Shepparton Art Museum

Shepparton Art Museum, affectionately known as SAM, has developed a reputation as one of regional Australia’s leading cultural institutions. Shepparton Art Museum is located approximately two hours north-east of Melbourne.

SAM’s collection focuses on Australian ceramic artworks, and has a growing collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. It includes ceramics, paintings, works on paper, photography, sculpture and textiles, and there are currently 4,000 items contained in the SAM collection.

Entry to the Shepparton Art Museum is FREE for all exhibitions.

Shepparton Art Museum

530 Wyndham St, Shepparton VIC 3630, Australia

03 4804 5000

sheppartonartmuseum.com.au

Mon & Wed to Fri 10am–4pm,
Sat to Sun 10am–5pm.
Closed Tuesdays.

Exhibitions

Julia Gorman: Reflection on reflection

6 Nov - 1 Feb

Ceramics in Focus: Brendan Huntley

27 Jul - 31 Mar

Stories from the SAM Collection

1 Nov - 1 Nov

Big Ceramic Energy

SAM Collection

3 Aug - 1 Feb

Ceramics in Focus: Sanné Mestrom

27 Jul - 31 Mar

Face in the Frame

SAM Collection

30 Oct

Kenny Pittock: Can You Peel The Love Tonight

18 May - 17 Feb

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

Preview

Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana and inherited influence

In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Interview

Vipoo Srivilasa on heritage and healing

Vipoo Srivilasa is a Melbourne-based, Thai-born Australian artist whose ceramic artworks emanate a sense of positivity, playfulness and joy. In an interview with fellow ceramicist Sassy Park, he discusses his early introduction to the medium, curating the Australian-Asian ceramic exhibition Generation Clay, and his upcoming project re/JOY.

Sassy Park

Review

A compact but rewarding monograph that delves inside Natalya Hughes’s layered practice

Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.

Jane O'Sullivan

Feature

Women love the art world, but does the art world love women?

Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?

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