Exhibitions & Events
External Gallery - First Generation by Mayu Kanamori
Friends of Wollongong City Gallery Resident Artist Program
Fire, Water, Earth and Air | The Elements of Conservation 15 August - 1 November
Peter Cooley & Toni Warburton |
Where We Know 29 August - 24 January
Bloomin’ Art 4 - 6 September
Zhongjian: Midway 10 October - 29 November
Zhongjian: Midway Australian Tour 2010-11
Operation Art 10 November – 10 January
Local: Current 14 November – 28 February
Illawarra Folk Week 16 November – 21 November
Strike A Pose… | with Lee Lin Chin 28 November – 28 February
Pallingjang | Saltwater 2009 5 December – 7 March
Pallingjang | Saltwater Prints 2009 5 December – 7 March
Viva la Gong
Y-Culture
Public Programs
Friends of Wollongong City Gallery
Education
School Holiday Workshops
External Gallery
Mayu Kanamori
30 October 2009 - March 2010
First Generation
Image: Mayu Kanamori, First Generation.
An exhibition on the exterior walls of the Gallery featuring twenty five large format contemporary portraits and a selection of archival black and white images from the late 1940s-1960s. Mayu Kanamori has photographed people who migrated to Wollongong, post World War II, seeking work in the mining and textile industries. Many of these first generation migrants share the experience of staying in places of temporary accommodation such as the Nissen Huts in Fairy Meadow and Balgownie, family garages, tents in Stuart Park or hostels and boarding houses.
Friends of Wollongong City Gallery Resident Artist Program
Now in its eighteenth year, this program is sponsored by The Friends of Wollongong City Gallery and provides an excellent opportunity for local and visiting artists to gain new audiences for their work.
Kim Williams: WCG Resident Artist August 2008 – August 2009.
Fiona MacDonald: WCG Resident Artist September – November 2009.
Studio visits, workshops and discussions with the artist are available by appointment only through the Gallery on 02 4228 7500.
Image: Kim Williams in the Gallery’s studio space.
Mann-Tatlow Gallery
Integral Energy Gallery
The Elements of Conservation
15 August - 1 November
Selected images from two recent photography competitions at the Institute of Conservation Biology at the University of Wollongong, showcasing the main areas of research undertaken by staff and students into local, national and global conservation issues.
More information at www.uow.edu.au/science/biol/icb
Exhibition opening
Friday 21 August, 6 for 6.30pm
Photographing Wildlife workshop
with Pavel German
Saturday 12 September, 12 – 4pm. All ages
For details phone 02 4228 7500
School workshops (Years 10 &11)
Wednesday 19 August.
‘Murder and Maggots’ with Forensic Entomologist James Wallman.
‘Life in the Freezer’ with Associate Professor Sharon Robinson.
For details phone 02 4228 7500
Image: Aidan Johnson, Colours of Calliphora, 2008, digital image
Peter Cooley & Toni Warburton
Where We Know
29 August - 24 January
Dialogues around land, sea and sky by two contemporary artists who work with ceramic and other media.
Exhibition opening
Saturday 29 August, 2pm
Floor talk with Michael Keighery
artist and Chair of Viscopy
Wednesday 7 October, 12 noon
Image left: Peter Cooley, Tree with busted guts and Black Cockatoo, 2009, earthenware with engobe and underglaze decoration, 61 x 53 x 24 cm. Photograph by James Blackwell.
Image right: Toni Warburton, night song (Pleiades), detail from Kiosk (room work), Mori Gallery 2003, collected star limpets embedded into found charred wood, 10 (h) x 14 (l) x 3 cm (w). Photograph by Sue Blackburn.
Mann-Tatlow Gallery
Bloomin’ Art
4 - 6 September
Spectacular floral displays created in response to works from the Wollongong City Gallery collection.
Gala opening with entertainment, refreshments and finger food.
Friday 4 September, 6.30pm
For details and tickets please phone 4228 7500.
A Friends of Wollongong City Gallery fundraising event.
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| Image: Natalie Moran - Bloomin’ Art Winner 2009. | Image: Winning arrangement responding to Max Dupain's photograph of picnickers at Era Beach. |
BlueScope Steel Gallery
Zhongjian: Midway
10 October - 29 November
Works investigating notions of identity, tradition
and globalisation by fifteen contemporary artists with varying connections to China.
Curated by Jin Sha.
