Opening John R Walker and Kirsten Farrell + artist talk with John R Walker

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery is the region's hub for presenting, exhibiting and collecting contemporary art. Our program is big, bold and full of ideas that will provoke conversation and connection to the work of the artists we work with.Our events are welcoming and fun, and practical classes are focused on learning rather than perfection.

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

Join us in the Gallery on Friday 21 November with an artist talk with John R Walker and the official opening event starting at 5pm

Join us in the Gallery for a special artist talk, then enjoy the final exhibition opening of 2025. 5pm: Artist Talk: Gather to hear John R Walker in conversation with Gallery Director Yvette Dal Pozzo. Discover the backstory and traverse the environments that deeply influenced the works on show, and the artist's practice. 6-8pm: Exhibition Opening: join us to celebrate the opening of all of our new exhibitions including John R Walker's Forest Song which will be opened by Anne Ryan, Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.-About the exhibitions:Braidwood-based artist John R. Walker’s work is informed by decades dedicated to walking, drawing, recording and exploring nature. Walker's new solo exhibition Forest Song is a meditation on trees as enduring lifeforms that hold memory and mark the passage of time. His practice is informed by diverse disciplines such as mapping, geological history, environmental history, mathematical theory, and poetry, all of which shape his understanding of how landscapes are formed, encountered, and remembered. Exhibiting in Gallery 2, Kirsten Farrell presents Future Ghosts. Farrell's installation features found plastic that the artist has used to make layered and stitched textiles. Through this body of work, Farrell proposes that plastic should be re-evaluated as precious, honouring the materials aesthetic value through laborious craft-based processes. In Gallery 3, Colour Rhythms presents works from the permanent collection that use colour in unique ways to explore emotion, memory and identity. Spanning painting, textiles, photography and works on paper, the exhibition reveals how colour communicates beyond words. The new iteration of The Window is curated by members of The Goulburn Club, a unique local venue run by passionate volunteers promoting arts and music, with a selection of three key works from the permanent collection.