Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS UNTIL 12 JUN BOCKAS, LOCKS AND WHISKERS

Few things generate more wise and witty sayings, more creative memes, than hair. In support of the Ballarat Beard & Stache Competition and the Ballarat Heritage Festival, the Gallery has done a deep dive into the collection to find some impressive hair imagery and selected our best and bushiest works. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 13 JUN EMILY VAN DER MOLEN: NEUROALCHEMY

A collection of abstract works exploring the transformation of negative energy into a force for positivity. Art Space Ballarat 14 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 13 JUN MOTHER AND SPIRIT

Works by Cherie Roessler exploring the many facets of what it is to be a parent, the many faces of motherhood and the recognition that even Mrs Brady would pull out her hair at times, without Alice.

The Gatehouse (Ballarat New Cemetery)

1201 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 20 JUN TEGAN CROSBIE: NOT A BADDIE

Tegan celebrates the native Banksia and it’s bright, sculptural, organic form. Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)

UNTIL 20 JUN FROLIC FESTIVAL: DARK RAINBOW

Ballarat Frolic Festival is a Ballarat celebration of queer culture. In their fifth art show they present a selection of work which is likely to be darker, queerer, colder and more unsettling than the previous exhibition, responding to the theme of Dark Rainbow.

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UNTIL 4 JUL ROBYN STACEY: AS STILL AS LIFE

Stacey is one of Australia’s leading photographic artists whose fascination with the still life genre has been inspired by her work with historical collections at the University of Sydney and Sydney Living Museums. Stacey brings these collections to life on a monumental scale, interrogating what they meant for the original owners and brilliantly interweaving personal historical narratives into sumptuous still lifes. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 24 JUL CAROL MCGREGOR: WREATH FOR OODGEROO

Dr Carol McGregor is an artist of Australian Indigenous/Scottish descent based in Brisbane. Her family originates from the Geelong region and she continues to investigate her connection with Wadawarrung Traditional Owners. Wreath for Oodgeroo 2020, is an extraordinary possum skin cloak depicting native plants found on Minjerriba (Stradbroke Island, Queensland) to honour the leadership and insight of blackrights activist, poet, artist, environmentalist and educator Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker). Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 1 AUG MORRIS COHEN

Born in Ballarat in 1866, Morris Cohen was a self-taught painter. He travelled extensively and painted in Egypt, Palestine, Spain, Italy and France. Though never a full-time artist, Cohen was a part of the thriving Melbourne art scene and exhibited at the Victorian Artists’ Society. This will be the first time these works have been shown and include a recent acquisition of an early work. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 1 AUG OUT OF THE DARKNESS: A SURVIVOR'S JOURNEY

Works collected, commissioned and curated by Robert House, a survivor of child sexual abuse. The memories of House’s childhood experiences have continued to haunt him and affect his mental wellbeing, but he has employed determination and resilience to become an advocate for survivors and work towards a more just society. Including works by Peter Daverington, John Forrest, Doug Heslop, Kelly Hussey-Smith, Kaff-eine, Scott Marsh, James Money, Sassy Park, Michael Peck, Glen Pierce, Rodney Pople and Marcus Wills. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 1 AUG KAIT JAMES: HANG US OUT TO DRY

Wadawurrung visual artist Kait James asks questions relating to identity, perception and our knowledge of Australia’s Indigenous communities. She takes Aboriginal calendar tea towels from the 1970s and 1980s showing stereotypical images of Indigenous people and culture and subverts them from a contemporary perspective. James address the way white western culture has dominated Australia’s history and her personal reflections on her Indigenous heritage. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 1 AUG BODY MOVING

A sedentary lifestyle is so last season – it’s time to get off the screen and move your body. You don’t need fancy new clothes or the latest tech accessories to move your body. You just need to spring across the floorboards like an acrobat, pick up a piece of rope and start skipping or dance like nobody’s watching. Body Moving includes works from the Gallery collection by George Baldessin, John Brack, Barbara Brash, Kristin Headlam, Evelyn Syme & Fred Williams. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 14 AUG BEL WOODRUFF: UN VANILLA - VARIOUS FLAVOURS

Eleven works from 2014 - 2021, reflecting on the raw emotional impact particularly related to loss, energy exchange and meaningful purpose.

Unicorn Lane image: Not a Baddie by Tegan Crosbie

COMMUNITY ART PATHWAYS

Highlighting emerging artists & makers from the Ballarat region.

