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| Gippsland Art Gallery |
The premier arts destination in Gippsland,
on Gunaikurnai Country.

31/08/2026

ARTIST TALK | John Leslie Prize 2026

Some art is best understood when you hear it in the artist's own words.

We're excited to announce an exclusive artist talk featuring selected finalists from the John Leslie Prize 2026 - an unmissable opportunity to sit with the artists, hear their stories, and go deeper into the works that made the cut.

Finalist artists will be revealed at our launch night on the 4th - so stay tuned for the full lineup.

Find out more visit the link below:

🔗 www.gippslandartgallery.com/events/artist-talk-meet-the-john-leslie-art-prize-finalists

27/08/2026

Spring Exhibitions 2026 | Opening next week

Spring is here, and Gippsland Art Gallery is welcoming the new season with new exhibitions opening 5 September. Here's what's waiting for you:

🏆 John Leslie Art Prize 2026
One of Australia's most prestigious landscape painting prizes returns for its 14th iteration. A $30,000 acquisitive prize - with the winner announced Friday 4 September at 6pm.

🎨 Canvas & Clay
A playful new exhibition from the permanent collection, exploring what happens when the line between painting and ceramics disappears.

🖼️ First Impressions: Old Master Prints
Three hundred years of western landscape art. Rembrandt. Piranesi. Turner. All under one roof.

🧵 The Art of Annemieke Mein
An ongoing showcase of iconic three-dimensional textile sculptures of Australian fauna and flora by the renowned Sale-based artist.

🖌️ YES Gallery
A dedicated space for youth arts programming and emerging creative voices.

🌿 Borun & Tuk Gallery
Stories of Country, culture and resilience through painting, sculpture, ceramics and more. A space guided by Gunaikurnai voices.

📅 Opening 5 September 2026
🕘 Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm | Weekends 10am-4pm
📍 70 Foster Street, Sale
🎟️ Free entry

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

Image: David Pottinger, Translucent Nerikomi Bowls, 2018. Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. © The artist. Photograph by Matthew Stanton.

25/08/2026

GALLERY COLLECTION | Now Online

More than 5,000 artworks. Sixty years of collecting. All of it yours to explore - from wherever you are.

The Gippsland Art Gallery's entire permanent collection is now available online, and we think that's worth celebrating.

From paintings, sculpture and photography to glass, ceramics, textiles and woodwork - this collection spans it all. With particular strengths in works on paper, landscape and wildlife art, craft and contemporary painting, there is something here for everyone.

And because the vast majority of these works have been donated or purchased with donated funds, this is truly a community collection. It belongs to all of us.

To start exploring, head to our website, click Collections & Resources, and select Gallery Collection. Happy viewing!

📍 www.gippslandartgallery.com

24/08/2026

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT | THE GOLDEN HOUR

A landmark exhibition celebrating Australia’s Impressionist masterpieces is coming to Gippsland Art Gallery in March 2027.

Exclusive to Gippsland Art Gallery, The Golden Hour: Australian Impressionism - Origins, Icons & Echoes brings together some of the most celebrated works and stories from the formative decades of Australian landscape painting.

Featuring more than 90 iconic works, the exhibition explores the artists, personalities and enduring myths behind a period of Australian art that has profoundly shaped the way the nation sees itself.

Visitors will encounter major works from the celebrated Heidelberg School period, including paintings by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Charles Conder, alongside works by their contemporaries and modern responses by Mary Tonkin and Michelle Hiscock.

Highlights include Roberts’ much-loved Shearing the Rams (1890), McCubbin’s Lost (1886), and twelve works from the infamous 9x5 Impression Exhibition of 1889 - one of the defining moments in the history of Australian Impressionism.

This is a major cultural moment for Gippsland Art Gallery, offering visitors the chance to experience iconic Australian artworks, lesser-known treasures, and contemporary works that show the continuing power of the landscape as a source of inspiration.

📅 6 March - 11 July 2027
📍 Gippsland Art Gallery
🎟️ Tickets available in early 2027

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, the primary lender to the exhibition.

Image: Frederick McCubbin (Australia 1855-1917), Autumn Memories (detail), 1899, Oil on canvas, 122.9 x 153.3cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004.

Thank you to our partners: National Gallery of Victoria Guardian Australia V/Line Gawk | Regional Australian Billboards The Middle of Everywhere Wellington Shire Council Creative Victoria AWM Electrical Moorabbin Marianna Berek-Lewis International Art Services | Fine Art Logistics PGAV Neo Frames Ellikon Fine Printers

23/08/2026

GALLERY CLOSURE | We'll See You in Spring

The gallery is closing its doors for two weeks to make way for our spring exhibitions. We reopen on 5 September - and we can't wait to welcome you back.

Here's a peek at what's coming:

🏆 Gallery 1 - John Leslie Art Prize 2026
Australia's favourite landscape painting prize returns for its 14th iteration. A $30,000 acquisitive prize, the best landscape artists in the country, and a launch event on Friday 6 September at 6pm.

