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This is Gippsland
Sep 4, 2021
Feb 27, 2022
permanent exhibition
'This is Gippsland' spans time and distance to capture the essence of a region that has intrigued artists for generations.

This is Gippsland: located on the celestial plane somewhere between God’s Paradise and God’s Dumping Ground. Its decadent beauty is grimly accepted by its rough-shod residents and met by its visitors with a mixture of shock and bemusement.

Whether it represents the beginning of the world or its end, Gippsland is nothing if not otherworldly. As a place located in the south-east of Victoria it has vague geographical borders―spanning from the swamps of Pakenham in the west to Mallacoota Inlet in the east, and from the mountains in the north to Bass Strait in the south―but as a state of mind it has none.

‘This is Gippsland’ is a celebration of the art of this magical and mysterious region. Inhabited by the whispers of ancestors past it spans time and distance to capture a spirit that has intrigued artists for generations.

The exhibition features several key loans including ‘Gippsland Incident’ by Sidney Nolan from the Art Gallery of South Australia, ‘Gippsland Hills’ by John Wolseley, and ‘Poowong’ by Anne Montgomery (from Latrobe Regional Gallery), alongside a diverse range of works drawn from the Gippsland Art Gallery’s own permanent collection by Linda Gibbs, Fred Williams, Anna Farago, Trevor Vickers, Siri Hayes, Daniel Crawshaw, Ann Greenwood, Albert Tucker, Gillian Kline, Robin Wallace-Crabbe, David Ashley Kerr, Jennifer Mullett, Hal Waugh, Jessie Traill, Steaphan Paton, Lorna Chick, Tony Newsom, Frank Mesaric, Aunty Eileen Harrison, Peter Cole, Jane Burton, Andrew Southall, Jenny Noone, Owen Rye, Tricia Allen, Victor Greenaway, Sandra Black, Marian Hosking, Anthea Williams, Margret Booth, Tony Hanning, Nick Mount, John Woollard, Cheryl Burgess, and Kiyoshi Ino.

Curated by Simon Gregg, and based on the book ‘Spirits in the Bush: The Art of Gippsland’ (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018).

Selected Artworks
Albert TUCKER
Gippsland Explorers
Year:  
1962
Medium:  
Lithograph on paper
Size:  
52.6 x 76.2cm (image); 55.4 x 77.7cm (sheet)
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of Dr Lance Castles, 2020.
© 
Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Courtesy of Smith & Singer Fine Art.
John WOLSELEY
Gippsland Hills
Year:  
1978
Medium:  
Pencil, watercolour, and oil on canvas.
Size:  
152.1 x 231.4cm
Collection Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.
© 
The Artist.
Sidney NOLAN
Gippsland Incident
Year:  
1945
Medium:  
Synthetic polymer paint on hardboard
Size:  
91.5 x 122cm
Collection Art Gallery of South Australia. Gift of Sidney & Cynthia Nolan, 1975.
© 
The Estate of the Artist.
Ann GREENWOOD
Guardians of the Freestone
Year:  
1994
Medium:  
Wool weaving (diptych)
Size:  
2 parts, 200 x 59cm each
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by the artist, 2014.
© 
The Artist.
David Ashley KERR
I Hear the Sea
Year:  
2010
Medium:  
Type C print on paper
Size:  
85 x 145cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of the John Leslie Foundation, 2020.
© 
The Artist.
Owen RYE
Jar 4
Year:  
2019
Medium:  
Stoneware, wood fired, ash glaze.
Size:  
58 x 30 x 30cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Morag Fraser AM, 2020.
© 
The Artist.
Anne MONTGOMERY
Poowong
Year:  
1950
Medium:  
Oil on composition board.
Size:  
56.2 x 66.5cm
Collection Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.
© 
The Estate of the Artist.
Fred WILLIAMS
Rockface at Agnes Falls III
Year:  
1979
Medium:  
Oil on canvas
Size:  
127.2 x 127.2cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by the Williams Family, 2019.
© 
The Estate of the Artist.
Daniel CRAWSHAW
Silva I
Year:  
2013
Medium:  
Oil on canvas.
Size:  
200 x 185cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of John Leslie OBE, 2015.
© 
The Artist.
Jane BURTON
Sleep Has His House #3
Year:  
2011
Medium:  
Photographic pigment print on paper.
Size:  
39.9 x 59.8cm (image); 49 x 68cm (paper).
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased, 2020.
© 
The Artist.
Gillian KLINE
Spirit of the Bush
Year:  
2013
Medium:  
Two-plate colour etching on paper.
Size:  
39.5 x 29.5cm (platemark); 41.5 x 31.5cm (sheet, visible)
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of the Gippsland Art Gallery Society, 2013.
© 
The Artist.
Lorna CHICK
The Entrance, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria
Year:  
1973
Medium:  
Oil on board.
Size:  
72 x 81cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased, 2019.
© 
The Estate of the Artist.
Hal WAUGH
The Lakes Entrance from Kalimna
Year:  
1913
Medium:  
Oil on canvas.
Size:  
29.5 x 45.5cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased, 2012.
© 
The Estate of the Artist.
Linda GIBBS
Untitled
Year:  
2019
Medium:  
Oil on linen
Size:  
112 x 168cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of the John Leslie Foundation, 2020.
© 
The Artist.
Jessie TRAILL
Untitled (near Mallacoota)
Year:  
1923
Medium:  
Watercolour on paper
Size:  
24 x 34.5cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of Brian & Raynor Castles, John & Annette Gibson, Rob & Marg Ziffer, and Graeme & Alida Dyer, 2017.
© 
The Estate of the Artist.
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