This exhibition features forty iconic guitars alongside more than 200 music-inspired masterpieces by Picasso, Renoir, Manet, and contemporary artists....
Medieval to Metal: The art & evolution of the guitar
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Clarice Beckett: Paintings from the National Collection
Featuring works by Clarice Beckett, ranging from 1919 to 1935 through the tonalism movement to paintings the artist created in her final years....
Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond
This exhibition brings together a cross-section of emerging and established artists from across Victoria who explore connections to place, country, and home....
Instant Warhol
'Instant Warhol' takes us straight to Andy Warhol’s point of view – famous, fleeting, commercialised, constructed – in a series of Polaroid photographs of people in the spotlight in the 1970s and 80s....
Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings and watercolours
This exhibition draws from the collections of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to offer an intimate and rare look into the world of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, their models, and friends....
Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practice
Presents the work of contemporary practitioners experimenting with the boundaries of materiality, spatial fluidity, and process through expanded painting, assemblage, performative gesture, sound, video and installation....
Beating About The Bush: A new lens on Australian Impressionism
The Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of paintings by Australian Impressionist artists together with works by leading contemporary Australian female photographers....
Light + Shade: Max Meldrum and his followers
Works from the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection by one of the most distinctive art movements in Australia of the 20th century, the Tonalists of the 1920s and 1930s....
Kait James: Hang us out to dry
Wadawurrung artist Kait James sets the towels to wash, wringing the generalisation and stereotype of Indigenous culture out of Aboriginal-themed calendar tea towels from the 1970s and 1980s....
Vipoo Srivilasa: COVID superheroes
Vipoo Srivilasa has created a collection of superheroes inspired by the dreams of people in the Ballarat community. Each superhero has a special power to fight off COVID-19....
Anne Wallace: Strange Ways
Bringing together more than 80 works from public and private collections, and spanning three decades, ‘Anne Wallace: Strange Ways’ is the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s practice to date....
David Noonan: Stagecraft
David Noonan repurposes found photographic images from his extensive personal image archive to create images which are ambiguous, often with a focus on a solitary haunting figure. ...