Past

2022

STORYTELLING IN COLOUR

from The Riddoch Collection

15 - 30 Jan 2022
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

Exploring the exquisite colours and stories from The Riddoch’s collection of Aboriginal art. Image: Emily Kame Kngwarreye b.Circa 1910, d.1996, Utopia, Northern Territory Language... Read More


REMEMBERING THE FUTURE

Tim Gruchy

13 Nov 2021 - 30 Jan 2022
Main Gallery

Tim Gruchy’s extensive career spans the exploration and composition of immersive and interactive multimedia through installation, music and performance, whilst redefining it’s role and... Read More


CURIOUS MINDS: WOMEN OF THE SOUTH EAST

from The Riddoch Collection

5 February - 23 March 2022
Main Gallery

Curious Minds: Women of the South East is an exhibition that demonstrates and celebrates the enduring contribution women make to the arts and will feature... Read More


PETRICHOR

Georgia Button

5 February - 3 April 2022
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

The title ‘Petrichor’ refers to the specific smell of rain after a period of warm dry weather, often invoking visceral thoughts of summer. But... Read More


FAITHFUL GIFTS

Needham Art Prize Retrospective

9 April - 8 May 2022
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

The Needham Religious Art Prize was established in 1998 through the Anglican Parish of Mount Gambier, to encourage artists to interpret or portray an... Read More


SOUTH EAST ART SOCIETY – OPEN ART AWARDS 2022

Various artists

2 April - 8 May 2022
Main Gallery

South East Art Society Inc. (SEAS) encourages the practice of Visual Arts and their promotion throughout the Limestone Coast and surrounding regions. Now in... Read More


Artist in Residence

Kirsten Johnston

13 - 29 May
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

Watch local artist Kirsten Johnston painting live in our gallery as she takes up residency from 13 – 29 May. Kirsten will be at... Read More


TAKE ME WITH YOU

Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine

21 May - 17 July
Main & Margaret Scott

Collaborating for over 20 years, Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine have been making, experimenting, and pushing stop-motion animation storytelling into new territory, creating work... Read More


THE PORTRAIT PROJECT

Various artists

4 June - 24 July 2022
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

Over a six-month period, ten artists based in Mount Gambier (April Hague, Jane Van Eeten, Angela Hann, Jennie Matthews, Anne Miles, Sally O’Connor, Julia... Read More


PLENTIFUL

from the Riddoch collection


King's Floor

Mount Gambier and the surrounding region was one of the first sites for forestry in South Australia, and indeed all of Australia. It is... Read More


RECYCLE, REUSE, REPRINT

Thumb Print Inc.

30 July - 18 September 2022
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

Members of Mount Gambier’s Thumb Print Workshop are using innovative ways of recycling materials and reusing their old prints and plates to create new... Read More


Artist/Activist/Feminist/Mother

Ann Newmarch

30 July - 25 September 2022
Main Gallery

An active and vocal artist from the 1970s until her untimely passing earlier this year, Ann Newmarch was a leader of feminist art in... Read More


LACHRYMAL

Henry Wolff

7 September - 3 October 2022
Riddoch rear wall & foyer window

‘Lachrymal’ reaches out towards rapture, through queer desire, to revel in the experience of rendering oneself vulnerable to another. This underwater multi-channel moving image... Read More


Unlemon – a meandering tale of citrus

Alison Mitchell

1 October - 13 November 2022
Main Gallery

Unlemon – a meandering tale of citrus reveals a multi-layered story of citrus – its origins, trajectory, diversity and tenacity. It begins with a... Read More


SOFT LANDSCAPES

Zetta Kanta

24 September - 20 November 2022
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

Drawing inspiration from nature, Soft Landscapes is a reflection on patterns, light and our human connection to the land with a focus on sustaining... Read More


ELECTRIC SHEEP

Luke Pellen

27 August - 27 November 2022
King's Floor

  Riffing on themes in Blade Runner, local artist Luke Pellen’s exhibition Electric Sheep features a collaboration with a twist… Luke’s collaborator recently celebrated... Read More


A Pretty Folly

Kate Rohde

26 November 2022 - 22 January 2023
Cathleen Edkins Gallery

A Pretty Folly, an exhibition by Kate Rohde,  sees the exhibition space transformed into an installation brimming with bold colour and life.    Rohde presents... Read More


Adolescent Wonderland

Naomi Hobson

19 November 2022 - 22 January 2023
Main Gallery

“Today photography needs to push the boundary. I feel it doesn’t need to be picture perfect and as a fine art – I’m using... Read More


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