the collection, the range of perspectives deepens. Invariably animals are presented in two states – their natural habitats, or constructed environments. The former is under increasing threat by the spread of the urban behemoth, the latter becoming more and more sophisticated as a facsimile of the real. In Captivity features work by David Noonan, Hayden Fowler, Nick Devlin. Ben Quilty, Beverly Veasey, Simon Cuthbert, Peggy Napangardi Jones and Bruce Nabegeyo.
Nick Devlin
Word Cage 2005
Mixed media 12.5 x 16.5 x 13cm Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery
Gift of the Dubbo & District Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society 2006
Image © Nick Devlin
ELAINE RUSSELL
THE SHACK THAT DAD BUILT
22 November 2008 - 8 February 2009
The Shack That Dad Built tells of Elaine Russell's childhood in La Perouse. This lively and colourful story will engage children and adults alike.
Elaine Russell
The Shack That Dad Built 2007
Image © Elaine Russell
FLIGHT TO LIGHT
8 November 2008 - 1 February 2009
Flight to Light is a light sculpture installation featuring a series of cubes that represent future housing development. Sustainable low energy LED lighting is located inside each cube suggesting emotional space in a digital space. The installation consumes 40 watts of electrical energy and is controlled by a lighting computer program by colour kinetics.
Mary-Anne Kyriakou
Flight to Light 2007
Perspex, digital lighting technology, LED lights, brushed stainless steel
Image © Mary-Anne Kyriakou
YEAR OF THE GREAT FLOOD
4 October 2008 - 24 January 2009
Year of the Great Flood brings strong graphic memories of the 1955 flood which was one of the most significant and damaging natural disasters ever to hit Dubbo. The pictures, newspaper articles, sound material and video records of the disaster representing damage done to communities, the industry and cultural heritage with thousands of people evacuated from their homes, is the material that dramatically restages one of the most disastrous event in the city’s history.
From flood survivors and their stories to young generations involved in a debate of climate change and its consequences, Year of the Great Flood is expected to engage different audiences in a discussion about local and global, reflecting the contemporary issues of human relations with nature, environmental collapse and apocalyptically vision of global destruction.
Year of the Great Flood was researched and developed by Connie Eales during her Macquarie University Museum Studies Professional Experience Placement at the Western Plains Cultural Centre. Year of the Great Flood was made possible through the support of Gilgandra Museum and Historical Society, Sandra Smith Local Studies Officer, Macquarie Regional Library, Ross Graham, Marie Wolkowiak, Joan Booth, and Old Dubbo Gaol.
Flood damage to a Gilgandra business 1955
Photographer unknown
Collection Ken Thompson
FRESH ARTS 08
4 October - 16 November 2008
Fresh Arts 08 celebrates the complexity and diversity of regional arts practice. Formed in 2003, Fresh Arts Inc is a collective of regionally based artists and art lovers, who explore opportunities to exhibit and facilitate dialogue. This exhibition profiles the work of 16 artists from across the region, and offers a window into the healthy and vibrant contemporary art scene in regional New South Wales.
Fresh Arts 08 presents new work by Jack Randell, Kathielyn Job, Milena Sallustio, Kim Goldsmith, Ruth Roberts, Judy Shalhoub, Sandra Alon, Peita Marie Buchanan, Ken Tucker, Lea Tucker, Rowena Galway, Kath Morgan, Merryn Spencer, Lara Scolari, Annette Simpson and Lesley Young.
Jack Randell
Green Trunk (detail) 2007
Pastel, coloured pencil and graphite on paper
302 x 101cm
Image © Jack Randell
ANA YOUNG
CORRUGATED
20 September - 7 December 2008
Corrugated is an exhibition of new work by Hill End-based artist Ana Young. This group of paintings and mixed media works are inspired by the built environment of Hill End, and resonate with the colours and patterns of the landscape. The carefully layered compositions are built up over long periods of time, lending them a meditative and hypnotic atmosphere.
Ana Young
Patched & Corrugated 2008
Oil on canvas 170 x 140cm
Image © Ana Young
WASTE TO ART
1 - 16 November 2008
NetWaste is a collaborative waste management project that comprises 31 councils, covering approximately one third of NSW. The Waste to Art Project involves community exhibitions in participating council areas showing creative works made from recyclable waste material. This exhibition is the Local Competition and will showcase work by school children and community members.
Deb Haesler
Bark Art 2008
Recycled scrap metal and an old cork board
Dimensions variable
Image © Deb Haesler
ERIS FLEMING
ART IS LIFE SEEN THROUGH TEMPERAMENT
2 August - 2 November 2008
Art is Life Seen Through a Temperament is a new survey exhibition presented in collaboration with Dr Eris Fleming, a regional artist whose practice over the last three decades has depicted the brightness of the Western Plains landscape and exposed the character of the local people. Temperament is the word that clearly defines Fleming’s approach, serving at the same time as an artist’s statement.
