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Opening drinks: Saturday 2 February 3pm – 5pm YES by Catherine Gomersall ContainART Mobile Gallery Eureka Centre 2-27 February 2019 The ContainART Mobile Gallery is an initiative of the City of Ballarat delivering exhibitions of local and regional artists to the broader community. Each month the ContainART Mobile Gallery is relocated to a new suburb […]
Find out more »Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival
The Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival is a three day event hosting events off The Lane in and around The George Hotel and in Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat. The Festival celebrates all things Rockabilly including the music, the fashion, the cars, the dancing and the fun. Ticketed events include Rockabilly and Rock and Roll bands from […]
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ART GALLERY OF BALLARAT EXHIBITION – LOUISEANN KING: SOLIS
This exhibition is located upstairs in the Ferry and Crouch galleries, within the display of the Gallery collection.
It can be viewed without a BOAA ticket.
Find out more »Louiseann King: solis
Louiseann King is a sculptor/installation artist and academic based in Eganstown, a physical and historical landscape which is highly charged, complex and capable of subtle and dramatic change. She is a maker and a collector of time and place; her practice is one where she works with nuance, subtlety, the liminal, the forgotten and the […]
Find out more »THE NUMINA SISTERS
The Numina sisters are a talented family of artists who were taught to paint by their female relatives connected across the Central Desert region of the Northern Territory. Their aunties are renowned artists Kathleen and Gloria Petyarre. Their mother’s Country is at remote Stirling Station, while their father is from the Utopia community. The Numina […]
Find out more »Testament – Robert Salzer Foundation Acquisitions
Testament presents a decade of acquisitions purchased with the generous assistance of the Robert Salzer foundation. The exhibition reveals the dynamic uptake of textiles in Australia's contemporary art practice, showcasing new and unexpected approaches to textiles in art.
Find out more »Fifty – Celebrating 50 Years of Collecting Fibre Art
Presenting a selection of the collections best loved works alongside some of its rarely seen gems, the half century milestone of the Ararat Gallery provides a moment to reflect on the importance of the TAMA collection. An extraordinary repository that tracks the development of fibre based practice from the early 1970s through to today; a […]
Find out more »Animalia Australis – An Art Gallery of Ballarat Touring Exhibition
This exhibition, selected from the Art Gallery of Ballarat's extensive collection, celebrates the first encounters between white explorers, scientists and settlers with the animals of the Southern Continent and highlights the prevailing perceptions amd depictions of native fauna of the period.
Find out more »Paul E. Mason – Looking for Baudin
Referencing the expedition of the Fench explorer Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803), Mason's reliquaries are a contemporary interpretation of early contact with the politics of exploration, discovery and colonial prospecting using stone, pewter, gold leaf surfaced cast resin and French historical objects.
Find out more »Olaf And Kerstens Exhibition @ Craig’s Hotel Ballarat
Ballarat International Foto Biennale in collaboration with Craig's Royal Hotel Ballarat presents a Regional Victoria exclusive of two significant Dutch photographers, Erwin Olaf and Hendrik Kerstens, paying homage to the traditional Flemish masters of the 16th Century. This exhibition is toured by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This exciting exhibition is open seven days and […]
Find out more »Photography exhibition – international film photographer Kikie Wilkins
Infocus Photography & Video is proud to present international film photographer Kikie Wilkins' first solo exhibition this summer. Opening on 14 November 2018, Kikie's work "combines the elements of street photography with an engrained reverie for cultural and architectural monuments", and displays both the sedate monochrome of old and the riotous colour of new, all captured […]
Find out more »Locals Rule: Identity
EXHIBITION DATES & OPENING HOURS 24 November – 10 February Open 10am – 5pm daily LOCALS RULE: Identity uncovers a diversity of artistic practice from the Ballarat region. The exhibition showcases the talents of eleven local artists, who explore the theme of identity and what it means to be an artist working in a regional […]
Find out more »Lumina Collective: Echoes
EXHIBITION DATES & OPENING HOURS 15 December 2018 – 10 March 2019 Open 10am – 5pm daily Today we are more used to making, taking and consuming photographs than ever before. Lumina Collective’s exhibition Echoes explores the ways in which photographic image-making in Australia is linked to questions of identity and place, and to generational […]
Find out more »Natural abstraction at Backspace Gallery
In this joint multimedia exhibition, artists Lynden Nicholls, Rosalind Lawson, Andrew Thomas and Perter Coogle have used a range of mediums to provoke enquiry into our engagement with art making and nature. All works are sourced from the natural world and question our assumptions of nature’s beauty and power. Please joins us for the opening […]
Find out more »10:00 am
Art in the Vines at Hanging Rock Winery – Sculpture Exhibition and Trail
Art in the Vines at Hanging Rock Winery is the first of its kind to be held in the Macedon Ranges. Visitors can wander through a trail of discovery across the winery's expansive lawns, exploring the works of 25 leading local, national and international sculptors. And these are not just any sculptors, we’re talking artists […]
Find out more »7:00 pm
Loves’s Labour’s Lost
The Bard in Buninyong returns to the beautiful Buninyong Botanic Gardens with a 70 minute version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. King Henri of Navarre and his three companions swear off women, earthly delights and wine for three years, to concentrate on study, sleeplessness and fasting. But they haven’t counted on the arrival of the French […]
Find out more »8:00 pm
STEVE SMYTH @ THE EASTERN STATION HOTEL
Steve Smyth is one of those artists who draws you in even before you’ve heard him perform. There seems to be an energy that clings to him which reaps mystery and a deep, honest passion. And when you see him perform you feel like he’s conveying a million conversations, a million experiences filled with heartache, […]
Find out more »Magpie Diaries: On Tour @ The Eastern
Magpie Johnston is a unique fella. Born and bred to be the Dashville man, he grew up on the same rural property where he now hosts some of the best weekend outdoor parties Australia has to offer. Generally consumed by festival creation and the “running of the project”, it was the desire to play music […]
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