When:
6th of February 2016 To 14th of February 2018In 2016, SAM reaches a milestone, celebrating 80 years since the early beginnings of the Collection in 1936.
To mark this significant point, SAM is rehanging its permanent collection in the Museum’s downstairs galleries. This enables us to showca Read more..View Profile | Shepparton | Shepparton Art Museum A certain light - recent acquisitionsWhen: | 12th of December 2015 To 25th of April 2016A certain light—recent acquisitions
12 December 2015 to 25 April 2016
An exhibition that reveals the quality and diversity of the Gallery’s acquisition program, through recently acquired paintings, prints and drawings. Includes historical and co Read more..Online | View Profile | Geelong | Geelong Gallery A question of scaleWhen: | 17th of October 2015 To 10th of July 2016A question of scale — maquettes and small sculpture from the permanent collection
17 October 2015 to 10 July 2016
A selection of small-scale sculptures in various media that are finished works in their own right or were conceived as maquettes (sc Read more..Online | View Profile | Geelong | Geelong Gallery Alex Selenitsch: LIFE/TEXTWhen: | 24th of October 2015 To 17th of April 2016Alex Selenitsch: LIFE/TEXT
24 October 2015 - 17 April 2016
Though primarily known as a concrete poet, Alex Selenitsch works across a broad spectrum of disciplines from architecture to artist books, collage and sculpture.
His practice in each Read more..View Profile | Bulleen | Heide | Museum of Modern Art Alick TipotiWhen: | 21st of July 2016 To 9th of October 201621 July > 9 October
OPENING WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 6-8PM
Alick Tipoti is recognized as one of the Torres Strait Islands’ most dynamic contemporary artists.
Growing up on Badu Island, he learnt the traditional stories and language from his pare Read more..View Profile | St Kilda | Linden New Art Andy Warhol | Ai WeiweiWhen: | 11th of December 2015 To 24th of April 2016This major international exhibition features two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei.
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, developed by the NGV and The Andy Warhol Museum, with the participati Read more..Online | View Profile | Melbourne | NGV International Artists At Leisure | Albert Tucker PhotographsWhen: | 12th of March 2016 To 7th of August 2016ARTISTS AT LEISURE ALBERT TUCKER PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: 12 March 7 August 2016
Location: Heide III: Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery
Curator/s: Linda Michael
This exhibition shows artists from the Heide circle enjoying days at the beach, mea Read more..View Profile | Bulleen | Heide | Museum of Modern Art Arts Project AustraliaWhen: | 6th of May 2016 To 17th of July 20166 May > 17 July
Opening > Thursday 5 March 6 to 8PM
Founded in 1974 Arts Project Australia’s inner city studio and gallery exist to nurture and promote artists with an intellectual disability as they develop their art practice, encouraging in Read more..View Profile | St Kilda | Linden New Art AS IF: Echoes from the Women’s Art RegisterAS IF: Echoes from the Women’s Art Register
Women’s Art Register. Curated by Juliette Peers, Caroline Phillips and Laura Castagnini.
2nd Oct 2015 – 7th Nov 2015 · West Space ·
Opening: Thursday 1 October 2015, 6-8pm.
The Women’s Art Register be Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | West Space Augmented Reality ForestWhen: | 5th of April 2016 To 16th of April 2016Create an interactive, augmented reality art space with artists Kate Geck and Halszka Masash.
Explore overlays of reality and make the real world more interesting by remixing with your devices. Learn about emerging augmented reality technologies i Read more..Online | View Profile | Melbourne | Signal Bald Archy | Exhibition 2015The only Victorian exhibition showing of the 2015 Bald Archy entries is in Swanpool.
3 – 19 July 2015 (now ended)
Swanpool & District Memorial Hall
2386 Midland Highway, Swanpool, Victoria
Admission: Adult $5.00 Conc. $4.00 Stud $2.00
Swanp Read more..View Profile | Swanpool Beata Dorain | Humans of Kingston ExhibitionWhen: | 1st of April 2016 To 24th of April 2016Ever-changing emotions and the effect they have on the human body have always been my inspiration. My exhibition will consist of a series of emotive, ceramic figurative sculptures that were inspired by the people of Kingston. My aim was to capture i Read more..Online | View Profile | Parkdale | Shirley Burke Theatre Birds Of A FeatherWhen: | 3rd of March 2016 To 30th of March 2016The 'Birds Of A Feather' exhibition is the work of eleven professional, contemporary women painters.
