It’s a day of high resolution at the Gallery on Saturday, as we celebrate the Charles Sturt University BA Photography graduate exhibition – Resolute.
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We invite you to join six of these talented graduating artists for a very a special CSU Photography Symposium.
From 11am to noon, these six photographers will discuss their individual practices, and the ideas and techniques that lie behind the works on display in their exhibition Resolute, in the Links Gallery space.
This free event is the perfect opportunity to find out more about the skills of such a popular artform, and the subjects of this fascinating show.
Then come back again at 6pm, for the official launch of Resolute by Dr Neill Overton, senior lecturer in art history and visual culture at CSU’s Wagga campus. All are welcome to help congratulate our local emerging artists at this annual festivity.
This is also the final weekend for you to explore the extraordinary potential of the self-portrait.
Sunday is the last day on display for Hide and Seek: self-portraits from the Cunningham Dax Collection, a gripping exhibition explores the tension between what is revealed and what is concealed in self-portraiture.
The 56 self-portraits brought together for this moving exhibition includes works on paper, sculptures, textiles, multi-media and paintings that traverse the allusive and fluctuating territory of self-perception, bringing forth totem creatures, symbolic incarnations, monstrous visions and palpable internal pain.
Hide and Seek is brought to Wagga by the Melbourne-based Dax Centre, home of the Cunningham Dax Collection, which comprises over 15,000 artworks by people with experience of mental illness or trauma – one of the three largest of its kind in the world.
The Dax Centre promotes mental illness and wellbeing by fostering a greater understanding of the mind, mental illness and trauma through art and creativity. Because of the unique nature of the works, exhibitions staged by The Dax Centre are co-curated by art curators and clinicians.
Currently on show in the main gallery, Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness is a truly inspiring exhibition that offers insights into how one of Australia’s greatest artists dealt with the social responsibility that defines humanity.
This is the first major exhibition to consider the social consciousness that infused Arthur Boyd’s life and to link his political concerns with his art work.
Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness brings together paintings, prints, ceramics and other materials from the Bundanon Trust Collection alongside works by Boyd’s contemporaries, and is supported by loans from public and private collections, photographs and other documents.
Arthur Boyd may have been known as shy and retiring but he was certainly not passive. He felt passionately about society and the world in which he lived.
His responses informed his art making. His compassion and concern is reflected in artworks which don’t deliver a strident message or a simple solution. They are infused with the complexity of the issues themselves; wrapped in mythological and biblical narratives and set in the Australian landscape he universalised. This is one of the reasons Boyd’s work has, and will continue, to endure.
Fused: a journey from artists in the National Art Glass Collection celebrates the rich migration stories of professional art glass workers who migrated to Australia.
Featuring works from the gallery’s own internationally renowned National Art Glass Collection, Fused highlights the wealth of expertise and culture these skilled migrants brought with them, and the essential part they have played in the development of studio art glass practice in this country.
Each week for the duration of this spectacular exhibition, we will be featuring one of the wonderful artists whose work is included.
Our first feature artist is Emma Varga, whose exhibition Virtual Garden was recently on display in our National Art Glass Gallery over winter.
Fused: A journey from artists in the National Art Glass Collection
Feature Artist: Emma Varga
Cultural background: My ancestry is Mid-European (Hungarian / Serbian / Yugoslav)
Place of origin: Ada, Northern Yugoslavia
Start of migration journey: Belgrade, Yugoslavia, July 30, 1995
Place of arrival in Australia: Sydney, NSW on July 31, 1995
First home in Australia: Dee Why, NSW
First job in Australia: I have been a freelance glass artist, since arriving here in 1995
Any glass related objects that you brought with you? And still have?: I brought eight sculptural objects from my Memories series (1991-95) and six individual objects representing my work from 1979-1991
For more on Emma Varga’s story please visit wagga.nsw.gov.au/art-gallery/exhibitions/exhibitions-2014 or come in and read her story within the exhibition.
Main gallery
Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness: Until November 30
Links Gallery
Resolute: CSU BA Photography: Until November 23
National Art Glass Gallery
Fused: A journey from artists in the National Art Glass Collection: Until March 8, 2015
Margaret Carnegie Gallery
Hide and Seek: self-portraits from the Cunningham Dax Collection: Finishes Sunday
CSU Photography Symposium
When: Saturday, October 25 11am to noon
Where: Links Gallery, Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: Free event
Launch: Resolute: CSU BA Photography
When: Saturday, October 25, 6pm to 8pm
Where: Links Gallery, Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: Free event
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Sunday: 10am to 2pm
Closed Mondays
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