Shepparton Art Museum

SAM Sketch with Tessa Chong
2021-03-31 17:30 - 18:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Discover the ins and outs of illustrating figures with artist Tessa Chong. Tessa’s drawn figures convey personality, emotion and most often humour! Learn how to breathe life into your own figures in this week’s iteration of SAM Sketch.

For this workshop you will need paper, pencils and gauche or watercolour.

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

Image © Tessa Chong

SAM Sketch with Rachel Doller
2021-03-17 17:30 - 18:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Big shapes of bold colours await you in this workshop led by GV artist Rachel Doller. Taking inspiration from their everyday surroundings, participants will learn how to create colourful visuals out of common household belongings. Rachel’s joyful patterns and whacky collages are sure to take you out of your comfort zone in this iteration of SAM Sketch.

For this workshop, you will need plain and coloured paper, coloured pencils and a glue stick.

SAM Sketch is a FREE digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

Image credit: Rachel Doller

SAM Sketch with Tegan Iversen
2021-03-03 17:30 - 18:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Dive into a bright pool of colours with this week’s guest illustrator, Tegan Iversen. Focusing on repetition, participants will learn methods of pattern making using the drawings they create. Tegan’s fun and whacky figures are sure to breathe life into the blank pages of your sketchbook.

For this workshop, you will need paper and coloured pencils or pens, a fine liner, and gouache if it is available to you.

SAM Sketch is a FREE digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

Image credit: Tegan Iverson

Digital Exhibition - Moorina Bonini, Australian Melting Pot, 2018
2021-03-01 09:00 - 2021-03-28 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Digital Exhibition

Moorina Bonini: Australian Melting Pot, 2018

A Blak Dot Gallery digital exhibition touring with NETS Victoria. Curated by Kimba Thompson.

Australian Melting Pot (2018) demonstrates an intentional action undertaken to understand the construct of the Australian identity. Through uncovering, re-learning and mixing together, the perfect identity stew is presented.

Simmering idealistic fantasies rise to the top of the pot and the fire that burns under Nonna’s gnocchi pot in addition to cooking the stew, stains the outside surface with black. The same tone that remained after the intentional burning for the desire of regrowth and gain.

Moorina Bonini is a proud descendant of the Yorta Yorta Dhulunyagen family clan of Ulupna and the Yorta Yorta and Murundjeri-Woiwurrung Briggs/McCrae family. Moorina is an artist whose works are informed by her experiences as an Aboriginal and Italian woman. Her practice is driven by a self-reflexive methodology that enables the reexamination of lived experiences that have influenced the construction of her cultural identity. By unsettling the narrative placed upon Aboriginal people as a result of colonization of Aboriginal Australia, Bonini’s practice is based within Indigenous Knowledge systems and brings this to the fore.

This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

SAM School Challenge Digital Exhibition
2021-02-10 00:00 - 2021-09-30 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Entries are in, view them here! The top mascots to be chosen soon!

Who is SAM? Congratulations to all the students who answered this question and have designed a mascot for new SAM!

Included in this resource is:

An introduction PowerPoint
Lesson outline
Research page
Art card for primary and

updated Artcard

Your school entries

Guthrie St Primary

Oneschool Nathalia!

Stanhope Primary

Kialla Central Primary!

Colbinabbin Primary

Dhurringile Primary !

Katandra West Primary

Harston Primary!

GSSC VCAL

Waaia Primary

Undera Primary

Zeerust Primary

Tungamah Primary

Tallygaroopna Primary

Lancaster Primary !

Wyong CCS

St Joseph‘s Primary!

Dookie Primary

Numurkah Secondary!

Merrigum Primary

Congupna Primary

Sacred Heart Primary

Ardmona Primary

Mooroopna North PS

Lemnos Primary

Elmore Primary

Girgarre Primary

Katamatite Primary

Wyong CCS

FLC

School workshops

Students at Sacred Heart Tatura

Students at Numurkah Secondary

Drawing Wall #39: Troy Firebrace
2021-01-16 00:00 - 2021-06-27 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Troy’s practice is influenced by his experiences growing up in his hometown of Shepparton and with his family on the banks of the Dungala (Murray river) or Kaiela (Goulburn river). His paintings share his affinity as a Yorta Yorta man with the surrounding red gum forests, rivers and its offshoots.