The exhibition runs from Thursday 3rd March until Wednesday 30th March.
Some of the painters have been together for 10 years under the ment Read more..View Profile | Yarraville | Bassett Gallery Bruce ArmstrongWhen: | 28th of August 2016 To 31st of January 2017Bruce Armstrong
an anthology of strange creatures
Free entry
NGV Australia
Ground, Level 1 & Level 2, Foyer
26 Aug 2016 – Jan 2017
One of Australia’s most acclaimed sculptors, Melbourne-based Bruce Armstrong is best-known for his monumental t Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Casey-Cardinia Grand Art Exhibition 2016When: | 18th of March 2016 To 20th of March 2016Casey-Cardinia Grand Art Woodart Exhibition
PREMIUM ART & WOODART EVENT OF VICTORIA, featuring leading artists & practitioners of Victoria.
The most innovative & eclectic art event of the year showcasing the best contemporary , avant garde , ph Read more..View Profile | Pakenham | Cardinia Cultural Centre Chen Qiulin | One Hundred NamesWhen: | 4th of June 2016 To 24th of July 2016One Hundred Names offers a rare survey of over a decade of work by one of China’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Chen Qiulin. Using a combination of photography, video installation, performance and other media, Chen investigates the contradicti Read more..View Profile | Shepparton | Shepparton Art Museum Chris De Rosa | SeawomanJuly with Chris De Rosa 'Seawoman'
10th - 26th July 2015
For Chris de Rosa, the patterning and surfaces of the domestic sphere have become the source material for works that play with ideas about nostalgia and the decorative. These patterns are o Read more..View Profile | Collingwood | Port Jackson Press Print Gallery Collection @ Benalla Art GalleryEvery Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday The Gallery presents a permanent collection which includes elements of the region’s history and recounting an Australian-European settlement story.
The collection continues to develop with recent acquisitions including outstanding Indigenous and Read more..View Profile | Benalla | Benalla Art Gallery Coombe | ExhibitionThe inaugural exhibition will include landscapes of Coombe estate by Hans Heysen, painted between 1914 to 1921 and not seen in public for more than 80 years.
Objects on display will include Melba's Hermes riding boots, Cartier handbags, and a cent Read more..View Profile | Coldstream | Coombe | Melba Estate CornucopiaWhen: | 27th of February 2016 To 22nd of May 2016Cornucopia (meaning Horn of Plenty) profiles works by established and early career artists who utilise food and flora as an artistic medium or point of departure.
A multidisciplinary and trans-historical show, the exhibition teases out strands of Read more..View Profile | Shepparton | Shepparton Art Museum Cowen Gallery ExhibitionEvery Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday The Library’s elegant Cowen Gallery features one of Australia’s most significant collections of Victorian artworks.
Explore aspects of Victoria’s rich history in scenes of European settlement, early Melbourne streetscapes and portraits of some of Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | State Library of Victoria Dancing Umbrellas | An Exhibition of Movement and Light When: | 5th of March 2016 To 5th of June 2016DANCING UMBRELLAS AN EXHIBITION OF MOVEMENT AND LIGHT
Date: 5 March 5 June 2016
Location: Heide III: Central Galleries
Curator/s: Sue Cramer
An exhibition of moving image, performance, painting and object-based works by contemporary Au Read more..Online | View Profile | Bulleen | Heide | Museum of Modern Art Debra Luccio - The Sleeping BeautyWhen: | 2nd of March 2016 To 27th of March 2016Debra Luccio
The Sleeping Beauty
2 - 27 March 2016
Monotypes inspired by David McAllister’s The Sleeping Beauty.
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www.debraluccio.com • Read more..View Profile | Carlton | Steps Gallery Degas: A New Vision ExhibitionWhen: | 16th of June 2016 To 16th of September 2016Edgar Degas is one of the most celebrated artists associated with French Impressionism.