Eris Fleming
The Scars of El Nino 2006
Oil on canvas on plywood
120 x 122cm
Image © Eris Fleming
OPERATION ART
30 August - 26 October 2008
Operation Art is a project that encourages students from Kindergarten to Year 10 in all NSW schools to create artworks for children in hospital. It is an important statewide visual arts exhibition that focuses on creating a positive environment to aid the healing and recovery process of young patients.
Operation Art is a way of involving young people in the special work of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead – a total healing environment where design, decoration, facilities, gardens and art combine with the best possible medical care to help comfort and heal young patients.
Operation Art is a partnership between the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, the Nelson Meers Foundation and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Adam Duffey
Gangstar Me 2008
Age 12 Erskine Park High School
Image © Operation Art
BIOSONICS
16 August - 28 September 2008
Proudly sponsored by Dubbo Orthodontic Centre, BioSonics is a stunning sculptural installation filling the main gallery space, created by Nigel Helyer specifically for WPCC. The work encompasses a variety of elements and utilises cutting edge technologies in its fabrication.
The son of a Welsh fisherman, Nigel has always been interested in marine biology, specifically microscopic marine organisms that have evolved largely without a regard for gravity. BioSonics includes a sound component activated by human movement, which changes pitch and volume. The installation establishes a reactive space, forming an immersive sonic environment.
Nigel Helyer
Sketch for BioSonics 2008
interactive audio installation
Image © Nigel Helyer
21ST WESTERN DISTRICT NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
30 August - 26 October 2008
The National Photographic Exhibition was the brainchild of the Western Districts Association of Camera Clubs. This is an Australian Photographic Society approved National Competition - there are 17 approved National Exhibitions held around Australia each year. These exhibitions are open to all photographers in Australia.
Photographs are judged by 3 judges where points are awarded and an acceptance level is determined, these images are then exhibited. This year 92 images have been accepted in Monochrome Open, Colour Open, Nature, People and Photo Journalism. Slides and Projected Images are also shown.
This is a wonderful opportunity for the local residence to view a wide range of photographic images.
Ling Yong Xiong
First Morning Stroll 2008
Digital photograph
Image © Ling Yong Xiong
BLOODLINES
ART & THE HORSE
24 May - 6 July 2008
This important exhibition explores the relationships and fascination between the horse and Australian society, history and culture. Exhibition curator Peter Fay has sourced works from some of Australia's most notable artists including John Brack, Hans Heysen, Noel McKenna, Fred Williams, Ken Whisson, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka and Richard Goodwin. The exhibition also incorporates a number of emerging and outsider artists who have been commissioned to create works specifically for the show.
From the historical black and white photographs depicting the often fraught life of the horse, drawn from a number of Australian archives to the whimsy of Slim Barrie's cardboard 'Masterpieces', John Brack's studies of life at the track to Louse Hubbard's beautifully absurd film depicting a small rubber horse being put through its paces. BloodLines: Art and the Horse is sure to bemuse, provoke, delight, and enchant.
Jo Boag
Blue Peter 2004
stitching, embroidery, appliqué, cotton & silk thread, velvet, felt on wool
courtesy private collection, Sydney
Image © Jo Boag
ART EXPRESS
12 July - 10 August 2008
This year's ARTEXPRESS exhibtion has been specifically curated for Dubbo Regional Gallery - The Armati Bequest by former WPCC Curator Sandra McMahon and current WPCC Assistant Curator Kent Buchanan. The curators were given access to the entire selection of works for the 2007 Higher School Certificate. The exhibition encompasses all artforms and features many works by students from regional areas. 2008 sees ARTEXPRESS celebrate 25 years.
Laura Holland (St Johns College Dubbo)
The Inevitable Link Between Interest, Inquiry and Application towards the Pursuit of Understanding 2007 Collection of works
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE DESIGN DISCOVERY AWARD EXHIBITION 2007
24 May - 6 July 2008
In 2007 the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition presents groundbreaking contemporary functional designs in lighting, furniture, accessories and homewares. This year’s group includes a bowl that pays reference to the humble aluminium can by Nick Rennie, John Smith’s sting ray-form chair and Simone LeAmon’s stainless steel votive candle holders. Each designer will be represented by their Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award entry as well as other designs from their broader body of work.
