Change Over 13 February 2012 - 24 February 2012

Our current exhibition Sam Leach: The Ecstacy of Infrastructure is still on view until Sunday 4 March 2012.

Some of our galleries are closed this week as we prepare for our new e...

Sam Leach: The Ecstasy of Infrastructure 19 November 2011 - 4 March 2012

Selected paintings of Ralph Balson and Edwin Tanner from the TWMA collection form the basis for Sam Leach’s fascinating new suite of works. With their respective backgrounds...

Jacqueline Mitelman Facetime 15 October 2011 - 12 February 2012

Jacqueline Mitelman has been a portrait photographer since the mid-1970s. She recently received long overdue recognition when she was awarded the 2011 National Photographic...

William Delafield Cook. A Survey 15 October 2011 - 12 February 2012

This major survey of William Delafield Cook has been mounted by Gippsland Art Gallery and tours to TarraWarra Museum of Art.

William Delafield Cook. A Survey is the first survey ...

James Morrison: The Great Tasmanian Wars 6 August 2011 - 13 November 2011

A rare opportunity to see the Morrison’s magnificent epic painting from the TWMA collection in its entirety. Comprising 55 individual canvases this figurative painting is a...

Boundary Line 6 August 2011 - 2 October 2011

Featuring works from the TWMA collection and selected loans, this exhibition explores the divergent ways in which artists have examined and represent the boundary line between t...

Sandra Leveson: Paintings of Poise and Passion 6 August 2011 - 2 October 2011

In the 1970s, Sandra Leveson’s large paintings combined the dazzling effects of op art with references to misty and turbulent landscapes. They represented a highly personal and ...

2011 Archibald Prize 2 July 2011 - 31 July 2011

Spend a perfect winter’s day in the Yarra Valley with people you know! See the 2011 Archibald Prize at TWMA in July.

TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA) is proud to be the exclusive ...

Rosslynd Piggott Dividing Infinity: A Room for Painting 2 April 2011 - 19 June 2011

This exhibition continues the long poetic dialogue Rosslynd Piggott has pursued between the ephemeral and the specific and the contrasting philosphies of the East and West...

Artwork to Tapestry 2 April 2011 - 19 June 2011

TWMA has worked with the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) to create an exhibition that tells the tale of the journey taken from original artwork to tapestry, featuring a...

Australian masterpieces from the TWMA collection: The 70s 28 November 2010 - 29 May 2011

Diverging artistic streams flowered in this decade of cultural and socialpluralism. Post-war immigration, increased access to tertiary education andcheaper international travel ...

Returning to the jewel is a return from exile 7 November 2010 - 20 February 2011

Returning to the jewel is a return from exile features three outstanding artists, Robert Baines, Karl Fritsch and Gerd Rothmann. All are master technicians producing some of...

Brett Whiteley: Connections 6 November 2010 - 19 March 2011

Eva and Marc Besen have been lifelong admirers of Brett Whiteley’s oeuvre, collecting significant works from 1964 through to 1983. These works follow Whiteley’s artistic...

TWMA Contemporary 2010 6 August 2010 - 24 October 2010

TWMA invited eight Arts Industry professionals to each nominate one artist for inclusion in TWMA Contemporary 2010. The exhibition curators, Amy Barrett-Lennard, Ashley...

Bushfire Australia 28 March 2010 - 25 July 2010

Bushfire Australia will examine the recurrence of bushfire imagery in the work of Australian artists. The exhibition will draw on works from state, public and private...

George Baldessin 21 November 2009 - 14 March 2010

The exhibition George Baldessin explores the artist’s remarkable, distinctive contribution to Australian art, selecting paintings and drawings as well as the better known...

Child Like: Selected works from the TWMA collection 21 August 2009 - 8 November 2009

There is no doubt that contemporary art holds a great deal of attraction for children as it encompasses aspects of movement, color and playfulness that create a non-verbal...

BEN QUILTY LIVE! 16 August 2009 - 15 November 2009

Ben Quilty paints like there is no tomorrow. In less than a decade he has become one of the country’s favourite artists. Quilty uses licks of luscious paint to conjure his...

Tim Storrier, Light and Land 30 May 2009 - 16 August 2009

Tim Storrier is an Australian artist whose practice fervently remains outside of categorisation. Storrier works as a dedicated realist painter whose involvement with his...

