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Art Gallery | Sculpture Exhibition
Experience our ongoing program of solo and collaborative exhibitions by some of Australia's finest emerging and established artists
Our historic Cellar Door c. 1859 with its rustic charm, high ceilings and whitewashed brick walls operates as both a tasting room and an art gallery. Yering Station Art Gallery has been exhibiting emerging and established Australian artists in all art forms since 1998. Exhibitions are located in the Main Gallery and in the Winery Viewing Gallery, with shows rotating every four to six weeks. A selection of outdoor sculptures are also on display in the gardens and on the Sculpture Terrace overlooking the Yarra Ranges. Commissions on artwork sales are donated to My Room Children’s Cancer Charity.
Artworks can be purchased through the Yering Station Cellar Door.
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Marisa Avano, Precipice, acrylic on canvas, 92 x 122cm, $1,417
MARISA AVANO | PAINTING
SPIRIT OF PLACE
25 February — 2 April
MAIN GALLERY
Spirit of Place combines tangible and intangible elements to reveal traces of people and events that have been imprinted upon a location. Each artwork captures the natural world in its creation of atmosphere, and shows landscapes and objects merging with memory and narrative. Here the physical and the spiritual inform our relationship to the land, contributing meaning and richness within a shared experience. Each individual rendering is its own rediscovery, and taken together the works provide an immersive visual tapestry, ranging from the fertile Stone Country of the Northern Territory to the rolling pastoral landscapes of Victoria’s east, from northern Queensland’s seaside inlets to Melbourne’s urban streetscapes.
Marisa Avano, In the Woods, acrylic on canvas, 91 x 122cm, $1,417
SELECTED WORKS FROM
LIGHT
BELINDA ROGERS | PAINTING
8 January — 12 March
WINERY VIEWING GALLERY
‘Light’ is an exhibition that is likely to beguile some viewers, not least because the light it portrays is somewhat remote from conventional representations of illumination.
In our light-saturated world of high lumen bulbs and outsized TV’s, our manufactured world of artificial hues and gleaming surfaces, our world of glossy prints, touch screens and digitally rendered ‘reality’, light is often obvious, brash and greedy for our attention, whereas the light that plays in these artworks emerges quietly, and with a superabundance of both gentleness and subtlety.
We are introduced to a less boisterous experience of light. We find a light that is not afraid to mingle with the darkness, a light that glows from distant centres and far peripheries. A light that senses, explores, gathers and bleeds through. It is moreover a kind of light that asks us to look both ways: at once outward, toward the painted surfaces, and also toward finer illuminations of interiority.
Belinda Rogers, Light 004, oil on Caravaggio linen, 175 x 175cm
SELECTED WORKS
MIKE NICHOLLS | SCULPTURE
8 January — 12 March
WINERY VIEWING GALLERY
Mike Nicholls’ sculpture shows the human spirit in peaceful contact with the natural world. Benevolent beings and creative relationships are worked from the various timbers: a guardian spirit emerges from lemon scented gum, a bird form rises from charred cypress pine, and hands nurturing seed forms appear from native jarrah. While gnarled and rough hewn, with art making marks on open display, Nicholls’ sculpture nonetheless achieves a refinement, an elegance, and a poetry of form that speaks to the element of consciousness that stands in wonder before nature, and to the role of stewardship that connects humanity to the land.
Mike Nicholls, In Humanity’s Hands, 2019, bronze (edition of 8), 60 x 38 x 25cm
Gardens & Sculpture Terrace
The Michael McCoy designed gardens and Robert Conti designed terrace provide ideal sites for works by some of Australia’s most accomplished sculptors. Currently on permanent display are works by Jane Bennetts, Ewen Coates, Maria Coyle, Martin George, Bill Ogilvie, Brian Paulusz, Michael Sibel and Fredrick White.
Jane Bennetts, Resilient (Xanthorrhoea, mother and child), Steel, 180 x 150 x 50 cm, $2,800
Ewen Coates, Multiverse #27, cast aluminium, 140 x 76 x 76 cm, $29,000
Martin George, My Girl’s Up the Duff, stainless steel, pewter, paint, 270 x 120 x 120 cm, $25,000
Bill Ogilvie, Little Miracle, bronze, marble, 80 x 170 x 110 cm, (Yering Station Private Collection)
Brian Paulusz
Children’s Entrance, Basalt, 150 x 170 x 70 cm, (Yering Station Private Collection)
Maria Coyle, Children Chatting, ceramic, variable, (Yering Station Private Collection)
Upcoming Exhibitions
MARISSA AVANO | PAINTING
25 FEBRUARY — 2 APRIL
KERRIE WARREN | PAINTING & SCULPTURE
8 APRIL — 14 MAY
DAN SU | PAINTING
20 MAY — 26 JUNE
Yarra Valley Arts | Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards 2023
The Yarra Valley Arts / Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards is a collaborative event hosted by Yering Station winery and Yarra Valley Arts, a not for profit organisation dedicated to enhancing the cultural lives of Yarra Valley residents and visitors.
Respected for its consistency and longevity, the exhibition showcases a cross section of new Australian sculpture from both emerging and established artists. Having grown steadily since 2001, it is now the longest running annual sculpture exhibition in Victoria and an iconic event on the Australian arts calendar.
Staged across dramatic landscaped gardens designed by Michael McCoy, the exhibition provides ample opportunities for the installation of outdoor sculpture, while the long indoor corridors and breezeways offer indoor and sheltered spaces.
The exhibition at Yering Station runs alongside a concurrent exhibition of sculpture staged through the Collins Street offices of long-standing Principal Sponsor Arnold Bloch Leibler, and as of 2021, a small sculpture exhibition is presented at Yarra Valley Arts’ physical home, the YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub in Healesville.
Dr Ewen Jarvis (Exhibition Coordinator and Curator, Yarra Valley Arts / Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards) is a professional curator, writer and public academic with over a decade of arts administration experience.
The event takes a 30% commission on art sales, 20% of which is donated to My Room Children’s Cancer Charity, while 10% is donated to Yarra Valley Arts towards the provision and promotion of arts events across the region.
The sculpture exhibition is supported by long term sponsors who share the vision and aims of the organisers: to foster the growth of contemporary Australian sculpture. Principal Sponsor Arnold Bloch Leibler – lawyers and advisors, Yarra Ranges Council and RACV have been particularly strong supporters across the years. The event is also supported by a growing list of esteemed arts professionals who have been members of the selection and judging panel in the past and who assists us in growing the exhibition’s profile.
Owing to the Melbourne lockdowns and restrictions of 2020 – 2022 this year’s event was held in the autumn. The next Yarra Valley Arts | Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards will take place in the spring of 2023.
Entry forms are downloadable below:
Entry Form YVAYSSEA 2023 Word
Entry Form YVAYSSEA 2023 PDF
For more information, please contact Dr Ewen Jarvis, Curator and Exhibition Coordinator, Yering Station Art Gallery, artgallery@yering.com
Art Gallery Exhibition Proposal Form
YERING STATION ART GALLERY EXHIBITION PROPOSAL FORM 2024 WORD
YERING STATION ART GALLERY EXHIBITION PROPOSAL FORM 2024 PDF