🧵 Gallery 1 - The Art of Annemieke Mein
An ongoing showcase of iconic three-dimensional textile sculptures of Australian fauna and flora by renowned Sale based artist Annemieke Mein.

🎨 Gallery 2 - Canvas & Clay
A playful new exhibition exploring the contrasts and parallels between paintings and ceramics from the Gallery's permanent collection.

🖼️ Gallery 3 - First Impressions: Old Master Prints from the Collection
A journey through 300 years of western landscape art - Rembrandt, Piranesi, Turner and more - drawn from the Gallery's outstanding print collection.

🌿 Gallery 4 - Borun & Tuk Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery's dedicated space for First Nations artists living and working on Gunaikurnai Country.

📅 Reopening 5 September 2026

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

20/08/2026

CLOSING WEEKEND | Frank Mesaric: Gippsland Gothic

This is it. The final weekend of FRANK MESARIC: GIPPSLAND GOTHIC. Two days left to experience three gallery spaces of extraordinary art by one of Gippsland's own.

Thank you to every visitor who walked through the door, stood in front of these paintings, and took them in.

Thank you for sharing, for coming back, and for bringing others. And thank you to Frank Mesaric - for a lifetime of making work this honest, this difficult, and this beautiful. It has been an honour.

📅 Closing Sunday 23 August 2026
🕘 Sat–Sun 10am–4pm
📍 70 Foster Street, Sale
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

PLEASE BE ADVISED: This exhibition contains images that may cause offence to some viewers. The Gallery advises viewer discretion and that some images may not be suitable for children.

18/08/2026

LAST CHANCE | Gippsland Gothic Closes This Sunday

Four days left. Fifty years of painting. Three gallery spaces.

FRANK MESARIC: GIPPSLAND GOTHIC closes on Sunday 23 August

This is your last chance to stand in front of it. We'll see you in the gallery.

📅 Closing Sunday 23 August 2026
🕘 Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm | Sat–Sun 10am–4pm
📍 70 Foster Street, Sale
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

PLEASE BE ADVISED: This exhibition contains images that may cause offence to some viewers. The Gallery advises viewer discretion and that some images may not be suitable for children.

16/08/2026

FINAL WEEK | Frank Mesaric: Gippsland Gothic

One week left. FRANK MESARIC: GIPPSLAND GOTHIC closes this Sunday 23 August - and there is still time to experience one of Gippsland's most significant artistic retrospectives. The paintings will move on. The three galleries will hold different work. This particular gathering won't happen again.

📅 Closing Sunday 23 August 2026
🕘 Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm | Weekends 10am–4pm
📍 70 Foster Street, Sale
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

PLEASE BE ADVISED
This exhibition contains images that may cause offence to some viewers.
The Gallery advises viewer discretion and that some images may not be suitable for children.

13/08/2026

COMING THIS SPRING | A New Season at Gippsland Art Gallery

Spring is coming to Gippsland Art Gallery - and we have an incredible new season of exhibitions waiting for you.

Here's what's on when we open on 5 September:

🏆 Gallery 1 - John Leslie Art Prize 2026
Australia's favourite landscape painting prize returns for its 14th iteration. A $30,000 acquisitive prize, the best landscape artists in the country, and a public launch on Friday 6 September at 6pm. Running 5 September - 22 November 2026.

🧵 Gallery 1 - The Art of Annemieke Mein
An ongoing showcase of iconic three dimensional textile sculptures of Australian fauna and flora by renowned Sale based artist Annemieke Mein.

🎨 Gallery 2 - Canvas & Clay
A playful new exhibition exploring the contrasts and parallels between paintings and ceramics from the Gallery's permanent collection. Opening 5 September.

🖼️ Gallery 3 - First Impressions: Old Master Prints from the Collection
A journey through 300 years of western landscape art - Rembrandt, Piranesi, Turner and more. Running 5 September - 22 November 2026.

🌿 Gallery 4 - Borun & Tuk Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery's dedicated space for First Nations artists living and working on Gunaikurnai Country. Sharing powerful stories of Country, culture and resilience through painting, sculpture, ceramics, video and more.

🖌️ YES Gallery
A dedicated space for youth arts programming and emerging creative voices.

📅 Spring season opens 5 September 2026
🕘 Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm | Weekends 10am–4pm
📍 70 Foster Street, Sale
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

Image: Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Large Alpine Landscape (detail), c.1555-56, Etching and engraving on paper. Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of John Leslie OBE, 2014.

11/08/2026

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHT | Works to See Before It Closes

Before GIPPSLAND GOTHIC closes, walk slowly through all three spaces. Some of these works will not be seen together again. Free entry. No booking. Just your full attention.

📅 Closing 23 August 2026
🕘 Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm | Weekends 10am–4pm
📍 70 Foster Street, Sale
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

Plan your visit: www.gippslandartgallery.com

PLEASE BE ADVISED: This exhibition contains images that may cause offence to some viewers. The Gallery advises viewer discretion and that some images may not be suitable for children.

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68-70 Foster Street
Sale, VIC
3850

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
Friday	9am - 5:30pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+61351423500

Website

http://www.gippslandartgallery.com/

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