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  • 4 November – 12 December 2019 – The Art Factory End of Year Exhibition

    4 November – 12 December 2019 – The Art Factory End of Year Exhibition

    The Art Factory is a supported studio that provides artists with guidance, mentoring, networks and career paths to assist in establishing and maintaining a contemporary arts practice.

    The studio opened in 2016 at Riverina Community College with 7 members. It has since grown significantly. This year, the end of year showcase features works from 24 artists who form the Established, Emerging, Temora and After School Art Factory groups.

    The 2019 End of Year Exhibition was officially opened by SCCI lecturer and former Art Factory team member, Dr. James Farley.

  • 18 October – 1 November | BLOOM 2019

    18 October – 1 November | BLOOM 2019

    BLOOM 2019 is the first Creative Industries End of Year Festival for students from the School of Communication and Creative Industries. Bloom celebrates the most ambitious and exciting work produced by Creative Industries students of all disciplines throughout the year.

    The BLOOM 2019 program included a suite of performances at the CSU Riverina Playhouse, a screening of film and television productions and an exhibition.

    BLOOM 2019 was sponsored by Thirsty Crow, Kayell Australia, and the Wagga Wagga Rules Club.

    BLOOM 2019

    Video courtesy of Timothy Crutchett

  • 12 August – 20 September | The Art of Ageing

    12 August – 20 September | The Art of Ageing

    Wagga Wagga residents are encouraged to challenge their views on older people by visiting the Art of Ageing Exhibition currently showing at the H.R. Gallop Gallery at Charles Sturt University.

    A learner driver, gymnast and ukulele player are among the extraordinary older people who feature in the 2018-2019 exhibition, which celebrates the lives of older people living in regional NSW.

    The NSW Government commissioned this exhibition to highlight the incredible lives of seniors and promote inclusive communities for all generations.

    Minister for Seniors John Sidoti said the exhibition aims to express the joy of ageing and challenge negative perceptions of getting older. “The Art of Ageing exhibition recognises and places value on seniors and their stories,” Mr Sidoti said.

    “It is important that we not only celebrate the valuable contributions of seniors, but also challenge ageist stereotypes.”

    “Seniors have diverse experiences, knowledge and skills and this exhibition showcases this to the wider community.”

    The exhibition will travel to 25 locations and comprises the work of five photographers from Wagga Wagga, Taree, Molong, Mudgee, and Goulburn.

  • 29 April – 31 May, 2019 | PLACE: A Travelling Exhibition of Artists’ Books

    29 April – 31 May, 2019 | PLACE: A Travelling Exhibition of Artists’ Books

    The School of Communication & Creative Industries invites you to PLACE, a travelling exhibition of artists’ books.
    Curated by artists Liz Jeneid and Avril Makula, PLACE brings together a selection of book artists from NSW, the ACT, Victoria, and Queensland to explore the theme of place in their work, whether a physical location or a place of their imagination.

  • 11 March – 5 April 2019 | TRACES by Louisa Waters

    11 March – 5 April 2019 | TRACES by Louisa Waters

    Exploring the landscape through practices of walking, listening and visually interpreting, Louisa Waters critiques forgotten histories and ideologies of place.

    Louisa’s practice is concerned with the space where history and landscape intersect. Where memories and discourses produced by places create ideology and how ideology informs notions of place. Waters is interested in deconstructing fixed notions of place and seeking out more fluid understandings of the landscapes we inhabit.

  • 4 December – 20  December 2018 – The Art Factory End of Year Exhibition

    4 December – 20 December 2018 – The Art Factory End of Year Exhibition

    The Art Factory is a supported studio that provides artists with guidance, mentoring, networks and career paths to assist in establishing and maintaining a contemporary arts practice.

    The studio opened in 2016 at Riverina Community College with 7 members. It has since grown to accommodate over 15 practising artists. This exhibition will bring together a selection of artworks created in The Art Factory studio in 2018.

    Isobel Lambert, a new artist to the studio says, “Working in The Art Factory studio is fun and inspiring. Being surrounded by great artists is very enjoyable.”

    Tia Kissier, agrees with Isobel and comments, “I love to paint and be around the other artists. This will be my first exhibition and I feel really excited.”

    “The end of year exhibition from the Art Factory is a great way to see the wonderful work each artist is making. The studio is a vibrant place where people with learning disability can be themselves and focus on their art making. All of the works are for sale and buying something directly supports the artists. I encourage everyone to come along and see the work of some excellent Riverina artists,” says Sarah McEwan, the Artistic Director.

  • 11 September – 5 October 2018 | Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum

    11 September – 5 October 2018 | Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum

    Obsolete?
    Artist, Object, Small Museum
    Nicole Barakat, Aleshia Lonsdale, Fiona MacDonald + Professor Lyndall Ryan

    Artists Nicole Barakat, Aleshia Lonsdale and Fiona MacDonald apply their creative and investigatory flair to museum collections, in this case to Kandos Museum on the NSW Central Tablelands and Dubbo Regional Museum. The exhibition title Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum, asks a central question: how can ordinary lives, then and now, and provincial objects randomly collected, illuminate Big Picture issues?

