Tony Hanning: Into the light
Technically adventurous and not anchored in a particular narrow “signature style,” Hanning emerges from this exhibition that covers forty years of his work as primarily a storyteller—albeit he tells stories that frequently lack a linear narrative. What is apparent in this exhibition is that Hanning is very much a Gippsland product; born, raised, and still […]
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Annemieke Mein: A Life’s Work
Mein began creating “textile pictures” in 1977, applying an almost forensic level of detail to her exploration of the natural world. She eschewed the “quintessential” faunal imagery, preferring to focus on wetland and coastal species, birds, invertebrates, and the close observation of their diverse habitats. “I like to portray those overlooked creatures that people don’t […]
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John Wolseley: The Quiet Conservationist & Ann Greenwood: Following Threads
When John Wolseley arrived in Australia in 1976, he was already a well-trained and well-established thirty-eight-year-old English painter and printmaker with numerous exhibitions to his credit. He had trained at art schools in London, Byam Shaw and the St Martin’s, then worked with S.W. Hayter in Paris, and later at the Birgit Skiöld’s print workshop […]
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Fragile Earth: Extinction
Curators Louisa Waters and Melanie Caple have chosen “extinction” as the theme for this inaugural iteration of Fragile Earth in response to the particular concerns of local artists. Especially, they are responding to the actions taken by a group of Gippsland-based artists led by Dawn Stubbs, who have made and exhibited art under the collective name CARE: […]
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Heather Shimmen
Heather Shimmen weaves the historical and the utopian together in a mythic landscape of the mind.
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IMAGINE
The new Gippsland Art Gallery’s inaugural show ‘Imagine’ filters earth’s history through the human imagination.
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