8 May - 20 June 2010

REGIONAL ART SPACE

ROSALIE RIGBY: NO PLACE LIKE HOME?

No Place Like Home? brings together work produced by Rosalie Rigby over the past 18 months. The paintings depict the New England landscape and the Flinders Ranges. Rigby's dense and tactile paintings present the experience of being in the landscape, rather than merely looking at it.

Rosalie Rigby

Summer Paddocks
Oil on canvas, 58 x 71cm
Image © Rosalie Rigby

15 May - 27 June 2010

MAIN GALLERY

THE 58TH BLAKE PRIZE FOR RELIGIOUS ART & BLAKE POETRY PRIZE

The Blake Society presents the 58th Blake Prize Touring Exhibition, which includes selected finalist works from the 58th Blake Prize as well as the winning, highly commended and shortlisted poems from the 2009 Blake Poetry Prize. Each of these creative responses is searching for an expression of the spirit and they provide insight into the tensions, passions, and beliefs found within the complex nature of our multi-cultural society.

Locust Jones

Sacred News
Ink on paper scroll, 250 x 138 x 20cm
Image © Locust Jones

20 February - 30 May 2010

CHILDREN'S GALLERY

COME BY CHANCE: MADELEINE WINCH

The original illustrations for the popular children’s picture book Come By Chance (published by Angus & Robertson, 1988) by Madeleine Winch were acquired by Dubbo Regional Gallery in 2001 after significant community fundraising. The book has been out of print until its re-release in 2009 by Walker Books and to celebrate the WPCC will reshow these charming works.

Come By Chance tells the story of Bertha (loosely based on Stuart Town artist Lyn Winters) who stumbles upon a dilapidated shack that she proceeds to repair and transform into a home. When a host of animals appear at her door she invites them in to wait out the winter months before the appearance of spring sees them on their way.

The Children’s Gallery will be transformed, allowing visitors to enter the book itself in a wondrous exploration of an Australian favourite.

Madeleine Winch

Come by Chance (Jacket Cover – Front) 1988

colour pencil and watercolour on paper, 17.5 x 17.5cm. Collection Dubbo Regional Gallery. Purchased with funds donated by Friends of Dubbo Regional Gallery Inc © Madeleine Winch.

6 February - 23 May 2010

NEW MEDIA SPACE

PROJEKT VIDEO ART ARCHIVES

Curated by video-artist Brendan Lee, Projekt Video Art Archives shows the evolution of video art through a plethora of moving image works reflecting Australia’s diversity. The Projekt Video Art Archives contains Australian video art works exhibited between 1998 and 2003 in commercial, public and artist run galleries.

With cultural centres now dedicated to the moving image, and most public institutions screening video art in their programs, it was felt that an archive should be set up from the grass roots level.

Sue Dodd

Fears for Spears? Gossip Pop

Video Still

Image © Sue Dodd

20 March - 2 May 2010

REGIONAL ART SPACE

KATIE BARTON: RETROSPECTIVE

This retrospective exhibition focuses on the career of much-loved local artist Katie Barton (1967-2009). Katie was an artist, Gallerist and public speaker who contributed greatly to the regional communities of Dubbo, Wellington and Mudgee, and who passed away suddenly in November 2009.

Katie's gallery, Percy Street Gallery, was one of only a handful of commercial spaces in the west and Katie worked tirelessly for her artists. She was also an active fundraiser for a variety of local causes.

This exhibition has been staged with thanks to the generous support of Katie's family and friends.

M. Hickey

Katie 2009

Ink, charcoal & pencil on paper

Image © M. Hickey

13 February - 9 May 2010

SO, YOU KNOW YOU CAN DANCE

Dubbo has a rich tradition of Dance in all its guises. From tapping to krumping, quadrilles to belly dancing, Dubbo has moved it and shaken it since the town was first established.

So, You Know You Can Dance is an exhibition and archive offering an insight into the role dance has played in our lives. Using objects, photographs and documents from the Dubbo Regional Museum collection and the community, the exhibition will excite and inspire.

Mrs Schneider with members of the Dubbo Ballet Studio, c1976.

Photographer unknown. Image courtesy Vicki Canalese.

20 March - 9 May 2010

MARIAN HOSKING: JEWELLERY

Marian Hosking: Jewellery is the third exhibition in Object Gallery's widely applauded Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft exhibition series which celebrates the achievements of senior craft practitioners. With a career spanning almost 40 years, Hosking is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary jewellers and silversmiths.

Hosking has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous collections. Working almost exclusively with silver, her work is concerned with rich surface patterns and textures. This reflects her particular concerns for the natural environment, allowing her to echo the forms and motifs found in nature. Her Living Treasures exhibition includes a large scale sculptural work along with a collection of new vessels and jewellery pieces.

As a practitioner and educator, Hosking’s influence has been far-reaching. She established the first jewellery course at Charles Sturt University in 1973, and went on to establish her own studio in Melbourne in 1976 before co-founding Workshop 3000 in 1981. She has lectured at RMIT and is currently the Head of Metal and Jewellery at Monash University, where she is also undertaking a PhD.

