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TarraWarra Museum of Art

Locality: Healesville, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5957 3100

Address: 313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd 3777 Healesville, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.twma.com.au

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25.01.2022 At its heart, this exhibition is a love song and a lament for country; a fantastical alchemy of the elemental forces of earth, water, fire and air. 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce' is on now, until 8 March 2021. Find out more: https://bit.ly/2MFOJae Installation view, 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce', TarraWarra Museum of Art. Videography: NON Studio.

25.01.2022 'Looking Glass' curator, Hetti Perkins, will join Richard Watts on Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM at 10.30am this morning. Listen live via https://www.rrr.org.au/ and hear more about an exhibition she describes as ‘both a love song and a lament for Country’, ahead of it opening at TarraWarra Museum of Art this Saturday 28 November. Hetti is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon curator, writer, advisor and presenter with 30 years of national and international experience working with Aboriginal... and Torres Strait Islander artists. Photo: Hetti Perkins at the opening of ‘Earth and Sky’ at TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2015. #tarrawarrama #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #hettiperkins #lookingglassexhibition #3rrrfm

23.01.2022 Just announced | The TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters will feature 24 artists from across the country making new works that explore ideas of slowness, deceleration, drift and the elasticity of time. Against today’s cult of speed with the relentless hum of its 24/7 communications, the artworks in the Biennial will mark a different sort of time one which connects with the vastness and intricacy of geological and cosmological cycles, seasonal rhythms, interconnecte...d ecologies, and ancient knowledge systems. Curated by Nina Miall, the TarraWarra Biennial 2021 will showcase works by: Robert Andrew, Jeremy Bakker, Lucy Bleach, Lauren Brincat, Louisa Bufardeci, Sundari Carmody, Christian Capurro, Jacobus Capone, Daniel Crooks, Megan Cope, George Egerton-Warburton, Nicole Foreshew and Phyllis Thomas, Caitlin Franzmann, James Geurts, Michaela Gleave, Jonathan Jones with Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO, Nogirra Marawili, Brian Martin, Raquel Ormella, Mandy Quadrio, Yasmin Smith, Grant Stevens, and Oliver Wagner. Slow Moving Waters is on display at TarraWarra Museum of Art from 27 March 11 July 2021. Supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria and Arts Queensland. Artwork: Jacobus Capone, ‘Sincerity and Symbiosis’ 2019 (video still detail), synchronised 3-channel HD video with sound, video duration 00:36:00, Courtesy of the artist and Moore Contemporary, Perth. #tarrawarrama #visityarravalley #findyourself #yourhappyspace #visitmelbourne #visitvictoria #broadsheetmelb #timeoutmelbourne #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #contemporaryart #tarrawarrabiennial #slowmovingwaters

22.01.2022 It’s been a long time coming, but install is well and truly underway for Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce! We can’t wait to reveal the full exhibition when we reopen next Saturday 28 November, including this spectacular new work by Yhonnie Scarce, 'Cloud Chamber', 2020. Featuring one thousand glass yams cascading from above, the work is an evocation of the nuclear test of the 'Breakaway' bomb in Maralinga, which sent radioactive clouds across the land of Aborigin...al people living in the area. Looking Glass runs from 28 November 8 March, tickets now on sale via twma.com.au. Photo: Install of Yhonnie Scarce’s 'Cloud Chamber', 2020. Courtesy of the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne. #tarrawarrama #visityarravalley #findyourself #yourhappyspace #visitmelbourne #visitvictoria #broadsheetmelb #timeoutmelbourne #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #yhonniescarce #lookingglassexhibition #ikongallery #glass #behindthescenes #contemporaryart

20.01.2022 Using glass bush plums, bananas, and yams as a medium, Yhonnie Scarce makes art that testifies to the trauma enacted on Aboriginal people and communities. ''Nucleus' arranges glass bush plums on top of tables, each pocked with apertures and openings, topped by umbilical-cord-like stems. Some of these holes are faintly burnished black, as if they had imploded outwards, their bodies wrinkled with wound-like crevasses.' Declan Fry, The Saturday Paper 'Looking Glass: Judy Wats...on and Yhonnie Scarce' is on now until 8 March 2021. To book your visit, click here: https://bit.ly/2MFOJae Yhonnie Scarce, 'Nucleus (U235)', 2020, hand blown glass, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne. Film still: NON Studio.

