Votive offerings (detail) 

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Artists

Kids

Members

Teachers

Tas Wansbrough: Fragments of healing

TEXT/SCREEN/TEXT

Henrik Haukeland: TEXT/SCREEN/TEXT

Cherry sampler

Petra Rodgers: Song in the wood

John

Brian O’Dwyer: Multipurpose

Shades of Aboriginality 

Leicolhn McKellar: Guma

Peter Waples-Crowe Ngaya (I Am) [still] 2022; single-channel video installation, 5 minutes. With Rhian Hinkley and composer Harry Covill. Commissioned by ACMI. Courtesy of the artist © Peter Waples-Crowe

Ngaya (I Am) [still] 

Peter Waples-Crowe: Ngaya (I Am)

Daughter-Horse I from ‘Baba Yaga’s herd of mares’ 

Chrissy Button: Daughters of Baba Yaga

Stephanie Cartledge White's seahorse amidst the seagrass 2024 Acrylic on Canvas framed in Natural Flooded Gum Photo credit Holly Hawkins

White's seahorse amidst the seagrass

Stephanie Cartledge: Conservation Status

THE IMPERIALISTS from the series ‘COLONY (Mastotermes Darwiniensis)’

The Colony Cares for Everyone 

Liss Fenwick

gwoyarr-ma

Jenna Lee

Untitled (Yass scene)

Harold Herbert

Seated Figure/Self Portrait with Interchangeable Head

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Evie Cahir Home Words IIII 2021. Watercolour on paper. Courtesy the artist.

Home Words IIII

Evie Cahir: Benny’s

QUIET/LOUD

NELL

People's Choice

I learned why

‘Nunatak’ brand identity, social media assets & chalk bag prototype

Women through scarlet lenses

Misperception

VCE Art & Design

Next Gen 2025

When only a mixed metaphor will do

Into the maw

Deborah Wood

Forever I Live

Ill Upgraded

Foreign Mindset

Girl

JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live

Atherreyurre

Thea Anamara Perkins: Atherreyurre 

Wandering through Ballarat’s streets in Spring will sound different this year. Like a chart-topping tune you can’t get out of your head, its melody will be heard for the next few months. A riff that creates a rift in public space! As the sound echoes through the spaces, you may find yourself drawn to come closer.

Call & response

HP Newquist, founder and Executive Director of the National Guitar Museum (USA) was interviewed by Gallery Director Louise Tegart. Medieval to Metal features guitars from the National Guitar Museum alongside historical and contemporary artworks, photographs and posters. 

Celebrating the guitar  – Medieval to Metal

Gibson Les Paul Recording beside Tiger Yaltangki Malpa Wiru (Good Friends) (Modified image)

Teardrop Mark VI

Warlock Red

Malpa Wiru (Good Friends)

Lenny Kravitz

Joan Jett

Troy Caser Daly

The art & evolution of the guitar

Medieval to metal

Imprint

Diokno Pasilan

Exhibitions

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