May 2021
Exhibition Dates: 2nd May - 23rd May
Opening Celebration: 2nd May 2021
Kerry Strauss - Endless Sea 
Robyn Cerretti -  All we have is now
Lesley Walsh - An Unconventional Sea
Sue Gilford - The Mangrove edge

April 2021
Exhibition Dates: 4th - 25th April
Opening Celebration: Sun 4th April 2021
Basket Makers Victoria Biennial Exhibition 
​Participating Artists:
Meg Pascall, Vickie Fowler, Tamara McCarthy, Jodie Goldring, Tina Zenou, Maureen King, Jeanette Carter, Liz Reid, Jane Henry, Janet Lees, Anne Thoday, Marlene Thornton, Amy Cohen, Lynne Lochrie, Jackie Bacon, Margaret Donald, Mae Adams, Raine Edwards, Maree Brown, Denise Stephens, Deidre Cross, Robyn Norris, Sue Dilley, Barbara Olanda, Barbara Hawkins, Elma Young, Jan Chamberlain, Merilyn Hickson, Gander Joy beeby

March 2021
Exhibition Dates: 4 March - 28 March 2021
Opening Celebration: Sun 7 March 2021
3 Solo Shows
Solar: Tanja George
Greetings From......... : Sharon West
Pugatory is a liminal thing: Marcus Encel

Jan - February 2021
Summer Residency 
Our Artists in Residence: 
Adam Knapper, Avan Anwar, Simone Schroeder

December 2020
​Fresh 20
Exhibition Dates: ​26 November to 14 December 2020
Fine Art Graduates 
Photography Studies College
‘The Pandemic Edition’
Showcasing the work of Art and Commercial Major graduates

October 2020
BONANZA: CSA Member show
​Judged by David Hurlston - NGV, Senior Curator, Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts to 1980 
Anna Prifti - Director, West End Art Space Gallery
Online Exhibition Date: October - December 2020
Click below link for online exhibition 

https://www.canva.com/design/DAEIv1a28dU/hQ5VSe2PJFsL20vi74pklg/view?utm_content=DAEIv1a28dU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink
2020 Artist Prizes Awarded:
CSA Cash Prize Award - Beatrice Magalotti
YSG Free Solo Show Prize - Sharon West
West End ArtSpace Solo Show - Helen Phillip

June - September 2020
Winter Residency 
Our Artists in Residence: 
Carolyn Cardinet and Gabrielle New in collaboration, Polly Hollyoak and Candy Stevens 

​Click below link for online exhibition 
www.canva.com/design/DAEJyZEHpfQ/XlNbkqDnJgmQjOI791_a5w/view?utm_content=DAEJyZEHpfQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

March 2020
Dimensions
Exhibition Date: 1st - 22nd March 2020
Opening Celebration: 1st March  2020

A Group Exhibition featuring: Timothy Ang, Elizabeth Cole, Alannah Dair, Margot Dean, Dearne Dettrick, David McBurney, Janno McLaughlin, Lucy Parkinson, Lisa Peh, Renae Poli, Josh Robbins, Sqreem, Kate Wallace, Rudiger Wasser, Daniel Worth and Xiaoyu Yang

 


​January/February 2020
Summer Residency Show
Exhibition Date: 16 - 23rd  February 2020
Opening Celebration: 16th February  2020

Our Artists in Residence: Anne Marie Kuter, Kerry Buckland, Julian Di Martino, Cezary Stulgis

December 2019
​Fresh 19
Exhibition Date: ​21 November to 8 December 2019
Fine Art Graduates 
Photography Studies College
‘A Fresh Outlook’
Showcasing the work of eight Art Major graduates

October 2019
BONANZA: CSA Member show
​Judged by Lisa Byrne, the director at McClelland Gallery
Exhibition Date: 24 October to 17 November 2109
Opening Celebration: Sun 3 November

2019 Artist Prizes Awarded:
CSA Cash Prize Award - Cezary Strulgis
Yering Award Show Entry 2020- Akiko Nagino
Fundere Foundry Voucher $500 - Sharon West
YSG Free Solo Show Prize - Sue Vesley
West End ArtSpace Solo Show - Jackie Ralph
Art Almanac 6 month Subscription - Elizabeth Moss
 

Exhibiting Artists
Sonia Donnellan, Hannah Beilharz, Helen Braun, Kerry Strauss, Sharon West, Lesley Walsh, Akiko Nagino, Cliff Burtt, Jackie Ralph, Motoko Katsuta Kitano,
Tanja George, Pie Bolton, Donal Molly-Drum, Monique Lacey, Katy Bowman, Takahiko Sugawara, Arjang Razzazian, Faustas Sadauskas, Cezary Stulgis,
Julian Di Martino, Loretta Quinn, Elizabeth Moss, Anne- Marie Kuter, Helen Philipp, Betty Collier, David Waters, Sue Vesely, Rachel McKay, Beatrice Magalotti, Pamela Rataj, Andrew Paul Smith, Robert Waghorn, Oliver Ashworth-Martin, Heinz Boeck & Louis Balis

