In the current extraordinary exhibition Almost an Embrace, artist Vic McEwan has transformed the gallery into a wonderland, allowing people to engage with water in a way that encourages connection and playfulness.
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The sound, light and water installation is cutting edge new work, created especially for the Margaret Carnegie Gallery exhibition space.
Almost an Embrace entices visitors with an amazing interactive water installation that exists as a sculpture, a musical instrument, and an interactive light, video and sound environment.
Video and sound fill the space in response to the viewer’s actions and the flow of hundreds of litres of water.
Almost an Embrace entices visitors to engage with arms outstretched, and the viewer is the missing link – your interaction with the water is required to close the circuit and spring the installation into life.
Vic McEwan is a new media artist, composer, producer and artistic director whose work traverses his diverse interests in landscape, community, remote spaces and collaboration across artforms.
Vic was recently announced as the inaugural recipient of the Arts NSW Regional Arts Fellowship for 2014-16. This award will see Vic make several trips to the United Kingdom to work at Liverpool Children’s Hospital, creating sound works dealing with reduction in trauma.
Vic McEwan is also the artistic director of The Cad Factory, an artist-led organisation based in the Riverina, which creates an international program of new, immersive and experimental work guided by authentic exchange, ethical principles, people and place.
The Wagga Potters Club exhibition, Out of the Fire, is on display in the E3 art space for one final weekend, and features an extraordinary range of skills, techniques, styles and materials that truly reveal the wide diversity of contemporary ceramic arts.
The Wagga Potters Club was founded in 1969, with the aim of promoting the craft of pottery in the community and producing pots that will enrich the lives of those who use them.
Exhibitions, raku, sawdust and wood firings along with weekend workshops are regular features on the club’s program.
The Potters Club also participates in a wide variety of community activities, including Seniors Week, Fusion Multicultural Festival, and a range of school support programs.
The talented ceramics artists from this exceptional group exhibiting in Out of the Fire include: Lyn Cameron, Dianne Campbell, Narelle Fullwood, Fran Geale, Linda Lander, Milton Loiterton, Dianne Mahony, Maggie Marriott, Liz McInnes, Elie Passlow, Nola Roberts, Dawn Smith, Dawn M Smith, Julie Willis, and Lynette Wynn. This is your last weekend to enjoy Out of the Fire!
Discover the "unsung" neighbourhoods of some of the world’s most famous cities in 52 suburbs around the world.
Ignoring the postcard clichés, this stunning exhibition finds beauty in the places where ordinary people live and build their communities. Louise Hawson’s vibrant photographs turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, capturing not only the differences between countries and cultures, but also the remarkable similarities.
Sydney-based Louise Hawson, along with her eight year old daughter Coco, travelled to 10 countries, 14 cities and 52 suburbs, in a year-long sojourn to explore these unusual and lesser known neighbourhoods.
The results, in 52 suburbs around the world, capture the spirit of their inhabitants, their daily rituals and tribulations.
52 suburbs around the world is the second stage of a project that began in 2009, when Louise realised that she had become, effectively, a stranger in her own city – and to remedy this, she set out to spend a year exploring and photographing one new suburb of Sydney every week.
The results became a book, and then an exhibition, which toured around Australia and met with such a warm response that Louise decided to take the next step and continue this project on a global scale in 2012.
This exhibition is the result: and walking through the show, visitors are able to follow Louise’s journey and, explore a range of world-famous cities beyond the usual well-trodden tourist track.
As this is the last From the Gallery before Christmas I wish you all a safe and creative time over the festive season.
Thank you to everyone who has supported Wagga Art Gallery over the year, coming along to talks, events and workshops and enjoying our array of exhibitions.
Don’t forget that we are open over the holiday period, from 10am to 2pm every day hours except Christmas Day and Monday, December 29.
From the elegant stillness of Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 years of JamFactory to the sophisticated interaction with Almost an Embrace these and many more exhibitions highlight the depth of artistic endeavors in this region and beyond.
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 Nick Wirdnam who has had extraordinary opportunities as a teacher and student.
Fused: A journey from artists in the National Art Glass Collection
Feature artist: Nick Wirdnam
Cultural background: Both of my parents were born in England
Place of origin: Portsmouth, England
Start of migration journey: Gatwick, England 1983
Place of arrival in Australia: Melbourne, Victoria 1983
First home in Australia: Brighton, Victoria
First job in Australia: 1983-88 Senior Tutor - Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University), Melbourne, Victoria
Other jobs in Australia: 1991 Visiting Lecturer, Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana, USA
Any glass related objects that you brought with you? And still have? I brought some pieces that I had made at the Isle of Wight Glass Studio and glass making tools
For more on Nick Wirdnam’s 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
Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 years of JamFactory: Until January 25, 2015
Links Gallery
Art : Science : Sound: Until January 25, 2015
National Art Glass Gallery
Fused: A journey from artists in the National Art Glass Collection: Until March 8, 2015
Margaret Carnegie Gallery
Vic McEwan: Almost an Embrace: Until March 1, 2015
E3 art space
Out of the Fire: Wagga Wagga Potters Club: Until December 21 - LAST WEEKEND
Next: KaPOW! Kids and Print Outreach Workshops display
Thursday, December 25: Closed
Friday, December 26 to Sunday, December 28: 10am to 2 pm
Monday, December 29: Closed
Tuesday, December 30 to Sunday, January 4: 10am to 2pm
Monday, January 5: Closed
Wagga Art Gallery is a cultural facility of Wagga City Council