Ararat Regional Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 29 October 2006

Free Entry

Program highlights for Get into Art!

11am Gallery opens

11am-3pm A selection of seldom-viewed small textiles and fibre artworks from the permanent collection will be on display - only during Get into Art!

Noon - 3pm Free children's art activities presented by regional artists in the Art and Craft Workshop (next door to the gallery)

3pm Anthony Camm, Director, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, will present a floor talk about the exhibition, 'Cross Section: The Documentary Photography of Charles Page', to be followed by afternoon tea at 3.30pm.

Exhibitions

Cross Section: The Documentary Photography of Charles Page
A Horsham Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition
13 October - 18 November 2007

An exhibition featuring work by students from Marian College, Ararat.
6 October – 4 November 2007

Ararat Regional Art Gallery
Vincent Street, Ararat
Telephone: 5352 2836
Email: gallery@ararat.gov.vic.au

Art Space Wodonga

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Open Day Hours – 10am till 4pm

Under Pressure
Printmaking Workshop

Regional artists, Caryn Giblin and Nan Hoysted, welcome all to partake in a workshop where they will share simple printmaking techniques. Participants can try out lino cuts, dry point etchings and produce black and white prints. Come into Arts Space Wodonga and try your hand at putting a plate through a press and be surprised as you peel back the blankets to see your dry point print. No experience necessary.

Workshop - 11am till 3pm
Entry - FREE
Bookings – (02) 6022 9600
Refreshments provided

Exhibition

Landmarkings
October 12 to November 3, 2007

Standard gallery hours
Monday to Friday 9.30am - 6pm
Saturday 9.30am - 12.30pm

Art Space Wodonga
160 Lawrence Steet, Wodonga
Telephone: 02 6022 9600
Web: www.wodonga.vic.gov.au

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program Highlights

11.00am Behind the scenes tours of the Gallery. This is one of the oldest and largest collections in the country so there is a lot to see ‘down in the bowels of the Gallery’

Happening throughout the afternoon: Mask and collage making for Kids – inspired by the exhibition of recent self portraits: Eye to ‘I’.

2.00pm Guided tour of the permanent collection – an opportunity to see one of the Grandest Galleries in the nation – and one which has been largely restored and re-hung in the past 12 months.

2.30pm The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Women’s Association Last Sunday of the Month Concert: “Franckly Mozart". Tony Conolan (violin) and Gwen Kenelly (piano) present woks by Cesar Franck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

3.00pm Guided tour of the major exhibition “Eye to ‘I’ - the self in recent art” with curator Geoff Wallis.

Exhibitions

Eye to "i" - The self in recent art
August 11 – October 28, 2007

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat
Telephone: 5320 5858
Email: artgal@ballarat.vic.gov.au
Web: www.balgal.com

Banyule Art Space

Special opening on Sunday 29 October 2006

Free entry

Banyule City Council 2007 Works on Paper Art Award

People’s Choice Award Announcement

2007 Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award brings together the work of artists from around Australia. This year the Award attracted 265 entries. The exhibition of selected entries continues until 3 November.

12 noon IT’S YOUR CHOICE!

Voting closes for the People’s Choice Award

We heard it from the experts, now it‘s time for your say. Last chance to vote in the People’s Choice Award. Cast a vote for the artwork you think is the best.

1pm People’s Choice Award announcement.

Mingle with the artists.
Light refreshments available

2007 Works on Paper Art Award

3 October to 3 November 2007
Opening hours during Awards are Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm

Banyule Arts Space
14 Ivanhoe Parade, Ivanhoe
Tel: 9490 4222
www.banyule.vic.gov.au

Benalla Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 29 October 2006

3 – 3.45pm From Here to Eternity
Join Suzie Shears, Director of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, and hear about this exhibition

The Victorian Tapestry Workshop was established in 1976 and is regarded as a world centre for one of western civilisation's oldest and richest art forms. In her guided tour, Suzie Shears will provide insights into the collaborative process between artists and weavers, surrounded by magnificent tapestries currently on loan from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. And forget the old hunting scenes and garden views – these tapestries are for the here and now.

3.30 – 4.30pm The New Musicians
Children’s Concert
(everybody gets a prize!)

Every year Benalla’s budding musicians present a series of concerts at the gallery. The milestone achievements can carry the audience from the joys of Mary’s lamb to a reasonably confident Claire de Lune. Parents, siblings and family friends make up the greater audience, but everyone is welcome. The end of the concert means a windfall of prizes and balloons. Free, including the memories and the disarming charm.

Hourly 10 – 3pm Benalla PS 31 presents.......
Ned Kelly and the Nolan Tapestry

Benalla PS 31 has been undertaking a deep analysis of the meaning of the enigmatic “Glenrowan” tapestry on permanent display at the Benalla Art Gallery. Find out why Ned is so big compared to the other figures, why there is a baby in the picture and what the grumpy old man is doing standing outside his shed in the picture’s background. You will be amazed.

Exhibitions

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Contemporary Tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and leading contemporary artists

This exhibition will be a beautiful selection of the finest tapestries woven in the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. The workshop is now world famous, and has built special skills in bringing very contemporary images forward with one of the oldest fabric crafts. The marriage brings a special magic to art.

14 October – 25 November 2007

Art Botanica
26 – 28 October

The Benalla Botanica Horticultural Conference excites interest in the green and glorious all over Victoria and beyond. Plants and their place is our the theme for this year, and the gallery pays homage with the service of art to the glory of nature. Selected artist.

