4 July - 13 September

CHILDREN'S GALLERY

THE ENCHANTED FOREST: NEW GOTHIC STORYTELLERS

Six of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists evoke a mesmerising woodland with intersecting storylines possessing both the charm and the implied menace of a Grimm’s fairytale. The enchanted forest: new gothic storytellers is a spellbinding touring exhibition that trails the uncanny, charmed and cursed, whilst revisiting a time when animals and trees were thought to speak, when man was at the mercy of the forest, and the boundary between civilisation and the wilderness was less clearly defined.

A Geelong Gallery and NETS Victoria touring Exhibition

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Jazmina Cininas
Rima knows the curse of being born on Christmas Eve 2006
reduction linocut
Courtesy the artist and Port Jackson Press Australia (Melbourne)

23 May - 19 July 2009

MAIN GALLERY

PERSPECTIVES.ART.ECOLOGY

Perspectives.Art.Ecology. is a curatorial framework which heralds an invitation to several Central West regional artists and communities to participate in discussions about their environment – the history, contemporary challenges and future responsibility of the place they share. 

The exhibition also provides a platform for a cultural mapping of the history and memory of the Central West region.  It traces the relationships shared between knowledge of biodiversity, communities, Indigenous spirituality and mythology, all forming the foundation for the artists’ holistic and interdisciplinary research.

Curated by Adnan Begic. Developed by WPCC in collaboration with Peter Charuk, Kim Goldsmith and Gail Naden.

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Peter Charuk
Aqualux, 2005 Video still.

Image © Peter Charuk

23 May - 5 July 2009

REGIONAL ART SPACE

MILENA SALLUSTIO: SHE LOOKED IN AND SAW HER DESTINY

The world of symbols opens itself up to the inspection of Milena Sallustio’s curious but insistent gaze. Working in drawing and ceramics, she explores the reaches of our understanding of the personal and inter-personal. The bowl, an everyday symbol of domestic life, becomes a multi-themed portent of much deeper meaning. Confronted with a series of bowls, the viewer is forced to examine how meanings can vary, and that each action of our own is actually a complex set of convergent and divergent symbols, allowing us to make our own meaning.

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Milena Sallustio
She Looked In And Saw Her Destiny 2009
Charcoal on paper

Image © Milena Sallustio

23 May - 13 September 2009

PROJECT GALLERY

BILL O'SHEA: BEYOND THE SANDSTONE CURTAIN

Bill O’Shea paints rural life. Whilst the natural world dominates, the impact of man is shown as a sympathetic intruder: indeed, man becomes a part of the natural world itself.

Proudly a ‘bushie’, O’Shea comes from a great tradition of similar bush painters such as Pro Hart, who have explored and in a sense, defined, the myth of the Australian outback. In rich tones that add vitality to the often dry landscape, the artist depicts a way of life that has always been under threat. Far from the city, and its influence, the Australia O’Shea finds is simple, honest and diligent.

This Exhibition has been proudly sponsored by Peacockes Solicitors.

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Bill O'Shea
Mallowran Shed 2008
Oil on board
50 x 30cm
Collection of the artist

Image © Bill O'Shea

23 May - 2 August 2009

NEW MEDIA SPACE

LOOP: NEW AUSTRALIAN VIDEO ART

Loop: new Australian video art showcases innovative contemporary video art by five of Australia’s leading artists, including Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell, Jess MacNeil, Arlo Mountford and Daniel von Sturmer. Testing the boundaries of this visual medium, the works in Loop present a spliced meditation on time, space, motion, place and perspective.

Curated by Daniel McOwan, the Director of Hamilton Art Gallery, Loop provides regional audiences with the unique opportunity to access and engage with contemporary video art, which is rarely presented outside of metropolitan art spaces.

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Daniel Crooks

Static No.9 (a small section of something larger) 2005

still from DVD

Hamilton Art Gallery Collection

Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery

4 April - 19 July 2009

MUSEUM SPACE

MAGIC LANTERN SHOW: FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE CENTRAL WEST

Magic Lantern Show is a Dubbo Regional Museum curated exhibition that will explore the social impact of the medium of photography and film on Dubbo and the Central West. 

The museum collection includes an array of photographs, glass cinema slides, cameras and film, Magic Lantern will explore the significance of these items and the role they played in developing our sense of identity and community as well as the connections they helped forge between Dubbo and the wider world.

The exhibition aims to revisit the excitement and wonder of emerging innovations in photographic technology from the late 1800s to the present day and aims to recreate this sense of wonder and engagement for contemporary audiences. 

Curated by Jessica Moore & Andrew Glassop

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Butler Air Transport Cinema advertisement c1940s

Glass cinema slide

Monarch Empire Theatre, Dubbo (1911-1959)

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.

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Installation view:
People Places Possessions: Dubbo Stories