Exhibitions

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.

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.

4 Dec 2024 – 8 Mar 2025

Bringing together a range of artists paying homage to their favourite post-apocalyptic (anti)hero, Mad Max, it’s time for 'Maximum Madness'.

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.

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.

16 Mar 2024 – 30 Jun 2024

Artworks inspired by the George Miller film Mad Max. At Rockhampton Museum of Art.

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.

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.

8 Feb 2023 – 17 Dec 2023

New exhibition presenting select works from the Lyon Collection including works by artists Penny Byrne, Emily Floyd, Peter Atkins, Constanze Zikos, Patricia Piccinini together with new acquisitions to the museum's permanent collection.

11 Feb 2023 – 11 Oct 2023

A Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection exhibition

4 Mar 2023 – 24 Jun 2023

Presented to coincide with Refugee Week, Settled / Unsettled uses the universal language of visual art to address personal and profound issues faced by Australia’s asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.

11 Feb 2023 – 25 Mar 2023

28 Sep 2022 – 16 Oct 2022

24 Jun 2022 – 31 Jul 2022