The Mildura Arts Centre galleries will be filled with a diverse selection of traditional favourites and lesser known contemporary artworks from the Mildura Arts Centre Collection this winter.
This is a final farewell for the galleries before the Collection is packed away and the Mildura Arts Centre staff’s attention is redirected to the conservation and safe keeping of the artworks during the theatre redevelopment shut down period.
Artworks by Anglo-Irish artist Sir William Orpen including The English Nude, which has in recent years travelled the globe on loan to some of the world’s prominent art institutions, and his beautiful Portrait of Grace, 1907 will be on show in the lower galleries.
Alongside these will be a selection of paintings and works on paper by English artist Sir Frank Brangwyn, whose large scale murals hang in the ground floor galleries.
The upper galleries will showcase artworks acquired during the 1960s to 1990s, including artwork by well known Australian artists John Firth-Smith, John Olsen and Wes Walters.
The hang will also include a number of two dimensional works acquired during the era of the Mildura Sculpture Triennials.
The Triennials were a series of important contemporary art events that took place between 1961 and 1988.
The inheritance of these events is a significant number of substantial public sculptures in and around Mildura, including the Mildura Arts Centre lawns and along Deakin Avenue.
These works can be viewed in the Mildura Arts Centre galleries daily from 10am to 5pm and will be on show until the end of August when the facility will close for the theatre redevelopment.