WINTER PROGRAM JUN– AUG 2017 GALLERY JUNE 31 Opens: 2 Brothers: Vision from the 14–18 Museum Victoria Outreach Program Bush Brian Harris and Eddy Harris 26 A Social Drawing Afternoon 8 The Coodabeen Champions Live 18 Closes: Spectral Ecologies 31 Opens: Badger Bates: Paaka and Sam Nightingale and Polly Stanton THEATRE 19 The Wind in the Willows Rintu Mildura Arts Centre Collection La Boite Theatre Company 21 Closes: Bon Appétit JUNE Mildura Arts Centre Collection WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS 21– 22 A Touch of Grace – Shadow Warrior 2–18 Sunraysia Daily 39th Mildura Phunktional 22 Opens: Elemental JUNE Eisteddfod Jennifer Matthews, Lynette McDonald 29 Bakersfield Mist 5 The Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift and Valarie Robinson 11 Freemasons Foundation Victoria Aria Tasmanian Theatre Company National Gallery of Australia AUGUST 24 Opens: Women of the River Country 23 Sunraysia Daily 39th Mildura 16 Cake Decorating Workshop for Kids Eisteddfod Gala Showcase Concert Mannum Dock Museum 8–11 True Blue 17 A Social Drawing Afternoon 24 Sunraysia Daily 39th Mildura Red Cliffs Secondary College 29 Opens: Light moves: Contemporary Eisteddfod Junior Gala Australian Video Art National Gallery 22 Arts of the Underground 12 Bloom Sings Showcase Concert of Australia The Adele and Amy Songbook JULY 25 EBZ Dance Showcase AUGUST 19 2017 National Recital Tour: 6 Welcome Baby to Country 27 Emily Loves to Bounce Andrey Gugnin 6 Closes: Elemental Patch Theatre Company 12 Kinetic Kreations: School Holiday Program 25–27 Wicked – The Untold Story of the Jennifer Matthews, Lynette McDonald Witches of Oz and Valarie Robinson 14 In Conversation with Eleanor Freeman 30 Roy Orbison Reborn Ben Maiorana Entertainment Musical Society Mildura Inc. 13 Closes: Women of the River Country 15 Gallery Guided Tour JULY 29–30 The Beat – The Future is Here Mannum Dock Museum 15 A Social Drawing Afternoon State Schools Showcase 1 Melbourne International Comedy Opens: Kylie On Stage 20 Arts of the Underground Festival Roadshow 31 The Australian Bee Gees Show Arts Centre Melbourne AUGUST AUGUST 5 The Bootleg Beach Boys 27 Closes: Light moves: Contemporary Abstract Entertainment Australian Video Art National Gallery 1 The Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift National Gallery of Australia of Australia Cover image: Camp Fire Gathering (detail), 2015. Eddy Harris, acrylic on canvas. 1 WINTER GALLERY SPECTRAL ECOLOGIES ELEMENTAL Sam Nightingale and Polly Stanton Jennifer Matthews, Curated by Bridget Crone Lynette McDonald EXHIBITION: & Valarie Robinson Until Sunday 18 June EXHIBITION OPENING: 6pm, Thursday Image: Screen Memories (Spectral Ecologies), 2016. Sam Nightingale. 22 June EXHIBITION: Thursday 22 June – Sunday 6 August BON APPÉTIT This exhibition explores marks Mildura Arts Centre Collection made on the environment by earth, wind, water and fire. EXHIBITION: The works show diversity of style Until Wednesday 21 June and medium including glass, Image L–R: acrylic and encaustic painting, Coffee cup and saucer, n.d. Artist Unknown (Rumanian folk art). mixed media textiles, and works Earthenware. Mildura Arts Centre Collection. on paper. Tea Box, 1994. Mary-Lou Pittard. Earthenware clay, coloured underglaze and clear glaze. Mildura Arts Centre Collection. Each artist passionately interprets Image: Water (detail), Jennifer Matthews. Encaustic wax and shellac. Rooster jug with cups, n.d. Artist Unknown (Rumanian folk art). elements of landscape in an Blue tinted clear glass earthenware. Mildura Arts Centre Collection. individual way, expressing abstract images that draw the viewer into notions of the environment provoking an emotional response. 2 3 WOMEN OF THE RIVER COUNTRY Mannum Dock Museum EXHIBITION OPENING: 11am, Saturday 24 June EXHIBITION: Saturday 24 June – LIGHT MOVES: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN Sunday 13 August VIDEO ART Follow the journey of these NATIONAL GALLERY remarkable women from across the OF AUSTRALIA Murray–Darling Basin and discover how they have shaped history along EXHIBITION OPENING: our mighty rivers. 6pm, Thursday 29 June provides a neat and highly accessible survey Eliza Arbuckle of contemporary video practice in this country. Ivy Carr EXHIBITION: As well as being deeply engaging, the Ella Chaffey Thursday 29 June – experience of this work is also contemplative. Margaret Court Hilda Creager Sunday 27 August Light moves includes projected and screen- Jessie Dunstone based works which show the body performing Light moves: Contemporary Australian Video Mary Ann Edwards in a range of real and imagined spaces. Ruby Hunter Art is a major travelling exhibition of new media Pauline Milich work by some of Australia’s leading artists. Top image: HEAT, 2010. Christian Thompson. Three channel digital video, sound, duration 5 minutes 52 seconds. Elyne Mitchell OAM Light moves presents seven major works by Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Essie Nisbet contemporary Australian artists which explore Bottom image: New World Order, 2013. Hayden Fowler. Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Randell the possibilities of the body in video. Each From the series New romantic. Single channel HD digital Mary Ann Randell video, sound, duration 10 minutes 9 seconds. Collection Hattie Schell & Hattie Sexton Schell work is an example of great contemporary of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. storytelling, made by the leading proponents Helen Sutherland The National Gallery of Australia is an Australian Jessie Wakefield of the video form in Australia. Government Agency. Pearl Wallace Drawing on work acquired over the last three Elizabeth Williams years for the National Collection, Light moves Visions of Australia 4 5 BADGER BATES: Paakantji woman who spoke several Aboriginal languages, raised him, teaching him stories PAAKA AND RINTU and traditional songs. This was the beginning Mildura Arts Centre Collection of Badger’s journey into a complex and Two brothers working together and exploring sophisticated knowledge system. 2 BROTHERS: EXHIBITION OPENING: VISION FROM THE BUSH their family and cultural tradition of creating art. Sharing their knowledge of the bush and 6pm, Thursday 31 August Badger was employed by New South Wales Brian Harris and Eddy Harris National Parks and Wildlife as an Aboriginal their culture as passed on by their elders. As an inspiration and teaching opportunity for EXHIBITION: Sites Liaison Officer for more than twenty EXHIBITION OPENING: years and is now a full-time artist and cultural young Indigenous persons to explore and ignite Thursday 31 August – consultant. His work is in major public collections 6pm, Thursday 31 August an interest in continuing with some traditions. Sunday 22 October and he is renowned for various public art EXHIBITION: To build bridges with non-Indigenous persons commissions he has completed, including through art. Memories, 2015 at the Mildura Riverfront. Thursday 31 August – William Brian ‘Badger’ Bates was born on Left image: Ghost Lizard, 2017. Brian Harris. Acrylic on bark. the Darling River at Wilcannia in 1947. His Image: Nhatji Yarilana, 1997. William Brian Sunday 22 October Right image: Camp Fire Gathering, 2015. Eddy Harris, acrylic grandmother, Granny Moysey, a revered ‘Badger’ Bates. Mildura Art Centre Collection. on canvas. 6 7 Mildura Arts Centre presents The exhibition will also feature designs, a touring exhibition by Arts photographs and footage that explore the creative processes behind Kylie’s Centre Melbourne ground-breaking performances. KYLIE ON STAGE It will also showcase the works of some Mildura Arts Centre will host an of the world’s finest and most recognised international first in August as the first designers including Dolce and Gabbana, regional location in Australia to feature John Galliano, Julien Macdonald, Karl the Kylie on Stage exhibition. Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and Australian designers Peter Morrissey The major exhibition celebrates pivotal and Mark Burnett. moments from Kylie Minogue’s highly successful concert tours and has so far This is an exciting opportunity to partner only been shown at Arts Centre Melbourne, with Arts Centre Melbourne to present attracting almost 200,000 people. this touring exhibition with Mildura Arts Centre the first of three regional locations The free exhibition is based on Kylie’s to host Kylie on Stage as it will also be spectacular stage wardrobe held at shown at Ararat and Geelong. Arts Centre Melbourne’s Performing Arts Collection and includes costumes from Kylie on Stage exhibition will tours including Disco in Dreams (1989) open mid August to October 2017. right through to more recent performances, such as last year’s Kiss Me Once. Visit our website to find out more! Other tours featured in the exhibition Costume designed by John Galliano Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, 2006. include Enjoy Yourself (1990), Rhythm of Love (1991), Let’s Get to It (1991), Gift of Kylie Minogue, 2008 Intimate and Live (1998), On a Night Reproduced courtesy of Darenote Ltd. Like This (2001), Kylie Fever (2003), Kylie Showgirl (2005), Kylie Homecoming (2006), Kylie X2008 (2008) and Kylie Aphrodite les Follies (2011). Photo: Kylie Minogue, Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, 2006. Photographed by Ken McKay. Reproduced courtesy of Darenote Ltd. 8 9 WINTER WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS THE ELAINE AND JIM WOLFENSOHN GIFT National Gallery of Australia The Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift enables people from all around Australia to discover and handle treasured objects. Made possible by Jim Wolfensohn, the Australian-born former president of the World Bank, the gift comprises three art-filled