Revisited 29 March 2009 - 2 August 2009

From its inception in the artist’s studio an artwork can travel continents and collections and be displayed privately and publicly. Whilst many art lovers cannot own the works t...

Denise Green: Evanescence 21 March 2009 - 24 May 2009

The exhibition Denise Green: Evanescence at TarraWarra Museum of Art focused upon works created between 2005 and 2008 which explore motifs developed over time that are both...

Mythology & Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Art From The Gabrielle Pizzi Collection 23 November 2008 - 15 March 2009

Gabrielle Pizzi began collecting contemporary Australian Aboriginal art in 1978. The year Gabrielle began travelling in Northern Australia was only seven years after the...

TarraWarra Biennial 2008, Lost & Found: An archeology of the Present 1 August 2008 - 9 November 2008

Charlotte Day was the guest curator of the second edition of the TarraWarra Biennial. The aim of the biennial was to identify new currents in contemporary practice, and Lost &...

John R. Neeson: Available Light 30 May 2008 - 20 July 2008

John R. Neeson produced an installation project that references the interior of TarraWarra Museum of Art and aspects of the landscape beyond, when he undertook a ‘studio...

William Eicholtz: TarraWarra Primavera 13 May 2008 - 15 June 2008

TarraWarra Primavera was a playful Antipodean retelling of Botticelli’s Three Graces from his Primavera painting in the Uffizi Gallery. …Located at TarraWarra Museum of Art...

Kate Rohde: flourish 20 April 2008 - 20 July 2008

Blending the lavishness of the Baroque and Rococo period with her interests in Natural History Kate Rohde conjures scenes from a world not too dissimilar from our own in her...

Time and Place: Selected works from the TWMA collection 12 April 2008 - 20 July 2008

Time and Place was the tenth exhibition in a series which focused on the TWMA collection. In each exhibition, artworks have been placed within different contexts endeavoring to ...

TWMA Architectural Competition 2000 12 April 2008 - 20 July 2008

TWMA Architectural Competition 2000 included proposals submitted by invited architects Fender Katsilidis, Kirsten Thompson, Sean Godsell and Wood Marsh as well as the winning...

PEEP: Glimpses of the last 4 decades of the Kerry Stokes Collection 25 November 2007 - 6 April 2008

Taking its title from an endearing installation by the Perth artist Cecile Williams, PEEP was a partial review of tendencies in Australian and international art since the early ...

Guy Stuart: Bowls, Vats, Discs and Baffles 12 August 2007 - 11 November 2007

This exhibition represented an important moment in Australian art which occurred at the time of the shift of the centre of the international art world from Paris and London to N...

Snap Freeze: Still Life Now 20 May 2007 - 11 November 2007

It is widely claimed among Western historians and art critics that still life, as a genre, exists in the lower levels of the artistic ‘hierarchy’. Through excluding the human...

Charles Anderson: A House for Hermes #01: The House of my Father 5 April 2007 - 5 August 2007

A House for Hermes was a long meditation on the relationship between memory, place, movement, and ‘home’. This project recalled the many houses that Anderson has lived in and...

John Nixon, EPW: POLYCHROME 31 March 2007 - 11 May 2007

This large exhibition presented a new multi-coloured group of paintings from John Nixon’s Experimental Painting Workshop in 2007. The Polychrome paintings stem from Nixon’s use ...

The Melba Festival and Nightingale 23 March 2007 - 25 March 2007

Inspired by the magic that made Dame Nellie Melba an international star in the early 1900s, the Melba Festival celebrated music, arts, wine, food, heritage, racing and the many ...

Five Decades 26 November 2006 - 25 March 2007

Five Decades was a selection of paintings demonstrating prevailing themes and innovations from the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. For the first time a selection of works f...

Silvia Bächli: Tables 26 November 2006 - 25 March 2007

Tables was a special exhibition of works by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli, in collaboration with Swiss curator Martin Schwander. Bächli works with ink on paper creating and...

TarraWarra Biennial 2006, Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today 4 August 2006 - 12 November 2006

TarraWarra Museum of Art invited renowned curator, Victoria Lynn, to provide an independent view of painting in her curation of this inaugural biennial exhibition. Titled...

Recent Acquisitions 6 June 2006 - 23 July 2006

A selection of recent acquisitions from the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection as selected by the Director, Maudie Palmer. Angela Brennan, Aida Tomescue, Brent Harris, Robert J...

