Considering the Collection
29 Mar 2025 – 2 Nov 2025
This exhibition features "Love is a Battlefield" (2016).
Beginning with the inaugural donation by Joseph Archibald in 1886, Warrnambool Art Gallery's permanent collection encompasses artworks from the 19th century to contemporary Australian art. As a whole, the collection points to the myriad social, cultural and artistic changes over the past 139 years, through the lens of a regional gallery in south-west Victoria.
This exhibition celebrates iconic and well-loved works acquired and exhibited over the course of the last century. From some of the earliest paintings to enter the collection, to contemporary works made within the last decade, this exhibition considers the unique history of the gallery through some of Australia's most celebrated artists.
The Shape of Things to Come
22 Feb 2025 – 9 Jun 2025
Featuring SAM collection works paired with key loans, The Shape of Things to Come presents a selection of evocative and inspiring artworks that invite us to think about the future, through both fantastical apocalyptic visions of disaster and utopian ideals of environmental sustainability and connection to place.
BIG CERAMIC ENERGY
3 Aug 2024 – 31 Jan 2025
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is thrilled to present Big Ceramic Energy, a new SAM Collection exhibition featuring a selection of Australian, First Nations, and international contemporary artists whose creative practices push the boundaries of the ceramic medium through experimentation, innovation, and imagination.
DOMINION
9 Nov 2023 – 30 Jun 2024
This University of Melbourne exhibition is an integral element of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Contemporary Culture (ERCC) Research Unit's first conference Inventing The Human, a series of three conferences planned for November 2023, 2024 and 2025. At Arts West Gallery, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne.
Settled/Unsettled
9 Mar 2024 – 9 Jun 2024
Through the work of Kathrin Longhurst, Mehwish Iqbal, Angus McDonald and Penny Byrne, Settled/Unsettled explores issues of war and cultural displacement through the lens of asylum-seeker, refugee, and migrant experiences. By investigating the themes of conflict and exile, home and belonging, the exhibition contributes to the movement of empowerment and acceptance.
Dance Me to the End of Love: Journeys from birth to death in the SAM Collection
18 Mar 2023 – 11 Feb 2024
Dance Me to the End of Love evokes the grand cycles of life, traversing from birth to death through artworks in the SAM Collection. Spanning one hundred and twenty years, the diverse selection of artworks includes ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, assemblage, and installation. At Shepparton Art Museum.
