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Wollongong Art Gallery

Locality: Wollongong, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4227 8500

Address: Corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets 2500 Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.wollongongartgallery.com

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23.01.2022 Wollongong Art Gallery has invited Stephanie Beaupark to be the takeover host of our Facebook account - in acknowledgement & celebration of NAIDOC WEEK 2020. Stephanie Beaupark is a Ngugi artist-scientist-curator who works with textiles, eco-dyes and studies both traditional and contemporary First Nations artmaking methods. Beaupark utilises her artmaking practice as a mode of communication to decolonise science by reclaiming Indigenous culture and identity as an essential as...pect of scientific research. Her work aims to bring to light the complementary nature of Westernised science with Indigenous knowledge and perspectives as well as promote authentic and non-hierarchical knowledge exchange without tokenism. She communicates scientific and cultural concepts to the public through her art and exhibition curation. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHY_qT4j3KN/

21.01.2022 Hey Gallery friends, lots of great exhibitions and events are happening in the Gallery.... and its all free. Go to our website at http://wollongongartgallery.com/Pages/default-2019.aspx for full details of whats on. Hope to see you soon! Image: Tom Page, Unlabelled coffee with extra milk, acrylic paint on wooden board, 120x80cm

20.01.2022 We still have seats available for our upcoming free artist talk.... Dr Joseph Davis in conversation with Riste Andrievski for Wednesday 2 December 11-12noon. Bookings are essential and limited to 40 guests. To reserve your spot go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dr-joseph-davis-in-conversa

19.01.2022 In acknowledgement & celebration of NAIDOC WEEK 2020, we would like to extend a big thank you to our Facebook host Ngugi artist-scientist-curator Stephanie Beaupark.

17.01.2022 Following in the footsteps of the Art Gallery of NSW in recognition of the birthday (16/12/1882-17/10/1939) of prominent Australian artist Elioth Gruner, we post from WAG's collection "Pastoral landscape, 1920". Lila Lawrence choose this artwork for our People's Choice exhibition in 2006 and wrote the following: "This painting is so homely. I used to live in peaceful places like this.... When I was 8 years old I used to go with my step-Dad, a metal scrapper, on runs from Gunnedah and Curlewis in his red truck to Sydney. We used to pull up and camp on the side of the road, instead of rushin', we would get old fence wire and make up a toaster rack. We would eat saveloys, bread and butter - the good ol' days. I would sit and look how peaceful those cows were. This painting reminds me just of that, it makes me feel lonely and happy all at the same time". (Elioth GRUNER, Pastoral landscape, 1920, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 53.0cm (image) 60.0 x 62.0cm (frame), Collection Wollongong Art Gallery, The George and Nerissa Johnson Memorial Bequest, 1993, 1993.029 ) #wollongongartgallerycollection #TogetherInArt #MuseumsFromHome #eliothgruner

16.01.2022 NIDA Open Workshops at the Gallery These Summer holidays, NIDA Open is back @ Wollongong Art Gallery with NIDA Drama School for grades 36 and 710, running from Mon 18Fri 22 Jan 2021. Spend a week developing performance skills including improvisation, voice and movement, devising, acting and rehearsing scenes. Cost: $575 ($517.50 earlybird, expires 21 Dec) For more information, visit nida.edu.au/summer or call NIDA Open on 1300 450 417. https://www.open.nida.edu.au/courses)

15.01.2022 In case you missed our HERE+NOW Panel Discussion. Check out this video walk-through with Curator Stephanie Beaupark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3X9zvK_1nI&t=33s

14.01.2022 Online bookings are now open for our COVID Safe Summer School Holiday Workshop Program. For all online bookings search ’Eventbrite Wollongong Art Gallery’. These holidays we have some fun workshop themes such as insect printmaking, junk jewellery, urban landscapes, beach scene watercolours and rock pool drawings. Get in quick with your booking, they are sure to fill up fast!

14.01.2022 Our Eventbrite link is now open to book your child into our 2021 ART Smart after School Program Term 1, commencing on Tueday 2 February. Remember we accept Services NSW Creative Kid Vouchers for this program! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-art-smart-after-scho

12.01.2022 Riste Andrievski Pecalba An Industrial Migrant Landscape will be installed next week and open to the publc on 5 December 2020. For full event details for this exhibition go to http://wollongongartgallery.com//Riste-Andrievski-Pecalba- Entry into the Gallery is free. Hope to see you soon!

12.01.2022 Here are our open/closed hours over the Christmas/New Year break........stay safe and we'll see you all at the Gallery in 2021!

