Exhibitions

Current Upcoming Past Prizes

Portraits from the Collection

23 May—15 September 2024

The Children’s Sensorium

27 June—4 August 2024

2024 Len Fox Painting Award

27 September 2024—2 March 2025

Jonathan Nichols: The inside of painting

9 May—27 October 2024

Julie Millowick: Surrounding

15 February—16 June 2024

Stonework

7 September 2023—26 January 2025

Terrace Projection: Michael Wolfe 20/70

4 March—1 June 2024

Pop-Up Exhibition: Castlemaine Mail Celebrating 170 Years

3 May—19 May 2024

Collective Movements - Ash Thomas, The Hunters

18 December 2023—5 May 2024

Ancestor Treasures: First Nations Tools and Adornment on Jaara Country

16 December 2023—5 May 2024

For everything there is a season

19 October 2023—5 May 2024

Terrace Projection: Collective Movements - Pitcha Makin Fellas, Why Don't Whitefellas Like Trees?

11 December 2023—3 March 2024

2023 Experimental Print Prize

15 September 2023—4 February 2024

Terrace Projection: James Henry with Henry Harmony Nelson's Descendants – the Saunders family from Mooroopna

20 September—10 December 2023

Vivienne Shark LeWitt: Sine Proprio

7 September—10 December 2023

Terrace Projection: Equal the Contest

16 June—10 September 2023

Transference: Justin Andrews, Michael Graeve, Melinda Harper, Clayton Tremlett

29 June—3 September 2023

David Rosetzky: Air to Atmosphere

24 March—3 September 2023

There's a certain Slant of light with Jane Brown

20 October 2022—6 August 2023

There's a certain Slant of light

5 March 2022—6 August 2023

For the Love of Song: David Frazer with Kelly, Walker, Cave, Lowe and Waits

24 March—25 June 2023

Terrace Projection: Jesse Boylan 'At the end of the day'

3 February—19 March 2023

Orbit: Tara Gilbee - Ellipses

2 February—19 March 2023

Reflections on the Castlemaine Art Museum Collection

23 June 2022—12 March 2023

Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalypts Project

15 September 2022—12 February 2023

Summer Terrace Projection: Piper Albrecht, Lviv Oblast

23 December 2022—2 February 2023

Orbit: Dean Smith - Between Dawn and Dusk

24 November 2022—29 January 2023

Terrace Projection: I'll Be Me

21 October—11 December 2022

Orbit: Zoe Amor - Architecture of a dream

20 October—20 November 2022

Orbit: Mark Dober - The Edge of Town

8 September—16 October 2022

Terrace Projection: Zoe Scoglio 'Agri-Cultures'

29 July—16 October 2022

Orbit: Gabrielle Martin - Through the Long Grass

28 July—4 September 2022

Terrace Projection: Michael Corridore 'Angry Black Snake'

4 February—24 July 2022

Peter Tyndall: SINCLAIR+GALLERY

16 December 2021—24 July 2022

2022 Len Fox Painting Award

12 March—12 June 2022

2021 Experimental Print Prize

20 November 2021—27 February 2022

Melinda Harper: In Conversation with the Collection

19 March 2021—27 February 2022

Cloudy – a few isolated showers

23 November 2020—30 January 2022

From the Land

31 May 2020—1 January 2022

Felix Wilson - Electrical Ecologies

14 October—6 December 2021

Orbit: Alvin Darcy Briggs

30 September—14 November 2021

#Perempuan 2021 - Contemporary Indonesian Art

19 March—24 October 2021

James Henry: 18 Families

19 March—9 October 2021

Orbit: Tashara Roberts - Your Skin My Skin

8 July—26 September 2021

Orbit: David Frazer - Wood Engravings

10 June—4 July 2021

Orbit: Minaal Lawn - 173 Forms

6 May—30 May 2021

Orbit: Harry Nankin - The Fall

19 March—2 May 2021

Cast Recast : Damon Moon

1 May 2020—9 March 2021

Janina Green: In Conversation with the Collection

17 May 2020—9 March 2021

Orbit: Ilka White - here now

4 February—7 March 2021

Orbit: Kylie Banyard - Holding Ground

26 December 2020—31 January 2021

the Way-the Water-the Walk (Reserved for the Convenience or Pleasure of the People)

