TarraWarra Museum of Art

TarraWarra Museum of Art A retreat for the imagination—art, place & ideas on Wurundjeri Country: cutting-edge shows, visible art storage & breathtaking Yarra Valley views.

Daniel Boyd draws on his heritage as a Kudjal, Ghungalu, Wangerriburra, Wakka Wakka, Gubbi Gubbi, Kuku Yalanji, Yuggera ...
02/06/2026

Daniel Boyd draws on his heritage as a Kudjal, Ghungalu, Wangerriburra, Wakka Wakka, Gubbi Gubbi, Kuku Yalanji, Yuggera and Bundjalung man from North Queensland and North Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.

Traversing an archaeology of lost and suppressed histories, Boyd reinterprets artistic and archival material across art, science, history and geography to challenge Eurocentric perspectives and romanticised notions that dominate the historical canon.

In Untitled, 2014, Boyd has adhered stenopaeic lenses to TarraWarra Museum of Art's north-facing window, partially obscuring the view and drawing attention to the act of looking itself. The work speaks to a long colonial tradition of depicting a vista as a form of ownership. Boyd complicates that dynamic, using the threshold of the glass as an analogy for the eye and revealing the political implications of perception and representation.

This week's National Reconciliation theme is "All In." Boyd's work suggests that genuine engagement begins with understanding how we see, what we have been taught to see, and what has been deliberately obscured.

Experience this work currently showing as part of System Release at TarraWarra Musuem of Art until July 5.

https://bit.ly/system-release

Artwork: Daniel Boyd (Kudjala, Ghungalu, Wangerriburra, Wakka Wakka, Gubbi Gubbi, Kuku Yalanji Yuggera and Bundjalung), Untitled 2014. TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection. Gift of the artist. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2018. Photos: Andrew Curtis

TarraWarra Museum of Art's indigenous and native garden was designed by OCULUS in collaboration with Wurundjeri horticul...
30/05/2026

TarraWarra Museum of Art's indigenous and native garden was designed by OCULUS in collaboration with Wurundjeri horticulturalist and artist Craig Murphy Wandin. The garden incorporates 11 culturally significant plants tied to Wurundjeri history and traditions, including yellow gum, peppermint and melaleuca species, alongside five sculptures by Australian and international artists.

During National Reconciliation Week, the garden offers a grounded and considered way to engage with Wurundjeri culture and Country.

Garden Tours run every Tuesday at 1pm and include complimentary admission to the current exhibition. Bookings are essential.

https://bit.ly/indigenousgardentour-sculpturewalk

June's Analog Art Club experience will be led by Yarra Ranges artist and felt jeweller, Ravenna Keller. During this two-...
29/05/2026

June's Analog Art Club experience will be led by Yarra Ranges artist and felt jeweller, Ravenna Keller. During this two-hour workshop, participants will be instructed in the foundations of wet felting.

With a life-long love of colour and a background in education, metal-working and jewellery making Ravenna Keller began exploring felting as body adornment during Melbourne’s long lockdowns. Keller now has a practice focusing on the soft, warm, colour filled and abstract qualities of the medium. This workshop is designed as a hands-on tactile experience using wool, soap and water. Participants will leave with a felted artwork and an appreciation of various felting techniques and applications.

This workshop will be held on Friday 5 June. Only a few tickets remain! Reserve your spot today.

https://events.humanitix.com/analog-art-club

This National Reconciliation Week, we share the work of Quandamooka artist Megan Cope, whose practice is deeply grounded...
28/05/2026

This National Reconciliation Week, we share the work of Quandamooka artist Megan Cope, whose practice is deeply grounded in the relationship between First Peoples, Country and the ongoing impacts of colonisation.

A great depression, 2024, is comprised of oyster shells suspended to form the shape of a valley. Cope's use of oysters and oyster middens carries significant cultural weight: the kinyinyarra (oyster) at Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) have long served as food sources and as natural ocean filters sustaining thriving ecosystems. The middens that populated the coastline before colonisation were mountainous, forming an architecture of inhabitation and a cumulative record of sovereign occupation. From the 1820s, they were mined and burned by colonists to produce mortar, and the oyster population was decimated.

In this work, Cope reinstates these midden towers, rebuilding their mountainous form and reclaiming their sovereign legacy. The health of our natural ecosystems, she reminds us, is evidence of the health of our social relations.

A great depression is on view as part of TarraWarra International 2026: System Release, open until 5 July.

https://bit.ly/system-release

Artwork: Megan Cope (Quandamooka) A great depression, 2024 (detail) Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

📷 (1) Craate Creative (2-3) Andrew Curtis

We need you! As the financial year comes to a close, we invite you to support TarraWarra Museum of Art and help us conti...
27/05/2026

We need you!