Ah Xian, Julie Bartholomew, Lionel Bawden, Kate Beynon, Guan Wei, Guo Jian, Jin Sha, Liu Qinghe, Liu Xiao Xian, Lü Peng, Shen Shaomin, Sally Smart, Laurens Tan, Yang Xifa, Zhang Qing.
Exhibition opening
Friday 9 October, 6 for 6.30pm
TAFE Guest Lecture
Wednesday 28 October, 3.30 – 5pm
Curator’s talk
Jin Sha in conversation with John Monteleone
Wednesday 4 November, 12 noon.
Contemporary Asian art
Bus tour to selected Sydney galleries, date to be advised.
For details phone 02 4228 7500.
Midway Writers
Sunday 25 October, 2-4pm
Readings by Chinese and Australian writers, followed by a discussion on how their practice has been influenced by working across cultures.
Presented in conjunction with South Coast Writers’ Centre.
For details phone 02 4228 7500.
Image: (detail) Ah Xian,
China, China - Bust 28,
porcelain with hand painted over-glaze enamel in polychrome landscape design, made by Ah Xian, Jingdezhen China, 1999.
Collection: Powerhouse Museum Sydney. Purchased 2000.
Photo: Marinco Kojdanovski.
Zhongjian: Midway
Australian Tour 2010-11
Albury Regional Art Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Bundaberg Regional Gallery
Cairns Regional Gallery
Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Mosman Art Gallery
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery
Shepparton Art Gallery
Tamworth Regional Gallery
Tweed River Art Gallery
Image: Kate Beynon, Guardian Tattoo, 2006, acrylic & aerosol enamel on canvas, 183 x 183cm. Michael Buxton Collection, Melbourne.
This exhibition is supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative through Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and state and territory governments.
Local: Current
14 November – 28 February
A survey of recent work by ten emerging and established Illawarra artists.
Damian Bancks, Lisa Cotton, Bonny Foley Brennan, Janice Heberling, Cheryl Jones, Bettina Kaiser, David Manks, Keith Rutherford, Simon Thomas, Steven Whelan.
Exhibition opening
Friday 13 November, 6 for 6.30pm
Artists’ talks and afternoon tea
Saturday 21 November, 2pm
Curator’s talk with Louise Brand
Wednesday 9 December, 12 noon
Image: David Manks, Island, 2009, oil on canvas
Illawarra Folk Week
16 – 21 November
Free Folk concerts at Wollongong City Gallery
25th Illawarra Folk Festival Fringe
Bring your lunch, Tea, coffee & biscuits provided
Songs of our Poets
Monday 16 November, 12-1.30pm
Emma Hannah, John Broomhall, Alan Musgrove
Curse of Verse
Tuesday 17 November, 12-1.30pm
Blue the Shearer, Vivienne Sawyer
Sing Us A Song
Wednesday 18 November, 12-1.30pm
Az-I-Am, plus more
Tribute to Mary Travis from Peter, Paul & Mary
Thursday 19 November, 12-1.30pm
Emma Hannah, Clare Cave
Operation Art
10 November – 10 January
A regional tour of works from the Children’s Hospital at Westmead collection produced by K-10 school children from across New South Wales.
A series of school workshops will be held in conjunction with Operation Art.
For more information phone 4228 7500.
Image: Amelia Sawyer, age 6, Narellan Vale Public School, The Crab.
Strike A Pose…
with Lee Lin Chin
28 November – 28 February
Photographs and objects exploring the world of Australian fashion from the 1960s and 1970s. A celebration of the emerging local fashion industry of the time, along with its personalities, trends and influences.
Exhibition opening
Friday 27 November, 6 for 6.30pm
Special opening night event
Friday 27 November, 6.30pm
Fashion parade by West Wollongong TAFE
fashion and design students (Cert. 4) and display
of student design work.
Free, all welcome.
Image: A Pierre Cardin fashion parade at the Canberra Theatre Centre, 1967.
BlueScope Steel Gallery
Pallingjang
Saltwater 2009
5 December – 7 March
Works by 15 Aboriginal artists living in the Illawarra and
Far South Coast which explore personal and community cultural identities, and reflect the unique cultures, lifestyles
and experiences of Indigenous people on the coast.
Beryl Brieley, Kevin Butler, Lorraine Brown / Narelle Thomas, Julie Freeman, Garry Jones, Val Law, Lila Lawrence, Alice McKenzie, Loretta Parsley, Georgina Parsons, Steven Russell, Reggie Ryan, Mally Smart, Jodi Stewart, Phyllis Stewart.