Induction, 2019 invites us to “walk within two worlds”. Using geometric designs that seem almost digital in appearance, the artist mimics something very real – the country and landscape that we inhabit. He asks us to stop and look, to connect to our surroundings, rather than our digital devices.

“Think about the sounds, smell and feelings that you might experience out on country whether it’s on the Murray, or the Goulburn River just behind this building. I ask for you to walk within two worlds” says Troy.

We might see in this work the familiar sight of cracked riverbeds during the dry times of the year when the water in the river is low and the Cray beds of the high banks are exposed to the sun. We might recognise the silhouette of the river, its creeks and streams flowing and branching out, simultaneously resembling the roots of the famous red gums that flank our ancient water ways. On a personal level, the pattern work within the river represents the artists culture flowing with the current, and the use of bright colours reflect his ambition to experiment with his culture, past, present and future.

Based in Bendigo, Troy Firebrace runs his own arts and education business Firebrace Designs. Under this title he not only practices as a professional artist but also as an Aboriginal educator providing and developing Aboriginal based learning and lessons for all ages. He has worked all over Victoria in many Primary and Secondary schools as well as TAFEs and Universities.

Troy studied a Bachelor inCreative Arts, Major in Fine Art, at Bendigo University and is currently completing a Masters of Teaching Secondary Education. Firebrace has exhibited widely in Victoria and was the winner of the Art Gallery of Ballarat Victorian Indigenous Art Awards in 2015.

Image: Troy Firebrace, Reflection (detail), 2019.

Teacher PD: Contemporary Art on the Road with Jason Phu
2020-12-03 13:30 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Victoria
Venue: ONLINE

*Please note this program is only available to regional Victorian teachers.

Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/BKNMV or phone Siobhan Sloper, Gallery Coordinator, Gertrude Contemporary on (03) 9419 3406

RSVP: Monday, 16 November 2020

Presenters:Siobhan Sloper, Gertrude ContemporaryMelissa Bedford, Monash University Museum of ArtKathryn Hendy-Ekers, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority,Jason Phu, Gertrude Studio Artist

Contemporary Art on the Road is a professional development program founded to bring artists, art educators and teachers together to exchange ideas, share creative experiences and explore contemporary art and culture. The program has been designed to introduce teachers to a range of hands-on, expertly designed strategies and resources for teaching contemporary art in their classroom.

The first part of the program consists of formal presentations by educators from Gertrude Contemporary, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) and Shepparton Art Museum (SAM). It will provide insights and enable deeper knowledge of contemporary arts, art practices and exhibitions.

A presentation and hands-on workshop by Gertrude Studio Artist Jason Phu will form the second part of the program. Jason will lead a series of drawing exercises about what can constitute as a face and basic two-dimensional masks made purely out of a piece of cardboard. Emphasis on the cardboard masks will be on utilising the whole box to create textures rather than external craft materials and paints. He will speak about masks that have existed in Chinese culture and their uses.

To facilitate this online workshop Gertrude will send a Workshop Kit via Australia Post at least one week prior to the online session. The workshop kit will contain all materials needed to undertake the hands-on activity, printed resources and a special gift from us!

You will be emailed a link and instructions on how to access the workshop online, one week prior to the session. Should you have any concerns about accessibility, please do not hesitate to get in contact with Siobhan Sloper at siobhan@gertrude.org.au.

