Holiday Drop-in: Mask Making

Holiday Drop-in: Mask Making

Make and decorate your own cardboard mask with artist Inga Hanover at MAMA! This hands-on activity celebrates Dainas, an exhibition by the Beechworth-based artist that explores her Latvian heritage. About the program: Holiday Drop-in sessions run on Saturday mornings during the school holidays and are inspired by current MAMA exhibitions. Designed for kids and families, the…

Teen Sketch Club

Teen Sketch Club

Get inspired, improve your skills and meet new people. Join a sketching session facilitated by a MAMA staff member, where teens will sketch at their own pace in response to an artwork in the museum. This program is open to all high school-age participants, and no previous art-making experience is necessary. Dry materials are provided,…

Ruth Davys: Mabinya, Wibiyanha, Wudhagarbinya.

Ruth Davys: Mabinya, Wibiyanha, Wudhagarbinya.

Ruth Davys Mabinya, Wibiyanha, Wudhagarbinya. Ruth Davys has produced a new moving image work, featuring the artist’s puppet alter-ego, Little Ruthie. Mabinya, Wibiyanha, Wudhagarbinya. is a companion to Davy’s current Kid’s Gallery installation, Yamandhu wudhagarbinya? and extends that work’s focus on Language sharing, bringing in Wiradjuri philosophies of yindyamarra (to show honour and respect, to…

Inga Hanover: Dainas

Inga Hanover: Dainas

In the new exhibition Dainas, multi-disciplinary artist Inga Hanover invites audiences to revel in the celebrations of Ķekatas, the Latvian winter solstice festival. Incorporating installation, textile sculpture, and video the exhibition shares a rich visual language shaped by ritual, folklore, and the occult. The exhibition title refers to a traditional Latvian form of poetry or…

Creators Collab

Creators Collab

Ready to put the social back into social media? Come along to the next Murray Arts Creators Collab meetup! We are a casual, friendly collective of local artists, makers, and performers who get together to share stories, network, and organically lift each other’s work up online. It’s all about peer-to-peer connection and community support. This…

Artist talk & opening – Linda Sok: Reincarnations of an altar cloth

Artist talk & opening – Linda Sok: Reincarnations of an altar cloth

Celebrate the opening of Reincarnations of an altar cloth, an exhibition by Cambodian-Australian artist Linda Sok. Reincarnations of an altar cloth presents a selection of works from the ongoing series Deities in Temples, re-imagining lost, stolen, collected, and destroyed silk weavings. Collaborating with family members and drawing upon descriptions found on museum registration cards in…

Noriko Nakamura: What our bodies bring to us

Noriko Nakamura: What our bodies bring to us

Noriko Nakamura’s limestone sculptures explore the complexity of female embodied experiences. The monumental works of What our bodies bring to us specifically reflect on pregnancy and bodily transformation. Three works – Womb III, Woman, and Birth – relay a narrative of conception, gestation, and birth that is subtly complicated by organic and vine-line patterns and…

Kirtika Kain: Pitch

Kirtika Kain: Pitch

Kirtika Kain has an ongoing interest in the social classifications of materials, particularly as they relate to class and status. In her works, gold, bitumen, and turmeric combine to create intricate and luminous surfaces that highlight the aesthetic qualities of her chosen materials and complicate assumptions about their relative high or low value. The tar…

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