Join us in the Gallery for a special artist tour, then enjoy the first exhibition opening of 2026.

5:30pm: Artist Exhibition Tour: Join us for an exclusive exhibition tour with exhibiting artists Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove as they come together to teach us about their brand new works on display that each in distinct ways explore memory, place, and renewal.

6-8pm: Exhibition Opening: Celebrate the opening of all of our new exhibitions including Brenda L Croft's after/image, Prue Hazelgrove's Re:Generation & Bridget Baskerville's Conduit. The exhibition will be opened by special guest speaker Helen Ennis, photography curator, historian and writer. Ennis was formerly Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and Currently is a Emeritus Professor Centre for Art History & Art Theory at the Australian National University.

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About the exhibitions:

Brenda L Croft presents a brand new exhibition after/image, developed through sites in the Goulburn Mulwaree region that connect directly to her matrilineal family history. The exhibition offers a story of re/connection and distance, re/memory and re/collection, and the distillation of grief and loss over time. Extending Croft’s long-standing practice, the exhibition traces sites significant to her maternal family, including St Saviour’s Cathedral and Cemetery, the Coach and Horses Inn, and Weereewa/Ngungara/Lake George — a place layered with deep First Nations cultural connection and more recent settler-colonial incursion. The exhibition brings together three interrelated bodies of work: vibrant large-scale Kodachrome slide installations, a new series of collodion tintypes printed on metal, and an expansive three-channel video installation.

Prue Hazelgrove presents Re:Generation. Working with the 19th-century wet plate collodion process, Hazelgrove uses photographic processes to question erased histories, representation and belonging. Portraiture and landscape intersect as the artist forms an embodied relationship with Country through walking, camping and extended time in the broader Goulburn region. Re:Generation acknowledges photography’s role in colonisation while offering a vulnerable, ongoing reply — one that reconnects personal, familial and environmental histories.

Exhibiting in Gallery 2, Bridget Baskerville presents Conduit, an exhibition examining the relationship between human bodies, water and extractive industries. Working with brass, copper and mild steel plates submerged in waters across NSW, ACT and TAS, Baskerville allows corrosion, sediment and touch to etch each surface. These marks reflect water’s agency and propose a form of collaboration between human and non-human bodies.

Image: Brenda L Croft, Gurindji / Malngin / Mudburra Peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian / British / Chinese / German / Irish / Scottish heritage, Weerewa (Lake George) tree II, 2026, From the series after/image 2026, Chromaluxe custom print from original tintype, with technical assistance from Prue Hazelgrove. Printed by Richard Crampton for Darkstar Digital. Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.

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