Past Exhibitions

Crossing | Fran O'Neill

Crossing brings together work completed over the last decade by one of the region’s most acclaimed artists, Fran O’Neill. Having built a significant international career, particularly in North America, for her evocative and vibrant abstract paintings, O’Neill has now permanently established her studio in the idyllic surrounds of Cheshunt.

Wild Country | Clare McCracken and Heather Hesterman

Art as Sanctuary | Artmania

Art as Sanctuary presents a diverse selection of new work from the resident studio artists currently attending Artmania Wangaratta, an all-inclusive space for people of all abilities to explore their own artistic interests in a variety of ways.

Bloom | Helen Heywood

Helen Heywood’s paintings of native flora capture their extraordinary beauty in dramatic detail.

The Good | Anna Louise Richardson

The Good is a major new solo exhibition by artist Anna Louise Richardson whose practice is centred around rural life, embedded in the experience and drama of everyday reality.

Fearless | Flossie Peitsch

An exhibition of new work by artist Flossie Peitsch

Petite Miniature Textiles 2024

Showcasing innovative practice from across Australia, Petite is a biennial small scale textile exhibition.

Shadow Murmurs | Julie Monro-Allison

Shadow Murmurs explores the translation of an idea between one medium to another, the creative potential and the slippage that arises.

Hints of the Valley | Joan Mullarvey

Joan Mullarvey’s work sits between painting and printmaking, creating bold and distinctive works on paper that take inspiration from her local environment.

In Grief | Maissa Alameddine and Emily McIntosh

In Grief brings together work by artists Maissa Alameddine and Emily McIntosh, who together examine the multifaceted layers of trauma, displacement, loss and the complexities of grief.

Weaving Eucalypts Project | Liz Williamson

This collaborative project by weaver Liz Williamson explores local colour, cultural connections, and shared weaving traditions.

Woolshed Road | Nina Machielse Hunt

In this series of works, Machielse Hunt draws inspiration from her immediate environment, living and working on Woolshed Road just outside Beechworth.

Beauty & Fear | Robert Hirschmann and Andy Pye

Beauty and Fear brings together new work by painters Robert Hirschman and Andy Pye, both who have connection to north east Victoria.

The Tucker Portraits

Heartscape

Heartscape, by the members of Goulburn and North East Arts Alliance, (GANEAA,) taps into the substance of our lives, the notional landscapes of the human heart and emotions.

The sounds I saw | Marc Bongers

The Four Pillars | Evangeline Cachinero

Looking Glass | Judy Watson & Yhonnie Scarce

Warriors Unmasked | The Art Project

Moon Paintings | Andrew Sinclair

An exhibition of new work from Andrew Sinclair, a Melbourne born, Greta West based, artist and educator.

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2023

The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award is a biennial acquisitive award and exhibition, which celebrates the diversity and strength of Australian textile art.

Flirtation with Abstraction | Frank Burgers

Superpicture | Tristan Chant

Tristan Chant is a multi-disciplinary artist working across print, collage, and textile mediums. His practice initiates a dialogue about our relationship to images and how we consume them. Mining images from art history, adult magazines, children’s books and popular media.

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Printed Habitat

Printed Habitat presents the recent work of four prominent printmakers working in Northeast Victoria. Each artist brings a unique sensitivity and draws from the built and natural habitats in which they live and work, exploring the essence of these environments through various printmaking processes.

Views of a Distance | Ben Jenkins

King Valley artist Ben Jenkins showcases a selection of new works inspired by landscapes, skyscapes and dreamscapes.

Creature Comforts | Abi Thompson

Abi Thompson's mixed-media drawings, Creature Comforts, explore Australia's inland landscapes' unique textures, colours and patterns. These works reflect Abi's interest in their ancient relationship to time and place.

Somewhere Down the Line | Bethany Thornber & Courtney Young

An exhibition of paintings and experimental sculptures by Beth Thornber and Courtney Young. This new body of work explores the many iterations of borders and boundaries in the postcolonial Australian landscape.

New Kids On The Block

New Kids on the Block provides a valuable ten-month professional development opportunity that culminates in an exhibition celebrating the achievements and supporting the talents of our local future creatives. Wangaratta Art Gallery is committed to making New Kids on the Block an annual exhibition acknowledging the recipients of the Friends of the Wangaratta Art Gallery Student Award
and finalists.

A Portrait of Australia

This exhibition celebrates the bush, the outback, the coast and the people who live there. Featuring photographs from the Australian Geographic archive, it will transport you to some of the most rugged and remote parts of the country where you will discover the remarkable stories of ordinary Australians.

The Before Times

A group exhibition featuring Phong Chi Lai, Tara Glastonbury, Caroline Hadley, Diana Vandeyar, Jessica Wheelahan and Lorena Uriarte.
The phrase, Before Times, is used a starting point to explore how life might have changed since COVID-19.

Head in the Clouds | Sarah Maslankiewicz

A series of new works by Sarah Maslankiewicz continuing her experimentation with photographing the human form in water; the writhing bodies, refracted light and swirling fabrics suggest paintings by old masters.

Untitled 001 | Ryan Andrew Lee

Conceptual new media artist Ryan Andrew Lee explores alternative ontologies and epistemologies that are strongly informed by First Nations people, and community.

Heliocentric: Recent works by Cameron Robbins

An exhibition of recent work by artist Cameron Robbins - exploring the dynamics of natural landscape energies - solar, hydro, wind, geomagnetism - with sculptural drawing instruments and their outputs in drawing and long exposure photography.

Spark Kids

This exhibition is one outcome from a creative recovery partnership with Wangaratta Art Gallery and the Whitfield District Greta Valley, and Edi Upper Primary Schools, generously funded through Murray PHN.

