Arthur Wicks Mining the Archive from the 60s
Orbital 1967
Arthur Wicks Mining the Archive.
Tahlia Scadden Visions Unveiled
Visions Unveiled by Tahlia Scadden
Emerging artist Tahlia Scadden will launch her first solo exhibition at The Curious Rabbit having finished school and about to study art.
Tahlia Scadden is a 16 year old artist who works in a variety of media. Whilst art has always been a beloved hobby for her, she has exhibited in many local exhibitions and been the recipient of multiple art awards. Tahlia is now moving forward to further her education in art and build a career within the art industry. Tahlia explains,
“Creating art has always been in my family line, a tradition, and a significant part of my life. I admire my father’s artistic talents and I'm always trying to make him proud. As a child from a long line of artists, I was nurtured and inspired. I had a powerful imagination and the ability to see the world through a colourful lens. My art today is a reflection of my life and how I see myself. Art is a therapy for me. A safe place where I can communicate things that are often difficult to put into words. I believe art should reflect your true inner self – your emotions, your story and even the darkest parts of your experience – It’s okay to face those realities as it’s only through honesty that we can move forward and if we are lucky, we will find the beauty in the brokenness. This is the art I create and put out into the world.”
Tahlia Scadden Self Portrait
Christmas Group Exhibition
Leigh Hewitt, Get on Board, Oil on Canvas 75cm x 100cm
Christmas Group Exhibition
A group exhibition by a range of local artists both established and emerging. Including Leigh Hewitt, Joel Markham, Raeleen Pfeiffer, Chris Roe, Coral Lancaster, Sam Hatzis, Arthur Wicks, Christina Reid, Aunty Fay Moseley, William Wallace, Arvis Casanova, Joc Mason, Rachael Dobson, Derek Motion, Hayley Roberts, Craig Couzens, Thomas Middlemost, and Greg Carosi.
Mysteres by Joel Markham
Mysteres is the French word for mysteries, with dictionary.com defining the singular as '"anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown". The Mysteres Project thereby sees the artist using photography - a medium that is often associated with documenting reality - to explore decidedly abstract terrain in the form of the new mysteries that permeate our experience of life - Joel Markham
Our Story, Our Voice
Aunty Fay is a strong, independent Wiradjuri woman, who has had a very challenging but compelling journey from her childhood to where she is today. Currently, she is an Elder, a sister, a mother of four, a grandmother of nineteen, a great grandmother of six and an aunty. She has also been a member of various committees including the Coota Girls Corporation and the Stolen Generations Advisory Committee, as well as being an amazing artist!
During her adult life she has had a career in nursing, worked in Juvenile Justice and for DOCS (Department of Community Services) and was
the ‘boss’ (CEO) of the Liverpool Local Aboriginal Lands Council. Over her adult life she told us that she has been involved in many “mad and wonderful things.”
Currently, working alongside her partner Uncle Bill Wallace, Aunty Fay continues to create beautiful detailed paintings.
Chris Palmer - Remnants 2023
Remnants, August 2023
Chris Palmer brings together drawings from two periods that dwell
on remnants. The works are a reflection on what is left behind when
external forces – whether the makings of nature or humans – prevail.
In the works, Palmer explores places seen on his travels around rural
Victoria as well as the spaces that he calls home.
Brendan Kennedy
Brendan Kennedy: Thangalu Purtowen Ngawingi
Brendan Kennedy is a Tati Tati, Latji Latji, Wadi Wadi, Mutti Mutti, Yitha Yitha and Nari Nari artist working in painting and the making of cultural material. Kennedy is a member of Museums Victoria’s First Peoples Yulendj (Knowledge) Group and works in the revival of language in southeastern Australia.
I am of the Tati Tati, Latji Latji, Wadi Wadi, Mutti Mutti, Yitha Yitha and Nari Nari peoples of the Murray River, Murrumbidgee River, Lachlan River, Edwards River and Wakool River Country in Australia.
I continue to practice and share my Ancestral peoples connection to Mother Earth through my art, songs, dance, language, cultural heritage, customs, beliefs, spirituality and knowledges. I care for Country and my people and I will remain on Country forever, just as my Ancestral people always have since creation.
Pulki Pulki Bapurra thangurra matha delki
(Old Mother Earth is not happy)
Song by Brendan Kennedy in Mutti Mutti Language
Pulki Pulki Bapurra thangurra matha
delki thangurra kulethwil kili kima
Very old our Mother Earth is not happy
our Earth is angry this here now
Bapurra thangurra wukatha kathai ngawingi
nga pukatha kirtapin karrawi wilangi
Our Mother Earth is giving the
hot sun and make big wind
Brendan Kennedy is a Tati Tati, Latji Latji, Wadi Wadi, Mutti Mutti, Yitha Yitha and Nari Nari artist working in painting and the making of cultural material. Kennedy is a member of Museums Victoria’s First Peoples Yulendj (Knowledge) Group and works in the revival of language in southeastern Australia.
The World Around
Wagga’s Multicultural Youth Arts Group presents The World Around - an exhibition of works created in Wagga Wagga about the big, beautiful messy world that surrounds us.
Wagga’s Multicultural Youth Arts Group is a partnership between Create Hub Riverina and STARTTS Wagga Wagga facilitated by Claire Harris. This program is made possible through funding by Riverina Water.
Make an Impression
Curated by Elaine Sullivan, ‘Make an Impression’ explores identity and place through printmaking, while celebrating our connection to peers after years of isolation.
With new works by local artists Tegan Bailey, Lorri Blackwell, Mary Egan, Leigh Hewitt, Amelia Jane, Donna Longobardi, Nina Magrath, Alison Makin, Freda Marnie, Kate Morell, Sarah Teflar, Annelise Trulicio and Sue Wood.
Friends of the Gallery Art Auction Exhibition
Friends of the Gallery Art Auction Exhibition
Join us to celebrate the diverse, talented and generous artists of the Riverina with an exhibition of works that will go under the hammer as a fundraiser for Friends of the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery on 26th March.
The exhibition will feature works by Joel Markham, Juanita Maclaughlan, Juju Roche, Craig Couzens, Greg Carosi, Angela Champ, James Farley and Christina Reid among others.
Exhibition opening 9 March.
Dinner and Auction on the final day of the Archibald Exhibition in the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery on the 26th featuring Blak Douglas March 6pm tickets available here.
Bruno Leti Exhibition
Bruno Leti Exhibition
In celebration of the launch of the book Bruno Leti Series A Life of Images by Thomas Middlemost, we are featuring a exhibition of selected works by Bruno.
Bruno Leti (born 1941), is a painter, printmaker, photographer and publisher of artists’ books. His semi-abstract etchings, woodcuts, aquatints, monoprints and collagraphs are well known in Australia through exhibitions and numerous publications. Leti’s paintings are closely related to his graphics, featuring elegant abstractions with restrained use of colour and balanced compositional aspect. Leti is also recognised as a leading figure in the genre of artists’ books, having published these regularly since the 1980s. Leti has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1960s in Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide as well as abroad, most notably in Chicago, Cologne, Kyoto, Milan, New York, and Washington DC.B
Thomas Middlemost is art curator at Charles Sturt University and has a PhD in art history from Australian National University. He was foundation chair of the Arts Advisory Committee City of Wagga Wagga from 2001 to 2009 a board member of the Council of Australian University Museums and Collections from 2007 to 2012 and interned at the Tate Modern in 2001. He is an irregular contributor to IMPRINT, the journal of the Print Council of Australia, and a printmaking friendly curator.
Christian College Year 12 Students of 2022 Exhibition
Celebrating the impressive work of the year 12 students from the Wagga Wagga Christian College class of 2022.
Christmas Art Exhibition
Arthur Wicks, Flying Sculpture Taking Aim, Mixed Medium, $2,000
Tracey Jones
Artist Bio, Tracey Jones.
Tracey Jones is currently enrolled in her final year of a Bachelor of Fine Art degree at RMIT, Melbourne. Jones also holds a Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts from RMIT. Her recent exhibitions include Archives of Feeling Project, RMIT Design Hub, RMIT Gallery, 2022 and The Dutch Project, Westend Art Space, Melbourne 2022. She is a finalist in the Fisher Ghost Art Prize 2022 and in 2021 Jones was a finalist in The National Art Prize, The Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize and The Wyndham Art Prize as well as being awarded The Art Encouragement Award at the Linden Postcard Show.
Her practice encompasses painting and drawing to engage with past methods and techniques favoured by the European realist painters. She employs these approaches to create realistic images using familiar objects arranged in compositions that form affective or emotional connections that elicit memories and experiences from the viewer.
NEST Exhibition
The Nest Studio is a female artist collective of regional emerging creative practitioners who are in the early stages of their career, recent creative graduates or in their final year of study.
In their debut group exhibition 'Self and Surrounds' the Nest explores the diverse ways in which we experience and interpret the world around us.
Through distorted spaces, changing landscapes and finding beauty in the everyday, Nest Studio explores the places and spaces that have become the focus of their practice over the last year.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Charles Sturt Community University Partnership Grant Program.