John Smith
Sting-Ray 2007 Chair and footstool Double fibreglass shell, two-pack polyurethane paint finish
72cm high x 103cm deep x 82cm wide (chair) Photo: Peter Whyte
GAIL NADEN
WITH DEEP INSIDE OUR HEAT (AL GAUWER MAREMUNTUNT NGURNAUWE GOOTAGOODO
10 May - 27 July 2008
With Deep Inside Our Heart surveys the work of Wiradjuri / Gamilaraay artist Gail Naden. Gail explores the depiction of land and water from an aerial perspective highlighting them as major elements in all aspects of our lives. Her work portrays the large views of landforms and the fine details found within it.
Gail Naden
Weilwan Waters 2007 Mixed media on canvas 110 x 75cm
Image © Gail Naden
FROM THE VAULT
THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
3 May - 6 July 2008
The Dubbo Regional Museum Collection contains close to 5000 objects and photographs, collected since 1957 when Andy Graham first started storing items in his Wingewarra Street garage. As with many museums, within the collection there are examples of fads and fashions, new as well as lost technologies, family mementos of war or migration, and those small objects that may at first appear insignificant and yet tell us so much about a way of life all but gone. Inspired by ‘Cabinets of Curiosity’, that were filled with the mildly odd to the outright bizarre, From the Vault seeks to showcase some of the more unusual and rare items in the Dubbo Regional Museum Collection.
Dubbo's First Representative Rugby League Team 1912
Photographer unknown
Collection Dubbo Regional Museum
ANNE NEAL
WARM FUZZIES
12 July - 10 August 2008
Anne Neal is a Mendooran-based artist who works with fibre. Her exhibition of native animals rendered in a variety of materials, has been created with the express purpose of being touched. Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to touch the artworks, expanding the usual experience of viewing artworks.
Anne Neal
Scratching Wombat
Acrylic fur, felted wool, machine appliqué, embroidered and quilted
Image © 2008 Anne Neal
TIM MOORHEAD
SECOND SKIN
5 April - 1 June 2008
Second Skin is a celebration of the Australian way of life, the annual summer holiday and the simple pleasure of being close to the sun and the surf. The distinguished Australian writer Donald Horne referred to it as "the annual changing of the skin". This exhibition of paintings, prints and ceramics is a new body of work by well known Sapphire Coast artist Tim Moorhead.
Tim Moorhead
Bright Eyed and Ready 2007 Linocut
Image © 2008 Tim Moorhead
SHAUN GLADWELL
VIDEO WORK
1 May - 30 June 2008
Videowork surveys the work of one of Australia's most successful video artists. This unique exhibition presented over two months, will present different works every two weeks. Featuring the video Storm Sequence from 2000, a work that has become synonymous with Australian video art, this exhibition will provide an insight into contemporary Australian image-making.
Shaun Gladwell
Tangara 2003 DV/DVD, 14:00 minutes, 4:3, silent Videography: Gotaro Uematsu
Photography: Josh Raymond
Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia
Image © Shaun Gladwell
RUSSELL MCQUILTY
RHAPSODY IN RED
2 February - 4 May 2008
Russell McQuilty didn’t take up sculpture until he was 45yrs old and since then he hasn’t stopped. His endeavours to create works that are dynamic yet simple, using solely steel and relying largely on intuition, he searches for structural solutions and simplicity in his work. McQuilty’s work is all about the interaction and juxtaposition of various elements; planes crisscrossing creating triangles and squares with the negative space becoming an integral element in the overall visual statement each work makes.
Russell McQuilty
Tokyo Rose 1999
steel, painted
45 x 73 x 36cm
Courtesy of Tetsuya Wakuda
Image © 2007 Russell McQuilty
AUSTRALIAN CERAMIC STORIES
5 April - 18 May 2008
Australian Ceramic Stories examines the use of narrative in the work of twelve contemporary Australian ceramicists. The exhibition, curated by Wellington-based curator Dr Julia Jones, charts the tradition of story telling and the variety of ceramic pratices in Australian. The exhibition features work by Stephen Benwell, Louise Boscacci, Bern Emmerichs, Kris Koad, Patrick Collins, Gudrun Klix, Pip McManus, Mel Robson, Fleur Schell, Vipoo Srivilasa, Thancoupie and Gerry Wedd.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Stephen Benwell
Pedestal Pots 2007Earthenware Dimansions variable, tallest 160mm
Courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Image © 2007 Stephen Benwell
DAVID NOONAN
OWLS
13 January - 13 April 2008
David Noonan is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. This video features a nest of owls filmed at Melbourne Zoo and is a meditation on these elusive creatures that have inspired artists and writers for centuries.