Marian Hosking: Jewellery is an Object Gallery touring exhibition and is part of the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series.

12 December 2009 - 18 April 2010

PROJECT SPACE

WORKING THE FRAMES: THE DUBBO REGIONAL GALLERY COLLECTION

Working the Frames is a walk through the Dubbo Regional Gallery collection using the NSW Visual Arts syllabus as our guide. The exhibition examines "The Frames", a set of guidelines for interpreting artworks. These allow students (and general audiences) to analyse works and discover meanings and provide contexts for artworks.

Lynn Winters

Elephant (Hiding) 1989

Petit - point embroideries using Danish Flower thread on even weave linen

Image: 10.01 x 10.28 cm Frame: 30.94 x 30.94 cm
Dubbo Collection Regional Gallery. Image © Lynn Winters

19 December 2009 - 14 March 2010

REGIONAL ART SPACE

LATENT: LARA SCOLARI

Latent - the present and accessible in the unconscious mind but not consciously expressed.

The works in this exhibition are a series of emotional portraits. Developed over a 12-month period, the works act as snapshots of the psyche and the latent emotions that exist within each of us. Using the vocabulary of abstract expressionism, the painted surfaces suggest the removal of skin in order to examine what lies underneath, revealing the energy, confusion, and emotion of our inner life.

Lara Scolari

Latent 5 2008-9

Image © Lara Scolari

6 February - 14 March 2010

MAIN SPACE

MOMENTUM: 18TH TAMWORTH FIBRE TEXTILE BIENNIAL

From the early 1970s the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial has continued to provide audiences with an exciting and vibrant survey exhibition of contemporary fibre textiles. Artists from across Australia have been selected to participate in this year’s exhibition. Curator Valerie Kirk, has put together an exhibition that looks at the influences new technologies have had on traditional fibre textile practice and how artists have combined their individual practice to incorporate these new techniques.

A Tamworth Regional Gallery exhibition toured by Museums and Galleries NSW.
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.

Melissa Hirsch    

Red / Orange Staghorn Coral 2006

Fishing line

350mm x 400mm x 230mm

Image credit: Lou Farina

12 December 2009 - 14 February 2010

CHILDREN'S GALLERY

WASTE TO ART

The annual Waste to Art compettion takes up residence in the Chidlren's Gallery. This highly anticipated exhibtiion presents artworks created by members of the community using found or discarded materials.

Suzannah Babicci

Homo Sapien’s Fray

Found rubber (tyres)

Community – 3 Dimensional

5 September 2009 - 7 February 2010

MUSEUM SPACE

DUBBO 10 - COMMUNITY VOICES

Dubbo 10: Community Voices is a social history exhibition which interprets artefacts from Dubbo Regional Museum selected by ten members of Dubbo community.

These historical objects are collected for over fifty years and reflect life of Dubbo community from 1830 to 1950 and beyond.

Behind each of them rest a rich narrative; the stories about local people and events, local industries, trades and crafts, cultural activities, literacy and education, regional immigration, leisure activities, living conditions, religion, governance and customs and beliefs of the people who live here.

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Clock c1890

Collection Dubbo Regional Museum

24 October 2009 - 31 January 2010

NEW MEDIA SPACE

THE LINE OF LODE & DEATH OF CHARLIE DAY: ANGELICA MESITI

Inspired by the grandeur of its physical landscape and the unique place it occupies in our cultural consciousness, the artist used the outback mining town of Broken Hill in the far West of NSW as the location for this video work.

Focusing on social groups both animal and human that inhabit an Australian outback town, The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day is a meditation on the connections that link them to their landscapes and therefore each other. Streams of pre nocturnal images form independent scenes that interrelate without being bound by narrative; suburban kids riding bikes in the sunset shadows, a flock of pigeons released for their evening flight, the dusty twilight interiors of an out of business hotel, a goat enjoying the cool air of dusk.

A diversity of people including a local livestock trader, hotel proprietor, competition pigeon breeder, aboriginal land council elder, mining equipment engineer, local artists and historians were involved in the process. The bike-riding scene was developed out of a workshop involving 12 kids from the Broken Hill PCYC Youth Club.

Angelica Mesiti

The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day 2008
15mins, HD Video transfered to DVD

Image © Angelica Mesiti

7 November 2009 - 31 January 2010

MAIN GALLERY

A IS FOR ANIMALS: AN A TO Z OF ANIMALS IN WAR

A is for Animals offers an A to Z of animals in war, from mascots and messengers to creepy-crawlies. Animals are put to many uses in war. Sometimes they have jobs to do, are used as mascots and pets, or are symbols on badges and flags. This exhibition also looks at the unwelcome animals that make life in the field even more difficult and dangerous.

The exhibition has been developed with a young audience in mind, but visitors of all ages will enjoy its fascinating and moving stories.

The Australian War Memorial’s Travelling Exhibitions Program is funded by the Australian Government’s Commemorations Program.

German gas mask for a dog c1914-18 AWM RELAWM04098

Image © AWM