Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery

Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery is a vibrant and accessible contemporary art gallery and multipurpose venue managed by Wodonga Council. Located within the heart of the central business area, the gallery sits within the prominent arts precinct incorporating the Wodonga Library and The Cube Wodonga performing arts centre.

With up to 12 exploratory exhibitions per year, the gallery offers a unique space for northern Victorian artists to present, discuss and communicate their practices to 40,000 plus visitors per annum. Exhibitions extend from emerging and professional practising contemporary artists, to touring exhibitions and projects in conjunction with cultural organisations.

Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery

126 Hovell Street, Wodonga VIC 3690, Australia

02 6022 9330

hyphenwodonga.com.au

Mon to Fri 10am–6pm,
Sat to Sun 10am—3pm.
See our website for latest information.

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Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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Shadow and light

A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.

Rosamund Brennan

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Sammy Hawker’s acts of co-creation

Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.

Camilla Wagstaff

Interview

Julie Fragar on “painting in the first person”

With a current survey exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.

Briony Downes

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Gordon Hookey is effecting change

Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey has been creating artwork for more than three decades. Describing his style as pictograms of a scenario, with images and symbols connecting a sprawling narrative, Hookey’s work, which is now showing at Plimsoll Gallery, is imbued with elements of activism, pop culture and lived experience.

Briony Downes

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Cartographies of the heart

Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.

Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery

Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery

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