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

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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.

Join us for a free artist talk with Lynda Draper, Jacky Redgate, and Ebony Russell as they discuss their practices and t...
29/04/2026

Join us for a free artist talk with Lynda Draper, Jacky Redgate, and Ebony Russell as they discuss their practices and the works presented in The Architecture of Feeling.

Each artist will take you through their experience with emotion through form, material and gesture, giving you a deeper insight into the ideas that shape this exhibition.

🗓️ Wed 6 May, 11am - 12pm

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Image: Ebony Russell, De•Corum: Minty Sad Face Vase With Roses and Hearts, 2022, piped porcelain and stain, 16 x 13 x 13 cm. Purchased 2022.

We are the land we walk upon brings together artists Tess Allas, Frances Belle Parker and Adrian Stimson, who walk on ea...
24/04/2026

We are the land we walk upon brings together artists Tess Allas, Frances Belle Parker and Adrian Stimson, who walk on each other’s home Countries to share stories of history, spirituality and survival.

In this moving exhibition the artists reflect on what it means to belong to a place, a people and a community.

Now showing until 24 May.

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Images: Installation shots from We are the land we walk upon: Tess Allas, Frances Belle Parker and Adrian Stimson. Photography by Silversalt.

In This is Not a Solo Show, Michelle Cawthorn and Peter Sharp's works are presented together. Their works become a medit...
22/04/2026

In This is Not a Solo Show, Michelle Cawthorn and Peter Sharp's works are presented together. Their works become a meditation on dialogue — between partners, materials and perspectives.

While Sharp’s paintings capture the external rhythms of the natural world, Cawthorn’s works chart the internal terrain of thought and emotion.

This is Not a Solo Show is on now until 31 May.

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Images: Installation shots from This is Not a Solo Show: Michelle Cawthorn and Peter Sharp. Photography by Silversalt.

⏰ Get in quick, our school holiday workshops are booking out quickly! 🎨We've got plenty of fun and artistic workshops in...
04/04/2026

⏰ Get in quick, our school holiday workshops are booking out quickly! 🎨

We've got plenty of fun and artistic workshops including Surreal Mix-Ups, Pop Art inspired creations, and still life drawing.

There are a range of workshops for kids aged from 5 to 14, find out more and book your spot via the link below 👇

🔗 wollongongartgallery.au/learn/kids/school-holidays

The Architecture of Feeling is now open. Curated by Megan Monte, the exhibition explores how emotion is held, transforme...
02/04/2026

The Architecture of Feeling is now open. Curated by Megan Monte, the exhibition explores how emotion is held, transformed, and revealed through form, gesture, and encounter.

Drawing from pieces in our collection, The Architecture of Feeling brings together ceramics, works on paper, and photography in carefully composed groupings.

Collection artists: Hannah Barclay, Julie Bartholomew, Stephen Benwell, Stephen Bird, Pat Brassington, Jacques Charoux, Kirsten Coelho, Nici Cumpston, Greg Daly, Lynda Draper, Diogenes Farri, Honor Freeman, Marea Gazzard, Ian Gentle, Sarah Goffman, Juz Kitson, John Kuczwal, Danie Mellor, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, David Nolan, Graham Oldroyd, Jenny Orchard, Anders Ousback, John Paine, Alan Peascod, Jacky Redgate, Barbara Romalis & Elisabeth Cummings, Ebony Russell, Derek Smith, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Vipoo Srivilasa, Phyllis Stewart, Suzanne Stewart, and Amy Joy Watson.

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Vipoo Srivilasa, VI (detail), 2017, cobalt pigment on lumina porcelain, a. 37 x 22 x 13cm, b. 54 x 19 x 9cm, c. 45 x 30 x 9cm. Purchased 2017.

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46 Burelli Street
Wollongong, NSW
2500

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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+61242278500

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