The art he made over more than fifty years of constant creativity and renewal embraces painting, drawing, printmaking, monotypes, sculpture and photography, an Read more..Online | View Profile | Melbourne | NGV International Despa Hondros | DrawingsWhen: | 26th of April 2016 To 7th of May 2016300,000 tiny circles, individually drawn in pencil, make up the infinitely subtle works on paper by Despa Hondros at fortyfivedownstairs. From these myriad marks renderings of natural phenomena (rain, waves, forests) emerge with rhythmic peacefulness Read more..View Profile | 0 | Fortyfive Downstairs Drawing Wall #22: Tully MooreWhen: | 5th of March 2016 To 8th of May 2016The Drawing Wall is an ongoing series of commissioned, temporary, site specific wall based drawings or installations that enliven the foyer space of the Eastbank Centre, directly outside SAM. Drawing Wall projects often revolve around conversations a Read more..View Profile | Shepparton | Shepparton Art Museum Dromana Art & Craft Show 2016When: | 29th of October 2016 To 31st of October 2016The 42nd Annual Dromana Art & Craft Show.
Over Melbourne Cup weekend, held at Dromana Primary School.
A joint venture with Rotary Club Dromana.
Read more..View Profile | Dromana Eclipse: printmaking, photography and our surrounding cityWhen: | 5th of March 2016 To 30th of March 2016Between the 2nd and 30th of March 2016 Port Jackson Press and Angela Tandori Fine Art will curate a free, interactive exhibition of new media digital prints.
From the 2nd till the 30th of March, Port Jackson Press (PJP) and Angela Tandori Fine Ar Read more..View Profile | Collingwood | Port Jackson Press Print Gallery Eighteenth–Century Porcelain SculptureWhen: | 27th of February 2016 To 24th of December 2016Eighteenth–Century Porcelain Sculpture
Free entry
NGV International
Level 2, Decorative Arts Passage
27 Feb – Dec
Open 10am–5pm daily
The NGV has particularly rich holdings of eighteenth-century porcelain sculpture, including a number of rare Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | NGV International Elizabeth Gower: he loves me, he loves me notWhen: | 11th of March 2016 To 23rd of April 2016Women are encouraged to seek validation at an early age, by conforming to prescribed behaviours, sanctioned body image, fashion, career and lifestyle choices.
In writing the phrase ‘he loves me, he loves me not’ 21,319 times, Elizabeth Gower sym Read more..Online | View Profile | Melbourne | RMIT Gallery Emily Green | FragmentWhen: | 24th of February 2016 To 3rd of April 2016EMILY GREEN | FRAGMENT
February 24, 2016 - April 3, 2016
Inspired by the beautiful leadlight windows of Bundoora Homestead, Emily Green’s installation deconstructs and reconfigures its shapes into a sequence of cascading paper chains. The paste Read more..View Profile | Bundoora | Bundoora Homestead Equine + Fly & Fur – A wildlife Art ShowWhen: | 14th of February 2016 To 3rd of April 2016Equine + Fly & Fur – A wildlife Art Show
Featuring impressionist and tradition art works by
Amanda Hyatt, Pamela Conder, Fiona Anderson, Kris Peter, Alison Clark, Ivana Pinaffo, Helen Cottle, Karin Zeller, Paul Margocsy, Rodger Scott, P Read more..View Profile | Seymour | Old Post Office Seymour Exhibitions @ Brunswick Street GalleryWhen: | 5th of February 2016 To 17th of March 2016Brunswick Street Gallery presents..
Upcoming Exhibitions
Red to Blue, Rhubee Neale
Exhibition runs from 5th of February to 3pm, the 18th of February 2016.
The Book of Forth, Judith Lanigan
Exhibition runs from 5th of February to 3pm, t Read more..View Profile | Fitzroy | Brunswick Street Gallery Exhibitions | West SpaceWhen: | 18th of March 2016 To 16th of April 2016Upcoming
FRONT SPACE
Line on display
Yona Lee
Using the architectural features of the Front Space gallery as a guide, Yona Lee’s new installation Line on display responds to the spatial dynamics of…
GALLERY 1
loosen the earth
Lucina La Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | West Space Experience how your mind sees art, with La Trobe University Every Friday La Trobe University, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), has introduced a unique and interactive art experience as part of the gallery’s Friday Night summer series events (5 Feb – 24 April).
