Kathy Watt (OAM) is an elite cyclist, among many other achievements, she won gold for the road race at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 as well as a silver medal on the track. Since retiring from cycling, Kathy has been able to establish a new career in award winning photography. Her subjects are diverse but…
In Domestik Fantastik artist, Tim Craker, created furniture that misbehaved, champagne bottles that became tables and pedestals, plastic bread-tags arranged themselves on the wall, egg-cups proliferated and agglomerated, and an outsize collection of small white jugs vied for dominance. At WAS Gallery second-hand white crockery combined in unexpected ways, having escaped the dish rack and…
Oasis in a City, paintings by Geoff Harrison and Unhinged, pastel drawings by Helen Anderson covered the walls of WAS Gallery from 20 May till 8 July 2023. Geoff’s collection, Oasis in a City, depicted the many vistas of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens. “The intention of this exhibition is to take the viewer on a…
Would Be 100 paid tribute to the life and work of Hans Lorraine (1923-2012) who would have turned 100 in March, 2023, the exhibition covers his artistic practice from 1950’s to 2010 and included important pieces that have not been seen before and come from personal, family collections. A series of panels provided a chronology…
14 January to 11 March, 2023 A Play on Paper and My Happy Place started off the program for WAS Gallery in 2023. A Play on Paper was a large collection of collages by Gippsland artist, Helen Reeves. “My art is created from paper that I have painted, recycled, or have made. I’m fascinated by…
26 November to 23 December 2022 The Lorraine family has always lived with and loved animals as have many of our friends and artists. WAS Gallery, therefore, took the opportunity to invite past exhibitors to contribute to a pre-Christmas exhibition that raised funds for Animals Australia. The last few years have been hard wiith fires,…
24 September to 19 November 2022 Five Gippsland friends got together to fill the spaces at WAS Gallery. Artists Helen Anderson, Greg Follett, Julie Follett, Irene Proebsting and Julie Puchalski work in diverse media and styles but have collaborated to produce the show Still Objects . The theme was literally ‘still objects’ but the approaches…
23 July to 17 September, 2022 Photography by five Gippsland Camera Clubs: Warragul Camera Club, Latrobe Valley Camera Club, South Gippsland Camera Club, East Gippsland Camera Club and Sale Camera Club. Judging took place on Sunday, 21 August with the winning team being South Gippsland Camera Club and first prize going to Loz Reilly for…
21 May to 16 July, 2022 Longford resident, Linda Shaw, is a prolific artist, her intriguing paintings currently fill all spaces at WAS Gallery, Warragul. A Search for Stillness, her first solo exhibition, runs until 16 July and is the culmination of a years work undertaken throughout 2021. One of those…
19 March to 14 MAY, 2022 Wild and Tame, mixed media paintings by Jeannie Heynatz and drawings and paintings by Jennifer Ure, opened on 19 March, 2022, with a large contingent of family and friends from Melbourne and Gippsland. The two artists have had long histories in Gippsland, specifically Moe and Newborough, but have also…