Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre

The Riddoch holds the state’s foremost regional collection with over 1500 items, from paintings and prints depicting the people and history of the Limestone Coast to a significant collection of Aboriginal and 20th Century Australian art, featured in curated collection exhibitions throughout the year

See the daily screening of the movie ‘Volcano‘, the story of Earth, Fire and Water. Beginning with the local Aboriginal Dreamtime story, Craitbul, this awesome big screen adventure weaves its way through the eight major volcanic eruptions that created Mount Gambier and the Kanawinka region.

Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre

1 Bay Road Mount Gambier SA 5290

08 8721 2563

theriddoch.com.au

Mon to Fri 10am–5pm,
Sat & Sun 10am–2pm.
See our website for latest information.

Exhibitions

Portraits of our Elders

14 Jun - 20 Jul

JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a Passion

9 Aug - 26 Oct

Almost Here, Almost Now

21 Jun - 24 Aug

Flight Mode

26 Nov - 17 Aug

I own a Phil Riley

Phil Riley 

9 Aug - 26 Oct

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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

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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.

Tahmina Maskinyar

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Wang Zhiyuan and our roles as little dictators

In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.

Michelle Wang

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Cosmic connections with Man&Wah

With an approach to artmaking drawn from the “fieldwork of life”, twin brothers and artistic collaborators Man&Wah, who are now showing at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, use plant migration to explore duality and movement.

Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre