SHAPE SHIFTERS – A RETROSPECTIVE OF AUSTRALIAN COLLAGE
7 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
Opening Sunday 8 December 1:30pm.
Wollongong Art Gallery
www.wollongongartgallery.com
Shape shifters is an innovative retrospective of Australian Collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth century, have manipulated their images with adjuncts to do many things: to correct drawings, to play with composition, to decorate, and to make social and political comment. Shape shifters will examine how repurposed materials, concepts, and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects will be exhibited in a celebration of this thrilling and accessible art form.
Artists include:
Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Suzanne Archer, Tom Arthur, David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Ray Beattie, Richard Bell, Malcolm Benham, Lee Bethel, John Bokor, Warren Breninger, Mike Brown, Michael Butler, Angie Cass, Tony Convey, Ross Crothall, Grace Crowley, Isabel Davies, Juan Davila, Lawrence Daws, Domenico De Clario, Karla Dickens, Xanthe Dobbie, Stephen Earle, Lise Floistad, Leonard French, Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Richard Goodwin, Elizabeth Gower, Greedy Hen, Robert Grieve, Barbara Hanrahan, Katherine Hattam, Paul Higgs, Frank Hinder, Megan Jenkinson, Anita Johnson, Michael Johnson, George Johnson, Philip Juster, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, Peter Kingston, Brett Whiteley and John Allen, Robert Klippel, Eveline Kotai, John Krzywokulski, Colin Lanceley, Bruce Latimer, Helen Lempriere, Kerrie Lester, Elwyn Lynn, Polly MacCallum, Fiona MacDonald, David McDiarmid, Arthur McIntyre, Bridgid McLean, Danie Mellor, Robert B Mitchell, Allan Mitelman, Margaret Morgan, Elizabeth Newman, John Nixon, Caroline Oakley, Desiderius Orban, Jenny Orchard, Louise Paramor, John Peart, Leon Pericles, Carl Plate, Clifton Pugh, Ken Reinhard, Leonie Reisberg, Joan Ross, Gareth Sansom, Kurt Schranzer, Sandra Selig, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, Eric John Smith, Ian Smith, Madonna Staunton, Ann Thomson, Mark Titmarsh, Nicky Tsekouras, Meredith Turnbull, Nik Uzunovski, Hossein Valamanesh, Vicki Varvaressos, John R Walker, Guy Warren, Brett Whiteley, Vyvian Wilson.
Presented with the support of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Supported by Artbank and Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Defiance Gallery turns 30! This exhibition will include new works by all of Defiance Gallery's artists:
Tim Allen, Tom Arthur, Deborah Beck, Alison Coates, David Collins, Roger Crawford, Laurence Edwards, Ivor Fabok, Lea ferris, Joe Furlonger, Helen Gauchat, Peter Godwin, Clara Hali, Nigel Harrison, Paul Higgs, Pamela Honeyfield, Paul Hopmeier, Roy Jackson, Anita Johnson, Anna Johnson, Jan King, Angela Malone, Ingrid Morley, Kyle Murrell, Charmaine Pike, Anna Pollak, Peter Powditch, Campbell Robertson-Swann, Julia Roche, Tony Slater, Peter Stevens, Anne Thompson, and David Wilson.
SEEING THINGS
22 March - 3 August 2025
Opening event: Sat 5 April 20252:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Wollongong Art Gallery
corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets
www.wollongongartgallery.com
To ‘see things’ is to conjure apparitions, imagine possibilities, and entertain hallucination. The meaning we place on things becomes as elastic as the image itself when we view the world and its saturation of visual culture through a shadowy lens.
Images have long been suspicious. Today, digital images and AI have exploded pictures into an infinite sum of immeasurable parts. But the Surrealists were living proof that artists have long tapped into dreams and the unconscious. Romancing the unknown and uncanny sides of life is what art does best.
Seeing Things draws together works from the collection alongside newly acquired video works and loaned collages by Shoalhaven-based artist Wade Marynowsky. Each of these works offer disquieting narratives of everyday life as a waking dream, a vantage point for seeing with eyes closed.
