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Exhibitions
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UNTIL 2 JUN JULIE MAHNKEN: WE ARE ITS CREATURES
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A series of works on paper inspired by Julie’s walks during the pandemic in our local environment reminding us of our tenuous place and connection to the world. Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)
UNTIL 17 JUN EDUCATING ARTISTS
Showcasing unique works of art and historical artefacts created by students and teachers, Educating Artists illustrates the rigorous program of drawing, design and art-trade training at the former Ballarat Technical Art School (BTAS) between the years 1907 to 1940. Post Office Gallery Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St
UNTIL 19 JUN REAL AND IMAGINED
New works by members of Golden Plains Arts Inc., offering a glimpse into the creative world of our diverse group of painters, printers, sculptors, photographers and more. Mercure Ballarat 613 Main Rd
UNTIL 26 JUN DILLON NAYLOR: BATRISHA AND FRIENDS
Original black & white brush and ink drawings best described as a blend of humour and horror, inspired by pulp-era illustrations and retro comic books. The exhibition commemorates the publication of a new hardcover book of Naylor's work, Batrisha and the Creepy Caretaker.
The Gatehouse (Ballarat New Cemetery)
1201 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 3 JUL RACHEL KING: TERRAIN
explore figurative abstraction, the natural environment and markers of time & place. The new paintings in Terrain are born from real places, objects & natural forms in the Goldfields region and sit just on the edge of recognition.
Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat
40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 7 AUG LIONEL’S PLACE
Lionel Lindsay, a member of the famous Lindsay family of artists from Creswick, honed his skills in etching and wood engraving so finely that by 1927 he was hailed as the most internationally successful Australian printmaker of all time. Lionel’s Place features more than 140 of his etchings, wood engravings and watercolours. These works are rich in visual texture, depicting scenes from abroad and close to home, exotic and domestic animals & birds, and the lushness of gardens, floral abundance and portraiture. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 28 AUG TREVOR SMITH: A FANCIFUL FEAST
South Australian textile artist Trevor Smith's quirky and inventive crochet sculptures stem from his interest in costume, characters, fashion, culture and history and push the boundaries of crochet in a move from functional items to creative artworks. The Art Gallery of Ballarat commissioned Smith to respond to the Lindsay family collection and Sitting Room. This body of work reflects on the era when the Lindsay family were living in Creswick through crocheted sculptures including food, flowers, dolls and other everyday objects. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 28 AUG FROM THE COLLECTION - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Australiana Research Collection holds many treasures, including children’s books from the late Victorian era to the early twentieth century. This display includes books by pioneering Australian women writers Mary Grant Bruce, Ethel Turner and Emily Brodie, and illustrated books including Annie Rentoul and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s The Little Green Road to Fairy Land and Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding.
Eureka Centre Ballarat
UNTIL 18 SEP MONOCHROME
Monochrome highlights the subtleties of shape, mark, form and texture in ceramics and paintings from the Art Gallery of Ballarat collection. The exhibition looks beyond colour and considers what happens when colour is removed from artworks. What makes black and white timeless? How does the absence of colour in artworks affect our way of seeing? Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 25 SEP LIONEL LINDSAY: CRESWICK
While he excelled in black & white art and as a printmaker, Lionel Lindsay was also an outstanding watercolourist, having trained as a young man in Creswick with English artist Miller Marshall. That training is evident in a series of scenes of Creswick he painted while refining his craft. They include views of gold mining as well as the romantic deserted mansion The Ferns. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 16 OCT LIGHT + SHADE: MAX MELDRUM AND HIS FOLLOWERS
The Tonalists were a group of artists who came under the spell of the controversial and charismatic artist and teacher Max Meldrum in the 1920s and 30s. He was adored and reviled in equal measure for teaching his followers that the artist should look beyond its surface appearance of their subject to its tonal variations – the light and shade. The Tonalists' works are identifiable by their ‘misty’ appearance & muted tones. Includes paintings by Max Meldrum, Clarice Beckett, Colin Colahan, Alma Figuerola, Jock Frater, Harry Harrison, Percy Leason and other ‘Meldrumites’.
Trevor Smith A Fanciful Feast Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
UNTIL 18 NOV PAUL E MASON: CLIMATE ANXIETY ARK
Paul E Mason’s sculptures comment on the legacy and continuation of the global colonial project and its contribution to environmental destruction. Paul exploits the language of the museum through meticulously crafted sculptures that take the form of reliquaries and hand-cranked audio automatas and dioramas. These sculptures remind us that colonisation’s impacts are ongoing, as reflected in our everyday lives and in the political and economic climate of the Australian nation and our increasingly globalised world.
Eureka Centre Ballarat
102 Stawell St Sth
1 JUN - 31 AUG UNESCO CREATIVE CITY OF CRAFTS & FOLK ART DISPLAY
This winter visit the UNESCO display highlighting local artists and makers working with textiles and fabric, creating unique and beautiful functional artworks.
Ballarat Visitor Information Centre
Ballarat Town Hall, 225 Sturt St
4 - 26 JUN EMILY VAN DER MOLEN: GATHER & GARDEN
To integrate concepts around human materiality and domesticity Emily has used saved and salvaged materials like fabric scraps, craft supplies and ephemera alongside the more traditionally accepted art medium of paint, challenging the viewer to experience the work on an emotional level and explore that place between nature and nurture.
Old Butchers Shop Gallery
112 Seymour St, Soldiers Hill
6 JUN - 18 JUL YOUNG CREATIVES ON SHOW: MEDIA & IDENTITY
15 local young artists dissect how media shapes our sense of self, opinions, global knowledge and understanding - both harmful and empowering. Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)
11 JUN - 10 JUL 13 MOONS: HONOUR A WOMAN
An exhibition of mixed media artworks made by older women, honouring women they admire, know or have lost. Art Space Ballarat 14 Lydiard St Nth
20 JUN - 31 JUL SHAC & CO.
SHAC (Soldiers Hill Artist Collective) artists will collaborate with an artist of their choice to produce diverse and thought provoking works that reflect individual themes. Mercure Ballarat 613 Main Rd
Created during a time of the worldwide pandemic and escalating climate crisis, Melissa Proposch’s imagined haunted memories, dreams and associations come together in a series of works and exploration of the fear of the unknown and unseen threat. A conceptual map of the artist’s haunted house and place where her personal ghosts dwell, here Proposch crafts an offering - an invitation to come and convene with her in a form of parallel play. Post Office Gallery Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St
2 - 31 JUL DRAGAN SIMIC: BALLARAT HILLS
International artist Dragan Simic, now based in Ballarat, explores in his paintings figurative abstraction, the environment and markers of time and place. With his colours one can experience a beautiful way to calm the mind and inspire creativity and love.
Old Butchers Shop Gallery
112 Seymour St, Soldiers Hill
3 - 31 JUL AESOP'S FABLES
A series of illustrations by Imogen Kolbe, inspired by Aesop's Fables. This is Imogen's second exhibition at The Gatehouse, after an almost sold out show last year.
The Gatehouse (Ballarat New Cemetery)
1201 Lydiard St Nth
7 JUL - 14 AUG MINAAL LAWN: OBJECTS OF WORSHIP (HOMAGE TO MRINALINI)
Indian-Australian artist Minaal Lawn makes intimate ceramic objects that celebrate both her Indian heritage and her Australian upbringing. This exhibition creates an abstracted place of worship, with revered contemporary Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1945—2015) as its inspiration.
Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat
40 Lydiard St Nth
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COMMUNITY ART PATHWAYS
Highlighting local artists and makers in the Ballarat region.
