Final days to experience National Gallery of Victoria’s touring exhibition The Land is Us at Shepparton Art Museum.

Shepparton Art Museum’s current major exhibition The Land is Us: Stories, Place & Connection will draw to a close on 1 September. Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the exhibition brings together notable artworks from the NGV Collection to offer an expanded consideration of landscape art.

Celebrating landscape through the eyes of significant artists including Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, Lin Onus, and Patricia Piccinini, The Land is Us explores our fascination with and our connection to land and place. Curated into a series of rooms, the artworks traverse a number of themes, from the role of the land in shaping personal and national identities, to mythmaking, to the displacement experienced by refugees. The exhibition marked the first time some artworks from the NGV Collection had ever been displayed together, creating new connections and inviting new dialogues through their perspectives.

The Land is Us: Stories, Place & Connection is showing at SAM until 1 September 2024 with free entry.

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Full list of exhibiting artists:

Hoda Afshar, Brook Andrew, Gordon Bennett, John Brack, Marylin Brown Petyarr, Louisa Bufardeci, Destiny Deacon, Rosalie Gascoigne, John Glover, Treahna Hamm, Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller, Hans Heysen, Beth Mbitjana Inkamala, Judith Pungkarta Inkamala, Rosemary Laing, Myoung Ho Lee, Frederick McCubbin, Trevor Nickolls, Grant Nimmo, Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, Lin Onus, Patricia Piccinini, John Pule, Ben Quilty, Cliff Reid, Reko Rennie, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Jane Sutherland, Rahel Kngwarria Ungwanaka, May Vale, HJ Wedge, Fred Williams, Walter Withers, Ah Xian, John Young

Featured image credit: The Land is Us, installation view featuring Sidney Nolan, Kelly with horse (1955), Shepparton Art Museum, 2024. Photo: Leon Schoots. ©The Sidney Nolan Trust. All rights reserved. DACS/Copyright Agency 2024.