Spring Exhibition Launch
Sep 2, 2023
Image: Aunty Cheryl Penrith, Hand Me Down, Style Me Up 2023. Image: Jack of Hearts Photography
About
When: Saturday 2nd September, 4pm - 6pm
Cost: Free. Bookings essential
Where: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Join us at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery for the launch of our Spring Exhibition Program – a series of five exhibitions exploring issues of sustainability and the environment.
Our environmental suite showcases, Hand Me Down, Style Me Up - an exhibition curated by Wiradjuri Elder, Aunty Cheryl Penrith that focuses on our relationship to clothes and sustainable fashion,
On Message – Environmental Prints and Posters 1978 – 2023 traces 45 years of Australian artists dedicated to print and poster- making focusing on environmental activism. Includes works from the National Gallery of Australia, WWAG collection, Blacktown arts and recent artist works.
In Dissonant Terrain, Yandell Walton presents a creative outcome from her recent residency in the Amazon rainforest. It explores the transformation and threat faced by this important natural environment from human activity including deforestation.
In the Australian Museum touring exhibition Capturing Nature, we travel back to a time to the 19th century when photography was revolutionising science, art and society and our appreciation of the natural world.
Launching on the Wollundry Lagoon is Turtle Island by environmental artist Hayden Fowler. The work will be a focal point for conversations on how the environment can be supported to rewild.
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Official Civic Welcome: Cnr Dallas Tout, Mayor City of Wagga Wagga
Guest Speaker: Simeran Maxwell, Associate Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia.
Poetry and Print Portfolio Launch: Vickie Burkinshaw, President of Friends of Gallery, WWAG
CASP Program - Fundraiser
Poetry in Print brought together a local poet, Lachlan Brown, together with 4 local established printmakers, Craig Couzens, Arthur Wicks, Juanita McLauchlan, and Christina Reid to create a folio of work with a theme of 'The Environment'. With this project we brought poetry and printmaking together as a public art piece to engage locals and the broader public with the idea of artists from different art forms working together to create something special.
The result of this collaboration was a limited-edition folio collection that was auctioned with the proceeds held in trust by the Friends of the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery to use to buy print work from local artists for the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery permanent collection. The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Charles Sturt University each received a copy of the folio. One of the sets was auctioned at the Dining with Art Fundraiser raising over $1000
