Wollongong Art Gallery

Wollongong Art Gallery Located on Dharawal Country, Wollongong Art Gallery is one of the largest regional art museums in Australia.
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Entry is free, we are open Tue to Fri 10am – 5pm, and Sat to Sun 12 - 4pm. Wollongong Art Gallery is a service of Wollongong City Council. Wollongong Art Gallery boasts an impressive collection of Australian, Aboriginal and Asian art. Our exhibition program includes work by local, national and international artists, with an accompanying range of activities and workshops. We acknowledge the Traditi

onal Custodians of the land on which our city is built, the Aboriginal people of Dharawal Country. We recognise and appreciate their deep connection to this land, waters and the greater community. Wollongong City Council’s social media channels aims to inform, educate, and inspire our community. We encourage open discussion, and in order to create a positive and engaging environment for the community, we ask all users to treat each other with respect. Posts may be deleted, hidden or reported and users blocked if they are considered defamatory, offensive, disrespectful, misleading, unlawful, abusive or disparaging. More information is available at https://wollongong.nsw.gov.au/digital-guidelines

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Once Upon a Doll brings together sixteen handcrafted dolls and a tapestry by Raquel Caballero. It's an offbeat cast of a...
19/06/2026

Once Upon a Doll brings together sixteen handcrafted dolls and a tapestry by Raquel Caballero. It's an offbeat cast of artists, icons, mystics and eccentrics who’ve shaped her imagination.

Part portrait, part shrine, part fan tribute, these works are built from found objects, textiles and embellishments—favouring presence over perfect likeness, with affection, humour and a hint of devotion.

“I’m definitely a fan. Maybe even a fanatic… Making the dolls has been a way of releasing some of that energy.” - Raquel Caballero

Join us at the official opening on Friday 3 July from 6pm, or from 5.20pm for a special exhibition walkthrough with artist Raquel.

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Image: Raquel Caballero and her dolls, 2026. Photo: Jessica Maurer.

Closing this Sunday 🚨 It's your last chance to see The Architecture of Feeling. This exhibition, curated by Megan Monte,...
18/06/2026

Closing this Sunday 🚨 It's your last chance to see The Architecture of Feeling.

This exhibition, curated by Megan Monte, playfully explores how emotion is held, transformed, and revealed through form, gesture, and encounter.

Drawing from the collection, ceramics, works on paper, and photographs come together in intimate tableaux, tracing the thresholds of human experience where pleasure and restraint meet in a quiet theatre of feeling.

Closing Sunday 21 June.

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Images: Installation shots from The Architecture of Feeling. Photos by Silversalt.

We’re part of Creative Dialogues this year!Creative Dialogues is a free one-day event this Saturday exploring the theme ...
17/06/2026

We’re part of Creative Dialogues this year!

Creative Dialogues is a free one-day event this Saturday exploring the theme Creativity, Ecology and the Future.

We’re hosting a selection of workshops as part of the program. There are still tickets to join artist April Phillips for a hands-on 3D session, using photogrammetry to scan and transform real-world objects into digital forms.

This is a free workshop, but bookings are essential.
wollongongartgallery.au/gallery-events/3d-photogrammetry-with-april-phillips

There’s plenty more happening across the day, with conversations, workshops and more at Town Hall.

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Image: April Phillips. Photo by On Jackson Street.

Look familiar?In Ballad of the Burbs, Nicci Bedson reimagines Illawarra streets and homes through a deeply personal lens...
15/06/2026

Look familiar?

In Ballad of the Burbs, Nicci Bedson reimagines Illawarra streets and homes through a deeply personal lens. Where everyday places hold layered stories of care, routine and connection.

Working from lived experience, Bedson’s paintings shift between observation and invention, revealing the emotional and social textures of suburban life. You might even spot somewhere you know.

Ballad of the Burbs is now showing until 9 August.