Starting 5 February, visitors Read more..Online | View Profile | Melbourne | NGV International Fabrications | Jenny WatsonWhen: | 23rd of April 2016 To 30th of May 2016JENNY WATSON
Fabrications
23 April - 30 May 2015 Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | Anna Schwartz Gallery Firestation ExhibitionsFirestation Print Studio and gallery presents...
20 January to 13 February Postcards from the North and South 2015:
Tsbata Printmakers, Japan, PressNorth, Townsville and Firestation Print Studio artists
17 February to 5 March Read more..View Profile | Armadale | Firestation Print Studio Fireworks 2016: Art and design by bright young thingsWhen: | 19th of February 2016 To 20th of March 2016Fireworks 2016: Art and design by bright young things
19 February – 20 March 2016
Moonee Valley City Council’s annual art and design exhibition and awards for exceptional VCE art and design students who live in, or go to school in Moonee Valley Read more..View Profile | Moonee Ponds | Incinerator Gallery Glenn Murcutt | Architecture of FaithWhen: | 6th of August 2016 To 31st of January 2017Glenn Murcutt
Architecture of Faith
Free entry
NGV Australia
Ground Level, NGV Design Studio
6 Aug – Jan 2017
Open 10am–5pm daily
Architecture of Faith is a unique exhibition providing an in-depth exploration of the new Australian Islamic Ce Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Glenroy Art Group Turns 50When: | 7th of May 2016 To 8th of May 2016Glenroy Art Group is celebrating 50 years this May with an Art Exhibition and Sale of Paintings.
There will be demonstrations, Devon-shire teas and a Charity Raffle.
Plenty of parking.
Free Entry
All Welcome
Kindly supported by Moreland City Cou Read more..View Profile | Pascoe Vale Grand Designs - architectural subjects in photographyWhen: | 17th of October 2015 To 15th of May 2016Grand designs—architectural subjects in photography
17 October 2015 to 15 May 2016
Select photographs from the Gallery’s collection that reflect the enduring appeal of grand architectural subjects and decorative interiors: from late 19th century Read more..Online | View Profile | Geelong | Geelong Gallery Greg Semu | The Raft of the Tagata PasifikaWhen: | 10th of June 2016 To 30th of September 2016Greg Semu
The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific)
Free entry
NGV International
10 Jun – Sep
Open 10am–5pm daily
This exhibition of new large-scale photographic works draws attention to the devastating impact, truth and reality Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | NGV International Hands In Print - Bridget Nicholson Every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Hands In Print, an art installation recognising 14 leading authors and celebrating the wonder of the written word, is on display at Melbourne’s Readers’ Walk in Collins St.
Hands In Print is the reinterpretation of 14 authors’ hands by Melbourne a Read more..View Profile | Melbourne Hard Edge | Abstract Sculpture 1960s–70sWhen: | 13th of February 2016 To 31st of July 2016Hard Edge
Abstract Sculpture 1960s–70s
Free entry
NGV Australia
Ground Level & Level 2 Foyers, Foyer
13 Feb – Jul
Open 10am–5pm daily
Hard Edge explores one of the most significant periods in the development of contemporary Australian sculpt Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Heide | Museum of Modern Art | OpenEvery Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Heide Museum of Modern Art is one of Australia’s leading public art museums.
Open Tuesday - Sunday
10am - 5pm
Heide Museum of Modern Art Collection
A significant part of the Heide Collection was assembled over five decades by its founders, J Read more..View Profile | Bulleen | Heide | Museum of Modern Art Henry Talbot | 1960s Fashion PhotographerWhen: | 1st of May 2016 To 31st of August 2016Henry Talbot
1960s Fashion Photographer
Free entry
NGV Australia
May – Aug
Open 10am–5pm daily
Melbourne and 1960s fashion are the starring subjects of more than eighty striking never-seen-before photographs by fashion photographer Henry Talb Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 2016When: | 16th of January 2016 To 3rd of April 2016The Herring Island Summer Arts Festival showcases contemporary Australian visual art including painting, photography, sculpture and fibre art, as well as special Australia Day activities.
Gallery Open 11:30am to 4:30pm
Weekends, Australia Day, L Read more..View Profile | South Yarra | Herring Island Hugh EvansHugh Evans - Solo Exhibition
19 June - 16 July
Daily 12-5
Enquiries 0417 800 554
There will be a meet the artist event: 30 June 2015.
