Current Exhibitions


9 MARCH – 12 MAY 2013 VANISHING: JANET LAURENCE Janet Laurence’s work often explores time, movement, space and interaction. In Vanishing, she fuses these concerns together into a mesmerising experience. A twin projection shimmers through tulle veils, whilst a series of mirrors reflect both the projections and the viewer, making the audience a part of the work rather than a passive observer. A soundscape of shifting breaths encourages the audience to connect with both the work and each other. A work that encourages participation whilst emphasising the fragility of the experience, Vanishing is one of Laurence’s most immersive works. Janet Laurence Vanishing 2-channel video, mixed media Image courtesy the artist and Breenspace © Janet Laurence.
20 APRIL – 2 JUNE 2013 CUT & FLOW: KIRK WATTS In the driest inhabited continent on Earth water management in the Murray-Darling Basin is something we must get right. The abundance of information and misinformation has muddied the waters. Possible impacts of past, present and future water use in the basin has polarized communities. The scale of past mistakes necessitates drastic and in many cases painful change. To do nothing is not an option. The people depicted in this exhibition all realise that business as usual is unsustainable. Much like the hand cut collages in this exhibition a solution to this issue is multi layered, will take time and requires patience. Kirk Watts Connect/Respect, 2012 Collage on paper Image courtesy the artist © Kirk Watts.
27 APRIL – 30 JUNE 2013 BEAUTY FROM NATURE: ART OF THE SCOTT SISTERS Beautiful and intricate, this stunning exhibition features delicate watercolours, notebooks, handwritten manuscripts, sketches and letters, which together form a fascinating record of the lives of Harriet (Hattie) and Helena (Nellie) Scott. The Scott sisters were among the first to illustrate the life histories and immature stages of Australian moths and butterflies. The highlights of the exhibition are watercoloured paintings created between 1846 and 1851 for their father A.W Scott’s landmark publication Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations. Exhibition Developed & Toured by the Australian Museum. Helena Scott Xylopsyche stacyi (Scott). Current name: Zelotypia stacyi Scott Hepialidae Watercolour and ink Image © Australian Museum Archives.
4 MAY – 30 JUNE 2013 RANAMOK GLASS PRIZE The Ranamok Glass Prize is an annual acquisitive award for glass artists who are resident in Australia and New Zealand. The Prize was founded in 1994 by Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill as a way to promote glass as an art form to the public. Featuring almost 30 artists, the 2012 Ranamok Glass Prize showcases the surprising and challenging, world of modern glass makers, who use glass in ways that often defy the imagination. Estelle Dean Banquet, 2012 Free formed pate de verre with Nori sheets Image courtesy the artist and Ranamok Glass Prize.
4 MAY – 14 JULY 2013 NO WORRIES: MARTIN PARR In 2011 famed British photographer Martin Parr, as a special project for the FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Photography Festival, set out to photograph three Western Australian port cities, Fremantle, Port Hedland and Broome. Using his unmistakably intimate and satirical style, Parr went about photographing Australian clichés, full of saturated colours and flash photography. The resulting photographs are an invaluable collection of portraits of Australians and Australian identity through the eyes of an outsider. Martin Parr is a member of the Magnum Photos cooperative agency and his work has been featured in two retrospectives – the Barbican’s 2002 retrospective which toured Europe until 2007 and in 2008 Parrworld was launched in Munich and toured Europe until 2010. Martin Parr is the author of 66 books and 125 exhibition. He is a notable curator, publisher and collector. Martin Parr Cable Beach. Broome. Australia, 2011 Image © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.
18 MAY – 21 JULY 2013 GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS The Garden of Forking Paths exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary computer games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules. The presented pieces span the last three decades, a period which has seen incredible advances in technology and the birth of the information age. All of the pieces in the show can be played by visitors, some on ‘antique’ computers that have been sourced so the older pieces can be experienced with authenticity. The Garden of Forking Paths is a dLux MediaArts touring exhibition. Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier CuteXDoom II (screenshot), 2008 Computer game/video projection and customized ‘wallpaper’ interior Image © Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier.
PERMANENT EXHIBITION PEOPLE PLACES POSSESSIONS: DUBBO STORIES Dubbo means red ochre. The city dwells in red soil western plains, infused with pastoral light and productivity. This place breathes the energy and passion of its people, past and present. We all experience place by moving through it, all our senses alive to its shifting shapes and moods. This sense of place is created through the entanglements of nature and culture, past and future dreams, shared stories and collective memory. In this exhibition we explore pastoral landscapes with symbols of agriculture and family ambition. Dubbo streetscapes reveal the changing facades of shops and the hidden stories within. Storytellers spin yarns about Dubbo events and identities. There are many objects from the old Dubbo Museum, material traces of past lives and aspirations. They speak in eloquent silence about people, place and possessions. LEARN MORE Download catalogue (603kb) Installation view: People Places Possessions: Dubbo Stories
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