I Once Was A Great Lake by Wesley John Fourie

Exploring ideas about distance, geography, history and storytelling, New Zealand based artist Wesley John Fourie has created a large scale, finger knitted model of the Murray River! Filled with colour, this tactile installation is suspended from the Playspace Gallery’s ceiling and is presented alongside a series of delicate en plein air drawings created by Fourie […]

Write Around the Murray Festival

Write Around the Murray (WAM) is a five day festival of reading, writing and storytelling. Held in the vibrant regional city of Albury on the Murray River, it attracts world-class authors and presents eclectic and high-calibre events. Stories are the springboard to engage readers, writers, artists and storytellers in spirited conversation and community celebration. Activities […]

WinterGlow

Come along for an enchanting evening filled with captivating light & colour, engaging workshops, mesmerizing musical performances, and delectable street-food delights. Step into a world of wonder as the street comes alive with vibrant displays and interactive experiences under the falling snow. Headlining the inaugural WinterGlow Festival is proud Gamilaraay man, Mitch Tambo. Blending traditional […]

Land, Water, Country – Collected works from the North East Water First Nations Art Prize

Land, Water, Country brings together the acquired works from the North East Water First Nations Art Prize. Since 2017, the prize has run as a biennial award and exhibition that invites local First Nations artists to submit artwork in response to the theme of “water”. Each work is a powerful and poignant reflection on local […]

Portraits Without Faces by Alexander Leeworthy

Alexander Leeworthy’s intimate digital portrait drawings and watercolour paintings are an exploration of identity. By depicting people in their personal spaces, Alexander explores the connections between oneself and one’s things. Beloved gifts, precious hobbies, trinkets from the ground and op-shop treasures; the objects people surround themselves with tell stories about what they love and who […]

Albury LEGO Brick Show

Playwell Events is back again in 2024 with its Brick Show at the Albury Entertainment Centre. They will have over 40 tables of custom-built LEGO models on display. With themes ranging from Star Wars, Architecture and Marvel to a huge City layout, there will be something for everyone. They’ll have the ever-popular play tables where […]

Outside The Box by Christine Upton

Outside the Box surveys the diverse work of Corowa based master printmaker and artist Christine Upton. In this series of works, birds playfully symbolise individuals and groups, depicting their reactions to different situations and exploring ideas about how contemporary society often categorises people into boxes. Outside the Box includes 2D and 3D works, with the […]

Thresholds

Thresholds looks to a process of collecting and working with collections, where artworks can exist as portals to an ever-expanding world of unexpected sites and unanticipated tangents. A place of divergent wormholes travelling through the joy, pain, and weirdness of space and time. This exhibition brings a number of new acquisitions to the Museum collection […]

I, DJ by Dr Richard Savery

Meet Keirzo, the rapping and drumming robot. With just a single word or phrase, Keirzo can produce an original rap in real time. Using touch sensors, participants can create their own captivating rhythms and melodies with Keirzo and their friends. Never before seen in Australia, I, DJ by Dr Richard Savery brings the worlds of […]

Ancient Rome – The Empire that Shaped the World

‘Ancient Rome: the empire that shaped the world’ brings to life one of the most technologically significant periods in Western history, from the triumphant victory of Julius Caesar over the Gaul in 52 BC to the transformation of Rome from a republic into the mighty Roman Empire. Travel 2000 years back in time when massive […]

Wearing Brooches: and Telling Their Stories

They have asked people to share their favourite brooches and the stories behind them. They have heard about gifts that mark the start of courtship and a long marriage, a special memento from a parent, and that special find in a shop while travelling. Brooches have the power to create connections across generations as stories […]

The Madonna Show Albury

Come on girls! Do you believe in love? ‘Cause we got something to say about it, and it goes something like this… Relive your youth, with this two hour concert featuring all the hits from her glory days.