2019 EXHIBITIONS
Programming support provided by Create NSW
15 DECEMBER -10 FEBRURARY
2019
TWISTED SISTERS: IMPERFECT
The Twisted Sisters, Cecily Walters and Toni Morrison, recreate the spirit of the universe in wool. Employing modern techniques to one of the oldest fabrics they construct energetic three dimensional pods and sculptures that bring together the vastness of the solar system to the earthy familiarity of our natural world.
Image Credit: Cecily Walter, Wave, 2018, Merino Wool and Silk Waste. Image courtesy of the artist.
A HomeGround exhibition
15 DECEMBER - 3 MARCH 2019
MAKE THE MARK: HSC WORKS
Dubbo and Wellington's senior students display their HSC works. The voice of youth is always iconoclastic, hopeful and searching - this year's collection of works will no doubt showcase the concerns and sharp intellect of todays young people.
Image Credit: Sebastian Clarke, Bleating Drought, 2018, drawing and water colour
A WPCC exhibition
Programming support provided by Create NSW
UPON A BROKEN WORLD: Life after WWI
As the world emerged from the horrors the war, it realised that something had fundamentlaly changed. Sprawling Empires and powerful families had vanished, replaced by a new breed of young, energetic and world-aware citizens. The world had become Modern. This WPCC curated exhibition examines the great upheavals that followed 1918 and shows that the entire modern age is a memorial to the Great War.
Image Credit: Armistice Day, Sydney, 1918, Australian War Memorial, H11563
3 NOVEMBER - 10 MARCH 2019
A WPCC exhibition
Programming support provided by Create NSW
23 FEBRUARY - 28 APRIL 2019
GREG PRITCHARD: THE FOREST
A HomeGround Exhibition
In February 2019, Greg Pritchard will create a major gaffer tape installation called The Forest. The exhibition will represent a great forest of branches, projecting moving elements like waterfalls, animals and birds. The Forest will submerge audiences giving them a sense of being surrounded by a great forest, with trees overarching around them accompanied by recordings projected back into the installation. Since 2006 Greg Pritchard has worked with gaffer tape and is one of the few artists in the world who uses it in a figurative way. The Forest will be unique in scale and will be created over a two week period in situ. This is a HomeGround exhibition.
Image Credit: Image from Tatiana and the Ruby Wombat, Old Fire Station, 2016, Dubbo, Image courtesy of the artist.
Programming support provided by Create NSW
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9 MARCH - 5 MAY 2019
DEFYING EMPIRE: 3RD NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART TRIENNIAL
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country into the national spotlight. From the National Gallery of Australia, Defying Empire 50th anniversary of 1967 Referendum that recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australians for the first time. It explores the ongoing resilience of Australia’s Indigenous people since first contact, through to the historical fight for recognition and ongoing activism in the present day.
Image Credit: Daniel Boyd Untitled (DOC) 2016 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 2016
Programming support provided by Create NSW
11 MAY - 16 JUNE 2019
WASTE TO ART
Official Opening
11 May 2019 | 2.00pm
A WPCC Exhibition
Waste to Art is an annual competition and exhibition showcasing the creative re-use of discarded materials through art and craft. Engaging with the community, Waste to Art attracts school children, artists and community members and encourages them to challenge perceptions about ‘rubbish’ and its impact upon the environment. The result is a highly imaginative and thought provoking collection of artworks celebrating recycling and living sustainably. This is a WPCC exhibition in association with NetWaste.
Image Credit: Alan Stanger, Wake Up and Smell the Roses, 2017, recycled coffee waste
Programming support provided by Create NSW
16 MARCH - 23 JUNE 2019
DENDROGLYPHS:
CARVED COUNTRY
Carved trees (Dendroglyphs) are powerful markers of Aboriginal occupation of the land and of the distinct and distinctive visual style of the Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi peoples. The practice of carving elaborate designs into trees is common in only a small part of Australia, and these trees, now rare and closely held by local communities, are striking testaments of continued culture. The exhibition is supplemented by a commissioned artwork from local Aboriginal artist Paris Norton. This is a WPCC exhibition.
Image Credit: Dendroglyph in situ, c1960. Photographer unknown.
Official Opening
16 March 2019 | 2.00pm
A WPCC exhibition
Programming support provided by Create NSW
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4 MAY - 30 JUNE 2019
JACOB RAUPACH:
ALL THAT IS SOLID
MELTS INTO DUST
Official Opening
4 May 2019 | 2.00pm
All That Is Solid Melts into Dust is an exhibition of new photographic and film works by Wagga Wagga-based artist Jacob Raupach, created during his residency in Beijing China in 2018. The works move between the village and the city, examining the shifting relationships between the urban, social and the architectural. Raupach uses photography and film to transform the everyday into a theatrical stage to reframe our understanding of the present and revaluate the economic, material and global realities of our time.
Image Credit: Jacob Raupach, Untitled (Beijing III), 2018, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
A HomeGround exhibition
Programming support provided by Create NSW
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22 JUNE - 21 JULY 2019
STEEL: ART DESIGN
ARCHITECTURE
Official Opening
21 June 2019 | 6.00pm
Steel is a medium rich in human history. An alloy of iron and carbon, steel dates back to 4,000 years ago and traces the technical and cultural development of multiple civilisations. First forged in hand-made furnaces, steel production and its subsequent use, expanded in the 17th century with the technical innovations of blister and crucible steel. By the 19th century mass steel production had been invented and steel burgeoned as a material of choice. Steel: Art Design Architecture allows the viewer to think about the way this material responds to the various disciplines and how it blurs the boundary between utilitarian and precious. This is a Jam Factory exhibition.