Benalla Art Gallery
Bridge Street, Benalla
Telephone: 5762 5640
Web: www.benallaartgallery.com

Bendigo Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

11am–4pm

FREE ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE DAY

Miniature portraits
Be inspired by the Gallery’s miniature collection currently on display in the Portraits exhibition and create your very own miniature of someone special to wear around your neck.

Beautiful bugs
Make your very own creepy crawly using lots of different materials, pipe cleaners, textas, felt.

Creative castles
Be inspired by James Angus’ neo-gothic castle on display in the Gallery and join staff and other families to help to create a large cardboard castle in front of the Gallery.

SPECIAL TOURS AND EVENTS

Art Stories 11.30am & 2.30pm
Join us for the launch of our new Sunday morning program for families. Run on the last Sunday of each month, this program is fun for all family members.

Gallery tour with Arty Possum 1pm
Join the Gallery’s favourite tour guide as she leads a tour through the Gallery, stopping to collect objects on the way.

Exhibitions

James Angus
22 September–25 November 2007

Portraits
29 September–28 October 2007

Bendigo Art Gallery
42 View Street, Bendigo
Telephone: 5434 6088
Web: bendigoartgallery.com.au

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program highlights:

2pm The Smiths of Bundoora
Dr Jacqueline Healy, Director of Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and Merv Lia, President of the Preston Historical Society, journey back through time to unmask life – upstairs and downstairs – at Bundoora Homestead during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

3pm When the Smiths met the Smyths
Artist Sharon West interprets life at Bundoora Homestead, circa 1900, with great humour and affection and discusses her work on display at the Bundoora Homestead Art Show.

Exhibitions

Bundoora Homestead 1899 – 1920: The Smith Family Era
September 14 – December 2 2007

Bundoora Homestead Art Show
October 11 – October 28 2007

Bundoora Homestead – Art Centre
7-27 Snake Gully Drive, Bundoora
Telephone: 9466 9628
Web: www.bundoorahomestead.com

Burrinja

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

11am–4pm, Free Entry

Exhibitions and Tours

Turtles all the way down
Isobel Foster, Neil McLeod, Tiriki Onus, Joy Serwylo
A cross media installation exhibition of potentials and becomings
Expect the unexpected Burrinja Gallery – Free Entry all day.
Meet the artists for an informative Q&A in the gallery at 1.00pm

Burrinja Collection Gallery
Explore the stories and cultural significance behind just some of the key works from the Shire of Yarra Ranges – Burrinja Collection with Exhibitions Consultant Mary Mumford.
Collection Tours: 12.30pm & 2.30pm

Bill Kemp and Helen Varner.
William and Helen create low relief and 3D works which include textures, nature, thought, fantasy, romance, tessellations and chivalry using paint, colours and diverse materials. Their collaborative works are the result of two creative minds and two pairs of hands working on each piece. Jarmbi Gallery – all day.
Meet the artists Bill and Helen at 11.30am

Burrinja Arts Cooperative Shop
Burrinja Arts Shop is the collective idea of talented local artists who ply their diverse creativity within the studios at Burrinja and further a field. Run and staffed by the artists themselves, it’s a place where studio artists of Burrinja and the Hills can sell their creative works as part of an arts cooperative. Come and meet some of the artists that make it all happen at Burrinja!

Youth Art Activities

Mapping where I live
This program will explore the intersections of indigenous art, land and ‘mapping’ and our own re-representations of the urban environment in which we live today. Aimed at young people aged 10 - 15 years, the workshop will stimulate imagination and creativity by encouraging participants to engage with the ‘mapping of country’ in Aboriginal art and see how they might apply this unique view of land to their own home, suburb and ‘territory’. This workshop will take advantage of Burrinja Gallery's excellent indigenous art collection, Facilitated by Tilla Buden. Materials provided. Free. 11am – 1.00pm

Recycled Art – indigenous animals
Grab a handful of fun, recycled stuff and help bring to life some giant figures of the Australian Aboriginal bush, including Kumoken the salt water crocodile, Ngalyod the rainbow serpent and the barramundi. Working with the forms used by the Arnhem Land artists for these important animals, you can stay half and hour or stay all day! An all day free event for kids young and old.

Burrinja
351 Glenfern Road (cnr. Matson Drv)
UPWEY VIC 3158 (Melways 75B12)
Tel: 9754 8723
events@burrinja.org.au
www.burrinja.org.au

Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum

Programs on Sunday 29 October 2006

Free Entry

Program Highlights

The 1907 exhibition of Women's Work was initiated by Lady Northcote and opened on 23 October 1907 at the Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne. Running for six weeks, the exhibition was viewed by over 250,000 people. It had 16,000 exhibits covering a wide range of interests from oil painting and wood carving, music and sports to needlework and laundry.

To celebrate the centenery of this exhibition, The Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum will bring together over 100 items from the original show, and launch a special publication about this significant historical event. As part of the state-wide Get Into Art! open day, a series of special programs will be held in conjunction with this exhibition.

2pm Guided tour of the exhibition by the Director

2:30pm onwards: Edwardian afternoon tea

3pm Tour of selected works by Chairman of Trustees

Exhibitions

Centenary Celebration of the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work 1907
21 October to 9 December 2007

Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
14 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine
Telephone: 5472 2292
Email: info@castlemainegallery.com
Web: www.castlemainegallery.com

Central Goldfields Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Program Highlights

11.00am Official opening of exhibition Create your own Skate

11.00am Henna Hands Workshop

2.00pm Official opening of exhibition Paint, Print, Feather & Flower - an exhibition of watercolours & linocuts by regional artists Lyn Cooke and Vida Pearson

In the morning, our activities will focus on young people with an exhibition of local skateboard riders’ art. Henna Hands workshop – decorate your hands with unique henna art symbols; materials supplied. In the afternoon, please join us in the main gallery for the opening of Paint, Print, Feather & Flower.