David Noonan
Owls 2004 DVD from Super 8 (Edition 3/9) Duration: 3 minutes (loop)
Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery Image © 2007 David Noonan
LEWIS BURNS
ARTIST AT WORK
23 February - 18 May 2008
Lewis Burns is a well known and respected local Indigenous artist who has done a number of arts based and performance workshops with youth and community groups. Lewis has been invited to work as an artist in residence in the gallery space, creating an ongoing and evolving series of works for exhibit and to conduct a variety of practical workshops for youth and community groups whilst working at the gallery.
Lewis Burns
Image © 2007 Western Plains Cultural Centre
ARTISTS OF STEEL
THE ART OF AUSTRALIAN STAMP ENGRAVING
2 February - 27 April 2008
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the one-colour, intaglio process was in use for the production of Australian stamps. This was the era of the “artists of steel” – a few skilful craftsmen who hand-engraved the steel dies of intaglio stamps at the Note Printing Branch, Melbourne. Hunched over the die, the engraver had to cut the stamp design into the steel’s surface, making cuts as shallow as one 500th of a millimetre and engraving the design in reverse! The extraordinary skills of hand engraving on steel, an art no longer practised in Australia, are celebrated in this exhibition. This is a Post Master Gallery Exhibition.
Bruce Stewart engraving a stamp die c1959
PRINTS & MULTIPLES FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART & THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG
MULTIPLICITY
9 February - 30 March 2008
Multiplicity explores the development of prints and multiples from the 1960s to the current day, tracking the rise of an art form that lies at the core of contemporary art practice. Drawing on the permanent collections of the MCA and University of Wollongong, Multiplicity offers visitors the chance to see the evolution of this influential medium across four decades, from its emergence out of the pop art and conceptual art movements of the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition features work by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst and Fiona Hall.
Tom Philips
Benches 1982
screenprint edition 51 of 85
plate size: 85.5 x 60, sheet size: 106 x 75.7
University of Wollongong Art Collection, donated by Dr Douglas Kagi under the Cultural Gifts Program, 2004
© the artist
KATH MORGAN
THE VIEW INSIDE, THE VIEW OUTSIDE - THE CONSTANT MOMENT
2 February - 4 May 2008
Local artist Kath Morgan presents a series of works that engage with hidden narratives that '....suggest tension, something happening, a moment in a dream - where something can become something else or where the hidden can come into view; where a moment is caught between its inception and transformation - some people have to write, I have a need to paint my stories.'
Kath Morgan
The Mystery of Stillness 2007 Acrylic on canvas 38 x 28cm
Image © 2007 Kath Morgan
GEORGE W LAMBERT
ACROSS THE BLACK SOIL PLAINS
6 August 2006 - 26 January 2007
George W Lambert lived and worked in the Warren district during the late 1880s producing a number of significant works. Across the black soil plains depicts a loaded wool wagon straining through the muddy plains around Warren on its way to the railway in Nevertire. The painting will be displayed adjacent to the Australian Hero wool wagon from the Dubbo Regional Museum collection.
Installation view:
George W Lambert Across the black soil plains 1899
Oil on canvas 91.6 x 305.5 Purchased in 1899
Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
& Australian Hero Wagon 1915
Collection Dubbo Regional Museum
WESTSIDE MEMORIES
2 June - 26 August 2007
This exhibition documents contemporary cultural life in Dubbo through a series of aural and visual records of current events, and individual stories. This exhibition has evolved through a series of photographic workshops run through Western Institute of TAFE. Students from TAFE have aurally and visually recorded the dismantling of the homes on the Gordon Estate documenting current events which explore their social identity.
Laura Salt
Gordon Estate 2006
Digital Photograph
Image © Laura Salt
DAVID JENSZ
SCULPTURE
20 January - 4 March 2007
David Jensz lives and works in Murrumbateman, NSW. Influenced by ideas that suggest there may be more dimensions to our universe than four dimensional space and time, he likes to work with ideas that are yet to be proved and incorporates an element of fantasy in his work. This exhibition is a survey of his most recent work.
David Jensz, Unbounded Space 2005
Rubber tyre tubes, Steel, Compressed air
123 x 167 x 428 cm Collection of the Artist
Image © David Jensz
MARY DORAHY
EVERY TIME I PEEL A PUMPKIN... AND OTHER MUSINGS
2 December - 11 March 2007
Mary Dorahy is a local artist who works in print media. She has just completed two artist-in-residency programs at Visy Industries, Brisbane. The cardboard box making facility became the site for Mary to investigate the container as an analogy for the communication of cultural information. Mary uses the cardboard boxes as a surface for her printed images. This exhibition explores the notion of the body as a container for experience.