As the financial year comes to a close, we invite you to support TarraWarra Museum of Art and help us continue to connect art, place, and ideas through ambitious exhibitions, learning programs, artist commissions, and public experiences in the Yarra Valley, on Wurundjeri Country.

As a not-for-profit organisation, TarraWarra Museum of Art relies on the generosity of our community to support artists, education initiatives and public programming that remain accessible, inspiring and forward-looking.

Your tax-deductible donation before 30 June will directly support major exhibitions and artist commissions, learning and engagement programs for schools, families and communities, public talks, performances and events, the care and presentation of our Collection, future generations of artists and audiences, and much more!

Every contribution, large or small, makes a meaningful difference! Thank you for being part of our community and for helping us keep TarraWarra a place for curiosity, creativity and connection.

Make a donation now until 30 June!
Donation link available on twma.com.au/support and in our bio.

📸 Visitors during our 'Back to Earth' event, a forum on art, science and country, 2022.
Photo Keelan O'Hehr

Today marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week 2026. This year's theme is "All In", a call for all Australian...
27/05/2026

Today marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week 2026. This year's theme is "All In", a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation, not as a passive or occasional act, but as an ongoing and collective responsibility.

TarraWarra Museum of Art takes its name from the Wurundjeri Country on which it stands. "Tarrawarra" is a Woiwurrung word that translates approximately as "slow moving water" and is the name given to the area of the Yarra Valley on Wurundjeri Country in which the Museum is located.

Grounded in this Country, our vision for reconciliation is a community that proudly recognises and respects the creative expressions, living traditions, deep knowledge systems, diverse talents and abiding connection to Country of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.

TarraWarra Museum of Art is committed to promoting and celebrating the continuing cultures and custodianship of the First Peoples of Australia. We believe that art has a vital role to play in bringing people together to share a diversity of perspectives. This week we will share works and programs from our current exhibition TarraWarra International 2026: System Release that speak to this commitment.

TarraWarra Museum of Art acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters on which the Museum stands, and we extend our respect to their community, their Ancestors and their Elders, past and present.

To learn more about the Museum's reconciliation journey, you are invited to read our Reconciliation Action Plan. https://www.twma.com.au/innovate-reconciliation-action-plan/

Image: Bunjil (wedge-tailed eagle) feather presented to Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AC by Senior Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO on the occasion of the opening of TarraWarra Museum of Art, December 2003

21/05/2026

We close National Volunteer Week with Brydie, our Volunteer Coordinator, speaking about Michelle Ussher, an artist whose practice explores memory, materiality and the layered textures of experience.

If this series has made you curious about what volunteering at TarraWarra looks like, we'd love to hear from you. twma.com.au/volunteer/

Artwork: Michelle Ussher, Two Eyeballs on the Run – Looking for a New Head to House (Hercules Can’t Make Up His Mind), 2012. TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection. Purchased 2014 © Michelle Ussher, courtesy of the artist and STATION Gallery

20/05/2026

We're mid-week in the Visible Art Storage.

Volunteer Nicky introduces Angela Brennan, a Melbourne-based painter whose playful, text-driven works have made her one of the most distinctive voices in Australian contemporary art.

This National Volunteer Week, we're celebrating the people who bring TarraWarra to life. Nicky is one of them.

Thinking about volunteering? We'd love to have you. twma.com.au/volunteer/

Artwork: Angela Brennan, What I Have Done…, 2004. TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection. Purchased 2004 © Angela Brennan, courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

19/05/2026

Behind the glass, day two.

Today volunteer Judy speaks about Rosalie Gascoigne, an artist who came to her practice late and changed what Australian art could look like, assembling beauty from the overlooked and discarded.

National Volunteer Week reminds us that contribution takes many forms, and that it's never too late to begin. Judy knows this, so did Gascoigne.

Curious about volunteering at TarraWarra? Find out more at twma.com.au/volunteer/

Artwork: Rosalie Gascoigne, Club Colours, 1983. TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection. Gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AO. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2001 © Estate of Rosalie Gascoigne

“In an era marked by instability and eroding global certainties, the language of collapse feels increasingly familiar.”A...
19/05/2026

“In an era marked by instability and eroding global certainties, the language of collapse feels increasingly familiar.”

A beautiful and thoughtful review of TarraWarra International 2026: System Release in this month’s edition of VAULT. Thanks, Ariela Bard, for this generous and deeply engaged piece, VAULT Magazine for the support and coverage and Articulate.

Curated by Dr Emily Cormack, System Release brings together artists exploring instability, interconnected systems, collective intelligence and alternate ways of understanding the world at a moment of profound global uncertainty.

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release is on until 5 June, book tickets on https://www.twma.com.au/exhibitions/system-release/



Photos by CRAATE Creative.

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