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Emma Stuart: One Land, Many Views

Artist Emma Stuart offers a deeply personal response to Mount Abrupt, the Grampians (c.1864) by Nicholas Chevalier, a significant painting held in Hamilton Gallery’s collection, reimagining this iconic vista in an entirely new way.

Across 30 interconnected panels, Stuart reinterprets the landscape not as a direct replica, but as a layered encounter, intimate, immersive, and alive with renewed energy.

Mud-dadjug, A New View, is a sensory response to place, rich in texture, memory, and the physical presence of the bush.

“Each panel feels like a memory, like entering the mind of another artist.” – Emma Stuart

Paired with a new body of work reflecting the regeneration of Gariwerd following the fires of early 2025, One Land, Many Views invites a deeper, more grounded connection to and interaction with the fragility of the landscape.

We hope you can join us for the
OFFICIAL OPENING EVENT:
⏳Friday 13 June at 6 PM
📍Hamilton Gallery – FREE ENTRY

Exhibition Dates: 14 June – 7 September, 2025

The Children’s Sensorium: Art, Play, Mindfulness

Bring your children along for a magical play adventure. The Children’s Sensorium is a fun, hands-on exhibition designed especially for kids aged 4–11. This immersive experience invites young minds to explore a vibrant world of touch, sound, sight, smell, and taste, all woven into a fun and engaging environment that sparks curiosity, supports wellbeing, and encourages resilience.

Through interactive installations and creative play materials, children are free to explore their senses, express emotions, and connect with their inner world — from feelings and thoughts to hopes and worries. It’s more than play; it’s a chance to grow through wonder.

So kick off your shoes, follow the sounds and signs, and dive into a world made just for you. Play, explore, and let your senses lead the way in this calm, creative celebration of childhood curiosity.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 is curated by Grace McQuilten with leading artistic direction from Boonwurrung elder N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs, and is presented by RMIT Culture, Hamilton gallery and the Southern Grampians Shire Council.

Exhibition Dates: 24 May – 10 August, 2025

DIS/COMFORT: Jewellery from Victoria’s State Craft Collection

DIS/COMFORT: Jewellery from Victoria’s State Craft Collection (1977–1988) explores the complex relationship between jewellery and the human body. Showcasing works that challenge conventional design, some pieces invite touch with polished, curved surfaces, encouraging intimacy. Others appear restrictive or painful, demanding attention and rejecting the body they depend on. This exhibition blurs boundaries between comfort and discomfort, beauty and hostility, revealing how jewellery can simultaneously embrace and resist the body, pushing the limits of contemporary design.

Exhibition Dates: 15 March – 1 June, 2025

HG PLAY and HG YOUNG CREATIVES 

HG workshops are back!

During term two we are hosting a series of FREE workshops in our new education space at 84 Brown St, Hamilton, and we’d love to see you there.

Join us for HG Play – Making and Craft Sessions for Primary Students (ages 5-11), where young artists can explore their imagination through hands-on making and craft activities! OR, for older students come along to HG – Young Creatives, Technical and Digital Drawing Sessions (ages 12-17) which focuses on refining your drawing skills and explores new techniques.

These sessions encourage creativity, and self-expression in a relaxed and engaging environment. BOOK HERE

Education at the Gallery aims to foster creativity, appreciation and participation in the Arts by offering a range of programs that improve educational outcomes for regional and remote students across the southwest and engage the wider community in learning about the arts.

These programs are funded by the Department of Education.

4 PM weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays until the end of term two. 

THE SEARCH BEGINS TO DESIGN A NATIONAL CUTURAL ICON

A countrywide and global search has commenced to obtain architects to design the New Hamilton Gallery (NHG).  Southern Grampians Shire Council recently released the tender to engage architects to undertake this defining moment in the cultural history of the community.

“We see this project as an opportunity for Hamilton to be a national leader in regional art galleries. To create something which is truly exciting, inclusive and ambitious.”

Dr Rory Hyde, Associate Professor in Architecture, Curatorial Design and Practice, University of Melbourne.

The NHG design tender documents are available to view below:

Click here to view tender

The NHG design tender closed on Monday 19 August