Artists: Drew Bickford, Stephen Birch, Pat Brassington, Peter Booth, Nici Cumpston, Amanda Davies, Tom Dion, Jutta Feddersen, John Forrest, David Griggs, Brent Harris, John Havilah, Anita Johnson, Madeleine Kelly, Daniel Kojta, Anna Kristensen, Lindy Lee, Mandy Martin, Wade Marynowsky, Joan Meats, Mai Nguyễn-Long, Susan Norrie, Gareth Sansom, Laurens Tan, Ken Unsworth.
The Broken and Repaired exhibition invites artists to recognize that in restoring what was once broken, we also recover a part of ourselves and reaffirm our connection with the past and its memories.
These objects / artworks shown in this exhibition hint at the concept of time – that sometimes the timing is right to repair and mend, renewing and strengthening the memories that may have been shared. These objects:unfinished artworks have been left; stored in boxes; cupboards and not retrieved and loved. The reasons may be many – painful memories? unsure of how to repair? the work of someone much loved.Each broken / unfinished object that has been found by the participating artists, sometimes hidden away in life’s clutter, holds the promise of renewal and hope? Resolution? This implies that each of these pieces has held some importance – and intentionally not discarded.
Mending/ repairing can be seen as an enchantment that restores the original durability of that object, using many experiences and techniques. It is the hours of thoughtful consideration, evoking memories and preserving the integrity of the original object.
CRESCENDO 2025 ARTIST BOOK AWARDS
Clifton School of Arts
opening evening 14 November.
15 to 30 November 2025.
https://artsclifton.org/crescendo2025/
Clifton School of Arts (CSA) is thrilled to announce the finalists of Crescendo25 Artist Book Award and congratulate the 61 remarkable shortlisted artists.
Adrian Lockhart, Anita Johnson, Anne Langdon, August Carpenter, Avril Makula, Barbara Hart, Bonita (Bonny) Shore, Bronwyn Rees, Caroline Sheehan, Claire Brach, Cecile Galiazzo, Danielle Creenaune, Diana Wood Conroy, Dianne Longley, Eileen Dillon-Smith, Fiona Davey, Fran Ifould, Gail Stiffe, Graham Blondel, Gemelle Madigan, Gillian Richards, Hannah Parker, Jan Davis, Jan Palethorpe, Joanne Oliver, Judy Barrass, Julie Mia Holmes, Julie Bradley, Katharine Nix, Karen Neal, Laura Castell, Lesley Kane, Lisa Sewards, Liz Farrell, Liz Powell, Lizzie Nagy, Lynne Johns, Marama Warren, Megan Dixon-Dawes, Megan Edwards, Monica Oppen & Peter Lissiotis, Natasha Palich, Pablo Alvarez Grover, Pam Slattery, Peter Ward, Rachel Dun, Gina Piroska, Ro Murray, Robyn Foster, Roslyn Kean, Ruth Thompson, Sandra Pearce, Sandra Williams, Sharon Peoples, Silvi Glattauer, Slavica Zivkovic, Sue Pogglioli, Tina Pech, Trish Yates and Tori de Mestre.
Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award will showcase these exciting works reflecting a diversity of exciting ideas, formats and techniques encapsulated in the world of artist books.
2025 SECOND LOOK: LEGACY - AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE WORKS.
27 November 2025 until mid-February 2026
Australian Design Centre
Darlinghurst, Sydney
https://australiandesigncentre.com/
The exhibition continues to honour Liz Williamson’s legacy and vision by revisiting work that explores concepts of repair, reuse, and innovative approaches to reimagining materials. The aim is to showcase the diverse textile methods and processes practitioners engage with to extend the lifecycle of materials in environmentally creative ways. The event will celebrate the intricate nature of textile thinking inherent in craft skills and how meaning and narratives are expressed and emerge through making.