Art Space Ballarat 14 Lydiard St Nth Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)
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21 JUL - 6 SEP MIN CHIANG: WATER IS THE DRIVING FORCE OF ALL NATURE
A series of vibrant acrylic paintings inspired by our precious natural resource, water. Unicorn Lane off 133 Sturt St (viewing 24/7)
23 JUL - 21 AUG PETER SWADDLE: WHERE THE RIVERS RUN
Peter Swaddle creates a series of abstract paintings and prints that are all interconnected by the river. Art Space Ballarat 14 Lydiard St Nth
1 AUG - 11 SEP IAN KEMP: NEVERLASTING
The images in this collection embody a central theme in much of Ian Kemp’s work, the transience of human life. The artist embraces nature as a metaphor for this concept. Seasons, the life span of a flower, the tangled confusion of nature running wild and untamed, are all expressed in his images. Mercure Ballarat 613 Main Rd
5 - 26 AUG BENCHMARK22: VISUAL ARTS UNDERGRADUATES
Works by Federation University’s Arts Academy Visual Arts’ undergraduate students, showcasing a rich mix of contemporary approaches completed individually and collaboratively across diverse studio areas. Students not only illustrate the breadth of creative skill but also reveal complex concepts and ideas that underpin a broad range of visual approaches, interpretations and styles.
Post Office Gallery
Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St
6 - 28 AUG CECILE MICHEL: OUTLINED
Fascinated by the science of hermeneutics – the study of perception and interpretation – Cecile has created a fun collection of pencil drawings where each piece contains a second meaning with various levels of subtlety. Outlined aims at engaging the observer into exploring their own understanding of this double-meaning, and starting conversations to compare ideas and feelings.
Old Butchers Shop Gallery
112 Seymour St, Soldiers Hill
7 AUG - 4 SEP A TOUCH OF RED
Local artists & printmakers Denise Adams, Susan Clarke & Jeanette Rankin have come together to create A Touch of Red. These are a selection of 24 diverse lino print works that explore their individuality and love of the printmaking process, through the challenge of a limited palette with a touch of red.
The Gatehouse (Ballarat New Cemetery)
1201 Lydiard St Nth
13 AUG - 16 OCT GIFTED: THE GRAEME WILLIAMS DONATION
In 2020, Melbourne architect Dr Graeme Williams OAM gave a substantial part of his personal art collection, accumulated over 40 years, to the Art Gallery of Ballarat. His generous donation of 49 works by some of Australia’s best artists, made in memory of his two children, is one of the largest gifts to the Gallery in the last 30 years. Includes works by Sidney Nolan, Brett Whiteley, Fred Williams, Julia Ciccarone,
John Wolseley, Inge King, Rick Amor, Russell Drysdale, John Olsen and John Brack. Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard St Nth
18 AUG - 25 SEP TAMEKA HAGUE & KATHRYN DRUM: ELEMENTALS
Tameka Hague and Kathryn Drum both recognise the importance of using, reusing or repurposing materials, making connections to place and history by creating works that are presented both simply and with humour. Hague uses foraged clay and minerals while Drum works primarily with frusted metal, wood and clay. Both work with found materials and use hand-building techniques to create sculptures and hanging objects.
Backspace - Art Gallery of Ballarat
40 Lydiard St Nth
ONGOING MINI-POP-UP EXHIBITIONS
We have converted our fitting rooms into mini-pop-up exhibition spaces. They are small, intimate spaces that are alive with activity! They are intended to be used in creative and exciting ways. The different ways in which artists have already constructed meaningful windows into their unique experiences is inspiring. Each month a new exhibition opens up. You never know what you will find!
Femxle Experience Art Rebellion
57 Bridge Mall
ONGOING ACCENT EXHIBITION SPACE
Accent Framing & Fine Art have created a dedicated space to showcase the talent of local artists. A new exhibition begins on the last Saturday of each month.
Accent Framing & Fine Art
421 Sturt St
NOW ONLINE GRADFOTO 2021
Ballarat International Foto Biennale presents an online exhibition for finalists of the GradFoto 2021 award. Celebrate the artistic excellence of graduating photographic students from Australian tertiary institutions.
