With visionary foresight, the founding team behind Ararat Gallery in the late 1960s and early 1970s established textiles as a defining focus of the Gallery’s collection. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool …
Tim Gresham’s tapestries explore light, colour and rhythm, and are influenced by landscape and modernist design. The time it takes to weave tapestries by hand, and the rhythm of the weaving process are integral to Gresham’s …
Christine Baines is a local artist and retired art teacher based in Elmhurst, a small village 35km north-east of Ararat. Christine has been exploring mosaics for 20 years, working with glass, stone and found objects. She …
With visionary foresight, the founding team behind Ararat Gallery in the late 1960s and early 1970s established textiles as a defining focus of the Gallery’s collection. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool …
Lisa Waup is a First Nations artist and curator of mixed cultural heritage, based in Narrm (Melbourne). Her diverse practice encompasses printmaking, weaving, sculpture, fashion, body adornment, and textiles, often pushing the boundaries in contemporary and …
Kait James: Red Flags is Wadawurrung artist Kait James’ most ambitious solo exhibition to date. Since 2018, James has been carving out a unique visual language based in the reappropriation of racialised products. Colloquially identified as …
With visionary foresight, the founding team behind Ararat Gallery in the late 1960s and early 1970s established textiles as a defining focus of the Gallery’s collection. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool …
Within the Ararat Gallery TAMA Collection, there is a sub-collection of miniature textile artworks. The majority of these miniatures were acquired in the 1980s, when the Gallery hosted a series of Biennial Acquisitive Exhibitions. The Biennials …
Tamworth Regional Gallery founded the Fibre Textile Collection in the 1970s. This exhibition showcases the strengths and diversity of the collection over the last 50 years. Inspired by the National Gallery of Australia’s national program Know …
Since 2017, when Fernando do Campo first learnt of the curious story about house sparrows being released off the Bull & Mouth Hotel balcony Ararat, in 1867 (alongside Melbourne, Ararat is the first place where this …
Apply to exhibit in the Barkly Street Laneway! The Barkly Street Laneway exhibition space is dedicated to showcasing projects by artists and community groups based within or with links to the municipality of Ararat Rural …
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Apply to exhibit on the Ararat Gallery TAMA Community Wall! The Community Wall is dedicated to showcasing projects by artists and community groups based within or with links to the municipality of Ararat Rural City …
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Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia) has been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile and fibre art since the 1970s. We are custodians of …
Ararat Gallery was established in 1968 as a few small rooms in the Old Municipal Offices of the Ararat Town Hall. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed …