Horsham Regional Art Gallery

PAST EXHIBITIONS

2008

MANMADE
23 October 2007 – 13 January 2008 (Federation Room)

GRAIN SILOS OF THE WIMMERA AND MALLEE
November 13, 2007 – January 6, 2008 (Photographic Gallery)
Large scale black and white photographs by Ian Hill of grain silos of north-west Victoria. Many of the silos are no longer in use and face an uncertain future in an era of centralised management and corporate consolidation.

THE GREAT SOUTHWEST WALK
December 11, 2007 -February 3, 2008 (Handbury & Mann Galleries)
Contemporary artists working in a range of media interpret one of Victoria’s most beautiful walks. Toured by National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAUL CARRACHER
December 18 2007 – February 24 2008 (Community Gallery)
Photographs of Wimmera sports action and news 2000 - 2006 by former Wimmera Mail Times photographer, Paul Carracher.

THE ROMANCE OF DEATH
January 8 –March 2 (Photography Gallery)
Lyrical black and white photographs taken in many burial grounds of Paris by Annette Willis. These works explore symbols of human drama and how memorials are transformed into metaphors for life, grief, and sometimes art.

FAMILY PORTRAITS
January 15 – March 16 2008 (Federation Room)
Disturbing and amusing composite images produced by Sydney artist, John Immig from “found” negatives. Curated by Trevor Smith from the Photographic Collection.

THEY COMMUNICATE DIFFERENTLY TO WOMEN
15 January – 15 April 2008 (Federation Room)
Images from the collection investigating men at work, rest and play. Curated by Adam Harding.

GRAEME MAC GREGOR: GRAMAC REVISITED 08
5 February - 16 March, 2008 (Handbury & Mann Galleries)

ALL PRIZE WINNERS PARADED
4 March – 27 April 2008 (Photography Gallery)
Large format photographs by Jo Grant taken at many country agricultural shows.

ART IS… PULLING STRINGS
February 26 – May 4 (Community Gallery)
Community exhibition of works in all media on the festival theme.

PICTORIALISM – ART IN PHOTOGRAPHY
March 18 – May 25, 2008 (Federation Room)
Pictorialist photographs selected from Horsham’s Photographic Collection by Trevor Smith.

THINGS I LIKE TO DO WITH MY FAMILY
5 May – 8 June, 2008 (Community Gallery)
Natimuk primary students show what they like doing with their families. Organised by Wimmera Uniting Care.

THIS PLACE
March 18 –May 18, 2008 (Handbury Gallery)
Three women artists whose work is based on particular places in this region. Prints formed by salinity and drought in the Wimmera by Canberra artist, Heather Burness; photographs of the people of Nhill by Aspinah Houspian; felt sculpture and wearable art inspired by the environment of Yarriambiack by Rosemary Kingsmill.

CHARLIE SUBLET: THE BLUE MAN
15 May – 8 July 2008 (Photographic Gallery)
Themes of depression and loneliness explored by Melbourne photographer, Charlie Sublet.

2008 TOURING BLAKE PRIZE
May 20–July 13 2008 (Handbury Gallery)
The Blake Prize for Religious Art was established in Sydney in 1949 to raise the standard of contemporary religious art. Winning works have often attracted controversy and debate over the definition of “religious” .

RECENT ACQUISITIONS 2005 – 2008
May 27 – August 10, 2008 (Federation Room)
Selected photographs acquired by HRAG in the past few years. Includes works by Deborah Paauwe, Darren Siwes, Jo Grant, Peter Milne, Mark Strizic, Peter Lyssiotis, Andrew Chapman, Tim Webster, Charles Page.

UMBILICUS
June 24 –August 17, 2008 (Photography Gallery)
Charlie Sublet’s photographs explore attachment, memory and loss as experienced through the Mercy Hospital for Women’s vacated East Melbourne site.

DACCHI DANG: LIMINAL
10 July – 2 September, 2008 (Photographic Gallery)
Installation by an Australian/Vietnamese artist exploring the borderline of photography and design.

ALEX LYALL: SURVEY EXHIBITION
15 July – 7 September, 2008 (Handbury & Mann Galleries)
Paintings and drawings by the late Alexandra Lyall of St Arnaud artist.

DARREN SCOTT: KOKODA
5 August – 28 September, 2008 (Community Gallery)
Photographs taken while trekking the Kokoda Trail in 2007.

ENID MAYFIELD: FIELD AND FLORA IN ART
4 September – 28 October, 2008 (Photographic Gallery)
Detailed watercolour drawings of orchids, lilies and irises of the Otway region by scientific illustrator and author, Enid Mayfield.

LOOP: NEW AUSTRALIAN VIDEO ART
9 September – 2 November, 2008 (Handbury Gallery)
Loop: new Australian video art showcases innovative contemporary video art by five of Australia’s leading artists, including Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell, Jess MacNeil, Arlo Mountford and Daniel von Sturmer. Testing the boundaries of this visual medium, the works in Loop present a spliced meditation on time, space, motion, place and perspective. A NETS Victoria touring exhibition.

STEVE MORVELL: FLEETING VISIONS
9 September – 2 November, 2008 (Mann Gallery)
Sketches of wildlife from the Bill & Maureen Mann Collection of Australian Wildlife Art selected by HRAG Curator, Adam Harding.

ART UNLIMITED: REFRACTION
30 September – 26 October, 2008 (Community Gallery)
Artworks by Geelong based artists with a disability. A feature of Awakenings festival.

PEN, PENCILS AND PAINT
28 October – 23 November, 2008 (Community Gallery)
Artworks executed by members of the Friday’s Art Group Horsham Community House.

PROSPECT AND REFUGE: SMALL LANDSCAPES BY FIVE PAINTERS
30 October, 2008 – 7 January, 2009
Small paintings of particular places by Mary Tonkin, Peter Wegner, Geoff Dupree, Ken Smith and Maryanne Coutts.

BEYOND REASONABLE DROUGHT
4 November 2008 – 11 January, 2009 (Handbury & Mann Galleries)
Photographs showing the reality and impacts of drought by some of Australia’s best documentary photographers.

BEING THERE: TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY BY STAFF FROM WARRACKNABEAL SECONDARY COLLEGE
25 November – 5 January, 2008 (Community Gallery)

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Image: Matthew SLEETH, Security, 2005-08, type c photograph on dibond aluminium, purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund with the assistance of the Robert Salzer Foundation, 2009. © Reproduced courtesy of the artist.

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