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1 January - 17 February
Recent Acquisitions
A selection of works
acquired over the past twelve months including the major Pam
Sargood donation and a suite of 10 prints, 'The Journey', by
Leonard French.
23 February - 30 March
Summer Winterlude:
Nick Canosa, Patrick Carroll, Alvaro Castagnet, Herman Pekel
& Joseph Zbukvic
Celebrating ten years
of landscape painting together. Castlemaine is the only Victorian
venue for this exhibition of watercolours and oil paintings.
5 April - 18 May
Deborah Klein:
Out of the Past 1995-2007
Guest
curator: Diane Soumilas. The
first comprehensive survey of Klein's work. It includes selected
key works exploring her major thematic concerns and long term
preoccupation with feminine identity and women's creative history.
Klein is nationally renowned for her figurative works of anonymous
female subjects, and her complex visual language, rich in symbols
and motifs.
31 May - 20 July
Robert Maclaurin:
Recent Landscapes
Maclaurin came to Australia
seven years ago from Scotland on a Menzies Fellowship and now
lives and works in Central Victoria. The works in this exhibition
have been painted since he moved to Australia.
'Always a traveller, many intimate relationships with place
have always inspired me. The central core of my work has always
been the importance of the direct experience. Using "en
plein air ", the intense scrutiny of wilderness landscape
is the catalyst for my major studio-based paintings.'
2 August - 31 August
Dick Turner:
Cross Sections Layering Land and Culture
Dick Turner views the
process of 'layering' as a juxtaposing of ideas. He uses fragments
of the natural and cultural landscape of Cairn Curran in Central
Victoria. This is a 1950s water catchment area with environmental
problems which he takes as an analogy of the global situation.
The visual exploration of Cairn Curran encapsulates the colonial
enterprise and its outcomes in our post modern world.
6 September - 28 September
From here
to Eternity
Tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop on tour
Curated by Victorian
Tapestry Workshop Director, Susie Shears, the selection includes
stunning examples of contemporary tapestry designed by some of
Australia's leading artists including Angela Brennan, Mike Brown,
Alun Leach-Jones, Reg Mombassa, Gareth Sansom and Martin Sharp.
4 October
- 2 November
Donald Ramsay: Artist in a Landscape
A Survey Exhibition
A selection of the artist's
paintings from the last ten years, part of a continuing journey.
A quest to paint in authentic and direct response to the natural
world has formed his evolving interpretive vision of the Australian
landscape.
'I think it's important for an artist to go out into the wilderness
landscape to keep interpreting it, to keep it alive in our day-to-day
consciousness.'
8 November - 14 December
Jock Clutterbuck:
Drawing and Sculpture 1990-2008
'Sculpture and Drawing
inhabit different worlds, yet they continue to feed into each
other.'
This survey of selected
works traces shifts and changes in the major themes of Jock Clutterbuck's
work over the last eighteen years.
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