13.01.2022 Our free DIY Summer Sketching packs will be available at the front desk from this Saturday 16 January until Sunday 31 January. Each pack contains everything you’ll need for a self-guided drawing session on the Museum’s grounds, including drawing materials and our new DIY Summer Sketching Guide, developed by talented Yarra Valley artists Elizabeth Haigh and Margaret McLoughlin. This program is self-guided with no bookings required. Happy sketching! Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3bhO5tQ

13.01.2022 Behind the scenes with artist Yhonnie Scarce. As part of her research for our upcoming exhibition ‘Looking Glass’, earlier this year Scarce undertook a residency in the UK with Ikon Gallery. She studied materials held in archives at the University of Birmingham, including documents related to the scientific research of German physicists Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, which led to the development of the atom bomb. Alongside her research, Scarce began making new work at the Un...iversity of Wolverhampton, home to one of the UK’s largest glassblowing facilities, where she is pictured here. Born in Woomera, South Australia, Scarce belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Working with glass, she explores the political nature and aesthetic qualities of the material in particular the crystallisation of desert sand as a result of British nuclear tests on her homeland during 1956-63. See more of Scarce’s work in ‘Looking Glass’, opening 28 November and curated by Hetti Perkins. Tickets now on sale via https://buff.ly/36LdpnT. Presented in partnership with Ikon, with the support of The Balnaves Foundation and NETS Victoria. Photo courtesy of Ikon. #tarrawarrama #visityarravalley #findyourself #yourhappyspace #visitmelbourne #visitvictoria #broadsheetmelb #timeoutmelbourne #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #yhonniescarce #lookingglassexhibition #ikongallery #glass #glassblowing #behindthescenes #contemporaryart

13.01.2022 This year’s NAIDOC Week theme, ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’, recognises the continuing spiritual and cultural connections that First Nations people have with this continent, through a history that dates back some 65,000 years. Reflecting on this theme, we thought of this work from our collection by Danie Mellor, an artist of Aboriginal and European ancestry who maintains strong links with his mother’s Country on the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland. The title of ...this painting, ‘Bayi Dambun Bala Mila’, refers to Bayi Dambun, a legendary spirit of the rainforest who features in ancient dreaming stories and cosmologies of the indigenous peoples of north Queensland. As the artist explains, ‘The jawun, or bicornial baskets, being placed by one of the figures in the image were used as important vessels in ceremony. In some cases these were painted with ochre designs, and used as funerary baskets for the remains of important members of the community’. The large scale of the work immerses the viewer within a monumental rainforest canopy of sprawling fig trees, an evocative space in which we silently bear witness to the enactment of a sacred ritual revolving around the cycle of life and death, and observe the importance of connection with the landscape and nature. Artwork: Danie Mellor, ‘Bayi Dambun Bala Mila’ 2014, mixed media on paper mounted onto aluminium and mdf, 9 panels, each 100 x 120 cm; overall: 300 x 360 cm, TarraWarra Museum of Art collection, Purchased 2014. #tarrawarrama #tarrawarraathome #collectionsnapshot #museumathome #museumfromhome #togetherathome #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #daniemellor

13.01.2022 A sorely missed view. Our grounds are looking beautiful and are ready for your next visit. TarraWarra and the wide expanses of the Yarra Valley are the perfect place to recharge and connect with nature and art, and after 252 days of closure we’re delighted to be welcoming you back. Pre-book your tickets to ‘Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce’ here: https://bit.ly/2KNKQiF #lookingglassexhibition

13.01.2022 TarraWarra Museum of Art reopens today with ‘Looking Glass’, an exhibition of works from two of Australia’s most lyrical and poignant artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce. The seductive beauty of Watson’s and Scarce's works belies their powerful message about the sustained campaign of the destruction of Country, culture and community in Aboriginal Australiatheir work is a kind of 'tender trap'. With the devastating evidence of climate change in Australia, manifest in apoc...alyptic wildfires and storms, this exhibition delivers an urgent message. - curator Hetti Perkins. To book your visit this weekend, click here: https://bit.ly/2KNKQiF We look forward to welcoming you back! #lookingglassexhibition (l-r) Judy Watson, 'standing stone with spines' 2020; Yhonnie Scarce, 'Cloud Chamber' 2020 (detail); Judy Watson, 'standing stone, grevillea' 2020, installation view, 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce', TarraWarra Museum of Art. Photo: Andrew Curtis.

