2022

WILAM BIIK

In the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people, Wilam Biik means Home Country.

In response to the work of Jolt Arts and the Sonic Adventurers’ exhibition The Red Line, the studio artists of ArtMania Wangaratta have created a new body of work, Visual Mixed Tape – a collection of their favourite songs as highly expressive and colourful artworks.

In the Realm of Senses | Ralph Bristow

Dimensions are subverted, spontaneity trumps tradition and colours enter into delightfully unexpected associations.

Eternal | Alun Rhys Jones

Alun Rhys Jones is an Australian based artist, whose practice analyses the ingrained stereotypes of perceived LGBTQI lives still perpetuated from and by mainstream news media.

In the After | Emma White

This series of new work by White navigates intergenerational legacy and the cathartic process of re-emerging after the loss of a mother.

Creative Calling: Barbara and David McCabe - A Retrospective

An exhibition bringing together two artists, husband and wife Barbara and David McCabe, both long term advocates for artistic endeavour in Wangaratta.

Tonality

Bringing together a selection of significant contemporary works from the Wangaratta Art Gallery and the Rural City of Wangaratta collections, Tonality presents monochromatic artworks from this rich and expertly curated collection established over the past 40 years.

The Red Line | Sonic Adventurers

Sonic Adventurers are a collective - comprising seven emerging artists with intellectual disabilities, and two mentoring established artists. The group is an initiative started by the artists with JOLT Arts.

Photographic Tunnelling | Emma Hamilton

Photographic Tunnelling seeks to use ice core sampling in Antarctica as a framework to observe the historical layering of our connection to landscape and how it has been shaped through the lens of photography. This enquiry seeks to examine our shifting relationship with landscape photography in the context of climate change.
Using the premise of map tunnelling (programs that show opposite point.

The Curtis Family Collection

The genesis of this exhibition was from a donation of eight works by artist Anna Curtis to the Gallery in 2020.

Creature Comforts | Abi Thompson

Abi Thompson's mixed-media drawings, Creature Comforts, explore Australia's inland landscapes' unique textures, colours and patterns. These works reflect Abi's interest in their ancient relationship to time and place.

Spark | Bushfire recovery through art

The Spark Bushfire Recovery project has been a 12 month community recovery project delivered by the Wangaratta Art Gallery. Nature journaling workshops, weaving workshops and a community choir provided opportunities for the Wangaratta community to explore their relationship to nature and their connection to community in the aftermath of the 2020 bushfires. The Spark project has focused on bushfire

Spark Kids

This exhibition is one outcome from a creative recovery partnership with Wangaratta Art Gallery and the Whitfield District Greta Valley, and Edi Upper Primary Schools, generously funded through Murray PHN.

Petite Miniature Textiles 2022

A Portrait of Australia

This exhibition celebrates the bush, the outback, the coast and the people who live there. Featuring photographs from the Australian Geographic archive, it will transport you to some of the most rugged and remote parts of the country where you will discover the remarkable stories of ordinary Australians.