Mary Dorahy
Every time I peel a pumpkin I think of Dick Watkins 2005
Screenprint Collection the artist
Image © Mary Dorahy
GRAHAM MACKIE
ON THE BANKS OF THE MACQUARIE: 3 DECADES ON
13 January - 18 March 2007
Graham Mackie is inspired by the landscape around him and he has particular interest in the river systems around the Dubbo region. His large scale drawings, paintings and photographs of the Macquarie River and its tributaries, investigate the uniqueness of this system and are based on his observations and interpretations of the landscape.
Graham Mackie
Whylandra Bend 2006
acrylic on canvas 100 x 200cm Collection of the Artist
Image © Graham Mackie
DREAM ON
3 February - 8 April 2007
This exhibition examines the influences of lifestyle, and popular culture of the 1950s-1970s on Australian culture and its impact on contemporary art practice. Artists growing up from this period have remembered the toys they play with and reminisced about their childhood to explore how culture and lifestyle have dramatically changed. This is a Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre touring exhibition.
Neal Smith
If we are to be dominated 2006 Plywood and synthetic polymer 230 x 130 x 150cm
Image courtesy of Damien Minton Gallery
Image © Neal Smith
TRENT PARKE
MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
10 March - 29 April 2007
Trent Parke lives in Sydney and is the only Australian photographer represented by the celebrated Magnum group and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Minutes to Midnight is a dark, sensual and apocalyptic vision of contemporary Australia that began as a road trip which he embarked on with his partner in 2003. This is an Australian Centre for Photography touring exhibition.
CALLUM MORTON
TOMORROW LAND
17 March - 6 May 2007
In today’s globalised world, would you really be surprised when you next visit the Louvre to find that the famous pyramid has been turned into a Hungry Jacks? This is the futuristic vision that Callum Morton has projected in this exhibition. According to the curator, Stuart Koop, this exhibition provides a context in which to consider Australia, India and a myriad of other places where architectural styles have been applied in the name of progress and improvement. This is a NETS Victoria touring exhibition.
Callum Morton
Farnshaven, Illinois 2001 From the series Local +/or General Digital print on aluminium 94.5 x 133.25 cm (image size) Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Gimpel Fils, London; and Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles Image © Callum Morton
CAROLINE FOSTER KING DANAHAR
THE ANGEL OR THE BEAS
24 March - 27 May 2007
An exhibition of work by Caroline Foster King Danaher that embraces current issues and themes through works on paper and canvas. "These drawings come from my own life’s experiences. They draw on deep feelings, but I believe they are universal. I try to explore and reflect on the extraordinary ability of humans to hold on and to let go. I also concern myself with the torn apart self and the separate self that exists secretly, or openly, along side ‘the other.’"
Caroline Foster King Danaher
Beastly Angel 2007 Charcoal, conte on paper 77 x 57cm
Image © Caroline Foster King Danaher
200 YEARS OF WOOL
3 February - 27 May 2007
An exhibition of paintings depicting the history of merino wool in Australia. These works were commissioned by a group of woolgrowers, know as ‘The Wool Partners” for Australia’s bicentennial celebrations and were produced by the late Orange based artist, Greg Turner. This exhibition maps the fortunes of the industry and its position in the Australian economy. It also celebrates the diversity of wool production in a range of climates and environments.
Greg turner (1938-1992)
The Lambing (Bill Ferguson’s Nevertire Property) c1987
Oil on Board 73 x 119cm Collection Dubbo City Council
WASTE TO ART
12 May - 10 June 2007
NetWaste is a collaborative waste management project that comprises 31 councils, covering approximately one-third of NSW. The Waste to Art Project involves community exhibitions in participating council areas showing creative works made from recyclable waste material. This exhibition is the Regional Competition and will showcase the winning entries from each of the local competitions.
Joel Polak
For the Love of Beer 2006
Bottle tops, cutlery, clock
Winner Primary Craftworks
FROM THE COLLECTION
ANIMAL IN ART
14 April - 10 June 2007
This exhibition will showcase how artists have embraced the Animal in Art theme in their work. Works have been selected from the Dubbo Regional Gallery permanent collection and reveals a diversity of subject matter and media.
Ann James
After Dusk c1997 Watercolour over photocopied charcoal pencil drawing Frame: 43.2 x 58.4 cm Window: 23.0 x 27.5 cm Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery Purchased with funds provided by Elders Ltd to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Dubbo City
Image © Ann James
MICHAEL RILEY
SIGHTS UNSEEN
12 May - 8 July 2007
This exhibition explores the prolific talents of a quiet observer whose photo media including black-and-white portraiture, video, digital media and film continues to have a profound effect on Australia’s contemporary representation and comprehension of Indigenous Australia. Riley worked successfully as an artist and cultural activist until his death in 2004 and is considered one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists. This is a National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition assisted by Visions of Australia.
