Next Exhibition

MIRROR: Artists reflect the collection — Melissa Powell, Salt lake 1, from the series, Flooded 2011, 2011, inkjet print on cotton rag paper, 50.5 x 76 cm. Gift of the artist, 2011.

Horsham Regional Art Gallery

Group Exhibition

MIRROR: Artists reflect the collection

With: Anthony Pelchen, Melissa Powell, Vernon Sultan, Belinda Eckermann.

A unique collaboration with four local artists, Belinda Eckermann, Anthony Pelchen, Melissa Powell and Vernon Sultan, MIRROR: Artists reflect the collection presents an overview of these artists’ accomplished careers alongside additional works from the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection selected by the artists. MIRROR acknowledges the skills and creative output of Wimmera-based artists and simultaneously recognises our nationally significant collection as a rich source of stimulus, influence and pleasure for local artists, community members and visitors alike.

Our collection is a cultural asset of significant import and comprises of over 2,500 works. Established in 1967, the collection highlights the rich tapestry of artistic expression within Australian art history. Over the summer, we invite you to explore the works of four accomplished locals and view our collection through the lens of these artists.

2 November—2 February

Horsham Regional Art Gallery

80 Wilson Street, Horsham VIC 3400, Australia

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Carol Jerrems’ maternal inheritances

Carol Jerrems’ intimate and revealing portraits of women, now showing at the National Portrait Gallery, are a touchstone for a generation of writers and photographers. For Josephine Mead, they also galvanise the power—and limits—of feminist legacy five decades on.

Josephine Mead

Can art make the world a better place?

When times are hard, we often turn to art to remind ourselves that beauty and hope persist. An exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury brings together nine artists from varied disciplines to examine how art can be used as an agent for good.

Briony Downes

Sustaining culture with Gillian Kayrooz

To coincide with the presentation of the 3rd Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different, Gillian Kayrooz spoke to Karina Dias Pires about how food can express the complexities of culture and difference—and spark unlikely connections across time and place.

Karina Dias Pires

A stitch in time

Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.

Briony Downes

All that glitters with The Huxleys

Partners in life and art, Will and Garrett Huxley’s sequined wonderland pays homage to their queer artist forebears. Their first collective survey, now showing at Fremantle Arts Centre, unfurls a decade of photography, music recordings, costume, film and performance.

Steve Dow

An enduring friendship

Featuring work by Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Arrernte and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja, Two Girls From Amoonguna is an ACMI touring exhibition now showing at Araluen Arts Centre.

Josephine Mead