From Geelong to Ballarat and Daylesford to Warrnambool, you’re bound to love exploring some creative gems and art venues across regional Victoria.
With Melbourne branded the arts capital of Australia, it’s easy to forget about the wealth of art on offer outside the city and throughout the rest of the state.
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Regional Victoria has some of the best artistic communities and spaces. With the ever-growing popularity of going regional, it is so important to check out all the wonderful artistic spaces we have here in regional Victoria. Whether you’re making a day trip or have lived in these towns all your life, there is plenty to do and see, from permanent collections and major touring shows to spotlighting talented artists and their works.
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In this article, we’ll look at some of the best exhibitions happening currently around regional Victoria, with a few Melbourne appearances, updated each month.
Here are our recommendations for the must-see exhibition and art shows happening between September 14 and October 11 in and around the region: Wadawurrung Dja: Awakening Country – The Art of Deanne Gilson
Dr Deanne Gilson is a proud Wadawurrung woman, emerging elder, cultural educator and award-winning visual artist from Ballarat Victoria. Gilson works primarily in clay, painting, digital imagery and fabric design.
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Gilson’s new exhibition Wadawurrung Dja: Awakening Country, features a vibrant mix of twenty paintings and textile works. The exhibition includes ten newly created contemporary ceremonial cloaks using Gilson’s unique fabric designs.
Wadawurrung Dja: Awakening Country – The Art of Deanne Gilson is taking place at the National Wool Museum in Geelong until November 13.
‘Past, Present & FutureNever’ is a fully immersive exhibition exploring the musical legacy and creative flair of Daniel Johns. Steeped in grunge nostalgia, the exhibition delves into the vault of the artist’s 30-year Grammy, Emmy, ARIA and APRA-winning musical career, whilst unleashing an immersive 90s retrospective.
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Alongside a treasure trove of memorabilia, there’s also a custom DeLorean (aka ‘DanieLorean’) transformed by a FutureNever soundscape synchronised with projection mapping, an eerie self-playing piano, and a chance to step into a scene from the upcoming featurette ‘What if the Future Never Happened?’
INTERVALS is an exhibition curated by João Marco Deloie presenting works by six contemporary artists based between Geelong and Melbourne. It centres on photographic and video practices, featuring the diverse works of Cecilia Sordi Campos, Michael Danischewski, Joshua Maxwell de Hoog, Jahkarli Romanis, Ammar Yonis, and artist-curator João Marco Deloie.
Taking over Art Space Ballarat, Patsy Taylor’s ‘Liberated Abstractions’ is a vibrant and colourful exhibition worth visiting. Here gestural references to natural forms follow personal instinct and inherited permission to interpret the sublime. Reduced to the bare elements of art and paint – colour, line and tone, the warm sunset colour palette has inspired a fresh perspective for this artist, provoking renewed feelings of optimism and possibility.
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Barbara Brash (1925–1998) was a key artist in Melbourne’s printmaking revival of the 1950s and ’60s. Her colourful and dynamic prints demonstrate an expressive and experimental approach to the printed medium.
Bringing together woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs and screen prints from the Gallery’s collection and the Colin Holden Collection, Barbara Brash—Holding Form provides an insight into the evolution of Brash’s innovative and expressive practice.
150 years ago, CJ Dennys & Co Woolstore opened its doors in Geelong – a building that is now an important cultural hub in Victoria’s second-largest city. Bluestone: 150 Years of the Dennys Lascelles Woolstore is an honest account of the colonisation of the Geelong/Djilang region and events leading up to the opening of the woolstore.
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The exhibition tells the stories of those who have walked these halls and explores the progress of Geelong/Djilang and those who lived here through the ages.
Bluestone: 150 Years of the Dennys Lascelles Woolstore runs at the National Wool Museum in Geelong from September 16 2022 – April 23 2023.
Residing in Torquay, Peta Uthmeyer is an acclaimed international artist renowned for her love of bold, vibrant colours, creative ideas and expressive style. Creating semi abstract figurative paintings focusing on colour and surprising ways of using it, Peta will be bringing a freshness into Geelong’s The Space – Gallery + Workshops as October’s guest artist.
