WAGGA Wagga Art Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition by local photographer Sarah Mifsud.
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Distortion and Transformation is now on show in the Links Gallery on our lower level.
The focus of Sarah’s photography is the human form, and while her earlier photographs were captured in one frame and were “untouched”, she has recently added another dimension to her work courtesy of digital manipulation.
The forms that we consequently encounter in Sarah’s photographs are both familiar and foreign.
While there is no mistaking the shapes and contours of the human figure, the combinations in which Sarah brings these elements together constitute a fresh reading of our physicality.
Significantly, within her exploration, Sarah also taps into and releases the abstract inner worlds that ride in tandem with who we are as physical beings.
The results are both absorbing and challenging and can be seen at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery until April 10.
Stonework: Lithography from the Margaret Carnegie Print Collection
GALLERIES not only exhibit art – we also collect it.
While Wagga Wagga Art Gallery is renowned for its collection of Australian studio glass, we are also home to one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary Australian prints in the country.
Our print collection – which includes over 1400 works - started with a donation by the Wagga Wagga Art Society and gained momentum in 1980 when Margaret Carnegie donated 150 prints by prominent Australian artists. Appropriately, the collection is now named in Margaret Carnegie’s honour.
Prints come in a variety of formats including monotypes, linocuts, woodcuts, etchings and lithographs, and in the case of Stonework – an exhibition that is currently on show in our downstairs area – we are focusing on lithographs.
As the exhibition’s title suggests, lithographs are often printed from a wax-crayon drawing made on a smooth porous stone such as limestone.
Stonework showcases lithographs from the Margaret Carnegie Print Collection by some of Australia’s leading artists including Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Lloyd Rees, Jan Senbergs and Arthur Wicks. Indigenous printmakers such as Vernon Ah Khee, Roy Burnyila, Andrew Marrgululu and Judy Watson are also represented, as are cutting-edge practitioners like Emily Floyd and Leith McGregor.
Stonework offers a welcome opportunity to delve into the recent history of lithography in our country. It is on show until March 6 and we would be delighted if you could join us.