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Penny Byrne, HIGH VIS (series), 2019. Photo by Matthew Stanton.

EXHIBITION | 'HIGH VIS' AT WARRNAMBOOL ART GALLERY, UNTIL 19 MAY

Image: Penny Byrne, HIGH VIS (series), 2019. Photo by Matthew Stanton.

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member | montsalvat

Calder Install - Sean Fennessy (14)

exhibition | Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor , ngv until 4 august 19

Image: Installation view of Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor on display at NGV International from 5 April – 4 August 2019 © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Copyright Agency, Australia. Photo: Sean Fennessy

Art for the Country Book Launch at Mildura Arts Centre

new publication | ART FOR THE COUNTRY BY DON EDGAR

Image: Courtesy of Mildura Arts Centre.

MPRG Gallery exterior

member | mornington peninsula regional gallery

George Aristovoulou, Not titled, 2018, greylead pencil and pencil on paper, 28 x 38cm

EXHIBITION | THE WORLD AROUND US, arts project australia | 4 MAy - 8 JUne 19

Image: George Aristovoulou, Not titled, 2018, greylead pencil and pencil on paper, 28 x 38cm

Bryony Nainby_Photo Credit_Emiliano_Fernandez

NEWS | CRAFT VICTORIA ANNOUNCES BRYONY NAINBY AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Elif Sezen. Cave opening 9, 2018. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 76 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist

UPCOMING | THE SECOND HOMECOMING, COUNIHAN GALLERY IN BRUNSWICK

Image: Elif Sezen. Cave opening 9 , 2018. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 76 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

ACMI - Alice Through the Door. Photo by Phoebe Powell

news | ACMI’S 'WONDERLAND' EXHIBITION WINS PRESTIGIOUS INDUSTRY AWARD

Image: Alice Through the Door. Image courtesy of Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Photo by Phoebe Powell.

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Winner Packing Room Prize 2019, Tessa MacKay, Through the looking glass, oil on linen, 210 × 330.5 cm, © the artist.
Photo: AGNSW, Mim Stirling. Sitter: David Wenham – actor.

TarraWarra Museum of Art to exhibit Archibald Prize 2019

Bryony Nainby_Photo Credit_Emiliano_Fernandez

Craft Victoria announces Bryony Nainby as new Executive Director

Kate Davis ARARAT TAMA

Kate Davis appointed Visual Arts Coordinator at Ararat Gallery TAMA

ACMI - Alice Through the Door. Photo by Phoebe Powell

ACMI’s Wonderland exhibition wins prestigious industry award

Image: New Auckland Art Gallery Director Kirsten Paisley
Image Credit: Photography by Rohan Thomson. Artwork shown in background: Colin McCahon, Victory over death 2, 1970, National Gallery of Australia. Gift of the New Zealand Government 1978

Kirsten Paisley appointed as Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

NETS Victoria Exhibition Development Fund (EDF) 2019

Exhibitions

John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda—Molluscs / Maypal and the warming of the seas
installation view. Photographer: Andrew Curtis.

John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda—Molluscs / Maypal and the warming of the seas

Geelong Gallery

30 Mar 2019 - 2 Jun 2019

WHITEHORSE - GOLLINGS - Kay Street

The History of the Built World – John Gollings

Whitehorse Artspace

11 Apr 2019 - 15 Jun 2019

Katherine Hattam, Perhaps 2016-18, gouache and charcoal on book pages, 82 x 122 cm. Courtesy the artist and Daine Singer, Melbourne.

Katherine Hattam: The history pictures

Bayside Gallery

30 Mar 2019 - 19 May 2019

William Delafield Cook, A Haystack 1978 (detail), synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 152.2 x 212.3 cm. TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. Gift of Eva Besen and Marc Besen AO 2001.

Thought Patterns: Selected Works from the Collection

TarraWarra Museum of Art

23 Mar 2019 - 19 May 2019

Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, Pavo 1965, plastic collage and synthetic polymer paint on plywood, 121.8 x 121.7 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria from the Bequest of Violet Dulieu, Founder Benefactor, 1997 (1997.179). Reproduced with kind permission of the Estate of J S Ostoja-Kotkowski and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Solid Light: Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski

McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery

1 Apr 2019 - 14 Jul 2019

image: Ernest Marcuse, Mt Buffalo – The Gorge, detail, circa 1942-52, mixed media on artist board.

