JULY – DECEMBER 2017 CLOSE TO HOME: DOBELL AUSTRALIAN DRAWING BIENNIAL 2016 6 May – 2 July events pullout - do not print Noel McKenna Untitled from Animals I have known (detail), 2015-16 pencil, pen and ink wash on paper © Noel McKenna. Photo: © AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins. The second Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial brings together the drawings of Jumaadi, Maria Kontis, Richard Lewer, Noel McKenna, Catherine O’Donnell and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. Collectively they investigate the possibilities of the medium to express complex themes that resonate on both a personal and a shared level. The WPCC is the only venue outside Sydney to host this exhibition. An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition. Founding sponsor the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation. 2 July – December 2017 | 3 JUNE – AUGUST ARCHIBALD PRIZE 8 July – 20 August Mark Horton, Troy 2016, acrylic on canvas, 140 x 190cm, © the artist. Photo: AGNSW, Nick Kreisler. events pullout - do The Archibald Prize is an annual exhibition eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. Awarded to the best painting of a notable Australian, the Archibald Prize is a who’s who of Australian culture, from politicians and celebrities to sporting not print heroes and artists. Prestigious and controversial, the Archibald Prize is Australia’s foremost portraiture prize. This year the Archibald features a local artist for the first time in many years. The exhibition is supported by a full public programme including a portrait competition for young people. An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition. YOUNG ARCHIE 12 August – 20 August Young Archie is a celebration of young Australian talent, inviting artists from around the Dubbo region, between the ages of 5 and 18 to submit a portrait ‘of someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life.’ Shannon Kassell, Today I am… 2017, mixed media. Image courtesy of the artist. An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition. 4 July – December 2017 | 5 AUGUST SHADED: THE OTHER AUSTRALIAN ANOTHER GREEN WORLD: THE LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE OF THE 21ST CENTURY 26 August – 3 December 26 August – 3 December Elioth Gruner (New Zealand; Australia, b.1882, d.1939), The wattles 1919, oil on canvas, 45.7 x 40.6 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Gift of Howard Hinton 1927. Photo: AGNSW In Australian art lore, the moment that we ‘discovered’ an artistic identity was Ashleigh Garwood, The Gap 2014, digital photograph. Image courtesy of the artist. the moment that artists were first able to accurately capture the uniqueness of As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, we don't really need Australian light. Its bright starkness was celebrated while the dark, hidden recesses to be reminded just how contested the landscape is. From its state of crisis in a remained threateningly unexplored. In the absence of light, shaded and shadowy changing climate, to disputes over resources and use, to questions of ownership areas of our landscape have become potent symbols, full of the mystery and and sovereignty, the landscape continues to be of vital importance as a subject trepidation of the Australian landscape that first greeted foreign visitors. Shaded: in both wider culture, and in contemporary art. Another Green World surveys The other Australian Landscape explores this overlooked aspect of the landscape, the concept of an art of the landscape in contemporary art, and traces themes bringing light to the shadows. of history, ecology, culture and utopianism in the work of Kylie Banyard, Erin Coates, Megan Cope, Ashleigh Garwood, Sian McIntyre, Perdita Phillips, Lynn Roberts Goodwin and Caroline Rothwell. Another Green World is curated by Dr. Andrew Frost. Presented by WPCC in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A Western Plains Cultural Centre exhibition. 6 July – December 2017 | 7 OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2018 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS AT WAR: NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (IN ALL FROM THE BOER WAR TO THE PRESENT OUR GLORY): DEBORAH KELLY 14 October – 3 December 9 December – 4 March 2018 Graduation Day 25 November 1944 Seymour, Victoria. Photographer unknown. Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial 083166 Indigenous Australians have served Australia in all major conflicts from the Boer War to the present. The armed services would provide a first experience of equal opportunity, although sadly not an enduring one. This Shrine of Remembrance travelling exhibition celebrates the courage, tenacity and resourcefulness of Indigenous Australians in the armed forces. Indigenous Australians at War uncovers the individual and family stories of service and sacrifice of the First Australians. NGUNGGILANHA: GIVE TO EACH OTHER 18 November – 22 December Ngu-ng-gila-nha: Give to each other is an exhibition in the WPCC Community Arts Centre of artworks by local primary school students. The highly diverse and beautiful artworks were produced