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Benalla Art Gallery view from the lake and the interior of the Ledger Gallery

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Our move to Benalla was based on many factors including the closeness to Great Victorian landscape, the small country town ‘feel’ where you can usually get a car park in the main street, a Botanic Garden and an art gallery – Benalla had it all.

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Soon after our arrival we joined the Benalla Art Gallery and attended the range of exhibitions, openings and public talks on offer. As usual I found that the documentist in me meant that I was drawn to create a modest visual record of most events attended. The art gallery team allowed my activity and on many occasions I passed images on to them for their use and to send on to the subject pictured.

Over this last year there was an amazing program of vibrant and stimulating activities that we attended. Some of the events and exhibitions included:

• Tarragh Cunningham from QAGOMA talking about ‘The Power of Cultural Infrastructure’

• Zoe Porter with Tegan Nash in conversation about the ‘Surface’ performance

• Atong Atem talking about her exhibition ‘Banksia’ on show at the gallery

• Jason Smith, Director Geelong Gallery talking about the Modernist artist, Clarice Beckett

• OCULI Acts I-VII Photo2022 PHOTO2022 exhibition and photodocumentary panels events

• Rachel Mounsey PHOTO2022 Portrait project and exhibition

• Benalla Curator Brenda Wellman and the Gallery’s  The Ledger Collection

• Michael Cook and his exhibition ‘Invasion’

• Amrit Gill, Artistic Director, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

• David Rosetzky with Fiona Trigg (ACMI Senior Curator)

• Adrienne Doig and her exhibition ‘It’s all about me!’

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Eric Nash BAG Director – by Rachel Mounsey as part of her PHOTO2022 exhibition ‘Space Between Strangers’

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We are full of appreciation to the Benalla Art Gallery, Director Eric Nash and staff for the professionalism, friendliness and creative support of Benalla’s vibrant art community.

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NOT PART OF THE PROGRAM – Flood water surrounding the Gallery in October 2022

Benalla Art Gallery just after the flood peak 15 October

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WHAT FOLLOWS IS A PHOTOMONTAGE OF SELECTED EVENTS –

The captions provide the detail

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OCULI ‘Documenting Trauma’ Panel Talk

Visiting the Oculi ACTS I–VII show

BAG Curator Brenda Wellman after her talk about ‘The Ledger Collection’

Michael Cook in the exhibition “Invasion”

Zoe Porter at the Benalla Art Gallery April 10 2022

Performance of “Surface” at the Benalla Art Gallery April 9 202

Performance of “Surface” at the Benalla Art Gallery April 9 202

Oculi Slide Show – Dean Sewell talks about work

Atong Atem in her exhibition “Banksia” at the Benalla Art Gallery

Pauline Fraser’s “Contemplating Nature” at the Benalla Art Galle

Ivan Durant at Benalla Art Gallery

Tarragh Cunningham’s shadow at Benalla Art Gallery

Tarragh Cunningham at Benalla Art Gallery

Rachel Mounsey, photographing for the PHOTO2022 exhibition ‘Space Between Strangers’

Tegan Nash interviews Zoe Porter

Rachel Mounsey, photographing for PHOTO2022 exhibition ‘Space Between Strangers’.

Rachel Mounsey, photographing for PHOTO2022 ‘Space Between Strangers’ Installation

Jacqui Stockdale at the opening of “The Outlaws’ Inn” Benalla

Jason Smith talking about Clarice Beckett at the Benalla Art Gallery

Katrina Sedgwick OAM talks about ‘The New ACMI’

Katrina Sedgwick OAM at Benalla Art Gallery

Eric and Fiona in conversation with David Rozetsky

In Jacqui Stockdale’s ‘The Outlaws’ Inn’

BAG Curator Brenda Wellman after her talk about ‘The Ledger Collection’

Lorna Hobbs after her Gallery talk

Michael Cook in conversation with Gallery Director Eric Nash

Photo2022 sign at the Benalla Art Gallery

OCULI ‘ACTS I–VII’ Introduction panel talk

OCULI ‘ACTS I–VII’ installation

OCULI ‘The Power of the Collective’ Panel Talk

OCULI ‘ACTS I–VII’ Judith Nangala Crispin installation

Eric Nash BAG Director – by Rachel Mounsey

A quiet moment by the Lake before the ‘SURFACE’ performance

Adrienne Doig’s install – ‘It’s all about me!

Adrienne Doig at Benalla Art Gallery with her exhibition “It’s all about me”

Anna White after her talk

Anna White talk ‘In my father’s garden’

Ivan Durant discusses his painting ‘To kill a mocking bird – Backpackers’

Atong Atem talk in her exhiibition ‘Banksia’

Benalla Classical Guitar Ensemble performance

Amrit Gill Artistic Director:CEO, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Bush Diwan talk – Amrit Gill talk ‘Curating Migration Stories’

Bush Diwan exhibition

David Rosetzky in the ACMI exhibition “Between [the] Details”

David Rosetzsky interviewed by ACMI’s Fiona Trigg

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We now look forward to the

BENALLA ART GALLERY’s

2023 program …

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• Images and texts ©Cooper+Spowart 2022
• Many thanks to Rachel Mounsey for her photograph of Benalla Gallery Director Eric Nash

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