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Wangaratta Art Gallery

Locality: Wangaratta, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5722 0865

Address: 56 Ovens Street 3677 Wangaratta, VIC, Australia

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

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23.01.2022 This Sunday we invite you to come along and be part of our Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award finalists Q&A event. Clare McCracken, featured finalist for 2021 is a mixed-media conceptual artist working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Peoples, a part of the federation of the Kulin Nations. Her practice includes large-scale immersive installations, fine art objects and contemporary performance works. She often works site-responsively, across disciplines and collabo...ratively with other artists to create works that interrogate contemporary social, political and environmental issues from an Australian perspective. Her most recent body of work has focused on the way that mobile technologies such as the car, aeroplane, ship and Internet shape the way we perceive and inhabit space. Come along and hear more from Clare and her involvement in this years #wcta2021 Bookings essential via website. Sunday June 20, 10.30am. https://www.wangarattaartgallery.com.au//WCTA-Finalist-Art

22.01.2022 Highly Commended - Ruth Amery Award ( non acquisitive) Evangeline Cachinero with her work, ‘Pseudologia Fantastica’... 2020 wool, cotton, acrylic on canvas 274 x 152 x 3cm Pseudologia Fantastica is an embroidered painting created in 2020 during lockdowns. It took hundreds of hours and its creation was an act of solace during a chaotic time. The title references the rich landscape of fantastical lies or stories we tell ourselves in order to overcome trying times and how these delusional states can sometimes help. The piece was created by staining canvas with acrylic inks in a loose manner, then using the lines created as guides for the embroidery. It was a process of listening to the artwork and following its guidance. Congratulations Evangeline Well deserved ! #wcta2021 #wangarattacontemporarytextileaward #ruthameryaward #finalists2021 #wangarattatextilecity

20.01.2022 Do you subscribe to our regular updates ? Here's our latest, covering our collection digitisation project, The Friends Student Art Award opportunity and much more ! https://mailchi.mp/21712b45718a/whats-on-wag-may-2501542

19.01.2022 Become part of a vibrant group of people who share a passion about arts, culture, heritage and events within the Rural City of Wangaratta. Actively participate ...in shaping the future that makes the Rural City of Wangaratta such a wonderful place to be in now and for the future. Our ACHAC (Arts, Culture & Heritage Advisory Committee) is looking for people with skills in tourism development, business, arts, culture, heritage, events management and events promotion and loads of enthusiasm and ideas around how to make Wangaratta great. Nominations have been extended and now close on Friday 27th November 2020. Register here: https://www.wangaratta.vic.gov.au//co/advisory-committees

19.01.2022 Today we are OPEN ! Our team is delighted to welcome you back. This week things will look a little different as we will be processing our very own collection with assistance from the Creative Victoria Regional Digitisation Roadshow project. ... We are inviting the public to join us and witness our visiting Conservator, Sherryn Vardy and our professional photographer Erin Davis-Hartwig. Drop in a see some of our collection gems , we’d love to see you !

19.01.2022 From 22 September 24 October the Rural City of Wangaratta’s Election Period Policy is in place. This means that for all social media accounts operated by Council, including this account, posting a notice during the election period cannot be responded to, or published, should the posting be political in nature. Council’s social media sites will be monitored for electioneering material and any inappropriate posts will be removed, as soon as practicable. Throughout this period all posts published on this page are Certified by the Chief Executive Officer in accordance with section 55D of the Local Government Act 1989.

16.01.2022 AND .. the winner of the 2021 Wangaratta biennial Contemporary Textile Award is artist Gillian Bencke, with her work, Cope 2020/21 wool, silk, cotton, sequins, beads, brass 130 x 253 x 0.1cm.... Bencke created Cope from three black dresses that were unpicked and reworked into the shape of a cope, a liturgical garment traditionally highly embroidered with the stories of Christ. In this piece Bencke has stitched her own story, with enduring symbols of power, money, drugs and weapons, along with the detritus of modern life: the comforts and progress with the inevitable waste. The embroidered beast at the centre is surrounded by stitched line drawings of belongings no longer in use; rubbish collecting at the edges. Congratulations to Gillian #wangarattacontemporarytextileaward #wcta2021

14.01.2022 Today we announce the biennial 2021 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Acquisitive Award. We also celebrate the finalists who are celebrated in the exhibition. Congratulations to all the artists. As many of you cannot join us today, we look forward to seeing you all soon enjoying your exhibition in person stay tuned ... #wcta2021 #wangarattatextilecity #finalists2021

