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Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS UNTIL 1 MAR THE ART TEACHERS EXHIBITION Art teachers play an invaluable role in developing the skills and passion for art in their students – and many of them are artists themselves. Following our successful inaugural Art Teachers Exhibition in 2019, we present this exhibition of work by teachers in the region. Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth UNTIL 7 MAR SCOPE20 SCOPE, Federation University's School of Arts' important annual exhibition, showcases accomplished work by Visual Arts lecturers, teachers, Research Associates, Associate and Adjunct Professors and Research Fellows. This exhibition not only celebrates artists who sustain an ongoing rigorous art practice but also reflects excellence across a broad range of media, approaches and styles, achieved through an ongoing dedicated research process. Post Office Gallery Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St UNTIL 15 MAR CAKE INDUSTRIES: 08:26AM Local artists Cake Industries explore the complexity of the human psyche in a dark and humorous work which balances weirdness, whimsy and grotesquerie. 08:26am is a complex and dense installation piece in the form of a caged, mechanical zoo. A series of robotic sculptures will come to life in an immersive display of choreographed theatre which incorporates automated movement, sound, light and projected video. Experimental artist duo Jesse Stevens and Dean Petersen have worked together since 2006 as Cake Industries. Their human/object hybrid forms are players in a surreal mechanical theatre that is equally strange, disturbing and beautiful. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 15 MAR GEOFF BONNEY: PANGRAMS Geoff Bonney is a painter and sculptor living near Learmonth, north-west of Ballarat, who has had a lifelong interest in text. In this playful exhibition, he uses the alphabet as a repeated motif in an investigation into colour, form and communication, with each letter taking on an abstract colour-field quality. Cryptic titles add to the intrigue of what the letters spell out and invite the viewer to study the paintings more thoroughly. The ‘pangrams’ of the title are sentences which contain each letter of the alphabet, such as the well-known example ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth UNTIL 16 MAR TWO TREGEARS Father and daughter artists Rodney & Rebecca Tregear have joined forces, combining their varied styles in an exhibition that features a wide range of subjects in watercolours, graphite and coloured pencils. The Warehouse 36 Fraser St, Clunes
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David Noonan Mask 2015 silkscreen on hand dyed linen collage Collection of the Art Gallery of Ballarat © the artist
UNTIL 28 MAR THEY ARE US This reverse-ekphrastic exhibition is a collaboration between Ballarat writing group Words Out Loud and Soldiers Hill Artist Collective (SHAC). Each SHAC artist is charged with creating a piece of art in response to a written piece submitted by one of the writers. Reuben Morgan will be composing an original music score to accompany the exhibition. The Gallery Lounge at Mercure Ballarat 613 Main Rd UNTIL 29 MAR CRESWICKIANS: SETTLERS OF THE DISTRICT Images and stories of early residents who made their home in Creswick and surrounding district. Also on display, a collection of carte de visite by Herman Moser, a pioneer photographer in the area. In 1866 Moser produced photographs of the area for the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. One image was probably the first panoramic view of Creswick. Creswick Museum 70 Albert St, Creswick
SCOPE20 Arts Academy Visual Arts Lecturers, Teachers & Honoraries
21 FEB - 7 MAR 2020
GRAEME DRENDEL THE MESSENGERS 14 MAR - 23 MAY 2020
1 - 27 MAR BODY BAGS: “I AM A TRASH BAG” Large scale photographic prints by local artist Catherine Gomersall. These works use the iconic symbol of the plastic bag to interrogate the emotional and psychological implications of consumerism on its human subjects: how we feel about our waste, and how our waste makes us feel about ourselves. RAT Art Space at Ballarista 2A Lydiard St Sth 1 - 29 MAR AMBLING IN THE CEMETERY A photographic exhibition by Chris Barrett. Meandering through the cemetery with a dawdling elderly dog provides many opportunities to photograph the changing light: early morning, late evening, sunset, sunrise, rain, mist or sunshine, the light is often magical and transforming. Opening Sun 1 Mar, 1:30pm. The Gatehouse (Ballarat New Cemetery) 1201 Lydiard St Nth 5 - 29 MAR COLOURS OF WORLD CULTURES Bringing together artworks and artefacts contributed by present and past participants in the City of Ballarat’s Intercultural Ambassadors program along with invited artists. Each of the items in the exhibition has been shaped by the cultures of their makers and the environments in which they were produced, whether brought from the artists’ places of origin or created in their new homeland. It creates a kaleidoscope of textures and colours to celebrate 10 years of the City of Ballarat’s Intercultural Ambassador Program. Opening Sat 14 Mar, 3pm. Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth 7 - 9 MAR BALLARAT BEGONIA QUILTERS 2020 Festival of Quilts exhibition. See a fabulous range of handmade quilts and crafts. $5 entry. Ballarat Masonic Centre 616 Barkly St 7 - 9 MAR NEEDLES, KNOTS & THREADS Over 450 embroidery and quilting items on display by Ballarat Branch members of The Embroiderers Guild, Victoria, with various techniques demonstrated daily + goods for sale. St Patrick's Hall Dawson St Sth
