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Card Up Your Sleeve<\/em> by Tony Albert
14.6″x19″; vintage playing cards, coasters and matchboxes on board; 2018. Collection Wollongong Art Gallery. Purchased 2018. \u00a9 Tony Albert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shape Shifters: A Retrospective of Australian Collage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the Wollongong Gallery in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
7 December 2024-2 March 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Shape Shifters” is an innovative retrospective of Australian collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth century, have manipulated their images with adjuncts to do many things: to correct drawings, to play with composition, to decorate, and to make social and political comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit examines how re-purposed materials, concepts and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects are exhibited in a celebration of this thrilling and accessible art form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mythological Dream<\/em> by Leonie Reisberg
9.8″x14.6″; collage of gelatin silver and Polaroid photographs; 1980. Collection Art Gallery of New South Wales. Purchased 1984. \u00a9 Leonie Reisberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The artists in the exhibit are: Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Suzanne Archer, Tom Arthur, David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Ray Beattie, Richard Bell, Malcolm Benham, Lee Bethel, John Bokor, Warren Breninger, Mike Brown, Michael Butler, Angie Cass, Tony Convey, Ross Crothall, Grace Crowley, Isabel Davies, Juan Davila, Lawrence Daws, Domenico De Clario, Karla Dickens, Xanthe Dobbie, Stephen Earle, Lise Floistad, Leonard French, Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Richard Goodwin, Elizabeth Gower, Greedy Hen, Robert Grieve, Barbara Hanrahan, Katherine Hattam, Paul Higgs, Frank Hinder, Megan Jenkinson, Anita Johnson, Michael Johnson, George Johnson, Philip Juster, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, Peter Kingston, Brett Whiteley and John Allen, Robert Klippel, Eveline Kotai, John Krzywokulski, Colin Lanceley, Bruce Latimer, Kerrie Lester, Elwyn Lynn, Polly MacCallum, Fiona MacDonald, David McDiarmid, Arthur McIntyre, Bridgid McLean, Danie Mellor, Robert B Mitchell, Allan Mitelman, Margaret Morgan, Elizabeth Newman, John Nixon, Caroline Oakley, Desiderius Orban, Jenny Orchard, Louise Paramor, John Peart, Leon Pericles, Carl Plate, Clifton Pugh, Ken Reinhard, Leonie Reisberg, Joan Ross, Gareth Sansom, Kurt Schranzer, Sandra Selig, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, Eric John Smith, Ian Smith, Madonna Staunton, Ann Thomson, Mark Titmarsh, Nicky Tsekouras, Meredith Turnbull, Nik Uzunovski, Hossein Valamanesh, Vicki Varvaressos, John R Walker, Guy Warren, Brett Whiteley, and Vyvian Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented with the support of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Supported by Artbank and Heide Museum of Modern Art.

(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wollongong Art Gallery<\/strong>
46 Burelli Street
Wollongong, New South Wales 2500, Australia
+61 2 4227 8500<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 10PM-5PM
Saturday-Sunday, 12PM-4PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Shape Shifters: A Retrospective of Australian Collage at the Wollongong Gallery in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia7 December 2024-2 March 2025 “Shape Shifters” is an innovative retrospective of Australian collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth…<\/p>\n

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