24 May - 6 July

MAIN GALLERY

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE DESIGN DISCOVERY AWARD EXHIBITION 2007

In 2007 the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition presents groundbreaking contemporary functional designs in lighting, furniture, accessories and homewares. This year’s group includes a bowl that pays reference to the humble aluminium can by Nick Rennie, John Smith’s sting ray-form chair and Simone LeAmon’s stainless steel votive candle holders. Each designer will be represented by their Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award entry as well as other designs from their broader body of work.

John Smith

Sting-Ray 2007 Chair and footstool Double fibreglass shell, two-pack polyurethane paint finish

72cm high x 103cm deep x 82cm wide (chair) Photo: Peter Whyte

10 May - 27 July

PROJECT SPACE

GAIL NADEN: WITH DEEP INSIDE OUR HEART

(AL GAUWER MAREMUNTUNT NGURNAUWE GOOTAGOODO)

With Deep Inside Our Heart surveys the work of Wiradjuri / Gamilaraay artist Gail Naden. Gail explores the depiction of land and water from an aerial perspective highlighting them as major elements in all aspects of our lives. Her work portrays the large views of landforms and the fine details found within it.

Gail Naden

Weilwan Waters 2007 Mixed media on canvas 110 x 75cm

Image © Gail Naden

3 May - 29 June

CHILDREN'S GALLERY

WARM FUZZIES: ANNE NEAL

Anne Neal is a Mendooran-based artist who works with fibre. Her exhibition of native animals rendered in a variety of materials, has been created with the express purpose of being touched. Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to touch the artworks, expanding the usual experience of viewing artworks.

Anne Neal

Scratching Wombat

Acrylic fur, felted wool, machine appliqué, embroidered and quilted

Image © 2008 Anne Neal

3 May - 6 July

MUSEUM SPACE

FROM THE VAULT: THE MUSEUM COLLECTION

The Dubbo Regional Museum Collection contains close to 5000 objects and photographs, collected since 1957 when Andy Graham first started storing items in his Wingewarra Street garage. As with many museums, within the collection there are examples of fads and fashions, new as well as lost technologies, family mementos of war or migration, and those small objects that may at first appear insignificant and yet tell us so much about a way of life all but gone. Inspired by ‘Cabinets of Curiosity’, that were filled with the mildly odd to the outright bizarre, From the Vault seeks to showcase some of the more unusual and rare items in the Dubbo Regional Museum Collection.

Dubbo's First Representative Rugby League Team 1912

Photographer unknown

Collection Dubbo Regional Museum

MAIN MUSEUM

PEOPLE PLACES POSSESSIONS: DUBBO STORIES
Dubbo means red ochre. The city dwells in red soil western plains, infused with pastoral light and productivity. This place breathes the energy and passion of its people, past and present. We all experience place by moving through it, all our senses alive to its shifting shapes and moods. This sense of place is created through the entanglements of nature and culture, past and future dreams, shared stories and collective memory. In this exhibition we explore pastoral landscapes with symbols of agriculture and family ambition. Dubbo streetscapes reveal the changing facades of shops and the hidden stories within. Storytellers spin yarns about Dubbo events and identities. There are many objects from the old Dubbo Museum, material traces of past lives and aspirations. They speak in eloquent silence about people, place and possessions.

Installation view:
People Places Possessions: Dubbo Stories