Exhibition opening
Saturday 5 December, 1pm
Workshops, Tours, Storytelling and Artist talks
5 & 6 December.
Free for all ages
For details and bookings phone 02 4228 7500
Floor talk with artist and academic Garry Jones
Wednesday 3 March, 3.30pm
Image: Steven Russell, Fishing at La Pa 2009, acrylic on canvas, 2009.105cm x 82.5cm
Integral Energy Gallery
This project has been developed with Indigenous curators Jessica Bulger, Cheryl Davison and Clive Freeman, and trainee Indigenous curator, Debbie Callaghan.
Wollongong City Gallery is supported by the Australian Government through the Indigenous Culture Support program of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
Pallingjang
Saltwater Prints 2009
5 December – 7 March
Screenprints, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs by the fifteen Pallingjang artists produced with Master Printmaker, Tom Goulder of Duckprint, Port Kembla.
Exhibition opening
Saturday 5 December, 1pm
Floor talk with Tom Goulder
Wednesday 3 March, 2.30pm
Image: Georgina Parsons, Lost Bugain, 2009, woodcut.
Viva la Gong
At Wollongong City Gallery
A celebration of the rich cultural heritage of Wollongong, particularly the migrant and industrial history of the Illawarra and the power of creativity to activate community spirit.
Guerrilla Knitting Workshop
with Denise Litchfield
Saturday 26 September, 12 noon - 4pm
Learn the ins and outs of Guerilla Knitting - the ‘graffiti’ of the knitting world. Bring your needles, wool
will be provided or bring your
own if you have some spare
bright colours.
Workshop bookings: 4251 4712
or fcathie@wollongong.nsw.gov.au
First Generation
Photographic Exhibition
30 October – March 2010
Twenty-five large format portraits and images of places, reflecting migrant experience in Wollongong, by acclaimed photographer
Mayu Kanamori, on the exterior panels of Wollongong City Gallery.
Image courtesy of Denise Litchfield
Y-culture
Y-culture is an exciting series of programs developed by Wollongong City Gallery. Working closely with individuals, youth organisations and local high schools, Y-culture provides opportunities for young people (12 – 25 yrs) to become more involved in the WCG, with artists and their practices, and the art world at large.
The Y-culture initiative emphasises skills development across a range of disciplines and includes forums, mentor programs, exhibitions, and visual arts / music / performance / creative writing hybrid projects.
Image: WCG Zine Fair 2009, BlueScope Steel Gallery.
Public Programs
Regular public programs include informal talks by artists and guest speakers in conjunction with most exhibitions. Special events such as lectures, performances and art workshops cater for a broad range of audiences. School holiday programs conducted by local artists and our trained Volunteer Guides provide innovative activities for children.
Image: Performance by Tamara Elkins in Multiplicity, April 2009.
Friends of Wollongong City Gallery
The Friends of Wollongong City Gallery is a vital organisation that brings together people who support and nurture the role and activities of the Gallery in the communities of the Illawarra region and around Australia. The Friends help stimulate, educate and sustain public interest in the Wollongong City Gallery.
The Friends of Wollongong City Gallery develop fund raising activities to support the WCG Resident Artist Program and ongoing WCG collection development and infrastructure support.
Become a Friend of Wollongong City Gallery
The Friends of Wollongong City Gallery receive: personal invitations to all functions, special previews, exhibition openings and events; reduced rates for functions, Wollongong City Gallery workshops and public programs; discounts in the Gallery shop; reciprocal rights at many leading galleries in Australia, including National and state galleries.
Membership application forms are available from the Gallery front desk or by phoning
02 4228 7500.
Image: Friends Bus tour with Peter Fay, Darren Knight Gallery, photograph Kalev Mäeväli.
Education
Free guided tours of the Gallery are available to school and community groups by prior arrangement. Visits to the Resident Artist studio and hands-on activities for children can be arranged in conjunction with your tour. Tours may focus on special interest areas, particular exhibitions, or the whole Gallery. Education kits, wall panels, catalogues and our friendly desk staff are all available to answer your questions.
For bookings and inquiries phone 02 4228 7500.
Image: UOW Diploma of Education students with lecturer Jeff Jacobs, 2008.
School Holiday Workshops
Wollongong City Gallery provides workshops and activities for children aged 5 to 12 years during school holidays in January, July and October. Artist-run activities include experimentation and investigation of various media in a casual and fun environment. These workshops change regularly and sell out quickly so book early.
For bookings and inquiries phone 02 4228 7500.
Image: Pastel Drawing with Elspeth McCombe