Art Space Ballarat 14 Lydiard St Nth

Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)

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This representation is a response to adjustment and unpredictable circumstances. Webster's Market and Cafe 61 Webster St

UNTIL 22 AUG LINDSAY FAMILY: COPLAND CONSERVATION

A selection of works by members of the Lindsay family of artists from Creswick, that have been recently conserved with a grant from the Copland Foundation. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

UNTIL 4 SEP CRAIG BARRETT: THE BERRY CONSOLS

Craig Barrett’s paintings capture the changing colours and shapes of The Berry Consols – a series of abandoned gold mines, just north of Creswick. Craig has long been fascinated with the relationship between natural and human history. This place brought a lot of Craig’s interests together, with yet another - the aesthetics of the mining history. Entry fees apply, pre-bookings required.

Eureka Centre Ballarat

102 Stawell St Sth

UNTIL 28 JAN GORDON MONRO: EUREKA: SINGULAR AND PLURAL

Gordon Monro is an artist who makes images from data. He has used data about the 1854 Eureka Stockade to generate imagery from the mathematical fragmentation of an eight-pointed Eureka star. Eureka was a social revolution; part of a wider international struggle for democratic reform and civil rights. At the time of the Eureka rebellion, a technological revolution was also underway. Through a highly symbolic visual representation, Gordon explores the way these social and technological revolutions were intertwined. Artist talk and exhibition celebration Sat 5 June, 5pm. Eureka Centre Ballarat 102 Stawell St Sth

1 JUN - 11 JUL MOVING FORWARD

Works by members of Golden Plains Arts Inc. including photography, paintings, drawing, prints, sculpture and ceramics. Opening Thu 3 Jun, 4 - 6pm. Mercure Ballarat 613 Main Rd

1 - 30 JUN CONCERNING ALIEN BEAUTY

Local artists Menzies (photography) & Heron (3D works) convey their shared appreciation of the elegant functionality, mysterious, complex and grotesque beauty of the insects & arthropods cohabiting the world in which we all live. Macspace@Radmac 110 Armstrong St Sth

4 - 6 JUN TARA POOLE: THRUM

Charcoal works on Wadawurrung Country, ancestral home of Carringum balug. Large-scale charcoal & conte works that suggest difficult tales of a land that bears witness, merged with a torrid, complex beauty. Opening Fri 4 Jun, 4-7pm.

Carngham Uniting Church

954 Linton-Carngham Rd, Snake Valley

5 - 27 JUN AXEL SCHOLZ MT WARRENHEIP: IN THE FRAME

Inspired by his move to Ballarat five years ago, Axel presents a series of small en plein air impressionistic paintings featuring Mt Warrenheip as seen from different viewpoints around Ballarat. Axel will demonstrate his painting techniques at the gallery, open weekends in June or by appointment.

Old Butchers Shop Gallery

112 Seymour St, Soldiers Hill (ph 0408 235 973)

17 JUN - 16 JUL SCOPE21

Work of immense beauty & contemplation by lecturers, teachers, research associates and research fellows who, as artists, also sustain a rigorous artistic research and/or teaching practice at Federation University, whose work expresses complex ideas related to fact & fiction, empathy, politics & global unrest and ideas surrounding Indigenous art & iconography. Post Office Gallery Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St

20 JUN - 25 JUL IMOGEN KOLBE

Featuring collections from Imogen Kolbe’s Night Shift & selected curated pieces from her archive. Night Shift explores the world from the view of a night shift worker and the things better left in the dark. Join them on their journey through the dark and try to stay in the light.

The Gatehouse (Ballarat New Cemetery)

24 JUN - 1 AUG NYAGAK YANG

Nyagak Yang is a young Nuer South Sudanese artist based in Ballarat and Geelong. She came to Australia at the age of 4 from a refugee camp in Ethiopia. From an artistic family, Nyagak uses her work to explore the challenges of growing up black in a dominant white culture. She has previously shown her powerful larger-thanlife portraits in cafes and community-run art spaces, but this will be her first opportunity to show work in a regional gallery.

Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat

40 Lydiard St Nth

25 JUN – 15 AUG RAISE YOUR VOICE

Led by City of Ballarat Youth Council, this exhibition wants to put community conversation on sexism, women’s rights & safety front and centre, creating change through art. Young people aged 14–25 have been invited to contribute artwork that reflects a call to action for what needs to change in our society for women to feel safer and be treated as equal. Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)

26 JUN - 18 JUL ONE HUNDRED FACES

37 local artists have created 100 mini works of art. They are all faces made using different mediums and styles, grouped together to showcase our amazing local talent. You may find amongst these faces local identities, storybook characters, famous people & animals. Playing in the Attic (window) 119A Sturt St

21 JUL – 15 AUG VOICES LIKE YOURS

An exhibition of a 3D printed sculpture and artworks created in collaboration with community. The project has united local, national and international participants and highlight the powerful individual voices and stories that express resistance for survivors of sexual abuse and their loved ones. Art Space Ballarat 14 Lydiard St Nth

29 JUL - 20 AUG BENCHMARK21

undergraduate Visual Art students across a range of media, styles and disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking, design, sculpture, ceramics, digital media & installation. Post Office Gallery Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St

1 - 31 AUG CHERYL CHAPLIN

Cheryl paints to allow colours, shapes and textures to blend to create their own story. Cheryl has completed an Art Diploma at Melbourne University. Macspace@Radmac 110 Armstrong St Sth

5 AUG - 12 SEP STELLA CLARKE, JESSICA DE SISO, DEBORAH KLEIN: NATURE WORKS

Stella Clarke’s landscapes celebrate a wellwatered environment which supports abundant life. Jessica de Siso transforms overlooked and discarded objects, re-purposes what has been damaged by pollution and decay to create intricate compositions with fresh meanings. Deborah Klein brings together cut-paper illustration, natural science specimens and Asian decorative traditions to explore the infinite variety of life on earth.

Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat

40 Lydiard St Nth

7 AUG - 31 OCT ROBERT FIELDING: MIIL-MIILPA

Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrente and Yankunytjatjara descent, who lives in Mimili Community in the remote APY Lands. In two distinct bodies of new photographic work making up the exhibition miil-miilpa (sacred), Fielding continues his work connected to the significance of Elders in his community, their stories and their understandings. One body of work showcases Elders in his community through intimate portraits. The other explores Country through landscape images produced by experiments with UV exposure. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

8 - 29 AUG ANNE CHIBNALL'S FEATHERED FRIENDS: LOVE IS IN THE AIR

17 JUN – 16 JUL 2021 SCOPE21

VISUAL ARTS LECTURERS. TEACHERS & HONORARIES

29 JUL – 20 AUG 2021 BENCHMARK

UNDERGRADUATE VISUAL ARTS

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colourful and express my feelings, showing me who I am. Come to my opening and I will talk to you about my work". Opening Sun 8 Aug 2 - 4pm and open every Sunday 2- 4pm or by appointment (ph 0408 235 973).

Old Butchers Shop Gallery

112 Seymour St, Soldiers Hill

14 AUG - 14 NOV ANINDITA BANERJEE: ONDORMOHOL

Ondormohol is a Bengali word referring to the inner or private areas of a house. Ballarat-based artist Anindita Banerjee has assembled visual imaginings of a Bengali girl, prompted by inheriting a piece of antique Bengali embroidery while living in Ballarat. The exhibition encompasses themes of displacement, memory and home, as Banerjee negotiates the imagined experience of being in multiple places at the same time. She finds herself in Ballarat today; in Kolkata as a girl and young woman; and finally in Kolkata in the early 1900s - drawing from both her own family's stories and those of Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore.

Art Gallery of Ballarat

L-R: Elke Varga Temple Flags, 2021 E. Jankelowitz, A.Glenk, P. Hobbs, M. McDermott, L.Lewis Release, 2021 (detail)

28 AUG - 24 OCT LINDA McCARTNEY: RETROSPECTIVE

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale returns with an exhibition of exclusive works by world famous, award winning American photographer Linda McCartney. The retrospective features over 200 remarkable photographs from 1965–1997 depicting the evolution of youth pop culture and capturing raw moments of history’s most famous rock stars. Personally curated by Paul, Mary & Stella McCartney, the retrospective displays intimate images of the McCartney family and a series of never before exhibited prints from their trips to Australia in 1975 and 1993. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth

28 AUG - 24 OCT 2021BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE

Ballarat is immersed in photography for 60 days with exhibitions and events showcasing works by Australian and international artists in 100+ venues. The full program will be released on 17 June 2021. Info & program: ballaratfoto.org