For three weeks only, the gallery is delighted to welcome an extraordinary musical and visual experience – the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s ACO VIRTUAL!
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Fusing digital technologies with visual and sonic innovation, this ground-breaking interactive installation allows the audience to conduct and even play with the ACO.
Audiences can see the players’ lightning-quick hands in a way not possible in a concert hall, hear the unique sounds of the ACO’s multi-million-dollar collection of instruments and feel the rush of being immersed in this interactive installation.
Built by Sydney digital media production company Mod Productions, ACO VIRTUAL uses state-of-the-art video technology and features projections of the ACO’s acclaimed musicians.
Audiences are surrounded, with the sound of each musician coming from the direction of their individual projections.
A touch-screen “music stand” allows users to spotlight and listen to one musician, a section of instruments or their desired selection of players.
Audiences essentially step "inside" a concert and are immersed in a cinematic experience, surrounded by the musicians and manipulating what they hear and see.
The musical score can be turned on to stream along the bottom of the screen, meaning anyone who plays an instrument can play along with the ACO, even standing in for Richard Tognetti himself.
A smartphone application further enriches the experience with information about the music, the ACO musicians and their instruments.
The work runs for 30 minutes and comprises music by Bach, Grieg, Smalley and Piazzolla, designed to maximise the opportunity for audience participation.
It delivers a unique and inspiring learning environment, giving people the opportunity to engage with – and learn from – world-class musicians they would not ordinarily have the chance to see performing on stage.
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 artwork.
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.
Have you started on your Christmas shopping yet? Still searching for that perfect gift for all your family and friends?
Well, the answer is probably at the gallery shop – and this Monday, November 3, we’ll be unveiling a whole new season of unique and exciting options for you to choose from.
Come along from 4pm to 6pm, enjoy some Christmas cake and holiday refreshments, and browse through our newest arrivals.
There’s everything from textiles and fabrics to exquisite one-off pieces of jewellery, hand-made ceramics and fluffy toys or games for the children. And of course, as the home of the National Art Glass Collection we have a very special range of art glass pieces – bowls, vases, paperweights and more, from some of Australia’s leading artists in glass.
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 in the exhibition.
Today it is Gerhard Emmerichs, who first came to Australia to teach and then fell in love with the country itself.
Featured artist: Gerhard Emmerichs
Cultural background: My family goes back a few centuries in the area I was born
Place of origin: Kamp-Lintfort, Lower Rhine Region (near Dutch Border), NRW, Germany. I lived and worked in the region until disembarkation
Start of migration journey: Frankfurt, Germany – International Airport, February 14, 1981
Place of arrival in Australia: Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne – February 16, 1981
First home in Australia: Elsternwick, Melbourne
First job in Australia: Tutor for glass painting at Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University)
Other jobs in Australia: Always worked freelance, self-employed
Any glass related objects that you brought with you? And still have? A number of glazing tools and glass painting brushes
For more on Gerhard Emmerichs story please visit www.wagga.nsw.gov.au/art-gallery/exhibitions/exhibitions-2014 or come in and read his 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
Margaret Carnegie Gallery
ACO: Virtual – November 1 to 23
E3 art space
NEXT: Operation Art – November 10 to 23
Wagga Art Gallery Shop Launch
When: Monday, November 3, 4pm to 6pm
Where: Gallery Shop, Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: Free event
* Tuesday to Saturday: 10am to 4pm
* Sunday 10am to 2pm
* Closed Mondays
Wagga Art Gallery is a cultural facility of Wagga City Council