Read more..View Profile | Collingwood | Collingwood Gallery Imagined WorldsWhen: | 25th of June 2016 To 21st of August 2016Start: Saturday 25 June, 2016
End: Sunday 21 August, 2016
Venue: Galleries 1 & 2
Blurring the boundary between real and imagined these artworks challenge traditional representations of landscape and allow the viewer to imagine Read more..View Profile | Hawthorn | Town Hall Gallery In Time | Kate MitchellWhen: | 26th of March 2016 To 16th of April 2016Kate Mitchell's exhibition 'In Time' opens at Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne.
The lovechild of silent film star Harold Lloyd and video artist Christian Marclay, Sydney artist Kate Mitchell in her new video hangs on to the minute arm of a giant, f Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | Anna Schwartz Gallery Indigenous Ceramic Art Award 2016When: | 6th of August 2016 To 25th of September 2016From Monday 4 January, 2016 Shepparton Art Museum will be accepting applications for the Australian Indigenous Ceramic Art Award (ICAA) 2016.
This $20,000 acquisitive prize is open to Indigenous groups and individual artists to propose an exhibiti Read more..View Profile | Shepparton | Shepparton Art Museum James Tylor | Aotearoa my HawaikiWhen: | 5th of February 2016 To 24th of March 201605.02.2016—24.03.2016
GALLERY 1
JAMES TYLOR
AOTEAROA MY HAWAIKI
Aotearoa, my Hawaiki explores the Polynesian Māori concept of Hawaiki. Hawaiki is the ancestral homeland and/or island where Māori people came from before migrating to Ao Read more..View Profile | Fitzroy | Centre for Contemporary Photography JamFactory Icon—Giles Bettison: pattern and perceptionWhen: | 20th of February 2016 To 8th of May 2016JamFactory Icon—Giles Bettison: pattern and perception
20 February to 08 May 2016
Identified as a JamFactory Icon—celebrating outstanding and influential craft and design practitioners—this exhibition of works by Giles Bettison showcases his ski Read more..Online | View Profile | Geelong | Geelong Gallery Jan Senbergs | Observation–ImaginationWhen: | 27th of February 2016 To 24th of December 2016Jan Senbergs
Observation–Imagination
Free entry
NGV Australia
Temporary Exhibitions
18 Mar – Jun
Open 10am–5pm daily
This is the first comprehensive retrospective of renowned Melbourne artist Jan Senbergs.
Throughout his long career, Sen Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Jeffrey Kelson | TributeWhen: | 22nd of March 2016 To 10th of April 2016As Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust survivor numbers decline, a local artist has painted a series of portraits to commemorate their stories.
To be shown this month at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Elsternwick, Tribute is an homage to the stories of 2 Read more..View Profile | Elsternwick | Jewish Holocaust Centre Jeppe Hein | Semicircular SpaceWhen: | 27th of May 2016 To 30th of September 2016Jeppe Hein
Semicircular Space
Free entry
NGV International
27 May – Sep
Open 10am–5pm daily
In May 2016, the NGV presents a spectacular new installation by renowned Berlin-based, Danish contemporary artist Jeppe Hein in Federation Court at N Read more..View Profile | Melbourne | NGV International Jeremy Barrett - Dark LightWhen: | 30th of March 2016 To 17th of April 2016Jeremy Barrett, award winning artist, represented in numerous public and private collections including the Australian National Gallery and The Victorian National Gallery, will be exhibiting his latest work, Dark Light at Cambridge Studio Gallery.
Read more..View Profile | Collingwood | Cambridge Studio Gallery Jessie Imam | The Third Judy WatsonWhen: | 12th of March 2016 To 31st of July 2016JUDY WATSON
Judy Watson’s Aboriginal matrilineal family are from Waanyi country in north-west Queensland.
She co-represented Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale, was awarded the Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1995, the National Gallery of Vic Read more..View Profile | Healesville | TarraWarra Museum of Art JUMP | Exhibition @ Northcote High SchoolNorthcote High School presents fabulous community art for all to see including the wonderful JUMP launched in 2015.
JUMP by Year 10 students is a public artwork that incorporates old gym shoes from past and present students. The work, which spell Read more..View Profile | Northcote | Northcote High School
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