Jason’s multi-disciplinary practice brings together a wide range of, sometimes contradictory, references from traditional ink paintings to street art, everyday vernacular to official records,personal narratives to historical events. Working across installation, painting and performance, the artist frequently uses humour as a device to explore experiences of cultural dislocation. He often uses the stories of ghosts, spirits, demons and gods in Chinese culture as a personification of these concepts. Jason has recently shown in the Dobell Drawing Biennale, 2018, Art Gallery of New South Wales; The Burrangong Affray, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Primavera, 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art and was commissioned for the Sydney Opera House 2019 Art Assembly. In 2019 he also had solo shows at Chalk Horse, Sydney and STATION, Melbourne.

Contemporary Art on the Road is an initiative developed by Gertrude Contemporary in partnership with Monash University Museum of Art, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and three regional Victorian galleries: Castlemaine Art Museum, Horsham Regional Art Gallery and Shepparton Art Museum.

Contemporary Art on the Road is funded by the Department of Education and Training Victoria through the Strategic Partnerships Program (SPP).

This professional learning program addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:2.1 – Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area (Visual Arts)3.1 – Establish challenging learning goals3.2 – Plan, Structure and sequence learning programs6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice6.3 – Engage with colleagues and improve practice7.4 – Understand the role of external professional and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.

Image | Jason Phu, Procession in the Warming Light/Procession in the Rising Darkness, Workshop/Performance, Art Assembly, 2019, Commission, Antidote Festival, Sydney Opera House. Image courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne.

Sound Seen by Sarah crowEST
2020-12-01 00:00 - 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Victoria
Calling on sound-makers of all persuasions! Let’s make some noise.

From 1 October, we invite you to view and collaborate with our first online commissioned project by Melbourne based artist Sarah crowEST. Experiment with and perform your own translations of crowEST’s diagrammatic scores.

Using visual scores, the artist asks us to explore the different shapes of language and how we interpret the visual into sound.

CrowEST explores connections between text, drawing, painting, noise and sound. Her work spans discipline boundaries of contemporary art, publishing and performance. Her often collaborative projects involve sound artists and the production of diagrammatic scores, instructional works and word-events presented in the form of paintings and backdrops. With a focus on interpretation, she regularly engages in collaborations where experimental translations produce performative outcomes.

‘Sound Seen’ consists of a series of artworks conceived of as visual scores for experimental musical responses but that can also function as dynamic visual artworks in their own right. crowEST has produced five open-source, diagrammatic scores, developed and documented through a shifting, graphic process.

A speculative ‘key’ or index connects sonic registers and movements to the visuality of colours and diagrammatic forms. A number of shapes and colours linked by letters to a list of imperatives form a guide to the scores. Deliberately open and ambiguous enough to invite idiosyncratic approaches, the language is prescriptive and precise but invites disobedience and may serve as a provocation. Sound-makers of all persuasions are invited to play and experiment.

Score #1 has been co-developed with sound artist AHI (aka Luke Whitten) and Rara Zulu, who have produced a recording to be heard online in conjunction with the visual score.

Another of the scores will be co-developed with a local musical group from Shepparton and published at the end of the month.

How to participate…

Choose the score you want to respond to below and download it along with the ‘Key’ document to help you in your audio composition. Then create and record your piece.

KeysDownload

Download, save or print your choice of visual score below to respond to in your own sonic way.

Score #1Download

Score #2Download

Score #3Download

Score #4Download

Score #5Download

All Scores #1-5Download

Still stuck? We recommend you download our instructions pdf to get you going.

Sound Seen InstructionsDownload

Share your piece

Feel like sharing your sound-response? We would love to hear from you! Tag us on social media using @sam_shepparton, @sarahcrowEST and #soundseen so we can share your piece online. Not on social media? No worries! Email us your work at info@sheppartonartmuseum.com.au.

Here are some responses from you all so far…

Roger Oulton, Windsor, VIC, responding to Score #2

Tina Douglas, Melbourne, Victoria, responding to Score #3

Teacher Trysh Baggs and 3 Year 7 students from Greater Shepparton Secondary College (McGuire Campus), responding to Score #2

Greater Shepparton Secondary College (McGuire Campus) Staff, responding to Score #4

Honey di Pietro responding to Score #1, Age 6, Melbourne, Victoria

Leo di Pietro responding to Score #2, Age 9, Melbourne, Victoria

Barney Johnson responding to Score #4, Abbotsford, Melbourne

Benjamin Woods responding to score #1, Artist and Flutist, Birrarunga/Naarm/Melbourne

Not feeling musical? Download and print these visual scores as an A3 poster to enjoy at home, or for your laptop background.

