30 May to 18 July, 2026 Maquettes, sculptures and dioramas by Kevin Downie. Kevin is a mixed-media abstract expressionist who takes inspiration from his emotional and intellectual responses to the journeys he has undertaken. Many years may pass before (for some unexplainable reason) a compulsive idea pops into his head, and he translates a journey into…
4 April to 23 May, 2026 Photography and video by Irene Proebsting The use of shadow and light are one of the essential elements to create mood, atmosphere and contrast in artworks, film and photography as seen in Irene’s video and photographs covering a range of subjects including portraits, architecture, landscape and interiors. Shadow…
7 February to 28 March, 2026 Paintings by Julie Puchalski, Ceramic objects, the incidental objects we use every day are the focus of this body of work. Through the genre of Still Life Painting, I focus on everyday ceramic objects to create an array of possibilities of compositions. I use pottery pieces from different cultures…
15 November to 20 December, 2025 IMAGINATION, drawings by Travis Hendrick. Trav Hendrick draws colourful cartoons. Born in Dandenong and living in Drouin for the past 30 year, Trav has focused his time on creating original cartoon characters. While attending Drouin Secondary College, Trav was diagnosed with mild autism. He finds communicating with people difficult…
20 September to 8 November, 2025 28 artists each contributed two pieces of artwork to help celebrate WAS Gallery’s 5th Anniversary. All the artists had exhibited at WAS previously and most are from Gippsland but also from Melbourne, Ballarat, Adelaide and Port Douglas. The collection excitingly combines a wide range of media, including painting, ceramics,…
26 July to 6 September, 2025 with works in wood and handmade guitars by Tom King and works in wood and handmade drums by Roger Terrill. Tom is a guitar maker/repairer/teacher based in Melbourne. He made his start at Cole Clark Guitars, where he developed an appreciation for the great range of sustainable native tone…
This exhibition was selected from the extensive ceramics collection of Judy Kefford (1927-2021). It comes to WAS through the generous support of Janice Hunter and Bruce Kefford who are custodians of Judy’s collection, now housed in West Gippsland. Judy Kefford graduated in Science from the University of Melbourne (rare for women at that time) and…
Hugh Ryan lived at 37 Latrobe Street before it became WAS Gallery. He was there from 1948 until 2015. Born 17 June, 1927, in Melbourne, where his family ran dairies and delivered milk around Melbourne. His parents were Martin and Mary (Molly), he had an older sister Patricia (Pat, born 1925) and their home was…
WAS Gallery resident potter, Gary McPhedran, has left the clay to dry for a while and has produced a collection of drawings and paintings for his solo exhibition called Some Men. The images he draws are similar to those he paints on his pottery, friezes of figures, overlapped figures, upside down and often even difficult…
The Feeling of Words, acrylic on paper and canvas by Anita George, 16 Nov to 21 Dec, 2024 “Although a Calligraphic artist, I consciously direct attention away from isolating words or paintings in the artworks and instead urge the viewer to perceive them as an integrated whole. Free form, free expression are all words associated…