Exhibitions

Create your own Skate
From 28 October 2007

Paint, Print, Feather & Flower
28 October to 25 November 2007

Central Goldfields Art Gallery
Old Fire Station, Neill Street, Maryborough
Telephone:  5460 4588
www.centralgoldfields.com.au

City Museum at Old Treasury

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

The City Museum at Old Treasury will open free of charge for this special event.

Free Entry

11am Tour of the Executive Council Chamber and performance by Wesley College Big Band

12 noon Floor talk: ‘The Art of Living Below Stairs’

1pm Join Alex Taylor, curator of Melbourne Bohemia: Inside Melbourne Artist’s Studios for a free talk about the exhibition

2pm Panel : ‘Six in the City’ – six perspectives on living in the city
(* see details of panellists below)
Chair: Kenneth Park
Deakin Room

3pm Floor talk: ‘Amongst my Souvenirs’ Tour of the Executive Council Chamber

Seasonal exhibition:

Melbourne Bohemia: Inside Melbourne Artist’s Studios 1900-1940
Between 1990 and 1940 there were many purpose built artist studios in the city. The exhibit recounts dramatic and sometimes scandalous moments of creation, decoration, socialising, sex and sales.

Permanent exhibits:

Making Melbourne - a chronicle of events and characters that helped shape the city of Melbourne

Built on Gold - the story of Victorian gold, from the diggings until it left the colony and its legacy for Melbourne

Growing Up in the Old Treasury - the story of the basement apartment, occupied by the Maynard family from 1916-1928

Gold & Prosperity - exhibits colonial Australian craftsmanship in precious metal from the Vizard Foundation Collection

Panel Presentation

Six in the City: perspectives on living in Melbourne

Chair: Kenneth Park lecturer, curator, tour leader Apartment, Spring St

Terence Murphy Guest Relations Manager Sofitel Melbourne ‘for one night only’

Linda Newsham Office Manager, MICM (Melbourne Inner City Management) Victorian house – Carlton ‘for the short term’

Peter Matthews ‘Residents 3000’ Apartment, Exhibition St ‘for the long term’

Suzie Wharton Chocoholic Tours Eureka Tower – 66th floor ‘from a great height’

George Metaxas architect Apartment – Russell St ‘from a distance’

City Museum at Old Treasury
Spring Street (top end of Collins Street), Melbourne
Telephone: 9651 2233
Email: info@citymuseummelbourne.org
Web: www.citymuseummelbourne.org

Craft Victoria

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Make Craft Victoria the highlight of your tour of Melbourne’s galleries during the Public Galleries Association of Victoria’s open day. Gallery and Shop will be open 10.00am – 5.00pm (yes, on a Sunday!) with a free workshop at 2.00pm with exhibiting artist Jenny Bartholomew.

Workshop with Jenny Bartholomew
2.00–3.00pm

Using found and gifted gloves, Jenny Bartholomew constructs characters from a material once destined for the hand. With hand-worked additions, these discarded and abandoned fabric remnants take on a new life. Bring along a glove or two (whether found or simply worn out) and work with Jenny to create a narrative and transform your old accessory.

Free. All ages. Limited places so book early. Some gloves available on the day.

Bookings: info@craftvic.asn.au or 9650 7775.
Bookings close Monday 22 October.

Exhibitions

Digitally Enhanced: Jennifer Bartholomew Digitally Enhanced
makes play around Jennifer Bartholomew’s fascination for gloves and hand-stitching. For Bartholomew, the hand crafted is both a conceptual starting point and a source of materials and techniques. Gallery 1.

Best in Show: Ceramics from the Antarctic Riviera
Best in Show explores the idylls and daydreams of small town life and its rituals. Here, the familiar is both thrilling and strange but reveals that where there is light there might also be darkness. Gallery 2,3.

In the window:
"South Project Window: AFRICA"

Craft Victoria
31 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel: 9650 7775
www.craftvic.asn.au

The Duldig Studio

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program Highlights

See sculptures, drawings, paintings and decorative arts by the internationally acclaimed sculptor Karl Duldig (1902-1986) and the artist and inventor, Slawa Duldig neé Horowitz (c1902–1975), authentically displayed in the artist’s former home, garden and studio.

Clay for a Day

• Free clay modelling for ‘kids’ (of all ages!)
• Free conducted tours on demand
• Light refreshments available

Talks:

11.30am Clay in Art History
Dr Alison Inglis,
Deputy Head,
School of Culture and Communication
Associate Dean for Development, Faculty of Arts
The University of Melbourne

1pm Clay in The Duldig Studio
Stefan Damschke, sculptor and curator, The Duldig Studio

Exhibition

Karl Duldig: selected ceramic and terracotta sculptures.

East Gippsland Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

10.00am to 12.00 noon Jewellery making with Yvonne Renfree
Free and suitable for beginners .

1.00pm to 3.00pm Art Activities for children
Free and suitable for children between 7 and 10 years of age

Exhibition

The Fabulous Felt Group: functional and decorative items
12 – 30 October, 2007

East Gippsland Art Gallery
2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale, 3875
Telephone: 51531988
Email: egag@1.com.au
Web: www.eastgippslandartgallery.org.au

Geelong Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

11.00am to 4.00pm, Free Entry

Get into art! and celebrate Geelong’s cultural diversity with a day of special events.