Michael Riley
Untitled from the series cloud 2000 by Michael Riley
chromogenic pigment print, printed 2005 110.0 (h) x 155.0 (w)cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra © Michael Riley, Licensed by The Michael Riley Foundation and VISCOPY, Australia, 2006
FROM SPACE TO PLACE
12 July - 2 September 2007
From Space to Place presents new works created by 14 early-career Australian artists during their 2004 residency at the International Art Space Kellerberrin (IASKA), 210 km east of Perth in the heart of the Western Australian wheatbelt. Includes works by Hayden Fowler, Izabela Pluta, James Lynch and Raquel Ormella.
Matthew Hunt
Heliport Kellerberrin 2004 10 x digital prints 16 x 24cm
Work courtesy of artist
KLAUS MOJE
GLASS
16 June - 29 July 2007
Klaus Moje is an internationally renowned glass artist who has an extensive exhibiting career. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the contemporary Australian glass movement. His practice embraces collaboration and innovation, most significantly in the development and exploration of the combination of glass blowing and kiln firing techniques. Moje is best known for his coloured vessels, wall panels and his exacting attention to technique. He creates laminated colour fields of intense repetitive geometric and abstract patterns, often referring to the landscape. An Object Gallery exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries NSW.
Klaus Moje
Impact Series 2004
Mosaic Glass, Fused, Kiln-Formed and Wheel Carved
75 x 535 x 535 mm Image © Klaus Moje
CATHERINE JONES
GUTSYMMETRIES
2 June - 29 July 2007
An exhibition of work by Catherine Jones that explores relationships between the shapes and forms of the body and drapes and folds of cloth. The paintings, drawings and etchings reveal a concern with art history and the artists desire to render the anatomy and drapery in symbolic and resonant ways.
Catherine Jones
Gutsymmetries (detail) 2007 Oil on board 122.6 x 92.6cm (1 of 4 panels)
Image © Catherine Jones
90 YEARS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN DUBBO
1 - 30 September 2007
This exhibition celebrates the history of Public Secondary Education in Dubbo since its inception 90 years ago. The exhibition will feature many photographs, objects and memorabilia from the collection of various Dubbo schools and former students. It will be a unique insight into the history of Education in the west, and fittingly staged on the former site of Dubbo High School.
Photographer unknown
Dubbo High School 1917
Gelatin Silver Print Collection Dubbo College Senior Campus
Image © Dubbo College Senior Campus
NICHOLAS HURFORD
IN THE WINGS
3 September - 1 October 2007
In The Wings is a series of images shot during the recent Dubbo Amateur Theatrical Society’s run of ‘The Hot Mikado’. The images present a glimpse of the drama and activity behind the scenes during a theatrical performance.
Nicholas Hurford
Three steps to the end of your life 2006 Digital image
Image © Nicholas Hurford
EYE TO EYE
8 September - 11 November 2007
Eye to Eye brings together work by contemporary artists who are exploring our complex relations with animals at a time when the animal and human interaction is coming increasingly under scrutiny. Eye to Eye investigates the extent to which the gaze and reciprocal gaze between humans and animals are critical to the animal-human relationship.
Kate James
The World is a Dangerous Place 2004 Pegasus Print, 51 x 68 cm
Image © Kate James
THE SHORT & INCREDIBLY HAPPY LIFE OF RILEY
8 September - 25 November 2007
Humans live for a long time and a lot of that time we are not very happy. Rats, however, live for a short time and are happy all the time. The Short & Incredibly Happy Life of Riley written by Colin Thompson and illustrated by the mysterious Amy Lissiat, won the Children’s Book Council Picture Book of the Year Award in 2006.
Amy Lissiat
The Short & Incredibly Happy Life of Riley 2005 Digital image
Image © Amy Lissiat
BURAI YABBERING
16 June - 2 September 2007
This exhibition features works by students from Dubbo West Public School after workshops with Indigenous Artists Mervyn Bishop, Paul Taylor and Elaine Russell. The works explore identity and contemporary issues through, painting, drawing and photography.
Mervyn Bishop Students at Dubbo West Public School with Workshop Tutor Paul Taylor 2007 Photograph Image © Mervyn Bishop
SARAH-MACE DENNIS
(COLOUR SHADE) I CAN BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE
4 August - 30 September 2007
(Colour Shade) I can be everything to everyone explores subjectivity and landscape, uncovering relationships between notions of isolation, desire, belonging and place. Shot in and around Hill End – a historic gold mining village in regional NSW, the series takes interest in the residual energy that can be sensed in old buildings and landscapes, reflecting on the way that this energy resonates and creates tension between the historical and contemporary.