Looking-Looking Away : Mohsen Meysami

Wangaratta Art Gallery

6 Apr 2019 - 19 May 2019

BENDIGO_Queen Elizabeth I (The ‘Ditchley’ portrait)_crop

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits

Bendigo Art Gallery

16 Mar 2019 - 14 Jul 2019

Vera Möller, cajalia 2019 (installation detail), modelling material and acrylic, 20 x 250 x 350 cm (dimensions variable). Courtesy of the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne. Photography: Mark Ashkanasy.

Vera Möller: A Thousand Tides

Bunjil Place Gallery

9 Mar 2019 - 9 Jun 2019

Jo SCICLUNA, Where The Land Lies #1, 2018, layered archival inkjet prints on cotton rag, acrylic, Victorian Ash timber, 60 x 90cm. Courtesy the artist.

JO SCICLUNA | Where The Land Lies

Gippsland Art Gallery

6 Apr 2019 - 26 May 2019

George Aristovoulou, Not titled, 2018, greylead pencil and pencil on paper, 28 x 38cm

The world around us

Arts Project Australia

4 May 2019 - 8 Jun 2019

Georgia Szmerling, Hidden, 2017, digital print

Our Life, Our World

Arts Project Australia

4 May 2019 - 8 Jun 2019

Installation view of Liquid Light: 500 Years of Venetian Glass on display at NGV International from 8 March 2018 – 13 April 2020.
Photo: Tom Ross.

Liquid Light: 500 Years of Venetian Glass

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

4 May 2019 - 8 Jun 2019

Installation view of Darren Sylvester: Carve A Future, Devour Everything, Become Something at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 1 March – 30 June 2019. Photo: Tom Ross

DARREN SYLVESTER Carve A Future, Devour Everything, Become Something

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

1 Mar 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

Katie West, Nyinyart Yinda artist-in-residence program with Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation in Roebourne, Western Australia. Image credit: Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation. Courtesy of the artist.

Katie West: Clearing

TarraWarra Museum of Art

23 Mar 2019 - 19 May 2019

Manit Sriwanichpoom, Pink Man in Paradise #2, 2003, digital image, courtesy of the artist

Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia

RMIT Gallery

12 Apr 2019 - 1 Jun 2019

Installation view, Isadora Vaughan: Gaia not the Goddess. Photograph: Christian Capurro.

ISADORA VAUGHAN GAIA NOT THE GODDESS

Heide Museum of Modern Art

2 Mar 2019 - 23 Jun 2019

Albert Tucker, Apocalyptic Horse, 1956, oil on hardboard, 62 x 81 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Purchased 1982. Courtesy of Sotheby's Australia © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation.

APOCALYPTIC HORSE

Heide Museum of Modern Art

5 Mar 2019 - 15 Sep 2019

John Gollings, Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land, 2015, ink jet print on canson baryta paper, 150 x 225 cm. Reproduced with the permission of the late Margaret Katherine, Senior Elder of the Buyhmi clan and traditional owner of Nawarla Gabarnmang © John Gollings.

JOHN GOLLINGS SPIRIT OF PLACE

Heide Museum of Modern Art

23 Mar 2019 - 21 Jul 2019

Arlo Mountford, Walking the Line (still), 2013, dual channel HD digital animation, 4 channel surround sound, dimensions variable, 14 mins 37 secs.

Arlo Mountford: Deep Revolt

Shepparton Art Museum (SAM)

18 Apr 2019 - 10 Jun 2019

Penny Byrne, HIGH VIS (series), 2019. Photo by Matthew Stanton.

HIGH VIS: Protest, People and Power in a time of Fake News

Warrnambool Art Gallery

2 Mar 2019 - 19 May 2019

Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin, Tristen Parr, Rewriting the Score, 2019, Acrylic, oil, pigments on linen, 3 Channel 4K video with stereo sound, 230cm x 1150cm. Image courtesy of the artists and Australian Galleries.

REWRITING THE SCORE Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin & Tristen Parr

Latrobe Regional Gallery

13 Apr 2019 - 14 Jul 2019

Socrates Smith, Untitled 2 (detail), c1971-1972. Silver Gelatin Print.