About the Artist

Sarah crowEST is a British/Australian visual artist, born in London and currently living and working in Melbourne. CrowEST’s work spans discipline boundaries of contemporary art, publishing and performance. Her recent collaborative projects involve sound artists and the production of diagrammatic scores, instructional works and word-events presented in the form of paintings and backdrops. CrowEST is currently working on a series of open-source scores which will evolve through collusions yet to come.

Recent projects, working at the intersection of sound and image, include an installation and performance at Polyphonic Socialby Liquid Architecture in 2019 and the ‘play’, Dark Ruuumbling Earth at The Melbourne Art Theatre that same year. Large, hanging word and graphic scores in acrylic on linen were shown alongside soundtracks produced in collaboration with sound artists. Also in 2019, Version Excursion, an exhibition at CAVES, Melbourne, of crowEST’s paintings featured a responsive ambient noise loop.

CrowEST was awarded a Shakespeare Grove Artist Studio residency 2017-2020, a Gertrude Contemporary studio residency 2013-2016, and a PhD by University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, 2013. Recent exhibitions include: Soft Eyes, Dub Wise, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2019, Material Constructs, Ararat Textile Art Museum of Australia, 2018, Peregrinação São Paulo, Brazil, 2017, Endless Circulation, Biennial Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2016

Feature image: Sarah crowEST, Dark Ruuumbling Earth (performance installation detail), 2019. Photo: Yanni Florence

Top image: Score #1 (for AHI and Rara Zulu), 2020, pen, laser print, paper, glue on card.

FRESH: GV Top Art & Design Webinar
2020-11-04 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Victoria
VCE Art and Design students zoom in to learn about entering SAM’s new Top Art & Design show, from the comfort of home!

Hear from Jason Phu, acclaimed artists and one of the judges of the show, along with museum curators. Improve your entry chances, and be in the first exhibition for the amazing new SAM on the lake!

It will be a chance to gain a few art industry tips, and to ask questions on entering art shows, completing the application process and presenting/delivering work for FRESH.

Click here to join the Zoom meeting

Or use these details:Meeting ID: 787 481 1286Passcode: [REDACTED]

Image: Jason Phu in his studio. Image Credit: Docqment Photography. Educational purposes.

The Heart String - SAM Scholars
2020-10-29 17:00 - 2020-11-19 18:15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
A FREE weekly online student workshop lead by artist Aiofe Billings

Every Thursday 29th of October and 5th , 12th and 19th of November from 5.pm – 6.15pm on ZOOM

Art, Design and textiles students, whatever your cause, artist Aoife Billings has the stitch for you. Join her in this beginner-friendly course of embroidery that will make the heartstrings sing.

Learn how to make an embroidery patch for yourself, (or a friend or family member) over this four-week intensive. Alternatively, why not donate your patch to a front-line worker as a good luck charm for support and safety.

Participants will receive a materials pack free, along with the workshop. This can be collected from SAM shop at 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton.

Materials provided:-Small embroidery hoop (with screws to tighten)

-Two chenille needles between the sizes 15-21 (a medium sized needle with the eye big enough for embroidery thread)

-At least 4 different embroidery thread colours (DMC embroidery thread is best for beginner’s as it’s less likely to fray)

-30cm of white cotton fabric cut off the roll, not sheer or as thick as denim, something in between

-Iron on patch backing

Limited places available. Please visit sheppartonartmuseum.com.au for SAM Scholars bookings.

About Aoife: she is a textiles-based artist who has taught textiles and sewing workshops for over five years for many Victorian councils and at Pink Ember Studio, a queer run not-for-profit in Coburg that she co-founded.

