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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Wilani van Wyk-Smit, Parallel Vibrations, metallic ink and acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
SAVAAD FELICH | WILANI VAN WYK-SMIT
PARALLEL VIBRATIONS
MAIN GALLERY
9 MARCH – 26 MAY | OPENING 3.30 PM SATURDAY 16 MARCH
When journeys of friendship move along parallel streams of creativity, unique and enriching vibrations emerge. This exhibition takes these parallel vibrations as its theme.
Savaad Felich
My abstract collage employs material sourced from fashion and home lifestyle magazines. As slicing, matching and juxtaposition occurs and images and colours interact in new ways, abstracted impressions flow free from the vertical linear planes. The completed works, which contain inspirational quotes from my own reading, reflect the reality of vibrational relationships at work.
Wilani van Wyk-Smit
Parallel lines move alongside each other, one guiding, one following. And just like that they can switch roles, shift prominence, change trajectory, exchange the lead. Lines in parallel are not a reflection of each other. They never touch when you look at them up close; they are pulling and pushing, while connected to each other with an invisible bond.
Savaad Felich, It’s a beautiful thing when someone can actually see you, collage, giclée print on archival paper, 57 x 72.5 cm
Nerina Lascelles, Mountains I’ll never see again / Fade into the distance / Santoka Taneda | 1758 – 1831, mixed media on canvas, 152 x 152cm
NERINA LASCELLES
SELECTED WORKS FROM
THE OPEN SPACE
WINERY VIEWING GALLERY
27 JANUARY — 3 MARCH
The Open Space describes the formless dimension that precedes all form. It refers to an emptiness or void that contains all possibilities. Physicists estimate that emptiness makes up 80 percent of the universe and that 99.9 percent of the human body is empty space, while in Buddhism emptiness is the ultimate nature of reality. To be empty of independent existence is to ‘open space’ inside the Zen circle of enlightenment, an instrumental practice in the creation of Lascelles latest body of work. These paintings arise from ‘space consciousness’, and as such they trace a path from stillness and presence toward the fundamental essence beneath form. Mountain ranges beneath waves and gorges enshrouded in mist suggest the ephemeral passage of objects through cycles of creation and decay, while the patterned and textured surfaces echo quantum fields that themselves embody limitless possibilities.
Nerina Lascelles, Enwrapped in billows of white clouds I do not see the white clouds / Absorbed in the sounds of flowing water I do not hear the flowing water, mixed media and epoxy resin on board, 80 x 150cm
Savaad Felich, It’s a beautiful thing when someone can actually see you, collage, giclée print on archival paper, 48.5 x 62.5 cm
Wilani van Wyk-Smit, Parallel Vibrations, metallic and acrylic paint on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS 2023
The Yering Station Sculpture Award of $12,000 was presented to Peter Mcilwain for his sound sculpture Bird Child Spirit, in which recordings of children imitating bird sounds have been composed as an evolving soundscape that criss-crosses Yering Station’s ornamental stand of Robinias.
The Arnold Bloch Leibler Sculpture Award of $5,000 was presented to Owen Hammond for Cornucopia, a finely crafted procession of small sculptures mounted on a narrow boat combining wood, stone, metal, and bone.
The Yarra Valley Arts Sculpture Award of $1,000 was presented to Larissa Gray for Forgotten, a reflection in bronze of beauty, memory, forgetting and the human condition.
The Yering Station Art Gallery Award, entitling the recipient to an exhibition at Yering Station in 2024, was presented to Kirsten Laken for Cathedral of Light.
The Winery Choice Award was presented to Vicki Combridge for Liar of the Bush, a Superb Lyrebird crafted from agricultural wire and wood.
Sculpture Exhibition catalogues are available on site throughout the show and in PDF format below.
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)