Hold the world to its word

Hold the world to its word recognises the notion of an inherently good and just world is a fragile one. That faith in promises held personally and collectively is easily eroded. The exhibition positions a group of artists within this environment of equivocal hope. The artists span geographies and generations, creating works that assert artistic […]

Grounded

Grounded focuses on cultural practices that have been passed down through generations of family members to the artists – Glennys Briggs, Glenda Nicholls, and Dr Treahna Hamm. For each of the artists the works and the heritage they invoke demonstrate the knowledge, kinship, connection, comfort, and care that their ancestors experienced within family and nation […]

Mother Country

In 1996, photographer Helga Salwe moved to a farm in North-East Victoria to raise a family, leaving her career as a photojournalist behind her, or so she thought. Here she made a vegetable garden, lived with the beauty, simplicity and peace of country life, as well as with drought and bushfire. Out of this period […]

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 […]

National Photography Prize

Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) presents the National Photography Prize. Every two years the National Photography Prize offers an opportunity to consider the vital role of photography in contemporary art in Australia. The National Photography Prize brings together artists from across Australia who are developing and challenging photographic language and techniques. Generously supported by the […]