11.01.2022 Here is a sneak peak of our Wollongong Art Gallery team installing the ‘Just Not Australian’ touring exhibition, curated by Artspace and developed in partnership with Sydney Festival and Museums & Galleries of NSW, which opens in Gallery One this Saturday, 21 November 2020. #justnotaustralian Museums & Galleries of NSW Artspace Sydney

11.01.2022 The lucky winner of WAG Friends Vespa Raffle was Caitlyn Calleja from Albion Park.

10.01.2022 There are still spots available for our upcoming free Here+Now Panel Discussion on Wednesday 11 November 11am-12noon. This is a curator-led discussion about the exhibition concept and how each artist's work addresses this. Bookings are essential....go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/here-now-panel-discussion-t to reserve your seat!

10.01.2022 Two of the exhibitions currently showing at Wollongong Art Gallery include ‘Coomaditchie: Keeping Culture Alive’ and ‘Here+Now: A Decolonist Visualisation of the Illawarra’. Both exhibitions are strongly interconnected as they showcase that First Nations artists are important leaders and educators in our Illawarra community. They also demonstrate the importance of storytelling through art to pass on cultural knowledge to the next generation and giving the young ones a voice. ...Featuring in ‘Here+Now’, Alinta Maguire’s portraits of Aunty Lorraine Brown and Narelle Thomas express the incredible impact that their work through the Coomaditchie Artist Cooperative has had for sharing cultural teachings through art with young First Nations people within the Illawarra. Additionally, Jessica Mook-Brown and Meahala Langlo-Brown act as the bridge between the two exhibitions as Aunty Lorraine’s granddaughters who have works featured in both exhibitions. All three of these artists embody the cultural values of learning about culture through artmaking. These artworks stand as reminders of the responsibility we all hold by living on First Nations country to constantly learn from the landscape and from each other to become better custodians of our world. Stephanie beaupark Artworks from ‘Here+Now: A Decolonist Visualisation of the Illawarra’ open until the 29th November 2020: Alinta Maguire, Songlines (detail, Aunty Lorraine Brown), 2020, charcoal on paper, 170 x 110cm. Alinta Maguire, Songlines (detail, Narelle Thomas), 2020, charcoal on paper, 170 x 110cm. Meahala Langlo-Brown, Creatures of Our Land, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 100cm. Jessica Mook-Brown, The Octopus, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 91 x 61cm

09.01.2022 Art is a fundamental way that First Nations people have always communicated cultural knowledge and teachings. The arts are interconnected with all aspects of culture including ceremony and knowledge of country. Indigenous knowledge is an accumulative learning process that constantly adapts to the landscape as it changes. For 60,000+ years First Nations cultures have thrived living alongside the landscape as custodians of the natural world. This remains the same today in our c...ontemporary world, for both cultural knowledge of the landscape and First nations artmaking practices. Post European invasion, as new artmaking materials and processes were introduced from cultures worldwide, these were adopted to be equally as culturally significant to First Nations peoples as traditional practices. Artmaking materials, styles and meaning has changed alongside our contemporary culture. Artmaking remains as a continuation of passing on cultural knowledge to future generations through stories told within the artwork as per traditional practices, however, contemporary First Nations art also reclaims tradition to respond to the contemporary landscape and society we live in today. - Stephanie Beaupark Artworks from the WAG collection: Aunty Lorraine Brown and Narelle Thomas, ‘Heritage of the Blue Edge’, 2009, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61 x 61cm. Lena Nyadbi, Naganbun (Wesley Spring), Lissadell Station, 1993, natural earth pigments on canvas, 60 x 80 cm.

09.01.2022 So great to have Adam Lindsay and staff from Sydney Living Museums at WAG for the Yarn Up and to view the Coomaditchie : Keeping Culture Alive exhibition on Wednesday 4 November.

08.01.2022 Just Not Australian is now open to the public. We have a special event attached to this exhibition....screening of Soda Jerk's film Terror Nullius at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre on Wednesday 9 December at 7pm. Bookings are essential. Call 42245999 or visit IPAC's website www.ipac.org.au to reserve your seat! Entry into the Gallery is free. #JustnotAustralian

07.01.2022 There are 4 spots left in our Weaving Circle workshop with Phyllis Stewart on Saturday 31 October. To reserve your spot go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/weaving-circle-with-phyllis

03.01.2022 Keep your eyes open these holidays for Illawarra flora in bloom! The Illawarra Pavilion is a major artist-initiated project scheduled to open at the Wollongong Art Gallery in late November 2021. In advance of this the artists are seeking images of characteristic Illawarra flora such as the iconic Flame Tree, Bottle Brush, Christmas Bush, the Gymea Lilly and in particular any images of the Illawarra Flame tree and the Jacaranda simultaneously flowering, side by side. These ...can be emailed to: [email protected] Please attach your name to the email so that you can be credited along with the artists. : Flame Tree and Jacaranda, Figtree, photographed by Sylvia Zubrickas, 2020