See traditional costumes and demonstrations of crafts from a variety of local cultural groups – Chinese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Spanish and Ukrainian communities.

Join the Gallery guides with representatives from Geelong’s cultural groups for special tours of the collection.

This program has been developed in conjunction with Diversitat.

Exhibitions

Art Unlimited – selected works 2007
until 28 October 2007

2007 Geelong acquisitive print awards
until 18 November 2007

Klaus Moje – glass
An Object Gallery exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries NSW
until 13 January 2008

Geelong Gallery
Little Malop Street, Geelong
Telephone: 5229 3645
Web:    www.geelonggallery.org.au

STreEt FAIR @ Gippsland Art Gallery

Port of Sale Civic Centre, 68-70 Foster Street, Sale T: 03 5142 3372

Free Event Sunday 28 October 2007
Open 10am to 7pm
Educational workshops, demonstrations and an artist talk by local professional artist, Rehgan de Mather.
Temporary installation by David Wakefield. Free Art Bus touring Galleries of East Gippsland.

Program Highlights

Stencil Art Workshop 12pm - 4pm
Rehgan de Mather will conduct a workshop in the gallery courtyard demonstrating the techniques of stencil art, stencil design, placement and application. Participants will have the opportunity to develop their own designs and apply these onto a large mobile mural-wall, of 4m x 1.8m. The artistic outcome of this project (wall mural) will then be on display in the gallery foyer for a period of four weeks for public viewing.

Maria-Luisa Marino will execute a new temporary installation onto the gallery walls throughout the afternoon.

David Wakefield will execute a new temporary installation onto the gallery walls throughout the afternoon.

Awards 4pm - 5pm
Encouragement Awards will be presented to students from the exhibition entitled Urban View. This exhibition features a selection of works from our membership Secondary Schools. Responding to themes of urbanisation, the works on display incorporate streetscapes and draw inspiration from street art.

Performances 5pm - 7pm
Performances by local performers including music.

Free Art Bus 9.30am - 4.30pm
A guided bus tour of the Gallery’s of East Gippsland is being coordinated by Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. This tour will depart from Gippsland Art Gallery at 9.30am and will visit various galleries including the East Gippsland Art Gallery and The Australian Wildlife Gallery. Lunch will be at Metung – purchase at own expense.

Exhibitions

6 October to 28 October
Urban View
Local Secondary Schools

13 October to 11 November
Hidden in Plain View - the forgotten flora
State Botanical Collection

Profile of a Gippsland Fern Gully
Laurie Andrews

Bookings for Workshops and Art Bus essential by contacting the Gallery on 03 5142 3372
Port of Sale Civic Centre
68-70 Foster Street, Sale
Tel: 5142 3372,
E: anton.vardy@wellington.vic.gov.au
www.wellington.vic.gov.au/gallery

Hamilton Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

10.00 am - 4.00 pm Loopy Powerpoint cartoon workshops

11.00 am, 1.00 pm, 2.00 pm Behind the Scenes tours

3.00 pm Afternoon tea and talk - Christopher Dresser: The Designer

Exhibitions

Loop: new Australian video art
A NETS Victoria touring exhibition developed by Hamilton Art Gallery
19 September - 28 October 2007

Australian Abstract Prints
26 September - 11 November 2007

Christopher Dresser: The Designer
17 October - 17 January 2008 Hamilton TOPS 24 October -25 November 2007

Hamilton Art Gallery
107 Brown Street, Hamilton
Telephone: 5573 0460
Web: www.hamiltongallery.org

Horsham Regional Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program Highlights:

11am – 3pm: “Cut ‘n Paste”: a workshop for everyone. Make collages & photomontages with Education Officer, Angela de Martino Rosaroll

11:30am: “Behind the Scenes”. A guided tour through the private and storage areas of the gallery with Director, Merle Hathaway

2pm: “The New Eye”. Share the favourite artworks of the Horsham collection with new Curator, Adam Harding

3.30pm: Con Kroker Memorial Lecture: Samantha Everton, winner of the fifth LEICA/CCP Documentary Photography Award.

Exhibitions

LEICA/CCP DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARD 2005
October 16 – December 9
Touring exhibition from Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography featuring documentary/social commentary photographers.

ARTSPLASH / ARTRAGEOU
September 4 – October 28
Artworks produced at two workshops for people with a disability and Respite Care led by Nichola Clarke, Mary French, Ingrid Wimbury. A highlight of Awakenings festival.

EDWIN G. ADAMSON - ALPINE PHOTOGRAPHER
September 18 – November 11
Photographs by Edwin G Adamson (1895-1974) from the National Alpine Museum, Mt Buller. Images taken at Australian alpine locations, 1926 - 1940

MANMADE
October 23, 2007 – January 13, 2008
Architectural images from the gallery’s collection. Includes Robert Colvin, Wolfgang Sievers, Peter Hennessey, Mark Johnson, Simon Cuthbert, Craig Cole and Carlo Golin.

Horsham Regional Art Gallery
80 Wilson Street, Horsham
Telephone: 5382 5575
Email: hrag@hrcc.vic.gov.au
Web:    www.horsham.net.au/gallery

Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Pottering around at the Potter

11am and 2pm

Get to know the Potter inside out, back to front and upside down as you travel through time and around the world on the ‘choose your own’ adventure story trail.

Play at being an archaeologist in the Cypriot collection, tinker about with Australian composer Percy Grainger and brave the heat of Palestine in your quest to reach the end of the story and find our artist Eduard’s missing items hidden in the Potter’s collections.