14.01.2022 Congratulations to all of the finalists of the 2021 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award. Today everyone was celebrated, such a strong presentation of the current state of play for contemporary textile art practice from across Australia. Thank you to all who helped and supported the day after such a difficult few weeks of constant change in restrictions. ... Thankyou Rural City of Wangaratta, our Mayor Dean Rees, Cr Dave Fuller, our judge Hannah Presley, all the members of the Amery Family, and most importantly, the artists ! #finalists2021 #wangarattacontemporarytextileaward #wcta2021 Photography courtesy of Marc Bongers

12.01.2022 #AskACurator Q:Do you think a curator can manipulate the meaning of an artwork by the way they display the work? A:Absolutely yes! The curator can manipulate the meaning of the artwork.... This can occur through a number of ways: through the artwork or absence of artwork that gets placed next to it, by the colour of the wall behind the work, by the type of lighting that is used, general wall washes versus dramatic spotting, use of shadows, dark rooms versus light filled rooms the addition of text panels, written essays in catalogues position in the gallery the selection or groupings of artist’s in the exhibiton theme or group show. Inaccurate representation by a curator can be avoided by the curator ensuring that they have researched the artist and their practice, selected the artwork to be included in the exhibition so that it is complementary to artist’s motivations and enhances artists intention This can be delivered in obvious ways, or a more subliminal ways. Ultimately careful decision making, a good eye for selection and research is required, to ensure complimentary inclusion of an artwork. Image: Install view, POP, Reflections on popular culture, 2018. #wangarattaartgallery #AskACuratorDay2020

12.01.2022 This story is why it’s so great to be open again Today we had a very special visit from past Friends of the Gallery members, Des and Wilma Chick, who were married in the gallery building when it was the Presbyterian church building, exactly 67 years ago on the 21st November 1953 They remember entering through the Bell Tower on their wedding day, and we think this photo paints a picture of how it all worked out ... Des was also thrilled to see the Lorna Chick, ‘Eagles Rise’ painting, which is currently on display as part of the collection digitisation project. Lorna was Des’s Aunt and they were able pick out details in the painting of orchards belonging to locals from his childhood. Des and Wilma were very glad we were open and that they were able to visit today. Happy anniversary Des and Wilma! These are stories we love to hear #wangarattaartgallery #togetherwangcan

10.01.2022 Q: Who is your favourite curator? We were asked who our favourite curator might be? We have so many we have posted our answer to this over multiple posts, ....so to continue after Judith Ryan,... We are pretty interested in Luke Scholes, Luke is a Wangaratta boy who is now the Curator of Aboriginal Art at (MAGNT). Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Luke has curated some ground breaking exhibitions where his curatorial work consists of collaborating with, and learning from, Indigenous people. This was particularly apparent with MAGNT’s recent exhibition (2018) Tjungunutja: from having come together, where Scholes co-curated a display of early Papunya paintings with five Aboriginal custodians and artists. Check out more here https://www.magnt.net.au/tjungunutja

08.01.2022 We are very excited to announce that Wangaratta Art Gallery will re-open to the public as from tomorrow, Thursday November 12. Our normal open hours immediately return and we are ready to welcome you back ! We are open, Tuesdays- Sunday 10am 4pm, closed public holidays and during exhibition installs.... There’s heaps happening behind the doors and we can now invite you to come in and see firsthand. We are currently sharing a ‘behind the scenes’ experience of the Wangaratta Art Gallery Digitisation Project. We are bringing out many gems that you may never have seen before, so be sure to drop in. We also want to ensure our visitors that the safety of our visitors and staff are a priority, we have a COVID safe plan in place and are following all of the DHHS guidelines. Can’t wait to see you soon.

05.01.2022 #AskACurator Q: How would you describe your curatorial style ? A: Gallery Director, Simone Nolan responded by describing her curatorial style as aesthetically sparse, considered, and an aversion to diagonal lines, ... Simone reflects on the limitations of a small regional gallery where the curatorial tasks are often shared amongst a number of roles, but she also feels certain that the team at Wang Art Gallery do pretty well and deliver a high standard of exhibitions. ‘Being a small regional gallery we don’t have the luxury of ‘deep time’ that well curated exhibitions demand, especially when it comes to research and developing those very important relationships with the artists we represent. The relationship is one of honouring their work and performing a delicate dance of building trust and allowing the artworks to speak as intended, she adds, luckily our artists are very forgiving We are proud of our small team, we work tightly together and often have a united vision when developing exhibitions, we get each other excited by new ideas and continue to contribute to see those exhibitions ideas become a reality. Importantly, we challenge each other on the design and planning of our exhibitions. Ultimately we love what we do and do the best with what have which happens to be a highly skilled and adaptable team’ Image: install view, The Hassall Collection, 2018. #AskACuratorDay #wangarattaartgallery #curatorial

01.01.2022 There’s still time to register. Join our Friends committee to hear from Luke Scholes and his significant curatorial career since his school days at Wangaratta High School