NATURE MACHINE: 6TH TAMWORTH TEXTILE TRIENNIAL
Saturday, 19 September 2026 to Sunday, 22 November 2026
Opening, 6pm, Friday, 18th September 2026
https://tamworthregionalgallery.com.au/6th-tamworth-textile-triennial
Artists:
Abdullah M. I. Syed | Alycia Bennett | Anita Johnson | Cara Johnson | Ellen Ferrier | Jackson Farley | Jacky Cheng | Jacqueline Stojanovic| Janette Murrungun | Jennifer Robertson | Joseph E Burgess | Juanella Donovan | Juanita McLaulan | Lauren Kerjan | Lucia Dohrmann | Margaret Woodward & Justy Phillips | Rebecca Mayo | Sharon Peoples.
Tamworth Regional Gallery is proud to present Nature Machine: The 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial, a major national exhibition that showcases the vision and innovation of contemporary textile practice across Australia.
The Triennial stands as the most important platform for contemporary textile practice in Australia - providing a vital space for artists to explore pressing ideas, connect with audiences, and to continue to sustain, and celebrate the National Textile Collection. The exhibition will be held first in Tamworth Regional Gallery and then tour galleries around Australia for two years.
Curated by Blake Griffiths, Nature Machine brings together leading and emerging textile artists whose practices reflect the profound and often complex ways makers grapple with the complex relationship between hand, body and machine. With boldness and care, the exhibition asks: how can artists create in ways that sustain, rather than deplete, the materials and ecologies they work with? The artists of Nature Machine experiment with growing, harvesting, recycling, and reimagining textile resources, while others turn to the virtual, embracing artificial intelligence and machine production to explore and challenge the changing role of textiles in a technological age.
From permaculture to programming, each artist demonstrates how making can become a form of ecological stewardship; their material innovations and technical mastery revealing not only the ingenuity of Australian textile practice today but also, the deep responsibility artists feel toward the environments that sustain them.
The exhibition celebrates the diverse ways artists are responding to urgent environmental concerns, protecting traditions, revaluing craft knowledge, and proposing new ways of living with, and making from, the world around us.
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SHAPE SHIFTERS – A RETROSPECTIVE OF AUSTRALIAN COLLAGE
7 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
Opening Sunday 8 December 1:30pm.
Wollongong Art Gallery
www.wollongongartgallery.com
Shape shifters is an innovative retrospective of Australian Collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth century, have manipulated their images with adjuncts to do many things: to correct drawings, to play with composition, to decorate, and to make social and political comment. Shape shifters will examine how repurposed materials, concepts, and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects will be exhibited in a celebration of this thrilling and accessible art form.
Artists include:
Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Suzanne Archer, Tom Arthur, David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Ray Beattie, Richard Bell, Malcolm Benham, Lee Bethel, John Bokor, Warren Breninger, Mike Brown, Michael Butler, Angie Cass, Tony Convey, Ross Crothall, Grace Crowley, Isabel Davies, Juan Davila, Lawrence Daws, Domenico De Clario, Karla Dickens, Xanthe Dobbie, Stephen Earle, Lise Floistad, Leonard French, Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Richard Goodwin, Elizabeth Gower, Greedy Hen, Robert Grieve, Barbara Hanrahan, Katherine Hattam, Paul Higgs, Frank Hinder, Megan Jenkinson, Anita Johnson, Michael Johnson, George Johnson, Philip Juster, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, Peter Kingston, Brett Whiteley and John Allen, Robert Klippel, Eveline Kotai, John Krzywokulski, Colin Lanceley, Bruce Latimer, Helen Lempriere, Kerrie Lester, Elwyn Lynn, Polly MacCallum, Fiona MacDonald, David McDiarmid, Arthur McIntyre, Bridgid McLean, Danie Mellor, Robert B Mitchell, Allan Mitelman, Margaret Morgan, Elizabeth Newman, John Nixon, Caroline Oakley, Desiderius Orban, Jenny Orchard, Louise Paramor, John Peart, Leon Pericles, Carl Plate, Clifton Pugh, Ken Reinhard, Leonie Reisberg, Joan Ross, Gareth Sansom, Kurt Schranzer, Sandra Selig, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, Eric John Smith, Ian Smith, Madonna Staunton, Ann Thomson, Mark Titmarsh, Nicky Tsekouras, Meredith Turnbull, Nik Uzunovski, Hossein Valamanesh, Vicki Varvaressos, John R Walker, Guy Warren, Brett Whiteley, Vyvian Wilson.