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Peta Uthmeyer with ‘Colour your World’ takes over The Space – Gallery + Workshops in Newtown from October 5 until October 29.
Illuminating the Castlemaine Art Museum façade, Agri-Cultures is a commissioned video work by local artist Zoe Scoglio in dialogue with local small-scale farmers Gung Hoe growers in response to the theme ‘Industry’. Focusing on the manual labours and tactile relations, this is a visual portrait of the daily regenerative holistic practices and emergent cultures at the Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op.
Recently, the Marvel Universe got a little bit bigger thanks to Thor: Love and Thunder. The movie was a predominately Australian production, filmed during lockdown. It employed some popular Aussie costume designers, who created memorable designs that added another element to the film. Their work will be shown at ACMI this September – visitors can see costumes worn by Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and even Russell Crowe’s Zeus costume. creativityUNLEASHED by traci bautista musings and inspirations in art, fashion, craft, decor, creative business and creative living by artist Traci Bautista be inspired...live a beautiful life...
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EMag by ClothPaperScissors? It's full of colorful inspiration and fabulous projects. The photo above is my doodled mixed media painting featured in the eMag. I'm also giving away one copy of
Celebrate the launch of Art Journaling Exposed with us this weekend by following the blogs of its contributors and featured artists! These remarkable women will be giving you a closer look at the eMag-- the projects, articles, and videos--and offering you their first-hand reviews of this unique multimedia experience.
Check out my doodle duel with Dawn Sokol, we both have our own distinct styles and we share them in a video duel. You can watch us doodle side-by-side in time-lapse video. It's fun to see our doodles unfold...
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And you know what? If you download the Art Journaling Exposed eMag (or get the iPad app from iTunes), you can vote on which one is your favorite doodling style. The Art Journaling Exposed editors will also be looking for the next great doodler via future doodling duels, and it could be you.
So download the eMag, watch and vote for me! :) I have a chance to win a fun prize PLUS you could win a copy of Doodles Unleashed: Mixed-Media Techniques for Doodling, Mark-Making & Lettering and Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls, or Doodle Sketchbook:
There are so many great videos and articles..check out Melanie's video and article that delves into playing positive and negative spaces when creating an art journal background. Along with more inspiration from Julie Fei-Fen Balzer as she shares a fun resist technique.
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Be inspired by all these lovely artists who are featured in this issue and follow their blogs to see more of the Art Journaling Exposed eMag during the weekend blog hop...
To purchase the eMag for your desktop computer, visit InterweaveStore.com: PC download or MAC download. And here is the link to purchase the eMag for the iPad on the iTunes Store.
The video snippet featured in the Doodle Duel will be a full length video tutorials featured in my new Doodles Unleashed Video Kit Club.
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A few weeks ago I received an email and the subject read Mixed Media and Scrapbooking - a great partnership. Interesting, I thought... so I opened the email and it was an invitation to teach at the 2012 Great American Scrapbook Conventions in Texas and Virginia, where they are introducing a new Mixed Media series of workshops. I know I said I was cutting back on teaching this year, but it sounds like a event plus I'm looking forward to seeing family while I'm traveling.
Mixed media in scrapbooking has definitely become a trend over the past couple of years. I actually started teaching mixed media workshops at scrapbook stores around 10 years ago. Now manufacturers and scrapbook companies have slowly adopted the techniques mixed media artists have been doing for years. I think it's wonderful to see people painting and drawing on their pages, making handmade books and exploring art journaling.
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After a little brainstorming, I created two new mixed media workshops that will be taught at GASC in Texas and Virginia. If you are in the area come on down and take my workshops! These are my only LIVE in-person events in the midwest and East Coast for 2012. I'll also be doing a book signing at the conventions. here are the workshops I'm teaching...
Taking inspiration from Traci's new book, Doodles Unleashed, you will be guided through a colorful and inspiration creative journey to explore painting, doodling and collage. Experiment with creative ways to play with photos and add paint to your scrapbook pages. You will create numerous mixed media pages that can be used to create art journaling cards for Project Life or for collage in your scrapbooks. You'll work with handmade tools, stencils