Aoife explores antifashion ideologies, her Irish heritage and the silent contracts surrounding the opression of femme bodies and behaviours within her fine art practice. Her disciplines include embroidery, clothing making, ceramics, installation, and most recently, oil painting.

The Heart String
2020-10-28 17:00 - 2020-11-18 18:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
A FREE weekly online workshop series lead by artist Aiofe Billings

Every Wednesday 28th of October and 4th , 11th and 18th of November from 5pm – 6.30pm on ZOOM

No matter your cause, artist Aoife Billings has the stitch for you. Join her in this beginner-friendly course of embroidery that will make the heartstrings sing.

Learn how to make an embroidery patch for yourself or a loved one over this four-week intensive. Alternatively, why not donate your patch to a front-line worker as a good luck charm? The recipient can iron or sew the patch into their clothing as a charm for love, support and safety.

Participants will receive a materials pack with the purchase of the $10 ticket (please note, this is now a click and collect option from the SAM shop only).

If you would like to source the materials yourself, please choose the free ticket option and see the material list below.

Materials needed:-Small embroidery hoop (with screws to tighten)

-Two chenille needles between the sizes 15-21 (a medium sized needle with the eye big enough for embroidery thread)

-At least 4 different embroidery thread colours (DMC embroidery thread is best for beginner’s as it’s less likely to fray)

-30cm of white cotton fabric cut off the roll, not sheer or as thick as denim, something in between

-Iron on patch backing

Limited places available, bookings essential via ticket box below.

SAM Art Club
2020-10-27 16:00 - 2020-11-24 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
A FREE online workshop series for kids

This is a reoccurring weekly workshop series: Tuesday 27th of October and 10th, 17th and 24th of November (skipping Melbourne Cup day) from 4pm – 5.30pm on ZOOM.

Join artist Aaron Billings for a very special online edition of Art Club! Over four weeks, kids will learn about artworks from SAM by creating a comic book on a character, place or object in the SAM collection.

Storytelling, character development and observational drawing fill these jam-packed four weeks. To cap it off, we will even send a printed copy of your comic book to you, so you can share it with your friends!

Kids will require paper, grey-led and coloured pencils, a fine liner and a ruler. Limited places available, bookings essential via ticket registration below.

Fabric staining with Jahnne Pasco-White
2020-09-22 00:00 - 2020-10-31 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Online Spring School Holiday Program

For kids 2-12 years, FREE

Want to try something different with the kids these holidays? Learn the tips and tricks of fabric staining with Jahnne Pasco-White, our current Drawing Wall artist, using materials found in your back garden and compost bin! This activity is bound to awake the explorer in any kid, big or small. All you need is a piece of fabric and some paper, plus whatever you can find in your backyard, the bush or your compost bin.

We invite you to take our short 2 minute survey via this link:

Feedback Survey

Providing feedback helps us improve your experience.

Ceramic fruit with Kenny Pittock
2020-09-22 00:00 - 2020-10-31 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Online SAM Spring Holiday Program

For kids 2-12 years, FREE

Get your hands messy with SAM these school holidays. Click the video below to join Kenny Pittock as he demonstrates how to make fruit that’s good enough to eat using clay and tools found in your kitchen!

Order your materials pack from the SAM web shop and join in on the fun from home these school holidays!

Buy your SAM materials pack here

Image: Kenny Pittock in Studio. Photo by Emmy Clifton.

We invite you to take our short 2 minute survey via this link:

Feedback Survey

Providing feedback helps us improve your experience.

The Everyday Comic
2020-09-16 17:00 - 18:30 UTC | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
A series of four FREE online workshops lead by artist Aaron Billings presented on ZOOM.

August 26, 5pm to 6.30pm
September 2, 5pm to 6.30pm
September 9, 5pm to 6.30pm
September 16, 5pm to 6.30pm

Incorporating the everday, artist Aaron Billings draws on the world around him to tell his stories. Join him and other creative thinkers for this online introductory course to comic creation and learn unique methods to use in your own storytelling.

