TARRAWARRA Museum of Art in Healesville is staging its inaugural biennial exhibition celebrating contemporary Australian art.
Titled Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, the exhibition will be opened this Friday, 4 August, by Premier Steve Bracks.
It will be the first time the entire interior of the museum will be given over to one major exhibition of paintings.
The exhibition will feature the work of 17 Australian artists from Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, the Australia Capital Territory, South Australia and Victoria. The collection of paintings includes dynamic abstractions by Dale Frank, intimate night scenes by Anne Wallace, and computer-manipulated images of traditional Japanese decorations by Natalya Hughes.
Painters Kate Beynon and David Griggs will paint directly onto the walls of the museum, and Jon Cattapan’s new work, which features Gough Whitlam will be on display as will a site-specific 210 panel work by Raafat Ishak.
The exhibition, which will also feature landscape works by artists such as Paul Uhlmann, Peter Maloney and Ben Pushman, has been conceived and realised by one of the country’s most leading curators, Victoria Lynn.
The museum director, Maudie Palmer, said the exhibition would act as a major draw card for the Yarra Valley.
Curator and artist talks will be held at the exhibition during the opening weekend. The exhibition will run until 12 November. For further information contact Tarrawarra Museum of Art on 5957 3100.
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