Creature Comforts
Creature Comforts is an eclectic collection of works inspired by real and imagined creatures by artists from The Art Factory Supported Studio.
A group exhibition by Michael Beeson, Christelle Papadakis, Raine Mitter, Annelise Triulcio and Kellie Hulm.
Comfort Binge
Comfort Binge
Comfort Binge - The Revenge brings together Liam’s bright and bold portrait style with favourite characters from popular culture.
Chris Campbell Art Auction
Join us to celebrate art and life at the Art Auction Fundraiser for Chris Campbell.
Chris Campbell's life was turned upside down when he dived over a wave while bodysurfing at Surf Beach at the tender age of 19 when he struck the sandbar and shattered his C5 and C6 vertebrae which severed his spinal cord and resulted in him being a quadriplegic. To pass the time he bought a kid painting kit and did his first painting of a volcano. Painting kept his mind busy giving less time to think.
By thinking outside the square, Chris invented some ways that he could get certain effects my canvases after watching a lot of YouTube video on the basics of painting he picked up some tips and methods on how to paint objects like trees, water and things like that. After around 250 paintings he started understanding the terms contrast lighting sources the use of colours and siding.
Chris has had two exhibitions in Tuross Heads, this will be his first in Wagga - his birthplace. There will be 22 works up for auction. You will receive a catalogue prior to the auction.
All money raised in the auction will go towards a new wheelchair for Chris so he can get on the beach.
BUOY/BOY
BUOY/BOY - Oil paintings by Leigh Hewitt
Featuring large portraits painted during a recent residency at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, this exhibition looks at local individuals and the passions and pursuits that buoy and sustain them. Early parenthood and the domestic are some themes of other works.
Arthur Wicks Painted Sketches
Arthur Wicks Painted Sketches (1991-92).
The bones of these sketches were laid down on location. Maintaining the spirit and essence of place, at a particular point in time, requires speed of execution. From this there develops a sense of urgency which is characteristic of many of the sketches in this body of work. These fleeting images are a reimagining of that site; relying on the visual memory to sustain that first impression.
Check out the video - Four Seasons. A 12 month diary record from 27 December 1979 to 26 December 1980 at 18 Lampe Avenue Wagga Wagga here
Slides of some of the works can be viewed here
My Secret Garden by Elizabeth Doherty
My Secret Garden by Elizabeth Doherty at The Curious Rabbit
Tea and Time by Juanita McLauchlan
Tea and Time, an exhibition by Juanita McLauchlan at The Curious Rabbit
Fragments of Self by Elaine Camlin
Elaine Camlin: Fragments of Self brings together printmaking, drawing, artist books and poetic responses exploring the body as vessels of felt sensing, patterned experiencing, embodied awareness, personal histories and values. The exhibition is significantly influenced by an emergent understanding of Therapeutic Arts Practice, as it unfolds through the artists postgraduate studies. Each portrait considers the concept of self, our internal awareness and how these perceptions are influenced by external fragments.
Inspired by Animals by Eli Sullivan
Eli Sullivan: Inspired by Animals showcases paintings by an inquisitive 6-year old who loves animals and dinosaurs and dreams to open a zoo and aquarium one day. Playing with paint from 2 months of age, Eli loves layering, colour-mixing and using a combination of paint brushes and finger painting. In 2021 Eli exhibited Beautiful Sunflowers in the inaugural Young Drawer’s Prize at M16 artspace and in 2022 was selected as a finalist in the Little Darlings Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery for his portrait, Ring-tail Possum at Night. The paintings exhibited in Inspired by Animals celebrate Eli’s animal encounter’s and include works from 2019 to 2022.
Image: Eli Sullivan, Wallaby and Joey, 2021, acrylic on canvas. Photo credit: F.Stop Workshop
What Women Experience in COVID Art Competition
Wagga Wagga Women’s Health Centre present the What Women Experience Art Competition Exhibition at The Curious Rabbit
Over the last 18 months we have seen major changes to our lives and our communities. Some changes have been welcome, such as the increase in service availability through online health and support services. increased access to arts and culture via virtual tours, technological advances allowing greater flexibility for some work locations and the recognition of social support and mental health.
Some changes, however, have been devastating such as increased isolation, lockdown, financial insecurity and restrictions to our way of life.
The ‘What Women Experience’ project encourages women to reflect on their challenges, opportunities, changes, and inspirations which have been borne out of, what has certainly been, a trying and exhaustive 12 months. We are inviting women of all ages and all or no previous artistic experience to reflect on what this period of time has meant to them and express that through their chosen art form.
Wagga Wagga Women’s Health Centre