14 MAR - 23 MAY GRAEME DRENDEL: THE MESSENGERS In an important solo exhibition, renowned Australian artist Graeme Drendel showcases a new series of oils on canvas depicting characters set in familiar yet strange landscapes that reflect the dichotomies of life and the many questions and unanswered states of the human condition. Opening Sat 14 Mar, 6:30pm. Post Office Gallery Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St 14 MAR - 28 JUN DAVID NOONAN: STAGECRAFT Stagecraft brings together silkscreen collages on fabric, tapestries and film. Noonan repurposes found photographic images from his extensive personal image archive to create images which are ambiguous, often with a focus on a solitary haunting figure. Black and white images appropriated from disparate sources including magazines relating to avant-garde theatre, film, design, architecture, dance & music are combined to create new compositions. Ballaratborn artist David Noonan lives and works in London. Noonan has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Australia, USA and the UK and has been included in notable survey exhibitions and biennials. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums in Australia and internationally. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth 19 - 22 MAR MELANIE HILL POP-UP SHOP Melbourne-based textile artist Melanie Hill will be selling a selection of her upcycled textile pieces. Red Door Gallery on Fraser 69 Fraser St, Clunes 21 - 22 MAR GOLDEN PLAINS COMMUNITY ARTS TRAIL The 2020 Golden Plains Arts Trail showcases 68 artists in 22 venues across the shire. Wide open spaces, big skies and beautiful bushlands inspire our artists in all their various mediums. Take time out to discover the hidden gems to be found in these eclectic studios. Visiting these spaces provides an intimate peek into their arts practice. Program: gpartsinc.com.au 28 MAR - 21 JUN ANNE WALLACE: STRANGE WAYS While Anne Wallace’s figurative paintings might seem conventional on the surface, they are anything but ordinary. Her meticulously painted canvases lead us to expect a narrative but, on a deeper level, deny us that satisfaction. Their strangeness comes from her unusual use of perspectives, the superimposing of images, and references to disparate sources. Wallace combines the familiar with the unfamiliar, capturing a tension between the real and the imagined to depict slightly awkward moments. This comprehensive survey of Wallace’s practice brings together more than 80 works from public & private collections, spanning three decades. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
NEXT GEN 2020 Next Gen 2020 showcases the work of school students mainly from Ballarat and its broader region, who have just completed VCE studies in Art, Studio Arts, Design & Technology, Visual Communication and Design & Media. NEXT GEN continues to be an important part of the Gallery’s exhibition program and both provides industry training to its participants, acts as an inspiring introduction to VCE art for current students, and gives Gallery visitors insights into the world of young people today. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth CORRIDOR ART SPACE Artworks on display by members of the Ballarat Society of Artists Inc. All art is for sale at very reasonable prices. Ballarat Trades Hall 24 Camp St CALLUM MORTON: MONUMENT #23: HELTER SHELTER Monument #23: Helter Shelter by Callum Morton is a piece of temporary architecture – a shelter rendered in the form of an emergent head of Donald Trump, hollowed-out and replete with inferno flames and bench seating. If you want to get inside Trump’s head prior to the US elections, come down to Alfred Deakin Place and take a seat in the Helter Shelter. Alfred Deakin Place (rear Art Gallery of Ballarat)
LILY MAE MARTIN: OVERBURDEN Overburden addresses the legacy of Gold Rush mining and explores our relationship with, and perception of, the natural world. These recent drawings are the result of a year of focussed research and visits to sites of past mining activity throughout the Ballarat region. The use of black & white brings a strong metaphoric association with truth-telling. Through the close observation of nature and a dedicated act of drawing, the artist aims to strip away nature’s veneer of regeneration, bringing traces of environmental degradation to the fore and revealing the past trauma lurking under the surface of the land. Eureka Centre Ballarat 102 Stawell St Sth THE FLAG OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS: AN ICON A selection of photographs by Peter Solness. In 2003 and 2004, Solness produced a series of photographs documenting the commemoration of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat and the many ways in which the icon of the Eureka flag has become a symbol through clothing, tattoos and its use as a political symbol by organisations including trade unions and bikie gangs. Eureka Centre Ballarat 102 Stawell St Sth POSE By the early 1890s, Ballarat boasted over a dozen photographic studios. The Gold Museum’s photographic collection represents a variety of studios which operated in Ballarat from the 1870s. While some portraits feature prominent Ballarat figures, other people are less well known. Many of the portraits came into the collection with little information about their subjects, but are still significant for the stories they tell about Ballarat society - popular tastes, fashion choices and the development of photographic technology. Gold Museum Bradshaw St, Golden Point PRASHANTH NAIDOO: TOP DOWN This exhibition aims to portray the beauty of Ballarat and its surrounding regions from a novel perspective, made possible by the use of drones to create breathtaking aerial photography. From the iconic Lake Wendouree to agricultural surrounds, experience a unique view of regional Victoria from new heights. Craig's Royal Hotel 10 Lydiard St Sth