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Image 1: Nicci Bedson, The Servo (detail), 2026, acrylic on board, 43 x 43cm. Photograph: Bernie Fischer.
Image 2: Nicci Bedson, Billy is curious about what is outside the window, 2025 (detail), acrylic on board, 33 x 44cm. Photograph: Bernie Fischer.
Image 3: Nicci Bedson, Northern Bowls, 2025 (detail), acrylic on board, 49 x 64cm. Photograph: Bernie Fischer.

What happens when legacy becomes a performance? Featured in Popular Versus Culture by Georgia Banks, Remains to be Seen ...
13/06/2026

What happens when legacy becomes a performance?

Featured in Popular Versus Culture by Georgia Banks, Remains to be Seen explores death and afterlife as a speculative, ongoing work—one that unfolds over time and invites public participation.

Blurring celebrity, visibility and mortality, Banks asks: how far can we go to shape our legacy, and what does it mean to be remembered?

Popular Versus Culture is now showing until 6 September

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Image: Georgia Banks, Remains to be Seen (detail), 2021, video still.

A little-known group of passionate individuals are keeping the legend of steam engines alive. In Requiem of an Engineman...
11/06/2026

A little-known group of passionate individuals are keeping the legend of steam engines alive.

In Requiem of an Engineman, James Rumble tells the stories of both the historical engines and the individuals who dedicate their lives to preserving them.

Join us in our Community Gallery for the official opening this Saturday 13 June from 1 - 2.30pm.

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Image: James Rumble, An American tourist in Kiama (detail), Black and White photograph, 2021.

Transience Atlas maps impermanence through a year-long study of seasonal change across New South Wales. In a series of w...
10/06/2026

Transience Atlas maps impermanence through a year-long study of seasonal change across New South Wales.

In a series of weekly paintings, Rob Howe translates the shifting light and rhythm of each season into landscape, still life and figure painting, revealing how cycles of change can offer calm amid uncertainty.

Now showing until 9 August 2026.

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Image 1: Rob Hower, Clarice in her bedroom (detail), 2025, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (unframed),32.5 x 42.5 cm (framed).

Image 2: Rob Hower, Camellia still life (detail), 2025, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (unframed),32.5 x 42.5 cm (framed).

Image 3: Rob Hower, House (detail), 2025, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (unframed),32.5 x 42.5 cm (framed).

Join us this Friday night for a huge night of exhibition openings!🎥 Georgia Banks | Popular Versus CultureDrawing on the...
04/06/2026

Join us this Friday night for a huge night of exhibition openings!

🎥 Georgia Banks | Popular Versus Culture
Drawing on the visual language of advertising and pop culture, Banks explores ideas of value, desire and consumption through video and performance, alongside invited artists and works from the Gallery collection.

🎨 Rob Howe | Transience Atlas
A series of paintings tracing seasonal change across New South Wales, reflecting on landscape, time and impermanence.

🏡 Nicci Bedson | Ballad of the Burbs
Expressive, narrative-driven paintings that capture the nuances of suburban life in the Illawarra, exploring memory, belonging and the rhythms of the everyday.

📅 Friday 5 June, from 6pm
📍 Wollongong Art Gallery
🎟 Free entry

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Image 1: Image: Georgia Banks, I’d like to buy the world a coke (detail), 2020.
Image 2: Image: Rob Howe, Payne Road (detail), 2021, oil on board, 40.5 x 52 cm. Private collection. Photograph: Jennifer Leahy.
Image 3: Nicci Bedson, Long shadows, long days (Port Kembla) (detail), 2025, acrylic on board, 49.2 x 64.7 cm.

21/05/2026

🌿 It's your last chance to see We Are the Land We Walk Upon, closing this Sunday.

Filmed across Siksika, Yaegl and Tharawal lands, this powerful work brings artists Tess Allas, Frances Belle Parker and Adrian Stimson together to share stories of history, belonging and survival through movement, conversation and sound.

🎥 Here’s a glimpse of the film at the centre of this exhibition.

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Trailer for We are the land we walk upon by Tess Allas, Frances Belle Parker and Adrian Stimson, 2024.

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