Spark | Bushfire recovery through art

The Spark Bushfire Recovery project has been a 12 month community recovery project delivered by the Wangaratta Art Gallery. Nature journaling workshops, weaving workshops and a community choir provided opportunities for the Wangaratta community to explore their relationship to nature and their connection to community in the aftermath of the 2020 bushfires. The Spark project has focused on bushfire

Petite Miniature Textiles 2022

Wisdom of the Past | Chris Thorne

New work from local aboriginal artist Chris Thorne, stories portraying his personal journey connecting to his culture.

Creative Calling: Barbara and David McCabe - A Retrospective

An exhibition bringing together two artists, husband and wife Barbara and David McCabe, both long term advocates for artistic endeavour in Wangaratta.

In the Realm of Senses | Ralph Bristow

Dimensions are subverted, spontaneity trumps tradition and colours enter into delightfully unexpected associations.

Eternal | Alun Rhys Jones

Alun Rhys Jones is an Australian based artist, whose practice analyses the ingrained stereotypes of perceived LGBTQI lives still perpetuated from and by mainstream news media.

Photographic Tunnelling | Emma Hamilton

Photographic Tunnelling seeks to use ice core sampling in Antarctica as a framework to observe the historical layering of our connection to landscape and how it has been shaped through the lens of photography. This enquiry seeks to examine our shifting relationship with landscape photography in the context of climate change.
Using the premise of map tunnelling (programs that show opposite point.

WILAM BIIK

In the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people, Wilam Biik means Home Country.

In the After | Emma White

This series of new work by White navigates intergenerational legacy and the cathartic process of re-emerging after the loss of a mother.

The Red Line | Sonic Adventurers

Sonic Adventurers are a collective - comprising seven emerging artists with intellectual disabilities, and two mentoring established artists. The group is an initiative started by the artists with JOLT Arts.

Tonality

Bringing together a selection of significant contemporary works from the Wangaratta Art Gallery and the Rural City of Wangaratta collections, Tonality presents monochromatic artworks from this rich and expertly curated collection established over the past 40 years.

The Curtis Family Collection

The genesis of this exhibition was from a donation of eight works by artist Anna Curtis to the Gallery in 2020.

Visual Mix Tape

In response to the work of Jolt Arts and the Sonic Adventurers’ exhibition The Red Line, the studio artists of ArtMania Wangaratta have created a new body of work, Visual Mixed Tape – a collection of their favourite songs as highly expressive and colourful artworks.

Summer Landscapes

This exhibition presents a selection of landscape paintings collected by the Rural City of Wangaratta over the last 40 years including works by John Colin Angus, Len Pawluk and Angelo Quabba.

Revealed: The Regional Digitisation Roadshow

Wangaratta Art Gallery is one of six public galleries in Victoria to be selected for a pilot project by Creative Victoria to create digital records of the artworks in its collection.

Forms & Echoes | Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa

Rodrigues de Sousa evokes ideas from utopias, modernism, politics and literature, using simple forms.

Bowness Photography Prize

In 2020 the Bowness Photography Prize marked its 15th year.

Sensuous Materiality | Valissa Butterworth

An exhibition of paintings and sculpture exploring material properties and the human connection to it. Complex material combinations of porcelain, resin, wax and recycled packaging reveal a transformative chaotic beauty, Illuminating the essence or soul of each material captured in a brief moment of suspension.
In a series of paintings and objects the artist investigate the profound connection.

A Gathering of Threads

To help celebrate the textile focus of the biennial Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, This exhibition examines the importance of the Wangaratta Art Gallery’s collection through exploring key themes such as diversity, representation, and community by showcasing a small selection from the collections’ textile holding. Works featured in this exhibition are by artists Tim Gresham, Kirsten Fredric

Sew Many Stitches

An exhibition highlighting a diverse range of work from The North Eastern Branch of the Embroiderers Guild Victoria.

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2021

The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award is a biennial acquisitive award & exhibition celebrating the diversity and strength of Australia’s textile artistry.

Drawn Work | Beth Peters

Beth Peters’ exhibition Drawn Work references a method of needlework which is created by removing threads from the warp and/or the weft of a piece of even-weave fabric with the remaining portions, gathered and threaded together to form new intricate lace-like patterns.

From Tullamore to Finch Street | Therese Shanley

An exhibition of oil paintings and drypoints by local artist Therese Shanley exploring powerful narratives of memory.

Still Life

An exhibition of “Still-Life” paintings from the Rural City of Wangaratta and Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection.

Painting Place | Anthea Kemp

27 February – 28 March | Gallery 2

Shearing the rams, the artist, the painting, a moment in time

In 2021, a National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Collection favourite, Tom Roberts’s Shearing the Rams, 1890, will tour to Wangaratta Art Gallery to coincide with the 130th anniversary of the work’s execution near Corowa, NSW.
The single display of this key work will occur for a limited period of four weeks from late January until late February 2021 and is exclusive to Wangaratta.

Domestic Bliss | Libby Schreiber

An exhibition of linocut prints by artist Libby Schreiber depicts domestic and farm animals as the main subject matter.

Contemporary Landscape Perspectives

This dynamic exhibition of five contemporary landscape Australian painters, Max Berry, Holly Greenwood, Dan Kyle, Bronte Leighton-Dore and Andrew Pye explores individual perspectives of elements of the Australian bush, the terrain, landscape and key symbolism of trees and flora in their immediate environment.

Tension[s] 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial

Tamworth Textile Triennial, held every three years, showcases the best of textile art from across the country, attracting artist participation from all states in Australia.