Aaron will lead you through different creative methods of comic making wach week using fun exercises that focus on the individual’s daily rituals. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their own personal style and become storytellers themselves.

Participants will require paper, pencil, a fine liner and a ruler.

Limited places available!

Please register for your free ticket below. Zoom link and event information will be sent via email after registration.

Aaron Billings is a comic and textile artist working out of Pink Ember studio in Coburg, Melbourne. He graduated with honours in Fine Arts from Monash University in 2019 and is currently the gallery and studio manager at Pink Ember. His comic drawing work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging and Scum Magazine. He is also a regular contributor of one panel comics to Meanjin Quarterly. In 2018 his comic book Mystical Boyscout 4 was published by Glom Press.

Image: Progress Bridge, Aaron Billings.

Showcase #26: Irene Grishin Selzer
2020-06-25 10:00 - 2020-11-02 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Victoria
In partnership with pepite.

Shepparton Art Museum is thrilled to be partnering with Melbourne based gallery pépite, to bring emerging contemporary art and design artists to the popular SAM Showcase exhibition space.

Representing more than 40 emerging contemporary artists from their Melbourne based showroom, pépite features a collection of one-of-a kind and limited edition works, predominantly ceramics, alongside sculpture, glass pieces, illustration, jewellery and accessories.

The pépite partnership consists of three showcase exhibitions. The first is Irene Grishin Selzer, an Australian artist, based in Melbourne, who works predominantly with ceramics. Her art practice engages with the notion of transience in nature, the shape of time and the sense of place.

Her practice takes two separate, but interconnected forms. The first is the clay paintings and clay drawings, the second is object-based pieces. The clay paintings can be regarded as a form of abstracted cartography-sprawling maps where scale is difficult to fathom, but we encounter pockets of energy, the movement of tides, electromagnetic waves and the build-up of deeply encrusted topographical layers.

The object-based pieces may be thought of as individual points of focus, tiny areas of exploration, sandwiched cross-sections that pierce the surface or enigmatic relics and artefacts that carry the traces of ancient forms of spiritual energy.

Grishin-Selzer’s work is available for purchase from the SAM Shop.

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Want to hear more?

SAM Talks: Art and Designwith artist Irene Grishin Selzer and Irina Rybakov of Pepite Shop

How has the need for art resulted in a design focus in our living rooms during the physical closures of our art museums and galleries? Many art enthusiasts have turned their focus towards their own places of creativity during these times of isolation. In this SAM Talks: Art and Design podcast, join artist Irene and curator Irina as they discuss the role art, design and online platforms play in creating your own art experiences at home.

Irina Rybakov and Irene Grishin Selzer in front of SAM Showcase #26. Photo Lara Merrington

Featured image: Irene Grishin Selzer, Stormclouds (detail), 2020, photo courtesy of the artist.

SAM Little Hands (Online) - June
2020-06-17 10:30 - 11:15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
NOW ONLINE: Getting messy and having fun is what SAM Little Hands is all about! Budding artists will experience art-making through play, paint and clay.

Join SAM online to continue Little Hands fun from home! With a new video posted every Wednesday showcasing a creative idea to try with things you can find around the house.

Each session will be a hands-on experience of sensory play, exploration and messiness with carers encouraged to join in the fun! Art smocks provided.

For toddlers and pre-schoolers.

Drawing Wall #38: Jahnne Pasco-White.
2020-06-11 08:30 - 2020-12-20 14:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Pasco-White’s Drawing Wall, Becoming-other, responds to the environment of Greater Shepparton and the agricultural and aqua industries.

Jahnne Pasco-White with her work for Drawing Wall #38. Photo Amina Barolli

Now on to its 38th iteration, the SAM Drawing Wall has become synonymous with celebrating creative talent and connecting artists and the Greater Shepparton Community. This series of large scale commissioned artworks enliven the foyer space at the entrance to the museum.