Wheelchair/ Pram Access

Exhibitions

George Lambert: Gallipolli and Palestine Landscapes
11 August to 28 October 2007

Cypriot antiquities
1 September 2007 to 16 March 2008

Facing Percy Grainger
20 October to 3 February 2007

The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Swanston Street between Faraday and Elgin Streets
Telephone: 8344 5148
Email: potter-info@unimelb.edu.au
Web:  www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au

Latrobe Regional Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program Highlights

11am Voluntary guided tour - Enjoy a guided tour of Latrobe Regional Gallery and gain an insight into the gallery’s current exhibitions with LRG volunteer Guides.

11am – 2pm So Swish Cafe – Scrumptious lunch menu and fantastic coffee at affordable prices all day.

11am – 3.30pm Art detective family trail – Available from the information desk. This free children’s trail is designed to guide families around the Latrobe Regional Gallery’s current exhibitions.

11.30am – 12.30pm Curators of the Heavy Metal exhibition will lead a tour of the installation followed by a wire sculpting workshop.

2pm-3pm Artist floor talk – Join artist Ivan Durrant for an insightful talk on his abstract large-scale paintings inspired by the world of football.

1pm – 4pm Industrial TECHNO – Enter the world of new technology through the Digital music workshop with Paul Berryman and create your own track in one afternoon – bookings essential.

Exhibitions

Gallery 1 & 2 • CONTRASTS – Charles Sturt University Art Collection
22 September - 11 November

Gallery 3 • IVAN DURRANT
15 September – 16 December

Gallery 4 • Focus: photography and war 1945-2005 – War Memorial
13 October - 11 November

Gallery 5 • Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection
24 October – 2 December

Gallery 6 • Dick Bishop Memorial Art Prize
17 October – 5 November

Sculpture Courtyard • Heavy Metal - InFews
5 October – 30 November

La Trobe Regional Gallery
138 Commercial Road, Morwell VIC 3840
Telephone: (03) 5128 5700
Email: lrg@latrobe.vic.gov.au
Web: www.latroberegionalgallery.com

La Trobe University Art Museum and Collections

Programs on Sunday 29 October 2006

Free Entry

Program Highlights

12.30pm – Curator’s floor-talk
Vincent Alessi, curator of the exhibition KITE: Mike Brown and the Sydney 12, will introduce the exhibition and present a floor-talk in the gallery. The talk will look at the works in the exhibition, the event that surrounded the making of Mike Brown’s work The Kite and discuss the contemporary relevance of the arguments presented by Brown in 1964.

All day – Collage for Kids
Throughout the day kids will have the opportunity to contribute to a large-size communal collage. They will also have the opportunity to create their own collages. For inspiration they can view, study and respond to the various collages in the exhibition.

Exhibitions:

KITE: Mike Brown and the Sydney 12 September 17 – November 2, 2007

La Trobe University Art Museum and Collections
Glenn College, Bundoora Campus (parking in carpark 6 or 7)
Telephone: 9479 2111
Email: artmuseum@latrobe.edu.au
Web: www.latrobe.edu.au/artmuseum

Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free entry, no bookings required

11am Gallery opens

2pm International Dadaist Razor Hope
Live at Linden

Let Razor take you on a journey of discovery to learn of the mystery of the myth that is, was or could be artist Jason Smythe-Edwards.

“With the spirit of Milligan and the politics of mayhem, Razor Hope revives the Dada arts of verbal gymnastics and pre cultural de appropriation.”

The New Yark Times

Exhibition

This Crazy Love
28 September - 11 November

Artists include: Megan Keating, Elizabeth Gower, Elizabeth Presa, Robert McHaffie, Christian Thompson, Michael Vale, Neil Taylor & Six Degrees

Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
26 Acland Street, St Kilda
Telephone: 9209 6794
Email: info@lindenarts.org
Web: www.lindenarts.org

Manningham Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

‘so, you’re into art?’

Art careers discussion

2pm – 4pm Young aspiring artists are invited to Manningham Gallery to get an insider’s view on becoming an artist or curator. A panel featuring Melbourne’s top young artists and curators will be on hand for a friendly two-hour discussion session covering what it takes to make a living and achieve success in the arts world.
Free entry.

Exhibition

Art Starts: VCE end-of-year exhibition
31 October – 17 November 2007

Manningham Gallery
Manningham Municipal Offices
699 Doncaster Rd, VIC, 3108
Tel: 9840 9367
www.manningham.vic.gov.au/gallery

Maroondah Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Yirrakala and beyond - Bark paintings and works on paper 1930 – 2000
&
Carolyn Goldberg Desert Towns and Tracks
Thursday 25 October - Saturday 8 December

At 1.00pm internationally acclaimed Aboriginal art specialist Howard Morphy will present a talk on the art of Arnhem Land. Howard Morphy (BSc, M Phil London, PhD, ANU) has been Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU since 1999. He is also honorary Curator of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and Adjunct Curator of the Kluge-Ruhe Research Centre, University of Virginia.

From 1.45pm – 2.30pm members of the public are also invited to bring in bark paintings from their collections for appraisal by Wally Caruana, Aboriginal art specialist and consultant for Sotheby's Australia.

PhD student and Aboriginal art specialist Elina Spilia will give a tour of the exhibition from 2.30pm – 3.00pm.

Maroondah Art Gallery
32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood
Telephone: 9298 4542
Email: damian.smith@maroondah.vic.gov.au

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Save this date to explore sculpture and the variety of styles, themes and materials in works that promise to inspire, intrigue and excite. You may be able to have a look at some of the sculptures being installed for the biennial McClelland Sculpture Survey 2007*.

