Ararat Gallery TAMA

30/08/2026

Mini Makers Art Club is this Tuesday! Join us on Tuesday 1st September at 11am to sing, read and make art! This month our book pick is 'The Big Book of Australian Nursery Rhymes' by Franè Lessac 🦘🐨

Mini Makers Art Club is designed especially for preschoolers and toddlers. Each session includes singing, story reading and a guided craft activity designed to develop creative expression and fine motor skills in a fun, inclusive and encouraging environment. At the end of each session, children will have created a lovely piece of art to take home and share proudly with their family! 🎨

Mini Makers is free, we warmly welcome new families and there is no need to book.

2026 dates 🌈
→ Tuesday 1st September
→ Tuesday 1st December
Sessions are from 11am to 12pm.

araratgallerytama.com.au/event/mini-makers-art-club-2026/

29/08/2026

NOW OPEN: Susan Wirth | Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking

On Saturday 12th September 2026 at 2pm, join artist Susan Wirth in conversation with Ararat Gallery TAMA Coordinator Katy Mitchell to celebrate the opening of Susan’s exhibition 'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking'.

'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking' is a series of textile collages developed through periods of research in and around Ararat and the Wimmera Mallee. The project examines how visitor status, site specificity, and settler heritage intersect in a contemporary textile practice. Using found textiles and second‑hand woollen blankets – materials tied to industrial manufacturing and histories of colonisation – Wirth constructs geometric, rhythmical compositions that operate as scaffolds for formal and conceptual exploration.

Wirth is a Naarm (Melbourne) based artist whose practice works across sculpture, collage and video. Working with second-hand and found materials, she produces low-relief textile works and site-responsive installations that foreground materiality, process and the transformative potential of everyday experience. Through layering, accumulation and acts of reconfiguration, Wirth engages abstraction to examine perception, consciousness and the entangled histories of settler identity in relation to place.

This event is free entry, with bookings requested and essential to help plan catering and seating → araratgallerytama.com.au/event/in-conversation-susan-wirth/

'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking' will be open until Sunday 14th February 2027.

📷 Susan Wirth, 'crimson dream' (detail) 2026, wool and acrylic, 140cm x 180cm. Photo: Tim Gresham.

18/08/2026

Tonight! Life Drawing Class
Wednesday 19th August 2026, 5.45pm - 8pm
🎫 Tickets and details → araratgallerytama.com.au/event/life-drawing-classes-2026/

During each two hour life drawing class, artist Bev Isaac will guide you through timed warm-up and extended exercises and techniques to capture the human form. Easels, drawing boards, butchers paper and charcoal, chairs, and tables are all provided.

📷 Life drawing, October 2025

15/08/2026

FINAL DAY
Lisa Waup | after ever here
Guest curated by Coby Edgar
Closes today at 4pm, Sunday 16th August 2026

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After I have gone
I take with me memory
Of place and time

Feathers furrowed
Twine creased
Red thread follows
Blood lines/fate lines

Ever omnipresent
Eternally linked in life force

Make real the invisible
To hold in hands
Lean into bodies

Here

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Poem written by Coby Edgar.

📷 Installation view ‘Lisa Waup | after ever here’, Ararat Gallery TAMA, March 2026. Photos: Fred Kroh.

15/08/2026

Mini Makers Art Club is rolling around! Join us on Tuesday 1st September at 11am to sing, read and make art!

Our monthly Mini Makers Art Club is designed especially for preschoolers and toddlers. Each session includes singing, story reading and a guided craft activity designed to develop creative expression and fine motor skills in a fun, inclusive and encouraging environment. At the end of each session, children will have created a lovely piece of art to take home and share proudly with their family! 🎨

Mini Makers is free, we warmly welcome new families and there is no need to book.

2026 dates 🌈
→ Tuesday 1st September
→ Tuesday 1st December
Sessions are from 11am to 12pm.

14/08/2026

FINAL WEEKEND!
Lisa Waup | after ever here
Guest curated by Coby Edgar
Closes at 4pm on Sunday 16th August 2026

“Lisa sits on the edge of eternity and sees what I wish the rest of the world would see. A universe after ever here of a time beyond forever. When those two women held each others hands at the baby shower, they were in the after ever here together. When eternity itself has passed something still remains to hold you. This show is Lisa’s after ever here, a gift of loving kindness that spans decades and gives us the new and old. How powerful it is to be held by her as she extends that stunning web of red string she is so devotedly weaving.”