Heart & Mind 11 April 2006 - 23 July 2006

The exhibition Heart & Mind featured five major Australian artists from the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection: Jan Senbergs, Rick Amor, Jenny Watson, Melinda Harper and...

Paul Partos - Final Works 2002 19 February 2006 - 4 June 2006

This unprecedented exhibition featured works that Paul Partos created during the last year of his life. Partos was little more than a mid-career artist when he was advised in...

Orient/Occident: John Young, A survey of works 1979-2005 1 November 2005 - 2 April 2006

This first major survey of John Young’s practice addressed a period of profound artistic and intellectual shifts, in both Australia and internationally. His work articulates...

Warm 23 August 2005 - 12 February 2006

The exhibition Warm explored the way in which artists have used colour to evoke emotion, space, movement and culture. This exhibition derived its title from the terminology...

Potters Cottage, Warrandyte 19 August 2005 - 1 October 2005

1958 > Work of the Founding and Associate Members An Introductory Exhibition from the Collection of John Nixon

Potters Cottage was a co-operative founded in Warrandyte in 1958...

Arthur Boyd: Reflections 25 July 2005 - 15 November 2005

Environmental and sociological issues made accessible through the magic of myth.

6 years abstracted: 1967 - 1972 29 May 2005 - 23 October 2005

In the 1960s, as the New York School, greatly supported by Clement Greenberg, grew as an artistic mecca, increasingly Australian artists focused their artistic practice towards ...

Pulse - Paintings by John Olsen 1961-2005 29 May 2005 - 23 October 2005

Gary Catalano observed that Olsen’s radicalism came from his ability to play ‘havoc with our conventional aesthetic expectations’, that he challenges us to forge beyond our...

Rebecca Smith - TarraWarra Catchment 19 April 2005 - 14 August 2005

Rebecca Smith has exhibited in over 12 solo exhibitions and participated in over 40 group exhibitions. Born in Glen Falls, New York in 1954, Smith graduated from the Sarah...

Robert Baines: Close Up 6 March 2005 - 30 June 2005

This exhibition provided an opportunity to examine, to fathom the ambiguities of Baines' jewellery. To imagine these small models as large scale sculptures. To appreciate the...

Melbourne Masters Architecture 14 November 2004 - 3 April 2005

‘Vibrant architectural cultures, like other intellectual domains, straddle two or three differing views about the nature of architectural endeavors. This exhibition explored...

A Sense of Place 7 November 2004 - 22 May 2005

This exhibition considered the insistence of landscape in the history of Australian visual art, and explored the meaning of place in our lives. Including paintings from the...

Lollypop Forest, Installation 1 Colin Duncan 7 November 2004 - 18 July 2005

Forest as corporate logo

In lollypop forest, installation 1, small vector graphics of circles and rectangles join to make lollypops that populate the wall with a randomness of...

Robert Jacks: Paintings/Sculptures Melbourne/New York 1967- 22 August 2004 - 7 November 2004

This exhibition was built around Robert Jacks' Red Painting in the TWMA collection. It included a body of work which Jacks commenced at the same time as that painting, dealing w...

Echo 30 May 2004 - 20 October 2004

The second major exhibition based on the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection, Echo, was an exhibition of paintings, decorative art and found objects, with works from private...

urban/exurban 23 April 2004 - 16 August 2004

As Leon van Schaik argues in his essay Allan Powell at TarraWarra, ‘creativity arises in the actuality of the province and is honed in the discourse of the metropolis.’ He...

Robert Owen: The text of light 18 December 2003 - 16 April 2004

Throughout a sustained practice of more than four decades, Robert Owen has worked across a range of media moving between painting, drawing, sculpture and installation in the...

New Beaut Country 18 December 2003 - 20 May 2004

The inaugural exhibition at the new museum New Beaut Country was a director’s choice selection and presented an overview of the TWMA collection. The collection focused on the...

Still 9 February 2003 - 29 June 2003

Still, an exhibition selected from the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection by Director Maudie Palmer, was the third and final exhibition held at the Metropolitan Meat Market by ...

Gesture and geometry 29 August 2002 - 2 February 2003

Using the intimate proportions and accessible site of the museum’s temporary home at the Metropolitan Meat Market Art Centre, a series of rotating exhibitions from the...