Image Credit: Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Narrbong (fibre bags) Koolimans (coolamon/bush bowl) and Digging Sticks,2016, rusted iron and pipe, dimensions variable. Image taken by Tom Roschi
Programming support provided by Create NSW
27 JULY - 25 AUGUST 2019
ART EXPRESS
Official Opening
26 July 2019 | 6.00pm
A selection of exemplary works submitted for the 2018 HSC Visual Arts practical examination. At once vibrant, melancholic, serious, playful, vehement and sublime, the works created are a snapshot of a new generation’s hopes and fears. Often spectacular in their technical skills, these works also bring a maturity of thought and understanding often denied of the younger generation.
A partnership between NSW Department of Education and the NSW Education Standards Authority
Programming support provided by Create NSW
6 JULY - 8 SEPTEMBER
SAM PAINE:
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
Official Opening
6 July 2019 | 2.00pm
A HomeGround Exhibition
Sam Paine is a Mudgee based artist whose medium is traditional representational painting. Inspired by the Lars Von Trier film The Five Obstructions, his exhibition will feature five paintings created based on a series of rules which have been placed before him by five contemporary artists hailing from the city and country. These obstructions will ultimately challenge Paine’s traditional practice and alter the very nature of his work as he explores and immerses himself in different art thoughts and practices. The result is an exploration of experimental ideas from varied art fields used in collaboration with traditional painting processes. This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced in collaboration between WPCC and Orana Arts.
Image Credit: Sam Paine, Experiment in Ochre #2, ochre tempera. Image courtesy of artist
Programming support provided by Create NSW
10 AUGUST - 13 OCTOBER 2019
CONTAINER
In today’s global world you may have drunk coffee from Brazil or a smoothie containing frozen fruit from China. You could be wearing clothes made in India, watching a TV made in Japan while sitting on a sofa containing wood from Argentina on a laminate floor manufactured in Sweden. All of this has been made possible by a rectangular steel box – the shipping container.
Container is an exhibition housed entirely in six 20-foot shipping containers that lifts the lid on the history and impact of containerisation and the way the humble shipping container has revolutionised the way we live.
Visitors can literally ‘step inside the box’ to learn about shipping, ports, cargo, the impact of containerisation on the ocean, the origins of everyday objects and even container architecture.
Programming support provided by Create NSW
31 AUGUST - 4 NOVEMBER 2019
PLAY ON: THE ART OF SPORT
Official Opening
30 August 2019 | 6.00pm
10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize.
A NETS Victoria and Ian Potter Museum of Art touring exhibition.
Play On: The art of sport celebrates 10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize, the prestigious and distinctively Australian biennial exhibition that reflects upon one of our great national obsessions – sport. Featuring the winners and other key works from all five installments of the Prize, Play On: The art of sport brings together diverse explorations of the personal and collective significance of sport and sporting culture from some of Australia’s most accomplished artists. The exhibition encompasses a dynamic range of media, with works that respond to an equally extensive range of sporting genres, including community footy, women’s boxing, ground-keeping, gymnastics and AFL.
Image Credit: Khaled Sabsabi, Wonderland(still, detail), 2014, dual-channel HD video; 16:9 ratio, not synched, colour, sound, 25:30 minutes This work was made with the assistance of Guido Gonzalez and Saif Jari.
Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Programming support provided by Create NSW
29 JUNE - 24 NOVEMBER 2019
MAD MOSSY: MURDER, MAYHEM AND THE FORGOTTEN CLASS
Official Opening
29 June 2019 | 2.00pm
A WPCC Exhibition
Albert Andrew Moss is almost lost to history, but 80 years ago his name was everywhere. Whispered in pubs, front parlours and corner stores, Dubbo was gripped by the story of ‘Mossy’ and his dramatic trial for the murder of three men. The trial was the most sensational of its day with claims that Moss had killed up to 13 men across NSW. It would place Dubbo at the centre of an explosive criminal tragedy. But was he guilty? Did he get a fair trial? And was the legal system of the day up to handling ‘Mad Mossy’? This is a WPCC exhibition.
Programming support provided by Create NSW
14 SEPTEMBER - 1 DECEMBER 2019
MERRYN SOMMERVILLE: THIS HAUNTED HOUSE
Official Opening
14 September 2019 | 2.00pm
This Haunted House by Bega based artist Merryn Sommerville explores the internal oppression of being raised in the Christian religion, and the complexity of negotiating issues of social injustice and identity as a condemned agnostic. Sommerville’s emotive drawings touch on issues of female autonomy, sexuality, disability, morality and mortality. She uses an unexpected psychological presence in her female subjects as a surrogate to explore her space within society. This exhibition will explore the shift in social identity as women reach the age of thirty and are expected to reproduce. This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced in collaboration between WPCC and Orana Arts.
Merryn Sommerville, Rainbow Chan, 2018, soft pastel, pencil on paper. Image courtesy of artist.
A HomeGround Exhibition
Programming support provided by Create NSW
9 NOVEMBER - 8 DECEMBER 2019
NEW ACQUISITIONS: JOAN ROSS
Joan Ross is one of Australias' leading contemporary Artists, whose practice explores Australian History, landscape, and the imagery and materials of Australian native fauna. This section of works recently donated to the WPCC by the artist, is a unique insight into her diverse practice and features video, sculpture and installation.
Image Credit: Joan Ross Heart of abstraction, 2008 stuffed kangaroo fur Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Joan Ross.
A WPCC Exhibition
Programming support provided by Create NSW