11am and 2pm Join McClelland guided tours. Ignite your creative spirit! Explore the concepts and themes in the works in the Sculpture Park.

2pm to 3pm Enjoy the music by the Langwarrin Primary School Rock Band directed by Phil Barnes.

3pm to 4pm Meet the Director, Robert Lindsay at a special Floor Talk about the forthcoming Sculpture Survey and recent Gallery and Sculpture Park developments.

Discover more...

Special activities at the Guilds for GET INTO ART!

McClelland Guild of Artists
Artists’ exhibition and art sale Demonstrations of oil and pastel painting

The Frankston and Peninsula Lapidary Club
Demonstrations of cabochon cutting
Faceting gemstones
Chain weaving in Stirling Silver
Silversmithing
Opal Carving

Peninsula Woodturners Guild Inc
Woodturning demonstrations
Sale of special items

McClelland Spinners and Weavers
Demonstrations of spinning and weaving
Sale of beautiful handmade items
Membership Drive, Morning and Afternoon Tea

* Tickets available for the McClelland Sculpture Survey Gala Fundraising Opening on Sunday 18 November. $35 pp. Children under 15 free. Opened by Barry Humphries. Superb food and music.

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park
390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin VIC 3910
Telephone: 9789 1671
Email: info@mcclellandgallery.com
Web: www.mcclellandgallery.com

Mildura Arts Centre

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program highlights:

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Mildura Arts Centre will throw open its doors to the community as a part of the state-wide Get into Art! Open Day from 11am to 4pm.

Get into Art! will again be a family fun day with children’s activities, market stalls, local food and produce, entertainment, floor talks, guided tours of Rio Vista Historic House, displays, workshops by local artists and much more!

Enjoy a day at your arts centre!

Exhibitions

Water
Adrian Potter
20 September – 21 November 2007
A craftsman furniture-maker at the height of his creativity Adrian Potter brings to Mildura six superbly made and conceptually sophisticated pieces of furniture which explore the theme of water.

picked 07:
best of our secondary schools
27 September – 21 November 2007
An exhibition showcasing works by secondary school artists from our region. Works selected by Vikki Moore and Robert Watson.

Blandowski’s expedition to the Murray, 1857
20 September – 21 November 2007
This year marks the 150^th Anniversary of William Blandowski’s expedition to the Murray River. As founding curator of Museum Victoria and first Government Zoologist for Victoria, Blandowski conducted a year-long scientific expedition to the Lower Murray River in 1857. The exhibition is collaboration between Museum Victoria and the Mildura Arts Centre.

Art 101
A selection of artwork by secondary art teachers from the Sunraysia district.
13 September – 7 November 2007
Fourteen local art teachers will show works in a variety of themes and a diverse range of mediums. Curated by Mildura art teachers Anne McMaster and Pam Fox.

Mildura Arts Centre
199 Cureton Avenue, Mildura
Telephone: 5018 8330
Email: Arts_centre@mildura.vic.gov.au
Web: www.milduraarts.net.au

Monash Gallery of Art

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

‘Get into Art!’
with Australian Rules: around the grounds

In this era of football professionalism, where the analysis of matches, coaches and players extends the parameters of the code into seemingly ever-expanding levels of complexity, the MGA has brought together photographers who capture the action away from the media spotlight. Australian rules: around the grounds features the work of five photographers who are represented in the MGA’s permanent collection: Donna Bailey, Paul Dunn, Rennie Ellis, Grant Hobson and Jesse Marlow.

With images of hopeful young indigenous players training in the desert, to cheer squad stalwarts supporting their teams under drizzling Melbourne skies, this exhibition provides a range of perspectives on the sport and its social contexts. Connecting the world of footy with the raw emotion and eccentric personalities of the game, these photographers grasp the wider social significance of the game and reveal the passion, spirit and vitality of local communities.

Family Fun Day
10.00am – 5.00pm
Gourmet Sausage Sizzle
Create football banners with AFL Cheer Squad members.

Program highlights

12pm Competition
Notable AFL player will be assisting with football skills and handballing competitions.

2.00pm Artists’ floor talks
Australian Rules: around the grounds
Artists Donna Bailey, Paul Dunn and Grant Hobson will speak about their work in the exhibition with the curator Stephen Zagala.

Exhibitions

Australian Rules: around the grounds

William and Winifred Bowness Prize 2007

Georgia Metaxas: Lower your ears

Monash Gallery of Art
860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill VIC 3150
Telephone: 9562 1569
Email: mga@monash.vic.gov.au
Web: www.mga.org.au

Monash University Museum of Art

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program highlights

11.30am Curator’s talk and guided tour: Dr. Janine Burke
To coincide with the current exhibition Sigmund Freud’s Collection: an Archaeology of the Mind guest curator Dr. Janine Burke will lead a free guided tour of this fascinating exhibition offering a unique insight into Freud as collector, thinker and art connoisseur and revealing how Freud’s study of art and antiquities influenced his theories of psychoanalysis.
All welcome. Seating available

12.30pm Book signing: Dr. Janine Burke: The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection
Dr. Burke will be signing copies of her recent publication The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection, a study of the Freud Collection and its role in Freud’s life and work, which will be available for purchase on the day. Dr Janine Burke is an author and art historian in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Faculty of Arts at Monash University.
All welcome

All day activities

Exhibition

Sigmund Freud’s Collection: an Archaeology of the Mind
5 September – 17 November 2007
Guest Curator: Dr Janine Burke

Wheelchair access available

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA),
Monash University Ground Floor, Building 55,
Wellington Road, Clayton
Telephone: 9905 1618
Web: www.monash.edu.au/muma

National Gallery of Victoria

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

NGV International
180 St Kilda Road
Melbourne

Open daily 10am-5pm
Closed Tuesdays

Polyglot Puppet Theatre: Headhunter
Organised to coincide with PGAV Open Day.
Are we there yet? Come on a puppetry road trip with two cousins as they flee their home town in Nan’s car with impossible secrets bursting from the boot. Headhunter is a highly entertaining, contemporary Indigenous story told with music, puppets and a really cool car. Headhunter was created in collaboration with Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative. Suitable for ages 5+ years.

