2026 Exhibitions

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When Creativity Comes Into Bloom

4 - 23 January

Now in it's fourth year, the annual prize was established to promote culturally diverse artistic endeavours, showcase talent in the Mallee, Nurture young emerging artists and provide a community platform where local art can be viewed, studied, critiqued, and sold. For further information click here. 

Thank you to artist and arts educator Aaron Bailey for judging the 2026 show.

Image: Night Bloom, 2025. Tim Williams. Oil on board. 2026 Best in Show.

(Tibetan-track)

“a mark that remains after that which has made it has passed by"

Rhae Kendrigan

1 - 21 February 

In the book A Field Guide to Getting Lost, author Rebecca Solnit references a shul as ‘a mark that remains after that which has made it has passed by.’ Such as a scarred hollow in the ground where a house once stood, the channel worn through rock where a river runs or the indentation in the grass where an animal slept last night.

To me, shul describes the imprint a place has on me. 

Place encompasses the living systems that are unique to a particular environment- the intertwined ecological systems and human stories. Each work in this exhibition emerges from the uniqueness of a particular place and my relationship with it. 

My research process brings together the knowledge I gain from sensing with the body when I am in a place, and the intellectual knowledge gained through more traditional modes of research such as ecology and sociology. I am also influenced by seeing and experiencing the landscape in new ways through collaborations. I look for patterns and crossovers in these different forms of knowledge that can bring to light something to respond to.

I then create with place.

The mediums and methods chosen invite the landscape into the process, a collaboration beyond language with the non-human world. This involves using the senses in new ways- attuning to the texture, line, movement and sounds of place.  The work belongs as much to the place as it does me.

Each work in this exhibition is an exploration of how I can capture a felt embodied experience of being with a landscape.

Shul is a culmination of works created during residencies and travels across 2024/25. These residencies have supported and located my practice in ecologies as diverse as coastal geology, inland rivers, estuaries, farms and forests. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the water, land, animals and spirit of this Country I am honoured to explore and make with.

I invite you, as you move through your places, to ask how is a place receiving me? What stories does it have to tell? 

Image: Bibbaringa (detail), 2025. Charcoal, pastel, ink and acrylic paint on paper.