Rain Moth Gallery

23/06/2026

One of the joys of spending time in the gallery is discovering pieces you didn’t expect to fall in love with.

These works by fibre artist Dina van der Gaag are part of two artists on show in our current exhibition Creative Connections and are available to purchase.

Dina has spent decades working with textiles, tapestry and natural fibres, creating beautifully crafted pieces that reflect a lifelong love of making by hand.

Take a look through the collection and see what catches your eye.

📍 Rain Moth Gallery, Waikerie

Open
Monday - Friday 10am – 4pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm

22/06/2026

🎨 Last chance to book!

Due to a couple of last-minute cancellations, there are now just two places remaining in this weekend’s Oil Painting: Indirect Portraiture Workshop with Mel Brown.

This two-day workshop has been subsidised by Arts and Culture at the District Council of Loxton Waikerie, making it an incredible opportunity to learn from an experienced artist and educator.

📍 Loxton business hub, Loxton
🗓️ This weekend Sunday 27th
🕙 June 10am- 4:30pm
💰 $54.26 (light refreshments included)

Participants will need to provide their own materials.

For full workshop details, materials list and bookings, click the link below to view in browser.

Don’t miss out, link below

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Due to last minute cancellations, there are now two spaces remaining in this weekends 'Oil Painting: Indirect Portraiture Workshop with Mel Brown'.

10/06/2026

Calling all artists and creatives 🎨

Entries are now open for the 2026 Balco Balaklava Art Prize & Associated Awards Exhibition.

Now in its 36th year, the exhibition offers more than $3,000 in prize money, including a $2,000 major award, and welcomes entries across a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, pastel, photography and printmaking.

Award categories include:
• Country Life & Landscape
• Portrait
• Still Life
• Works on Paper
• Photography
• Primary & Secondary Student Awards
• People's Choice Award

The exhibition will run from 1 July – 6 September 2026, with prize winners announced at the official opening on Sunday 5 July.

Whether you're an established artist or exhibiting for the first time, this is a wonderful opportunity to share your work with a wider audience.

Entries close Friday 26 June 2026.

Entry forms are available from Balaklava Courthouse Gallery, Balaklava Community Library, Balaklava Post Office, Wakefield Regional Council, or by contacting the gallery directly.

Or DM for an entry form to be sent to you.

We'd love to see some Riverland artists represented.

Send a message to learn more

08/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Rain Moth Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Creative Connections”. This exhibition showcases the wonderful talent of mother and daughter artists, Dina Van der Gaag and Tanja Souter.
During the opening, Tanja and Dina took us through some of the steps involved in their artistic processes. We thank them for sharing that with us as well as for sharing their wonderfully creative pieces of fibre, paint and pastel with the Waikerie community.
This exhibition will be at the gallery until the end of July so plenty of time to drop in to see this wonderful, creative collection of art work.

02/06/2026

Happening this Sunday at 2 pm. Everyone welcome.

27/05/2026

Creative Connections - Two generations, one bond through fibre, paint and pastel.

You’re warmly invited to join us at Rain Moth Gallery for the opening of our newest exhibition.

Featuring the work of Dina van der Gaag and Tanja Souter, this exhibition brings together two generations connected through creativity, family, fibre, paint and pastel.

Both artists share a deep love of making by hand, drawing inspiration from nature, memory, textiles, colour and the joy of creating across different seasons of life.

Seeing their works sit alongside one another in the gallery space will be something special

Opening Afternoon

📍Sunday 7th June, 2.00pm
Rain Moth Gallery, 4 Peake Terrace, Waikerie

Come along, meet the artists, enjoy some afternoon tea, and spend a relaxed afternoon wandering the exhibition and connecting with local art and story.

We’d love to see you there. Waikerie Business Alliance District Council of Loxton Waikerie

26/05/2026

There has been something deeply emotional about watching people move through this exhibition. You can almost feel the memories being pulled forward in real time. Conversations starting with “my nan used to make that…” and stories surfacing that probably haven’t been spoken about in years.

Rolling Up Their Sleeves has become more than an exhibition about food. It’s about the women who fed families, held communities together, stretched ingredients, shared recipes across kitchen tables, and passed pieces of themselves down without ever really calling it history.

As this exhibition comes to a close this week, we’d love to welcome you in for one last immersion into these stories, memories, and connections that continue to ripple through both the Barossa and Riverland communities
Waikerie Business Alliance
District Council of Loxton Waikerie

12/05/2026

Tucked inside the Rain Moth is a little gift shop filled with handmade pieces by local artists. Ceramics, textiles, jewellery, artwork, and cards that have clearly been made by someone who cared about what they were doing.

If you’re the kind of person who likes finding something a bit different, and a little more personal than what you’d usually pick up in a bigger store, it’s worth having a wander through.

You might just find something for someone else, or something you decide you can’t leave without.

District Council of Loxton Waikerie Waikerie Business Alliance

04/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Rain Moth Gallery’s latest exhibition opening, “Rolling Up Their Sleeves.” We had roughly 100 people attend and ended up a feast of home cooked food to share. It was wonderful to have so many new visitors to our community art gallery.

Sheralee Menz, Kathryn Traeger and Sue Andrew entertained a captive audience with stories on how their cookbooks came about, and the pleasure they got from hearing the stories of the women behind the recipes.

This exhibition is based on the cookbooks “The Barossa Cookery Book”, “Rolling Up Their Sleeves” and “Just like grandma used to make.” The exhibition has connected the Barossa and Riverland through food, history, and the women who held it all together. It captures the stories of the remarkable women in our history, the recipes they used to build a community and preserves their legacy on panels that honour a rich Barossa and Riverland culture. Those Barossa Girls, Sheralee Menz and Marieka Ashmore, have researched and written stories from “The Barossa Cookery Book”, and “Rolling Up Their Sleeves” is their modern cookbook that re-presents classic recipes and honours a group of dedicated and open-hearted women. The panels on display bring these women’s stories to life.

In the 1980’s, Suzanne Andrew and Kathryn Traeger researched and wrote a cookbook based on pioneer recipes from the Waikerie district, “Just like grandma used to make”. This paperback book includes old advertisements and illustrations rather than photographs of the food.

The Rain Moth Gallery helped to facilitate some panels to go with this remarkable cookbook by interviewing several people who are descendants of the women who provided recipes for this book. These stories have been printed on panels for all to read. What wonderful stories they are. Well worth sharing.

Together these cookbooks have created a wonderful exhibition relating to history, food and the sharing of both. We hope you come along to share it with us.