Date Sunday 28 Oct, 10.30am & 1pm
Cost Free
Venue Great Hall, NGV International

Exhibitions at NGV International

- Super Bodies: Heroic Fashion from the 1980s
(22 Aug 2007 – 3 Feb 2008)

- An incomplete world: works from the UBS Art Collection
(28 Sep 2007 – 6 Jan 2008)

- Joseph Beuys & Rudolf Steiner: Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
(26 Oct 2007 – 17 Feb 2008)

- Krishna: Love and Devotion
(6 Oct 2007 – 16 Mar 2008)

- Great Exhibitions: The World Fairs 1851–1937
(4 May 2007 – 30 Mar 2008)

- Role Play: Portrait Photography
(25 Oct 2007 – 6 Apr 2008)

The Ian Potter Centre:
NGV Australia
Federation Square

Open daily, 10am-5pm
Closed Mondays

October: Impressive Melbourne
Meet us every Sunday from 12noon–3pm, where kids get to know the NGV Collection and temporary exhibitions and learn to look at art and create art works of their own. In October, meet some of the characters and places of Melbourne from past to present and create your own picture of Melbourne. Suitable ages 3+ years.

Dates Sunday 28 Oct, 12–3pm
Cost Free
Venue Foyer, Level 2, NGV Australia

Free Voluntary Guide Tours: NGV Australia Collection

11.30am Introductory Tour
1.30pm Highlights of the NGV Collection

Exhibitions at NGV Australia

- Gordon Bennett
(6 Sep 2007 – 16 Jan 2008)
Entry to the Gordon Bennett exhibition on Sunday 28 October 2007 will be free as part of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria’s state wide Get into Art! Open day celebrations.

- Katie Pye: Clothes for Modern Lovers
(26 May 2007 – 13 Jan 2008)

- Yvonne Audette: Different Directions 1954–1966
(13 Sep 2007 – 17 Feb 2008)

Further Information and Bookings:
Ph: (03) 8662 1555
10am – 5pm daily
www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Shepparton Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Art Gallery Youth Arts My Space – MySpace Launch

11am View a projection on the Gallery wall of our new Youth Arts Virtual Gallery online at www.myspace.com/sheppartonartgallery The online gallery features visual artworks by members of our newly formed youth art group. Works will constantly change as new works are added.

12 -12.30pm Official launch of Myspace Gallery and physical public artspace in Shepparton’s CBD. A lunchtime concert will be held at the Art Gallery featuring young local musicians performing original material and some much loved covers.

1pm- 4pm Art demonstration by young local artists using a variety of mediums and culturally specific artforms.

Exhibitions

The Murray Cod: the biggest fish in the river
A Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery exhibition toured by NETS Victoria
25 October to 9 December

The Aqua Effect: an exhibition about water
11 October to 11 November

Daffodil Day Art Awards
4 October to 28 October

Shepparton Art Gallery
70 Welsford Street, Shepparton
Telephone: 5832 9861
Email: art.gallery@shepparton.vic.gov.au
Web: www.greatershepparton.com.au/sheppartgallery

State Library of Victoria

328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Bookings: 03 8664 7016
slv.vic.gov.au

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Program Highlights

10am–5pm: Free children's activity: Become a Library Detective! Follow the clues to answer 20 questions about the Library's art collections, and win great prizes! (no bookings required)

11am Free author talk: Alex Taylor, Perils of the Studio. Bookings: 8664 7016

1–2pm Free Library tour, including exhibition galleries and the famous dome.
Bookings: 8664 7016

2pm Free panel discussion: The Art of the Collection. Bookings: 8664 7016

3–4pm Free Library tour, including exhibition galleries and the famous dome.
Bookings: 8664 7016

Exhibitions

Famous: Karin Catt portraits

13 July–11 November 2007
Keith Murdoch Gallery, State Library of Victoria
Entry 1, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Open 10am–5pm daily
Free entry
slv.vic.gov.au/famous

This free exhibition presents striking celebrity portraits by high-profile Australian photographer Karin Catt. These iconic images of famous faces, from hip-hop artist Eminem to the Mikhail Gorbachev, evoke the world of popular culture seen in the pages of Vogue and Rolling Stone. With style and humour, Catt's lens captures our favourite idols in intimate and provocative images.

A National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition.

Mirror of the World: books and ideas

This exhibition showcases many of the rare, beautiful and historically significant books held in the collections of the State Library of Victoria. Mirror of the World: books and ideas celebrates books as keepers of ideas, knowledge and the imagination, as well as our special relationship with them as writers and readers. It also provides a window into the history of book production and illustration through the display of fine examples dating from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Dome Gallery, Level 4, State Library of Victoria, Free entry
Open 10am–5pm daily

The changing face of Victoria

One of the State Library of Victoria’s roles is to be a custodian of Victoria’s memory. Much of its collections record and reflect upon the people, the places and the events that have shaped life here from the time of first contacts between Europeans and Aboriginal people through to today.