    By using contemporary art’s collaborative processes, the artists create a regional historiography to engage with critical national conversations on the events, policy and propaganda that have subjugated Indigenous people and on current environmental and land contest. Their theatrical strategies mix assemblage and performance and re-making or unmaking every day or sublime objects to shed light on who assigns value and, therefore, who claims History.

    Download Catalogue  |  Download Floor sheet

  • 13 August – 7 September 2018 | Elsewhere: Travels through Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Central Asia

    13 August – 7 September 2018 | Elsewhere: Travels through Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Central Asia

    Wendy Sharpe, Uzbekistan Scroll (detail) 2017

     

    Elsewhere: Travels through Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Central Asia is a touring exhibition that will visit Wagga Wagga and Griffith in 2018, Dubbo and Port Macquarie in 2019, and Tamworth in 2020.

    Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Edward Said’s book ‘Orientalism’, acclaimed artists Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis critically reflect on travel and drawing as creative practices to help us witness and understand each other.

    Elsewhere is curated by Dr Sam Bowker with the support of the NSW Government through Create NSW and Charles Sturt University.

    Tour Dates:

    HR Gallop Gallery, CSU Wagga Wagga – 13 August to 7 September 2018

    Griffith Regional Art Gallery – 29 September to 4 November 2018

    Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo: May – June 2019

    The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie: 20 July – 29 September 2019

    Tamworth Regional Art Gallery: 8 February – 22 March 2020

     

    An opening event will be held in the HR Gallop Gallery, Wagga Wagga, on Thursday 23 August at 6 pm.

     

     

     

  • 16 July – 10 August, 2018 | The Athlete – Joshua Thomas

    16 July – 10 August, 2018 | The Athlete – Joshua Thomas

    The Athlete depicts two unique bodies of work addressing athleticism. Interested in the psyche of the athlete, Joshua Thomas enters the subcultures of these sports, observing from within to explore ideas of masculinity, manhood and community.

    The series ‘The Athlete’ has two parts, focusing on two gym subcultures through a documentary-style.

    Adicto a la Formación outlines the rich culture of Mexico City’s DIY athleticism. The gym is not located within a building but on the streets, featuring steel bars, slabs of concrete and seemingly abstract, dystopian machines.

    Muscle Works explores the environment of London’s most celebrated Body Building Gyms of the same name. Muscle Works Gym is home to many of the UK’s top bodybuilders and was founded by Savvas Kyriacou in 1988. When he was competing as a bodybuilder, Savvas set out on a mission to create the ultimate training environment, which rapidly became famous for forging some of the most impressive physiques the country has ever seen. Muscle Works is presented in the form of a zine, which was created during a three-week intensive photo-documentary workshop with the highly prestigious Magnum Photo Agency.

    Joshua Thomas has a Bachelor of Creative Practice (Photography) (Honours) from the School of Communication and Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Young Regional Artist Scholarship from Create NSW. Through this program, Joshua travelled widely and studied under some of the worlds most renowned photojournalists with the Foundry workshop; featuring photographers from National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, Stern, and countless other international publications. Joshua also went on to study under the acclaimed Magnum photographers, Stuart Franklin and Chris Steele-Perkins, while attending a master class in London.

    Visist Joshua’s website for more infomration. 

  • 28 May – 8 June, 2018 | Australian and New Zealand Photobook of the Year Exhibition (2017)

    28 May – 8 June, 2018 | Australian and New Zealand Photobook of the Year Exhibition (2017)

    The Australian and New Zealand Photobook of the Year Awards have been proudly presented by Momento Pro since 2011 with the aim of celebrating excellence and innovation in photo book creation, and to showcase the work of Australian and New Zealand based photo artists to local and international audiences.

  • 26 February – 26 March | SACRED

    26 February – 26 March | SACRED

    SACRED celebrates the collective power of women by elevating the ideas they hold sacred. Loosely based on shrines, the work in the exhibition offers many different points of view through a range of mediums. Each work radiates with the mystery and charm of its creator and celebrates varying subjects from screen icons to a mother’s sleeping sounds. This show invites you to behold the voices of female artists and ask yourself, what do you hold sacred?

    Curated by Adele Packer and Kate Allman, SACRED brings together artists from regional and metropolitan backgrounds to celebrate the things, ideas and values they honour. The work in SACRED does not respond to one definition of the word, but it connects each artist through shared feelings of adoration, obsession and devotion. The exhibition’s multidisciplinary nature highlights the distinct style of each artist and amplifies her unique voice.

    Featuring work by Jordy Bos, Ruth Cummins, Missy Dempsey,  Joyce Hampton, Sophie Joyce, Sarah McEwan, Julie Montgarrett, Vicky Okot, Cassandra Pomroy, Lorraine Tye.