Watt Space Gallery

The celebrated and longest running student gallery in Australia, Watt Space Gallery continues to excite audiences through its diverse and dynamic calendar. Located in the heart of Newcastle in the award winning re-purposed Northumberland House, Watt Space remains a centre for contemporary ideas.

Since its establishment in 1989, Watt Space has been a community leader in innovation and creative experimentation. Through engagement with contemporary issues and artistic practices, Watt Space has a proud legacy featuring a host of talented emerging and established cross-disciplinary artists and curators. Watt Space continues to challenge, inspire and inform with an ever-changing program of innovative creative endeavours.

Watt Space Gallery

20 Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia

+61 2 4921 8733

www.newcastle.edu.au/community-and-alumni/arts-and-culture/watt-space-gallery

Wednesday – Friday, 11am – 5pm
Saturdays 12 – 4pm
or contact to visit by appointment

Exhibitions

Light source

Kris Smith, Ken O’Regan and Chris Brown

11 Dec - 8 Mar

Belongings – Distil Immersive and Boundaries -Transcended

In association with NEW ANNUAL

6 Sep - 2 Nov

Graduate shows

6 Nov - 23 Nov

Preview

Present moments at the Gold Coast Triennial

Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.

Sally Gearon

Feature

Archie Moore’s family ties

For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.

Maya Hodge

Preview

Reviving the potter’s quarter

In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.

Michelle Wang

In Pictures

Beasts of burden at the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale

A new event has arrived in Melbourne’s cultural calendar with the inauguration of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: an exhibition that aims to showcase the breadth and diversity of contemporary sculpture in Victoria.

Art Guide Australia

Preview

Mosaic artists mobilising for Afghan women

Since 2021, mosaic artists around the world have been working together to draw attention to the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule. Now, an exhibition at Canberra Glassworks is showing the massive contribution by Australian artists.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Feature

Self reflections with Jack Ball

In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.

Watt Space Gallery

Watt Space Gallery

Exhibitions