The changing face of Victoria exhibition brings many of these objects and stories to light through an ever-changing display of pictures, manuscripts, maps and objects ranging from key historical artefacts to items from daily life, including Ned Kelly’s armour.

Dome Gallery, Level 5, State Library of Victoria, Free entry
Open 10am–5pm daily

Cowen Gallery

The Cowen Gallery features a permanent display of 150 works of art from the State Library of Victoria’s Picture Collection—the oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. The works, in both painted and sculptural form, illustrate Victoria’s landscape, early Melbourne scenes, and significant events and figures in the European expansion and settlement of Australia.

Cowen Gallery, State Library of Victoria, Free entry
Open during general Library hours

State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street Melbourne
Tel: 03 8664 7000
www.slv.vic.gov.au

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program Highlights:

11am Children’s painting workshop with local artist Robyn Patterson

1pm Floor talk by exhibiting artist Robyn Patterson

2pm Jewellery marking workshop with award winning designer Marcos Davidson

2pm Guided tour of the Gallery, including ‘behind the scenes’ tour with the Gallery Director, Ian Tully

3pm Live music by local pianist Geoff Green

3pm Free Devonshire afternoon tea

Exhibitions:

Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award 2006
A National Gallery of Victoria exhibition toured by NETS Victoria The award and exhibition are supported by The Cicely & Colin Rigg Bequest

Robyn Patterson - Recent work

All Day Activities:
Browse through art books and journals from the Swan Hill Regional Library and check out the latest designs from the local "Black Swan Tattoo & Body Piercing".

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Horseshoe Bend,
Swan Hill VIC 3585
Telephone: 5036 2430
Website: www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/gallery

the Arts Centre
George Adams Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

FREE EXHIBITION
Open daily until late

Program Highlights

11am and 3pm Children’s Workshops: stage designers in the making
Drop-in and bring your children and grandchildren along for these special Drawn to the Stage introductory workshops to stage design.

All day Self-guided tours of the Art Collection
Pick up a tour brochure from the Concierge Desk and embark on a self-guided tour through the Theatres Building to discover treasures from the Art Collection on permanent display.

Exhibitions

Drawn to the Stage:
Australian stage design from the Arts Centre’s Performing Arts Collection
20 July – 28 October 2007,
George Adams Gallery; St Kilda Road Foyer

Objects of Desire
30 August – 28 October 2007
Smorgon Family Plaza

the Arts Centre – George Adams Gallery
100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Telephone: 9281 8000
Email: info@theartscentre.net.au
Website: www.theartscentre.net.au

The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Program Highlights:

12pm – 2pm Children’s comic illustration workshop.
A hands on workshop with one of the artists from the upcoming exhibition Just Looking! Participants will walk away with their own short comic strip or character.

11.30 – 1.30pm &
2.30pm – 3.30pm Make your own monster workshop
Both adults and children will be able to take away their own 3D stuffed monster that they have designed and lovingly created from recycled materials.

Both workshops will be held in the Community Arts Space, adjacent to the gallery.

All Day Activities:
Talk to the textile artists of the current exhibition Surfacing about the various techniques they use to create their works. Art Nerds, City of Boroondara Youth Art Committee will be on hand to show visitors various projects they have been working on.

Exhibition

Surfacing
A graduate exhibition for emerging Studio Stitch Textile Artists. Unique hand dyed threads and fabrics will challenge your expectations of textile art. 23 October – 17 November 2007

The Town Hall Gallery
Rear entry lower level, Hawthorn Town Hall
358 Burwood Road,
Hawthorn VIC 3122
Telephone: 9278 4626
Website: www.boroondara.vic.gov.au

Walker St Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Program Highlights

11am Meet with exhibiting artists Elisabeth Williams and David Trout

12pm Live music featuring ‘Swamp Rock’ Quartet

1pm Art demonstration by award winning artist Glenn Hoyle (be early to secure a seat)

All day sausage sizzle

We welcome all to the Walker St Gallery to participate in a day alive with art, music and culture for the whole family to enjoy.

Exhibition

Elisabeth Williams, Facets
28 October - 27 November 2007

Walker St Gallery
Cnr Walker and Robinson Sts Dandenong, 3175
Tel: 9706 8441
www.greaterdandenong.com

Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

11am to 4pm

A Fun Day of Multicultural Arts

11am Gallery Open to the Public

11am + 1pm Multicultural Art Open Workshops
in the Workshop Space – 4 stations (1 hr duration)

2pm – 4pm Multicultural Food, Wine and Music In the Gallery

Exhibition

JazzArt 2007
An annual award coinciding with the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues
27 October – 18 November, 2007

Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery
56 Ovens Street, Wangaratta
Telephone: 5722 0865
Website: www.wangaratta.vic.gov.au

Warrnambool Art Gallery

Programs on Sunday 28 October 2007

Free Entry

Program highlights

At 2pm join the Curator for a tour of the Gallery from the front door to the back door including a special behind-the-scenes viewing of the storage areas and workshop.

Staff will be available all day to answer your questions and talk about the Gallery’s program. Join up for a free two month trial membership of the Friends of the Gallery. Receive a 10% discount on the entire range in the shop. Complimentary afternoon-tea served all day.

Exhibitions

Annual Kindergarten and Primary School Exhibition

Distant Elegies: Katherine Bowman

Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987-2007
A NETS Victoria touring exhibition developed by the Centre for Contemporary Photography

Warrnambool Art Gallery
26 Liebig Street
Telephone: 5559 4949
Email: gallery@warrnambool.vic.gov.au
www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au