Presented with the support of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Supported by Artbank and Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Defiance Gallery turns 30! This exhibition will include new works by all of Defiance Gallery's artists:
Tim Allen, Tom Arthur, Deborah Beck, Alison Coates, David Collins, Roger Crawford, Laurence Edwards, Ivor Fabok, Lea ferris, Joe Furlonger, Helen Gauchat, Peter Godwin, Clara Hali, Nigel Harrison, Paul Higgs, Pamela Honeyfield, Paul Hopmeier, Roy Jackson, Anita Johnson, Anna Johnson, Jan King, Angela Malone, Ingrid Morley, Kyle Murrell, Charmaine Pike, Anna Pollak, Peter Powditch, Campbell Robertson-Swann, Julia Roche, Tony Slater, Peter Stevens, Anne Thompson, and David Wilson.
SEEING THINGS
22 March - 3 August 2025
Opening event: Sat 5 April 20252:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Wollongong Art Gallery
corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets
www.wollongongartgallery.com
To ‘see things’ is to conjure apparitions, imagine possibilities, and entertain hallucination. The meaning we place on things becomes as elastic as the image itself when we view the world and its saturation of visual culture through a shadowy lens.
Images have long been suspicious. Today, digital images and AI have exploded pictures into an infinite sum of immeasurable parts. But the Surrealists were living proof that artists have long tapped into dreams and the unconscious. Romancing the unknown and uncanny sides of life is what art does best.
Seeing Things draws together works from the collection alongside newly acquired video works and loaned collages by Shoalhaven-based artist Wade Marynowsky. Each of these works offer disquieting narratives of everyday life as a waking dream, a vantage point for seeing with eyes closed.
Artists: Drew Bickford, Stephen Birch, Pat Brassington, Peter Booth, Nici Cumpston, Amanda Davies, Tom Dion, Jutta Feddersen, John Forrest, David Griggs, Brent Harris, John Havilah, Anita Johnson, Madeleine Kelly, Daniel Kojta, Anna Kristensen, Lindy Lee, Mandy Martin, Wade Marynowsky, Joan Meats, Mai Nguyễn-Long, Susan Norrie, Gareth Sansom, Laurens Tan, Ken Unsworth.
The Broken and Repaired exhibition invites artists to recognize that in restoring what was once broken, we also recover a part of ourselves and reaffirm our connection with the past and its memories.
These objects / artworks shown in this exhibition hint at the concept of time – that sometimes the timing is right to repair and mend, renewing and strengthening the memories that may have been shared. These objects:unfinished artworks have been left; stored in boxes; cupboards and not retrieved and loved. The reasons may be many – painful memories? unsure of how to repair? the work of someone much loved.Each broken / unfinished object that has been found by the participating artists, sometimes hidden away in life’s clutter, holds the promise of renewal and hope? Resolution? This implies that each of these pieces has held some importance – and intentionally not discarded.
Mending/ repairing can be seen as an enchantment that restores the original durability of that object, using many experiences and techniques. It is the hours of thoughtful consideration, evoking memories and preserving the integrity of the original object.
CRESCENDO 2025 ARTIST BOOK AWARDS
Clifton School of Arts
opening evening 14 November.
15 to 30 November 2025.
https://artsclifton.org/crescendo2025/
Clifton School of Arts (CSA) is thrilled to announce the finalists of Crescendo25 Artist Book Award and congratulate the 61 remarkable shortlisted artists.
