Wagga Wagga, Australia
Morrow St
N/A
+61 269269660
Good for kidsToiletsNo restaurant
Wheelchair-accessible car parkWheelchair-accessible entranceWheelchair-accessible toilet
A wonderful display of beautiful glass art pieces. The sleek bright building is the perfect setting. I loved the different techniques used and the variety in styles. Of the 800 art pieces in the collection, about 200 are displayed at a time. The exhibition changes every 3 months or so. I will definitely come back in Feb or March to visit again.
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Wagga Wagga’s regional art gallery started collecting glass in 1979 and has since put together Australia’s leading collection of contemporary studio glass. There are more than 600 pieces in these reserves, representing a wide variety of forms, styles, subjects and techniques. Selections from this inventory go on display at curated exhibitions, but you can also check out temporary shows for important Australian and international glass artists. To promote the art form and nurture up-and-coming talent, the gallery hosts the annual National Emerging Art Glass Prize.
Wagga Wagga is home to the National Art Glass Collection. You’ll find some of the 500-piece strong collection on display in an attractive, two-storey, purpose-built glass-fronted gallery, part of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. The still-growing collection covers all the contemporary developments in glass art—both home-grown and international—from the 1960s until the present day. Using wax casts, Australian artist, Megan Bottari (1955) lines one wall with Indigenous faces in a piece called Post Modern Tokenism III (2007–2013). British artist, Matthew Curtis (1964) made Amber Constructed Bowl in 2007 with what looks like geometric blocks of jade green glass and stainless steel. Fellow countryman, Richard Morrell (1953) etched his furnace-cast Bowl of Balance (1990) in acid, giving it a “forged from ice” effect. Inspired by nature, Coral Reef (2016) is a pale pink and ephemeral blown glass sculpture by Yusuke Takemura (1983). With views through to the car park, it’s easy to get lost in the bright green bubbles of Norwegian artist, Eileen Gordon’s (1961), Germination (2006). And if you crouch down you might spy a wonderfully complex sculpture by Ian Mowbray, where layers of glass lenses give you plenty of optical distortion. #artstatewagga
Loved this gallery. Fabulous glass work
A nice place to visit. Over 2 floors this museum had some very nice glass sculptures. A more detailed didactic explaining the art work and information about the artist would have made the visit more interesting.
Really really fabulous glass on display
Great place to see some beautiful glass artwork. Amazing what some artists can do with such a beautiful material.
Incredible variety of quality and imaginative glassware. They have around 700 items in store and varied displays plus exhibitions by selected artisans. We make a point of visiting every time we go through Wagga.
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