by the students during a visual arts project which engaged them in local Wiradjuri Aboriginal art practice, language and culture. The students and Deborah Kelly & collaborators; Julia Featherstone from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), 2014, pigment ink print on Hahnemühle papers bonded to aluminium, with collage from books and found materials, their teachers were inspired by specialist glue and UV protective varnishes, 200 x 109 cm. Courtesy the artist. Portrait Photographer: Sebastian Kriete. workshops based on the Art Gallery Cudgegong Valley Public School, Detail from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) is an epic life-sized portrait project, of NSW’s education resource Home: Cudgee Landscape 2016, ink on paper. initially commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014). The 20 photographic Aboriginal art from New South Wales portraits have evolved into intriguing collage works through the collaborative and supported by the Arts Unit of the creativity of teams of public participants over the course of many months. NSW Department of Education and Communities. The program included For the better part of three decades, Kelly has created a prolific body of mixed-media a tour of the WPCC collection, a artworks that are at once unexpected, humorous, provocative, and profound. Often virtual excursion of the Aboriginal politically motivated, Kelly’s artworks explore ideas of power in all its manifestations, and Torres Strait Islander collection negotiating racial, sexual and religious prejudices and histories. at the Art Gallery of NSW and a day A MAMA exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project was created for the 19th Biennale of of professional learning for teachers Sydney (2014) with the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding delivered by staff from the Art Gallery, and advisory body. The Artist or Curator Residency program is supported by the Copyright Agency Limited’s Dept of Education, WPCC and the local Cultural Fund. Aboriginal community. 8 July – December 2017 | 9 DECEMBER MAKE THE MARK: HSC ARTWORKS GEORGINA POLLARD: FROM THE DUBBO REGION LINES ARE DRAWN 9 December – 4 March 2018 9 December – 4 February 2018 A vibrant exhibition of outstanding artworks produced by local Year 12 Visual Arts students for the 2017 HSC examination. Too often amazing HSC artworks, the products of months of concentrated effort and the manifestations of inspiration, talent and angst, never see the light of day again after being marked by the examiners. This multi-media exhibition gives Nastasia Reynolds (Dubbo School of Distance everyone an opportunity to celebrate Education), Catatonic Light, 2016, photography. and marvel at the high standards and diversity achieved by local Year 12 Visual Arts students. Georgia Pollard Unconditional 2017. Household acrylic paint. Image courtesy Alex Wisser. BLACK MIST BURNT COUNTRY: Painting on canvas is an invention of the 15th century and for artist Georgina Pollard it represents a convergence of architecture and textiles. By removing the stretcher TESTING THE BOMB. MARALINGA bars of the canvas frame, the paintings emphasise their textile nature, with the AND AUSTRALIAN ART architecture now supplied by the environment of the gallery. The works in Lines Are Drawn consider the lines drawn between architecture and textiles, permanence and 9 December – 25 March 2018 transience, space and surface, male and female. A HomeGround Exhibition Supported by <HELLO WORLD>WOMEN IN CODE </HELLO WORLD> 16 December – 18 March 2018 Software development is one of the fastest growing job sectors in Paul Ogier, One Tree, carbon pigment on rag the world economy. However, less paper, 94 x 117 cm, 2010 than a quarter of computer science © Paul Ogier. graduates are women and even less Black Mist Burnt Country commemorates the British atomic test series in Australia will become software developers. in the 1950s. It revisits the events and its location through artworks by Indigenous <Hello World> Women in Code and non-Indigenous post-war and contemporary artists across the mediums of </Hello World> tracks the historical painting, print-making, sculpture, installation, photography and video. The exhibition and contemporary contribution of explores the various perspectives and ways in which artists have explored the women to computer science and subject matter, either as contemporaries of the tests or as visitors to the former explores how cultural mindsets, Maralinga test site or as traditional owners of the land. stereotypes and educational hurdles have contributed to the shortage of women programmers and discusses how this gender gap, if not addressed, Portrait of software developer Isis Anchalee (digitally altered). may shape our engagement with technology in the future. 10 July – December 2017 | 11 EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS PERFORMANCE TALK LIVING WITH LADY MACBETH WHO MAKES THE WORLD? 21 – 22 July 21 October Lily was never meant to play Lady Macbeth in the school play. The world we live in is undergoing The lead role always goes to one of the cool girls. Lily is not among the most radical changes one of them.