ARTS GUIDE

Exhibitions to see in February + March

Nature: Her Fury and Beauty

Expect floods, droughts, fire, fog, rainbows, sunrises and sunsets featured across landscapes, sport, portraits and news photos. Naturally, there are plenty of sunrises and sunsets, but also a good number of photos a bit out of the box, like Elizabeth St, Melbourne, as a raging torrent during the 1972 floods, kids playing football in the rain, a cloud-seeding aircraft in an attempt to end a drought and a farmer silhouetted by a stormy sky, hoping for rain.

The exhibition will run until 2 April at Focal Point Darkroom & Gallery, North Geelong.

Pink Ember Studio presents Thas Mento Illness Luv

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58, on loan from the Natural History Museum in London, features exceptional images which capture fascinating animal behaviour, spectacular species and the breathtaking diversity of the natural world. Using photography’s unique emotive power to engage and inspire audiences, the images shine a light on stories and species around the world and encourage a future of advocating for the planet.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58 is on show now until 7 May at National Wool Museum, Geelong.

Rachel Turner: Walk This Way

Rachel Turner’s art practice is about seeing the good in the world. Infusing local scenes with unexpected colour and vibrancy, Walk This Way focuses on Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Country and the stunning scenes you pass by each day in your busy lives. Turner’s landscapes are about appreciation of the country she is blessed to live on. Being content in her place in the world and making the most of where she’s at in her life are key themes that appear in all of Turner’s work.

See Rachel Turner: Walk This Way at Unicorn Lane, Ballarat Central until 28 February.

Thas Mento Illness Luv is a group show exploring their relationship to memes, meme culture and what memes mean to them. Showcasing a body of work in various mediums that reflects on their experiences working in a non-for-profit, queer focused studio and the community it has built, the artists in this show express their unique relationship to memes: finding yourself in other people’s messed up jokes, making light of suffering through shared culture, being in on the joke, being seen and witnessed.

See Thas Mento Illness Luv at Platform Arts, Geelong until 24 February.

2023 Future Creatives

In this inaugural exhibition, Geelong Gallery celebrates the achievements and creative practices of young emerging artists living in Geelong and the surrounding region who completed their Victorian Certificate of Education in 2022. The Future Creatives exhibition showcases young peoples’ creative talents in art and design and provides a valuable opportunity to support the professional development of career pathways and future tertiary studies in art and design.

See it for free at the Geelong Gallery until 13 March.

Kir Larwill: Missing You Already

Missing You Already is Boom Gallery’s new exhibition featuring works by Castlemainebased printmaker and painter Kir Larwill. “The work I make is grounded in the beauty and meaning that can be found in the everyday, in the mundane and the utilitarian, and in the unremarkable corners of home. It is an exploration of household objects and familiar surrounds, and of the humour, weight and significance of ordinary things.”

Kir Larwill’s exhibition runs until 19 February at Boom Gallery in Newtown.

Eliza-Jane Gilchrist: Strange Garden

In Strange Garden , Castlemaine-based artist Eliza-Jane Gilchrist investigates the natural world inspired by shapes and patterns found in seedpods, bones, and shells. Her cardboard sculptures show the strangeness and wonder of the microscopic or the minute, drawing attention to the repetitive patterns that build life and complexity in the natural world.

Strange Garden is on show at ArtHouse at RACV Goldfields Resort, Creswick until 26 February.

Find Your Wings: Chillout Festival 2023

Presented as part of ChillOut Festival, Find Your Wings is a journey into Queer art from across regional Victoria celebrating the creative spirit through diverse visual language at Radius Art. An exhibition launch party will be held Friday 10 March at 5pm with entry by donation and a drink on arrival.

The exhibition will be on display for free from 3 March - 26 March at Radius Art Gallery Hepburn.

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS

BLACK MIDI - JEN CLOHER - KUCKA

CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS

BIG SCARY - LOODS - DAINE - RONA.

AGUNG MANGO - ALLYSHA JOY

OUR CARLSON - AYEBATONYE

MIRASIA - RUBY GILL - SUNFRUITS

GENA ROSE BRUCE - KOMANG

SETWUN - DELIVERY - CHEF CHUNG

DR SURE ’S UNUSUAL PRACTICE

WORKHORSE - WAY DYNAMIC

WILDFIRE MANWURRK

TAMARA & THE DREAMS

THE BLOODY NORAHS + MORE