Jahnne Pasco-White is an artist currently living and working on Dja Dja Wurrung land and waters, or Chewton, Victoria. She often works with the re-purposing of previous works, and incorporating organic materials and pigments drawn from natural matter alongside the traditional medium of acrylic paint.

Pasco-White’s Drawing Wall Becoming-other, responds to the environment of Greater Shepparton and the agricultural and aqua industries. She has sourced waste-product fruit from local suburban areas and independent fruit and vegetable farmers to extract natural dyes and pigments for use in the artwork. Using organic materials against those traditionally identified with art making, such as acrylic paint, results in swathes of rich colour and texture.

Jahnne Pasco-White is represented by STATION.

Feature Image: Jahnne Pasco-White, Messmates (detail), 2019. Image by Christo Crocker.

SAM Little Hands (Online) - May
2020-05-13 10:30 - 11:15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

SAM Local Spotlight: Madeline Wright
2020-03-13 00:00 - 2020-05-03 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
The five exhibitions that make up the 2020 SAM Local exhibition are full of exciting and diverse artists and creatives that will surprise and delight visitors.

SAM Local Spotlight is an opportunity for an artist with local connections to hold a solo exhibition at SAM.

Madeline Wright’s solo exhibition of object based works in metal, ceramic and glass, is based on her upbringing near the Goulburn River in Arcadia. Inspired by the objects and colours of this landscape, A Field Guide to Utopia encourages the viewer to slow down and observe nuances in our surroundings.

Image: Madeline Wright in her studio. Photo by Lara Merrington.

SAM eduLAB: Nadia Hernández
2020-03-13 00:00 - 2020-05-03 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
SAM’s Education Lab provides a diverse range of students and educators with the opportunity to work directly with an artist and create an immersive installation within SAM’s exhibition space.

The 2020 eduLAB will see educational and community groups work with artist Nadia Hernández in the transformation of SAM’s gallery into a vibrant, dynamic, story filled space over a 5 week period.

Participants work will remain in the gallery space, which will provide them with the opportunity to see their work exhibited in this studio-style display.

Hernández is an emerging artist originally from Merida, Venezuela and currently based between Melbourne and Sydney. Her art is informed specifically by the current political climate of her home country and her experience as a migrant woman living abroad. Articulated through textiles, paper constructions, painting, music, installations, sculptures and murals, her work negotiates complex political narratives through the personal, the institutional and their intersections.

Nadia holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Queensland University of Technology, has partaken in both solo and group exhibitions across Australia, and was selected as the official artist for City of Sydney’s NYE 2017. More recently, she was awarded The Churchie’s National Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.

The 2020 SAM eduLAB is once again supported by La Trobe University Shepparton.

Image: Nadia Hernández, Nosotros Somos, 2019, paper cut, 71 x 90cm, framed. Courtesy of artist.

SAM Local: Best of Friends
2020-03-13 00:00 - 2020-05-03 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Best of Friends is an open access exhibition and it’s purpose is to open a window onto the creative practice of many artists working in a range of media in the Goulburn Valley. It is a great way to see what other people are creating and to gain insights into the regional arts sector.

A wonderful opening night was held on 12 March. You can view the Facebook Album here.

View the exhibition display here.

Showcase #25: Sandra Bowkett
2020-02-07 00:00 - 2020-05-03 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Showcase #25: Sandra Bowkett, Clay // Fire is a collection of ceramic vessels that explore and make visible the energy of wood-firing on earth materials.

Interestingly, these Showcase pieces were fired at Sandra’s home studio in Tallarook, in a wood-fired kiln she built herself in 2013. ⁠ ⁠

Many of you will know Sandra’s name as her work has been for sale in the SAM shop for many years. The SAM Showcase allows her to experiment further with presentation in a gallery setting. The installation includes elements from the firing process, including bricks and kiln inserts, and gives you a great insight into the creation of these beautiful vessels.⁠ ⁠Collectors of Bowkett’s work will be excited to learn the pieces in the SAM Showcase are also available to purchase. ⁠

Image: Sandra Bowkett in her studio. Photo: Lara Merrington.