Adrian Lockhart, Anita Johnson, Anne Langdon, August Carpenter, Avril Makula, Barbara Hart, Bonita (Bonny) Shore, Bronwyn Rees, Caroline Sheehan, Claire Brach, Cecile Galiazzo, Danielle Creenaune, Diana Wood Conroy, Dianne Longley, Eileen Dillon-Smith, Fiona Davey, Fran Ifould, Gail Stiffe, Graham Blondel, Gemelle Madigan, Gillian Richards, Hannah Parker, Jan Davis, Jan Palethorpe, Joanne Oliver, Judy Barrass, Julie Mia Holmes, Julie Bradley, Katharine Nix, Karen Neal, Laura Castell, Lesley Kane, Lisa Sewards, Liz Farrell, Liz Powell, Lizzie Nagy, Lynne Johns, Marama Warren, Megan Dixon-Dawes, Megan Edwards, Monica Oppen & Peter Lissiotis, Natasha Palich, Pablo Alvarez Grover, Pam Slattery, Peter Ward, Rachel Dun, Gina Piroska, Ro Murray, Robyn Foster, Roslyn Kean, Ruth Thompson, Sandra Pearce, Sandra Williams, Sharon Peoples, Silvi Glattauer, Slavica Zivkovic, Sue Pogglioli, Tina Pech, Trish Yates and Tori de Mestre.
Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award will showcase these exciting works reflecting a diversity of exciting ideas, formats and techniques encapsulated in the world of artist books.
2025 SECOND LOOK: LEGACY - AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE WORKS.
27 November 2025 until mid-February 2026
Australian Design Centre
Darlinghurst, Sydney
https://australiandesigncentre.com/
The exhibition continues to honour Liz Williamson’s legacy and vision by revisiting work that explores concepts of repair, reuse, and innovative approaches to reimagining materials. The aim is to showcase the diverse textile methods and processes practitioners engage with to extend the lifecycle of materials in environmentally creative ways. The event will celebrate the intricate nature of textile thinking inherent in craft skills and how meaning and narratives are expressed and emerge through making.
NATURE MACHINE: 6TH TAMWORTH TEXTILE TRIENNIAL
Saturday, 19 September 2026 to Sunday, 22 November 2026
Opening, 6pm, Friday, 18th September 2026
https://tamworthregionalgallery.com.au/6th-tamworth-textile-triennial
Artists:
Abdullah M. I. Syed | Alycia Bennett | Anita Johnson | Cara Johnson | Ellen Ferrier | Jackson Farley | Jacky Cheng | Jacqueline Stojanovic| Janette Murrungun | Jennifer Robertson | Joseph E Burgess | Juanella Donovan | Juanita McLaulan | Lauren Kerjan | Lucia Dohrmann | Margaret Woodward & Justy Phillips | Rebecca Mayo | Sharon Peoples.
Tamworth Regional Gallery is proud to present Nature Machine: The 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial, a major national exhibition that showcases the vision and innovation of contemporary textile practice across Australia.
The Triennial stands as the most important platform for contemporary textile practice in Australia - providing a vital space for artists to explore pressing ideas, connect with audiences, and to continue to sustain, and celebrate the National Textile Collection. The exhibition will be held first in Tamworth Regional Gallery and then tour galleries around Australia for two years.
Curated by Blake Griffiths, Nature Machine brings together leading and emerging textile artists whose practices reflect the profound and often complex ways makers grapple with the complex relationship between hand, body and machine. With boldness and care, the exhibition asks: how can artists create in ways that sustain, rather than deplete, the materials and ecologies they work with? The artists of Nature Machine experiment with growing, harvesting, recycling, and reimagining textile resources, while others turn to the virtual, embracing artificial intelligence and machine production to explore and challenge the changing role of textiles in a technological age.
From permaculture to programming, each artist demonstrates how making can become a form of ecological stewardship; their material innovations and technical mastery revealing not only the ingenuity of Australian textile practice today but also, the deep responsibility artists feel toward the environments that sustain them.
The exhibition celebrates the diverse ways artists are responding to urgent environmental concerns, protecting traditions, revaluing craft knowledge, and proposing new ways of living with, and making from, the world around us.
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