Sarah-Mace Dennis
The Two Sarahs 2007 Lambda Print
Image © Sarah-Mace Dennis
2007 $35,000 COUNTRY ENERGY PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTING
4 August - 30 September 2007
The Country Energy Art Prize is open to artists who live within the utility's network distribution area, covering most of the state from the coast to the outback, regional cities to small rural towns. Equivalent in prize money to the esteemed Archibald Prize, the prize goes a long way towards raising the profile of regional artists who are often geographically isolated from city galleries, buyers, contacts and networks.
Tim Winters
Bare Bones / Channel Country 2007 mixed media on canvas
Winner of 2007 $35,000 Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting
Image © Tim Winters
EMMA WISE
UNSAFE PASSAGE
22 December 2007 - 17 February 2008
This exhibition is an installation of interactive sculptures by Emma Wise, inspired by her relationship to the sea. Crafted out of polystyrene, these simple elegant forms create an ever-changing and kinetic experience as the viewer walks through the space.
Emma Wise
Unsafe Passage 2005-6
Polystyrene, lead Dimensions variable
Image © 2007 Emma Wise
PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES INDIGENOUS ART PRIZE 2007
17 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
The Parliament of New South Wales Indigenous Art Prize has an award of $20,000, and is awarded annually to a NSW Indigenous Artist. The Art Prize was established in 2005 has been developed in partnership between the Parliament of New South Wales and Campbelltown Arts Centre, and receives support from Arts NSW. The Prize is an important step in recognising the great wealth of artistic excellence in NSW Indigenous communities.
Milton Budge
Ration day times (Collecting rations and rations) (detail) 2007
acrylic on canvas 55 x 120cm
Image: Ian Hobbs © Milton Budge
Winner of the Parliament of New South Wales Indigenous Art Prize 2007
LIFE & LIGHT IN THE WESTERN CATCHMENT 1998 - 2007
6 December 2007 - 12 January 2008
The photographs in this collection were used by the Western Catchment Management Authority to create a commemorative screensaver celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Life and Light in the Western Catchment photographic competition.
These 115 images have been chosen from more than a thousand submitted between 1998 and 2007 that capture the Western Catchment of NSW: our
country, our life, our future. The photographs reflect the changing seasons of the Western Catchment: from droughts to flooding rains; good times and bad. During good years the photographs often feature the life-giving nature
of water while the prolonged drought years have prompted images of resilience and bush humour. Each year one or more themes is set, which have included: My Favourite Place; Year of the Outback; Life Goes On; and Biodiversity at its Best.
Suzanne Mansel, Bourke
Nature's beauty at the Mutawintji 2007
Photograph Image © 2007 Suzanne Mansell
TATTOOS & PIERCINGS
A HUMAN CANVAS
6 October 2007 - 27 January 2008
This exhibition is a balanced overview of trends in tattoos and body piercings and covers the good, bad and ugly side of body decoration. It is a photographic survey of the sub cultures associated with tattoos and body piercing. Images range from details of piercings, Celtic designs, Bandido bikers, tattooing application, to fashionable and glamour subjects. History, design styles, interesting facts and health issues are also examined.
Pam Hall
Nicki, May 2005 2005
High resolution digital image Image © Pam Hall
LOCAL COMPETITION
WASTE TO ART
1 - 16 December 2007
NetWaste is a collaborative waste management project that comprises 31 councils, covering approximately one third of NSW. The Waste to Art Project involves community exhibitions in participating council areas showing creative works made from recyclable waste material. This exhibition is the Regional Competition and will showcase the winning entries from each of the local competitions.
Ian Taylor
Hot Seat 2006 Mixed media Image © 2007 Ian Taylor
TEXTILE ARCHITECTURE
ANTIQUE GRAPHIC QUILTS FROM THE ANNETTE GERO COLLECTION
3 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
Dr Annette Gero is an independent curator and an expert on quilts. She has written numerous articles and is known throughout the world as The Quilt Lady. Dr Gero's passion is for old quilts, the stories behind them and the origin of quilting as we know it now. Dr Gero's collection of old and antique quilts is recognised as an Australian national treasure.
Star Barber Pole with Border Quilt c1870
Collection Annette Gero
HEYDY MATINEZ
BITUMEN
8 December 2007 - 27 January 2008
This exhibition presents work by Blue Mountains-based artist Heydy Martinez. Her work draws from '....examining the everyday little things that hold inspiring marks. The things I see day in and day out on a country highway vary from road kill, memorials, shredded tyres, a baby booty, road signs, mounds of gravel and soil. It is these things that I use as a reference to my mark making. I see the landscape as it twists, distorts and manifests shadows that form dark illusions.'
Heydy Martinez
Bitumen 2007 Perspex plates 20 x 8cm & 45 x 10cm
Image © 2007 Heydy Martinez
PETER ALAND & VICKI ALAND
CHOICE & CHANCE
30 September - 5 November 2006
Choice & Chance is an installation of work that combines their individual practices into a single immersive environment. Peter is a digital photographer who draws inspiration from the surrounding built and natural environments. Vicki works with paper, she hand cuts patterns and images from a range of coloured papers which she then assembles. They have combined Peter's digital images with overlays of Vicki's motifs to create work for this exhibition.
Vicki Aland & Peter Aland
Nerve (detail) 2006
Digital image Collection the artists
Image © Vicki Aland & Peter Aland
THE PICTURE BOOKS OF LIBBY GLEESON
TELLING STORIES
30 September - 5 November 2006
Libby Gleeson grew up in Dubbo and has become a highly successful author. She writes picture books, novels for the younger and older children, and has also written a book about writing. This exhibition focuses on the 12 Picture Books she has produced since 1988 with a number of well known illustrators.
Armin Greder An Ordinary Day – pages 5 & 6 (detail) 2001
Charcoal and pastel on Arches paper 43 x 72cm Collection the Artist Image © Armin Greder 2001
First published by Omnibus Books, an imprint of Scholastic Australia 2001 Reproduced by permission of Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd
NONI NIXON
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE EYE OR EYEBALLING IT
30 September - 26 November 2006
Noni Nixon lives and works in Coonamble, NSW. This exhibition is a site specific installation, and draws attention to the space in which it is shown. Nixon deals with the concept of surveillance in her work and she challenges the way we look, observe and interpret what we see.
Noni Nixon
Sovereignty of the eye or eyeballing it 2006
Installation view
Image © Noni Nixon, Photo: Kent Buchanan
ARTEXPRESS
30 September - 3 December 2006
Drawn from works submitted for the NSW Higher School Certificate Visual Arts examination, ARTEXPRESS presents 55 artworks. These include paintings, drawing, photography, textile and fibre, ceramics, film and video, digital animation and sculpture. The exhibition is toured by the NSW Board of Studies and the NSW Department of Education & Training.
Morgan Wilcox
5 Ways to say this isn’t a dog 2005 Painting
Collection Department of Education and Training
WASTE TO ART
30 September - 17 December 2006
Waste to Art is a recycling initiative by NetWaste that encourages the reuse of discarded materials as artworks. NetWaste is a collaborative waste management project that comprises 31 councils, covering approximately one third of NSW and having a population of over 300,000 people. Netwaste's aim is to improve waste management and recycling services in an environmentally sustainable way within the region. As a founding member of Netwaste, Dubbo City Council currently participates in co-operative projects aimed at improving waste management across the region. The Waste to Art Project involves community exhibitions in participating council areas showing creative works made from recyclable waste material. This exhibition will feature works from the local competition.
BRENDAN MCCUMSTIE
MEMORY HOLDS A CLAIM TO TRUTH
30 September - 7 January 2007
Brendan McCumstie lives and works in Lismore NSW. This exhibition explores his fascination with collage. Predominantly metaphorical, the images reference memories and experiences whilst addressing current political and social issues. These works at first appear to be of a minimalist content and nature but in fact are starting points for a deeper questioning and exploration of the context in which they are presented.
Brendan McCumstie
Never Look Back 2006
Collage Collection the Artist
Image © Brendan McCumstie
ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2006
30 September - 14 January 2007
The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards. J.F. Archibald’s primary aims were to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians. Since its inception in 1921 the prize has been awarded to some of Australia’s most important artists, including George Lambert, William Dobell and Brett Whiteley. This is an AGNSW exhibition and is toured by Museums and Galleries NSW.
Marcus Wills
The Paul Juraszek Monolith (After Marcus Gheeraerts) 2005
Oil on Linen 265 x 195cm
Collection the artist Image © Marcus Wills
Photo by Diana Panuccio
SPLAT!
30 September - 3 February 2007
This is an exhibition of works that explores a variety of paint techniques and styles in a fun environment especially for children. The works selected will provide an easy entry point into abstraction as well as a way to understand contemporary painting processes and concepts.
Louise Samuels
Untitled (detail) 1974
Synthetic polymer on canvasn Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery
Image © Louise Samuels