A Finer Grain: Selected Works from the SAM Collection
2019-05-18 10:00 - 2020-10-25 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
An exhibition presenting key and lesser-known works by Australian women artists from the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) collection.

Spanning the full breadth of SAM’s 83 year collection history, we have taken a chronological approach, loosely grouped by decade from the date of creation. Artworks span a range of medium and subject, and showcase the breadth of SAM’s material focus in works on paper, painting, and Australian ceramics. This approach offers insights into SAM’s collection and the history of its development, as pertinent then as it is today.

The exhibition includes the first work by a female artist Alice Currie acquired by the museum in 1938, with an early focus on landscapes, still-lives and portraiture. The exhibition highlights some of SAM’s collection strengths, such as the acquisition in the 1970’s of many of Australia’s now renowned early 20th century Australian Modernist women artists including Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston, and many others, when their works were more affordable than their male counterparts.

From the 1970s and ’80s, ceramics became SAM’s collection strength, and one we continue to celebrate today as the most significant collection of Australian ceramics in regional Australia. The exhibition also includes the first acquisition by a female Aboriginal artist Dr Thanakupi Gloria Fletcher James, AO in 1991, and some of the number of recent acquisitions by Aboriginal artists from south-east Australia and across Australia. It reveals the importance these works have as part of SAM’s collection, enabling a fuller and more complex understanding of Australia’s culture.

The development of SAM’s contemporary collection reflects the many themes and ideas that artists explore in new and exciting ways. Ceramics remains core – a point of regional difference. There are, of course, always surprises and discoveries: a survey collection exhibition of this kind ensures that overlooked and sometimes forgotten or unfashionable artists and artworks are also celebrated. After all, it is these stories of people, artists and artworks that enable many of Australia’s great regional galleries to celebrate and rethink histories within our contemporary context in new and exciting ways.

Image: Margaret Preston, Magnolias, not dated, woodcut print. Shepparton Art Museum collection, Sir Andrew Fairley Bequest, 1975.

SAM On Tour - Craftivism: Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms
2018-11-24 00:00 - 2020-10-31 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne) | Victoria
This major collaborative, playful and immersive exhibition features the work of 18 contemporary Australian artists and artist collectives.

Dates

Shepparton Art Museum24 November 2018 – 17 February 2019

Touring to:Warnambool Art GalleryWarnambool, Victoria2 March – 5 May 2019

Mornington Peninsula Regional GalleryMornington, VIC18 May – 21 July 2019

Museum of Australian DemocracyCanberra, ACT6 September – 2 February 2020

Bega Valley Regional GalleryBega, NSW30 April – 21 June 2020

Warwick Art GalleryWarwick, QLD3 July – 15 August 2020

University of the Sunshine Coast Art GallerySunshine Coast, QLD12 September – 31 October 2020

Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms presents the work of 18 contemporary Australian artists who utilise craft based materialities with a political intent. Broadening our understanding of craft-making traditions, the artists in this exhibition subvert and extend these forms into the realm of activism and social change, reflecting on the world in which we live. While some respond directly to artistic or political movements, others encourage social connection between community members or require participatory activation through collective processes. Drawing on a long historical lineage, Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms enables viewers to rethink craft in a new light.

Artists include: Slow Art Collective, Paul Yore, Debris Facility, Kate Just, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Penny Byrne, James Tylor, Jemima Wyman, Kate Rohde, Michelle Hamer, Raquel Ormella, Hiromi Tango, Erub Arts, Catherine Bell, Tai Snaith, Karen Black, Starlie Geikie, Deborah Kelly.

Curators: Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates

A Shepparton Art Museum curated exhibition, touring nationally through NETS Victoria.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, as well as receiving development assistance from NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

Image: Paul Yore, What a Horrid Fucking Mess, 2016, textile wall hanging; mixed media, 210 x 342 cm (irreg.), purchased with Ararat Rural City Council acquisition allocation, 2016. Collection of Ararat Gallery TAMA.
