The Regional is a major new commissioning platform developed by the Warrnambool Art Gallery to support ambitious new artworks by five leading contemporary artists working across visual and performance arts, sound and design who are directly engaging with the broader economic, political, cultural and artistic complexities of the regional, remote and rural Australian experience. Emerging from a desire to challenge...
The Regional is a major new commissioning platform developed by the Warrnambool Art Gallery to support ambitious new artworks by five leading contemporary artists working across visual and performance arts, sound and design who are directly engaging with the broader economic, political, cultural and artistic complexities of the regional, remote and rural Australian experience.
Emerging from a desire to challenge a widespread idea which too often positions regional arts practices within a dichotomy of metropolitan (centre) and regional (periphery), the exhibition prompts you to consider the accuracy of this notion. Afterall, some of the areas often considered the most regional and remote, in fact sit at the heart of this continent. If the centre is both here and there, where does it begin and end, or does it exist at all?
Artists include Atlanta Eke, Gus Franklin, Paul McCann, Bronwyn Razem, and Peter Tyndall.
The Regional is proudly supported by the Australian Government through the Regional Events Fund, the Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria, and the Department of Education and Training, and Warrnambool City Council.
Australian Museums and Galleries Association