September 2019
Exhibition Date: 5 - 22 September
Opening Celebration: Thurs 5 September

May 2019
Exhibition Date: 2 - 19 May
Opening Celebration: Sat 4 May

Helen Philipp, Sharon West, Rhianna Chillingworth and Jamie Edward

April 2019
Exhibition Date: 4 April - 21 April
Opening Celebration: Sat 4 April
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    Xavier Exomone, Elsie Preston, Sarah Summers
    and Tony O'Connor.

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​Feb/March 2019
Exhibition Date: 28 Feb - 24 March
Opening Celebration: Sat 2 March
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​Heinz Boeck, Alan Cotton and Bogdan Dullsky
The first group exhibition for 2019, featuring the art by Heinz Boeck, Alan Cotton and Sound Forum #1(curated by Lee-Ann Joy) with the feature sound artist, Bogdan Dullsky.

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​DECEMBER to FEBRUARY 2018
Summer Artist in Residence: 21 Dec - 24 February

2018/19 SUMMER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Artists in Summer Residence program, concluded with a one-day closing exhibition and artist talk, featuring the developed works of Hannah Beilharz, Sonia Donnellan and Imogen Henry.

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​DECEMBER 2018
Exhibition Dates: 6 - 18 Dec
Opening Celebration: Thurs 6 Dec, 6-8 pm

BOX HILL INSTITUTE - CAE CAMPUS
A selection of new works by the Visual Art students at Box Hill Institute - CAE Campus
Artist: Tony O'Connor

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NOVEMBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: 16 Nov - 2 Dec
Opening Celebration: Fri 16 Nov, 6-8 pm

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIES COLLEGE
​The culmination of four years of study, Fresh 18 is an exhibition of photography from students graduating in the Advanced Diploma, Art Major.
Photographer: Peter Bratuskins

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NOVEMBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: November 1 - 11
Closing Celebration: Sun 11 November, 2 - 4 pm

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COALESCE (RMIT Master of Fine Arts)
​With the desire to pull back the veil and bring to you the next generation of artistry and discourse, Coalesce ARI in collaboration with Julian Cobb, have curated an exhibition to invite you to glimpse into the world and breeding ground of the fine art student.  By the re-creation of RMIT artist studio spaces, see how the institution can create a sense of community and comradery not often shared outside the walls of a University fine arts program.

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OCTOBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: October 6 - 28
Opening: Sun 7 October, 2 - 4 pm
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BONANZA showcased new works and ideas in spatial arts practice from the members of the Contemporary Sculpture Association (CSA). 
Curated by Lee-Ann Joy
Artists:
Penny Algar, Louis Balis, Oliver Ashworth-Martin, Heinz Boeck, Cliff Burtt, Giordano Biondi, Helen Braun,
Katy Bowman, Aneta Bozic, Phillipa Byrne, Kerry Cannon, Betty Collier, Veronique Derville, Tanja George,
Andrea Hughes, Lee-Ann Joy, Monique Lacey, Julian Di Martino, Rebecca Monaghan, Rachel Mackay,
Donal Molloy-Drum, Linda Oy Ho, Sarina Lirosi, Amanda Page, Anna Prifti, Cetta Pilati, Milos Pelikan,
Kerrie Warren, Pamela Rataj, Andrew Smith, Cezary Stulgis, ​Robert Waghorn 
Judges: Rebbecca Daff, Anouska Phizacklea, Ewan Jarvis and Faddy Hachem
This years BONANZA also doubled as a farewell party for our much admired Helen Braun, who has stood down as the Chair of Yarra Sculpture Gallery after ten years involvement with the CSA and YSG.

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SEPTEMBER 2018

Exhibition Dates: September 13 - 30​
Opening: Sat 15 September, 4 - 6 pm
​Opening address: Jill Morgan - CEO of Multicultural Arts Victoria and Sarah Randall - Curator.

​'The Message'
Annette Chang, Senye Shen, Pimpisa Tinpalit, Avan Anwa. Curated by Sarah Randall

The Yarra Sculpture Gallery with the Melbourne Fringe Festival invites you to the opening exhibition of the 'The Message;' an exhibition of immersive installations from artists who unite to transform language into visible and physical forms.

Curated by Sarah Randall, this exhibition features the work of Annette Chang, Senye Shen, Pimpisa Tinpalit and Avan Anwar; four women who have moved from across the sea and have had their own, everyday language entirely transformed in a new cultural context.

Through their experience and studio practice, they carry a message to their new home and nurture our understanding of each other through the conversation of contemporary art.

Image: 'Dancing Letters,' by Avan Anwar

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​AUGUST 2018

Exhibition Dates: August 17 - September 2
Opening: Sunday 19 August 4 - 6 pm
​Opening address: David McAllister, the Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet.

'Alice in Venice'
Margarita Krivitsky

Artist, Margarita Krivitsky is taking Alice to the wonderland of her beloved Italy. Together they are dreaming of saving the most precious masterpiece in the world - Venice. Come and witness the dream unfurl.
A portion of the sale proceeds will be donated to the Save Venice Fund which is an organisation that saves and restores classic masterpieces.​

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JUNE 2018

Exhibition Dates: 1 - 24 June
Opening: Saturday, 2 June, 2-4pm

Gallery 1 
AMANDA PAGE
'Falling Away'

Amanda Page creates works about transformation, in capturing and recording changes of state in materials and processes. While the works reference ecology and climate and can be positioned within the framework of environmental art, they also reference change as a universal condition that connects all matter. Works develop from observing transformative processes in natural systems and phenomena, such as weather patterns, temperature, erosion, the interaction between organisms, metamorphosis, growth, and decay, where organic substances break down into simpler forms of matter, and how matter and energy change under varying circumstances. Casts of eroded housing stumps shown in stages of decay capture their disintegrating structure as they are eroded by elemental forces of water, compressed earth and time.

Projection Room 
MARCUS ENCEL
'The Demagogue'

An exploration of oration and demagoguery; the extension of power remotely as expressed through digital media.
Using video montage to create the hybrid character of a totalitarian demagogue using documentation of artists.

Gallery 2
JULIAN DI MARTINO
'In Otherwords'

In other words, presents almost exactly one year of sculptures by Julian Di Martino. The sculptures range from bowls of fruit to broken bollards. Found wood continues to be the primary medium used, but in a series of perhaps ten works showing tumbled street signs, broken bollards, and damaged safety barriers, concrete has been added to the mix.

Gallery 3
KERRIE WARREN
'The Last Supper'

A poetic composition that plays with the idea of ‘The Last Supper,’ in this case the final meal is provided by and shared with Mother Nature who plays a starring role at the table...
Elements of the installation include paintings on linen, wheel-thrown ceramics, artist-designed wallpaper, inherited items, the found and the ready-made. An intuitive and sensitive approach to a widely popular and controversial subject.
This complex composition evokes a sense of pause, and the spectator is invited in to experience (and thereby be part of) life’s delicate balance, its vulnerable fragility, and sublime impermanence.

MAY 2018

Exhibition Dates: 4- 27 May
Opening: Sat 5 May, 2-4pm

Gallery 1 + Projection Room

CHARLES-ANDRE` LEMIRE
'A Conversation #1'

“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

This installation instigates a reflection about space – the space we share, the space we take, the space we can access or not. By filling the gallery with sculptures, the installation aims to question our relationship with the space we live in, how we respect it (or not) and the consequence of our presence in it. But not only this installation talks about space, it also invites the visitors to witness a conversation that doesn't happen, or will? 

Gallery 2

MILA POBLETE
'Santiago to Melbourne'

[Santiago to Melbourne] shows the artistic development, over the last 4 years, of Chilean artist Mila Poblete. Utilising sculpture and art installation as mediums, these works reflect her artistic research and evolution throughout her experience living in Australia.
Colour and geometry are combined to reflect the process of making and the state of immersion when fully absorbed in one individual action. A diverse range of materials are transformed into abstract shapes focusing the attention on what it is in front us: merely colour, texture, shape, design, light, hue and form... nothing more and nothing less. 

Gallery 3

ANETA BOZIC
'Convoluted Creations' 

Convoluted Creations is a continuance of an ongoing series of over the past few years, under the conceptual title of unNatural Hybrids.
This series explores the broad concept of the deconstructing, combining and merging elements from the animal, vegetable and mineral worlds to create unique hybridized creations. Predominately organic materials of bones, feathers, shells, branches, seed pods, leaves, stems and flowers combine with wire, glitter and metallic paint. These elements are scavenged and brought together in an organic way, allowing for unique combinations to emerge.These works will endeavour to question current boundaries, limitations and resilience of the natural world. It will allow the viewer’s preconceptions and imagination to be playfully challenged and stretched.

