Many of Australia’s regional galleries have a reputation for punching well above their weight. And if this list of exhibitions is any indication, then the offering by regional galleries is just growing in strength year-on-year.
Here are a few teasers to get you on the road, and looking beyond our cities.
Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali exhibition is one to hit the highways for. It signals the momentous homecoming of Bundjalung ancestral woven objects held in the Australian Museum collection that will return to Country for the first time, and be exhibited alongside newly commissioned contemporary woven works by Bundjalung, Gumbaynggirr and Kamilaroi Elders and artists. Presented by Arts Northern Rivers, it is showing at Tweed Regional Gallery until 27 April, and will then continue to tour, uniting three major regional galleries – Grafton, Lismore and Tweed. The exhibition has been curated by Kylie Caldwell, and it is a powerful and positive story about an ongoing community-led reclamation project of women’s weaving knowledge and practice, cultural repair and First Nations pride.