27 November—29 November 2020

The Unquiet Landscape

11 October 2019—11 October 2020

2019 Experimental Print Prize

6 December 2019—1 May 2020

2019 Len Fox Painting Award

8 June—1 September 2019

Daughters of the Sun: Christian Waller and Klytie Pate

11 November 2017—5 February 2018

Gifted: The Kohane and Moore donations of Australian studio ceramics

15 July—22 October 2017

John Nixon: EPW

19 March—25 June 2017

Beard and Influence | Clayton Tremlett

10 July—15 August 2016

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Bill Henson: Landscapes

30 April—30 June 2016

Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan 2016

15 January—15 April 2016

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Inking Up | Rona Green, Deborah Klein & Clayton Tremlett

29 August—18 October 2015

Jeremy Barrett: Survey Exhibition

4 July—23 August 2015

EARTH, FIRE AND WATER: 50 years of shaping the elements

2 May—28 June 2015

Recent Drawings: Christine Hooper

2 May—28 June 2015

Ginger Riley: The Boss of Colour

15 January—19 April 2015

CATHERINE PILGRIM Making History: Hidden World of the Leviny Women

28 February—11 April 2015

PATRICK POUND: The Museum of Holes

13 March—22 March 2015

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Ludmilla Meilerts Retrospective

6 September—26 October 2014

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Ray Hearn: A Survey 2004 – 2014

2 August—31 August 2014

DEAN BOWEN Day by Day – Paintings, Sculpture, Prints and Drawings

7 June—27 July 2014

Singular Impressions - Wayne Viney

1 March—13 March 2014

Acquisitions

1 January—23 February 2014

Dorothy Braund 1927-2013: Gouaches from the Permanent Collection

1 January—23 February 2014

2013 Len Fox Painting Award

16 November—31 December 2013

The Art of Jock Clutterbuck

23 November—15 December 2013

Ray Stanyer and Ellen Hansa- Wither shall I wander?

3 November—9 December 2013

Shimmering Light: Dora Meeson and the Thames

21 September—10 November 2013

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Rick Amor, from Study to Painting

1 June—28 July 2013

Barry Singleton: A Survey from Public and Private Collections and an Exhibition of Current Work

16 March—26 May 2013

Mediterranean Summers: Australian Artists along the French and Italian Coast

16 March—26 May 2013

R W Sturgess (1892–1932) Works from the Permanent Collection

9 February—10 March 2013

Director's Choice: Thirty-eight years of collecting

5 January—3 February 2013

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John Borrack: Selected Paintings and Drawings 1970-2012

9 September—28 October 2012

Jeff Makin: Drawings

4 August—2 September 2012

Richard Crichton: PROFILE Selected Works

1 July—29 July 2012

Max Middleton: Painter of Light

5 May—24 June 2012

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Ray Pearce: Bite

10 March—29 April 2012

Peggy Shaw- A Retrospective

14 January—26 February 2012

Douglas Watson (1920-72) Works from the Permanent Collection

18 June—24 July 2011

Victor Majzner: Location watercolours from Australia and Overseas

18 June—24 July 2011

Imagining the Orient: A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition

15 January—27 February 2011

Mount Alexander Shire artists represented in the permanent collection

13 November—19 December 2010

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Willam Dja Dja Wurrung Balug
Wokuk mung gole-bo-turoi
talkoop mooroopook

Welcome to our homeland,
home of the Dja Dja Wurrung people
we offer you people good spirit.
Uncle Rick Nelson

The Jaara people of the Dja Dja Wurrung are the Custodians of the land and waters on which we live and work. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging. We extend these same sentiments to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations peoples.

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