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April 2018

HUW VAUGHAN
'CONSTRUCTS'

SOLO EXHIBITION

Opening: Sat, 7 April, 2 - 4pm
Exhibition Dates: 6 - 29 April

My artist practice repurposes discarded materials, utilizing the natural faults found in objects to construct new narratives. There is an element of chance with the sculptures, working with the natural forms to add connection points and form personification.

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March 2018

Opening: Sat, 3 March, 2 - 4pm
Exhibition Dates: 2- 25 March

Amanda Clark 
'Seeing through a glass, darkly'
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Amanda Clark is a Melbourne-based visual artist working across mediums of painting, digital imagery and large-scale projection and light-based installation. Her work explores the transient moments of life, the people and events that touch us and leave their mark. Her use of light and projected images embodies the elusive nature of those memories.

Vanessa White
'BUDGIEMANIA: A fanciers folly'
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Paintings inspired by the luxuriant plumage of the oversized European exhibition budgerigar. These mutant birds evolved from the Australian wild budgies exported in the mid 1850’s. This series of paintings is a response to their luscious feather texture, through thickly applied paint and the application of fluid visceral painting techniques.

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February 2018

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December 2017

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November 2017

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October - November 2017

BONANZA
​YSG Members Exhibition
26 October - 12 November 2017

​Opening Celebration - Sat 28 October 3-5 pm
​Gallery Viewing - Thurs to Sun 11-4 pm

2017 Artists
Andrew Smith, Anne-Marie Kuter, Betty Collier, Carolyn Cardinet, Cetta Pilati, Cliff Burtt, Dave Waters, Faustus Sadouskas , Gayle Humphrey, Heinz Boeck, Huw Vaughan, Jackie Ralf, Jane Track,  Julian Di Martino, Kerry Buckland, Kerry Strauss, Leah Philpott, Lesley Walsh, Linda Oy Ho, Louis Balis, Lis Johnson, Liz Walker, Maggie brown, Michael Porter, Mitchell Jones, Oliver Ashworth-Martin, Rachel Mackay, Robert Waghorn, Stefanie Robinson, Suzanne Kaldor, Veronique Derville

Image: Artwork by Cetta Pilati "The Nexus"

Winners Bonanza

• Yarra Sculpture Gallery $500 Cash Prize - Helen Braun
• Contemporary Sculpture Association $500 Cash Prize - Oliver Ashworth-Martin
• BONANZA Incentive Award $250 Cash Prize - Lesley Walsh
• Solo Exhibition at YSG in 2018 - Heinz Boeck
• Yering Sculpture Prize 2018 entry - Cliff Burtt
• West End Art Space - Veronique Derville
• 6 month subscription to Art Almanac - Martin Heatherich
• Highly Recommended - Oonagh McGowan

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Judges
Anouska Phizacklea - Director of Monash Gallery of Art
Lisa Roet - Artist - www.lisaroet.com/biography

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October 2017

SCHEME 5 GARDEN

Liliana Barbieri, Susan Knight, Sarina Lirosi, Trevor Mein, Wilma Tabacco
 
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​5 October - 22 October 2017

​Opening Celebration - Sat 7 October 3-5 pm
​Gallery Viewing - Thurs to Sun 11-4 pm

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​The history of art is redolent with examples of gardens as places for
inspiration and as subject matter for art itself. Think Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing series of collaborative projects that
commenced in 2005 and in this instance the artists have considered the
continued importance of the garden within the built environment.
Gardens and backyard sheds have been long established features of
Melbourne’s domestic architecture. However, with the continued proliferation
of high-rise apartment dwellings in both the inner city and outer suburbs
Melbourne is at risk of becoming less verdant. Charming old gardens and
sheds are being demolished at a furious rate to make way for new
developments and car spaces.
In ‘Scheme 5 Garden’ the individual artists have responded to the nature of
the garden as a site/sight for reflection and creativity.
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September 2017

TWENTY
Yarra Sculpture Gallery 20 Year Celebration
​in collaboration with

​14 September - 1 October, 2017

​Opening Celebration - Sat 16 September 3-5 pm
​Opening Address - Julie Collins founding member of CSA
​Music by the Stoneflower Trio
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Gallery Viewing - Thurs to Sun 11-4 pm

  20 years is a major achievement for Yarra Sculpture Gallery and to celebrate we have invited past and present committee members to exhibit their works in celebration of their volunteering and dedication to the YSG Gallery over the last two decades. 

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Sue Boucher, Helen Braun, Cliff Burt, Julie Collins, Julian Di Martino, Sonia Donnellan, Jodie Goldring, Martin Hodge, Kathy Holowko, Lee-Ann Joy, Forest Keegle, Van Komis, Oonagh McGowan, John Marshall, Anne Mirron, Marija Patterson, Anna Prifti, Jackie Ralph, Steven Rendall, Kerry Strauss, David Waters