Excerpt from ‘after ever here’ catalogue essay, written by Coby Edgar. Find the catalogue online here:https://www.araratgallerytama.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Lisa-Waup-Catalogue.pdf

Ararat Gallery TAMA is free entry and open daily, 10am - 4pm.

📷 Installation views ‘Lisa Waup | after ever here’, Ararat Gallery TAMA, March 2026. Photos: Fred Kroh

13/08/2026

August life drawing class is next week!
Wednesday 19th August 2026, 5.45pm - 8pm
→ Tickets and details: araratgallerytama.com.au/event/life-drawing-classes-2026/

During class artist Bev Isaac will guide you through timed warm-up and extended exercises and techniques to capture the human form. Easels, drawing boards, butchers paper and charcoal, chairs, and tables are all provided.

Nella is back to model for the August class - Nella (they/them) is an intersectional feminist creative based in western Victoria. Driven by a playful curiosity to dabble in a variety of mediums, they use art as a form of reflection and exploration. Nella stepped into the role of muse a couple years ago driven by a desire to support regular life drawing classes in regional communities. Being a life drawing model has been an empowering and enjoyable experience with additional perks of learning from Bev and students during each session.

📷 Life drawing, October 2025

During this 2 hour life drawing class, artist Bev Isaac will guide you through timed warm-up and extended exercises and techniques to capture the human form. Bev will provide instruction and support throughout the class. All abilities welcome, no prior experience required. Easels, drawing boards, bu...

12/08/2026

Music in the Gallery: Inventi Ensemble presents ‘1001 Nights’
Sunday 20th September 2026, 4pm

Music in the Gallery returns in September with Inventi Ensemble!

Inventi Ensemble are renowned for their impressive arrangements of large-scale works for chamber ensemble; for this concert they take on Rimsky-Korsakov’s epic work Scheherazade in ‘1001 Nights’. Rich storytelling paired with incredible music, Inventi weaves tale after tale from the story of 1001 nights including 3 brand new works based on more of these stories by Australian composers Ella Macens, Caerwen Martin and Tristan Coehlo.

This performance will take place within the exhibition 'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking' by Susan Wirth.

🎫 Limited seats available: araratgallerytama.com.au/event/music-in-the-gallery-inventi/ or ☎️ 1800 657 158

1001 Nights! Scheherazade weaves her tales through Rimsky-Korsakov's epic work. In true Inventi style, they take on the challenge of arranging this large scale work for small ensemble. Rich storytelling paired with incredible music, this concert weaves tale after tale from the story of 1001 nights i...

10/08/2026

INVITATION: Susan Wirth | Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking
Saturday 12th September 2026, 2pm

Join artist Susan Wirth in conversation with Ararat Gallery TAMA Coordinator Katy Mitchell to celebrate the opening of Susan’s exhibition 'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking', on Saturday 12th September 2026, 2pm.

'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking' is a series of textile collages developed through periods of research in and around Ararat and the Wimmera Mallee. The project examines how visitor status, site specificity, and settler heritage intersect in a contemporary textile practice. Using found textiles and second‑hand woollen blankets – materials tied to industrial manufacturing and histories of colonisation – Wirth constructs geometric, rhythmical compositions that operate as scaffolds for formal and conceptual exploration.

Wirth is a Naarm (Melbourne) based artist whose practice works across sculpture, collage and video. Working with second-hand and found materials, she produces low-relief textile works and site-responsive installations that foreground materiality, process and the transformative potential of everyday experience. Through layering, accumulation and acts of reconfiguration, Wirth engages abstraction to examine perception, consciousness and the entangled histories of settler identity in relation to place.

This event is free entry, with bookings requested and essential to help plan catering and seating: araratgallerytama.com.au/event/in-conversation-susan-wirth/

'Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking' will be open until Sunday 14th February 2027.

📷 Susan Wirth, 'pink and brown eggs' (detail) 2026, wool and acrylic, 87cm x 46 cm. Photo: Matthew Stanton.