09.01.2022 Only three more sleeps until our doors reopen with 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce'! Our expansive grounds, and Clement Meadmore's fittingly-titled 'Awakening', are waiting for you! Pre-book your tickets by heading to https://buff.ly/3m5QVVb. Artwork: Clement Meadmore, 'Awakening' 1968, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gift Program by the Julliard Group 2012, TarraWarra Museum of Art collection, Copyright Meadmore Sculptures, LLC/VGA, Licensed by Viscopy 2020. #tarrawarrama #visityarravalley #findyourself #yourhappyspace #visitmelbourne #visitvictoria #broadsheetmelb #timeoutmelbourne #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #judywatson #yhonniescarce #lookingglassexhibition #clementmeadmore

09.01.2022 We’re delighted to let you know that TarraWarra Museum of Art will reopen on Saturday 28 November 2020 with our major summer exhibition 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce'. Our reopening comes with a few new measures including timed ticketing, capacity limits and increased cleaning regimes, as outlined in the Government’s roadmap to recovery. Over the coming months, we will continue to provide online experiences of our collection and exhibitions as well as a ca...lendar of virtual and in-person public programs. Bookings are now open for general admission tickets. To help us manage capacity, we encourage you to pre-book your timed-entry tickets ahead of your visit by heading to https://www.twma.com.au/tickets/. Our Museum and the wide expanses of the Yarra Valley are the perfect place to recharge and connect with nature and art, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone back! Image: TarraWarra Museum of Art, Photo: Rob Blackburn, Courtesy Kate Seddon Landscape Design. #tarrawarrama #visityarravalley #findyourself #yourhappyspace #visitmelbourne #visitvictoria #broadsheetmelb #timeoutmelbourne #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #australianart #judywatson #yhonniescarce #lookingglassexhibition

09.01.2022 Have you got your 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce' catalogue? Filled with fascinating insights into the research, motivations and creative processes which drive Watson and Scarce's respective practices, and richly illustrated with photographs of all the works in the exhibition. Pick one up in-store, or click for product details. Co-published by TarraWarra Museum of Art and NETS Victoria to accompany the exhibition 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce'.

06.01.2022 Lunchtime listening // Artist Judy Watson recently spoke with ABC Radio National's The Art Show to discuss her new body of work created for Looking Glass. Through paintings, sculpture and video, Watson investigates our relationship to ancient sites, drawing viewers in with mesmerising works of art that ask us to confront Australia's brutal colonial history. Listen via https://buff.ly/35MzbbF. Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce opens 28 November at TarraWarra Museum... of Art, tickets now on sale. Photo: Jo-Anne Driessens.

05.01.2022 Making Mondays: Putting it all together! Today's Making Mondays activity has been inspired by the work of one of Australia’s most significant twentieth-century sculptors, Robert Klippel (1920-2001). This tireless tinkerer experimented with found materials and objects to create his three-dimensional assemblages or ‘junk sculptures’. Channel your inner Klippel and go looking around your home for small plastic, wood, and metal objects that you can incorporate into an assembl...age sculpture of your very own. You can look in your recycling bin or in the junk drawer in your kitchen. Avoid any objects that are very pointy or sharp. Next, you’ll need to search for materials that can be used to bind or tether your objects together: string, wool, tape, elastic bands, thin wire, blu-tac, plasticine, play dough anything besides glue! Choose a few objects from your collection and begin to join them together. What kinds of different techniques can you think of to bind objects together? Try twisting, tying, poking, binding or wrapping. Continue to connect your objects in experimental ways. You can make your assemblage sculpture as small or large as you like. Will your sculpture ‘hug the ground’ and grow outward, or will it grow upward, reaching toward the sky? Once you’ve completed your sculpture take a picture of it in a special place inside or outside of your home. You can choose to display your sculpture, or break it down and return all of the materials and objects to where you found them. Share your creations with us using @tarrawarrama or #tarrawarraathome! #tarrawarrama #tarrawarraathome #artplaceideas #arteducation #museumeducation #MuseumAtHome #MuseumFromHome #VicGalleriesFromHome #arteveryday #kidsartactivities #makingmondays #robertklippel #reuse #recycle #assemblage #sculpture

02.01.2022 It's not too late to contribute to Jasphy Zheng's ‘Stories from the Room’, a participatory work that collects personal writings about the shared experience of living through a global pandemic. How has your life changed since lockdown was lifted? What was the first thing you did? Who did you visit? Send us your letters, reflections, journals, poems or memos via email to [email protected] or post to PO Box 310, Healesville VIC 3777. ... Through these collective acts, Zheng hopes to generate a sense of community and emotional connection, regardless of distance. Once TarraWarra Museum of Art reopens on Saturday 28 November, a changing selection of the writings will be assembled for public viewing. For further details, head to https://www.twma.com.au//art-as-essential-activity-an-inq/. ‘Stories from the Room’ is the first project to be launched as part of ‘Art as essential activity: an inquiry’, curated by Biljana Ciric and organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art. #storiesfromtheroom #jasphyzheng #artasessentialactivity #biljanaciric #tarrawarrama #tarrawarraathome #museumathome #museumfromhome #togetherathome #yarravalley #healesville #artplaceideas #writing #archive #story #visitvictoria #melbourne