The Lost Photographs of Socrates Smith: Sam Lloyd

Mildura Arts Centre

6 Apr 2019 - 9 Jun 2019

Renae Pennicuik, Urban Landscape Series, T&G Clock, The Setts, The Sandbar (detail), 2019.
Wheel thrown Stoneware Ceramics. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Nourish Contemporary Ceramics: Jennifer Gadsden and Renae Pennicuik

Mildura Arts Centre

4 Apr 2019 - 26 May 2019

Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo), campOUT, 2018, collage and acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.

insideOUT

Koorie Heritage Trust

4 May 2019 - 28 Jul 2019

From the exhibition 'Stigma: dismantled, revealed', 15 Feb – 7 June 2019

STIGMA: dismantled, revealed

The Dax Centre

15 Feb 2019 - 7 Jun 2019

GLEN EIRA Kent Morris, Boonwurung (St Kilda) - Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Celebrating Culture: Contemporary Indigenous art

Glen Eira City Council Gallery

2 May 2019 - 28 Jul 2019

MUMA Michael-Stevenson,-Classroom-furniture-for-CS183-in-Serene-Velocity-in-Practice-MC510-CS183,-2017

Michael Stevenson: Serene velocity in practice: MC510/CS183

Monash University Museum of Art

22 May 2019 - 6 Jul 2019

Lisa Reid, Life Drawing-seated, 2002, ink on paper, 50 x 60 cm,

FEM-aFFINITY

Arts Project Australia

15 Jun 2019 - 20 Jul 2019

Ross Manning, MIRROR IMAGE, 2019, 12v motors, custom mirror panels, intermittent timer, led pin spots, steel cable. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

MIRROR IMAGE: Ross Manning

ArtSpace at Realm

6 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

Erin Coates and Anna Nazzari, Dark Water [film still], 2019, 4K video, sound composition by Cat Hope & Decibel.

Erin Coates & Anna Nazzari: Dark Water

Linden New Art

4 May 2019 - 23 Jun 2019

Lisa Waup, continuity of protection 1 - ghost print [detail], 2018, screen printed handmade paper, 200 x 100cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Baluk Arts.

Baluk Arts: Elements

Linden New Art

4 May 2019 - 23 Jun 2019

Bill HENSON
Untitled 138 1985–86
from the series Untitled 1985–86
chromogenic print 106.0 x 86.0 cm
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection
courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries (Melbourne) and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney)

The light fades but the gods remain: Bill Henson

Monash Gallery of Art

27 Jul 2019 - 29 Sep 2019

Lydia WEGNER
Bathroom Red 2019
from the series Boyd House Constructions
courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne

Robin Boyd, a portrait of an Australian house

Monash Gallery of Art

25 May 2019 - 14 Jul 2019

YUNHUA ZHANG
Glowworms 2018
from the series Nocturnal
inkjet print
70.0 x 100.0 cm
courtesy of the artist

Develop

Monash Gallery of Art

25 May 2019 - 14 Jul 2019

Julian Rosefeldt
In the Land of Drought 2015–17 (still)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with support of the 2017 NGV
Curatorial Tour donors, 2018
© Julian Rosefeldt
Image courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE

Julian Rosefeldt: In the Land of Drought

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

19 Apr 2019 - 29 Sep 2019

Damien Shen, Still Life After Penn #2, 2017, printed aluminium plate, 30x30cm. Courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery.

unbranded

La Trobe Art Institute

6 May 2019 - 22 Jun 2019

Shi Yong 'A bunch of happy fantasies' 2009 (detail) White Rabbit Collection, Sydney © Shi Yong

A Fairy Tale in Red Times: Works from the White Rabbit Collection

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

3 May 2019 - 6 Oct 2019

Winner Packing Room Prize 2019, Tessa MacKay, Through the looking glass, oil on linen, 210 × 330.5 cm, © the artist.
Photo: AGNSW, Mim Stirling. Sitter: David Wenham – actor.

Archibald Prize 2019

TarraWarra Museum of Art

14 Sep 2019 - 5 Nov 2019

George Johnson, 'Point of View', 1992

Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945

RMIT Gallery

21 Jun 2019 - 17 Aug 2019

Yaya Sung, Melati Kindergarten in Nganjuk (Api Kartini, Year 1, No. 2, July 1959; page 4)
Digital print on composite panel, paint
80 x 80 cm

Present Measures: Yaya Sung

RMIT Intersect

2 May 2019 - 25 May 2019

Erika Ernawan, Sight No.1, 2019, Still from video

Sight: Erika Ernawan

RMIT Intersect

2 May 2019 - 25 May 2019

Events

ACC2019_PB_C_RB

ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019

23 Apr 2019 - 19 May 2019

Curatorial Intensive 2019

2019 PGAV Four Session Package

1 May 2019 - 31 Dec 2018

'Future Perfect' exhibition at Benalla Art Gallery, 6 October 2018 - 2 June 2019. Photo by Shape Creative.

Digitising Collections

Wednesday 8 May 2019, 8:30 AM - 5:15 PM

Gippsland Art Gallery Mathew Thomas Conversation Series 1FEB19

Engaging Audiences

Thursday 20 Jun 2019, 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM

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