Rural City of Wangaratta

1987 – 2012

Twenty five years of successful operations deserves to be celebrated in style with the Wangaratta Art Gallery set to present a year-long program of exhibitions and events to mark its Silver Jubilee birthday.

The exciting Silver Jubilee Program will be launched by Cr. Robert Paino, Mayor of the Rural City of Wangaratta, on Friday February 10 at 5.30pm in the Wangaratta Art Gallery.  Aspects of the growing Gallery Permanent Art Collection will also be on display and celebrated at the event.  The Recent Acquisitions exhibition includes works by Dr Joseph Brown, Judy Cassab and Andrew Christofides, important new Cultural Gifts, together with new textiles, paintings and works on paper.

A highlight of the 2012 program will be the SILVER exhibition, which will be opened on 30 March by Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria Dr. Frances Lindsay.  The exhibition explores the use of silver in contemporary visual and decorative arts.  Works drawn from private and public collections include painting, sculpture, jewellery, ceramics and textiles. Artists include George Baldessin, Robert Baines, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Carlier Makigawa, Marc Newson, Sally Smart and Stelarc,

A solo painting exhibition of altered landscapes by Benalla’s Tony Flint will be installed in late May and early June.  Bill Henson’s superb and much talked about photographic works are touring to Wangaratta from the Monash Gallery of Art in late July and August.  An exhibition of exciting drawings and domestic sculpture by Melbourne’s Bruce Armstrong presents over 60 works and is accompanied by a 96 page full-colour publication documenting over 100 drawings from the past 30 years.  

The exhibition program will finish in December with a major retrospective of works by Wangaratta’s own Lorna Chick 1922-2007, one of our regions most celebrated artists.

The Gallery will be hosting a Silver Jubilee Celebratory Dinner, scheduled for Saturday 01 September 2012, in the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre’s Memorial Hall.  It promises to deliver great food and live entertainment with a dress code reflecting the silver theme! Further details relating to the dinner will be circulated in coming months.

For more information and exhibition dates contact Gallery Director, Dianne Mangan on 0357220865.

The artist and title for the work depicted on this webpage is:

George Baldessin
Untitled 1972
triptych
cast aluminium

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