Exhibitions - COMING SOON
Daily focus of interaction with the works on the hour
Focus times:
Wed 1 Explore and touch
Thu 2 Aromas and tea
Fri 3 Children’s time
Sat 4 Touch and memory
Sun 5 Movement
Mon 6 (closed)
Tue 7 (closed)
Wed 8 Easy access
Thu 9 Children’s time
Fri 10 Silence and teas
Sat 11 Movement
Sun 12 Teas and stillness
Tea/coffee and toasties available every day.
SENSORIum VIi
Sue Pavlovich
July 1 - 12.
Open 11am - 4pm
Opening Saturday, July 4, 6-7pm
Installation of sensory and participatory artworks.
Participate in a sensory experience which form references of a person’s earliest experiences of sounds, texture, smell, reminding them of comfortable, safe spaces and the installation provides a secure place to reflections.
Reflections of memories are created by the things we touch, we smell, we feel.
They are art forms that a person sits in, that provoke memories by smell, touch, a place of safety. Each installation has a point of difference so that the participant will walk away with discrete different memories of past experience.
The exhibition is a construction of memories by the participant and the built environment of the artworks are the agents which inspire memories to arise.
“Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies “tell them things” spoke to a space close to the one I had experienced at infant school. The impulse at this end of my life is to lead participants in discovery, a version of “tell them things”.
The 1994-2000 experience in teaching/guiding kinaesthetic movement and non-verbal communication informs these works. This exhibition continues this exploration.
The body of made works in the exhibition spans 2015-current.
Previous Exhibitions
Lessons Learned
The Class of ‘88
7 - 20 March
A special exhibition of work by a group of art educators who graduated together in 1988, at a time when schools were being closed and teaching jobs were scarce. Some become artists, some taught, and others persued very different careers. 38 years since graduating, and in honour of friends lost along the way, The Class of ‘88 come together at The Goat Gallery to celebrate the ‘lessons learned’ after 42 years of learning, art, love, loss, and friendship.
michael ambriano
Natimuk Exile
21 - 28 February
Michael’s beautiful paintings and monoprints of Natimuk were in the process of being hung in the gallery when our township was evacuated on January 9th just before our town was devastated by a destructive bushfire.
Several weeks later we held an exhibition ‘closing’ event and Micheal is made the trip from Sydney to attend. Nati is now a very different place.
These special works were produced while Michael was in residence at Nati Exile last year. All works are for sale.
kit andrews
liminal landscapes
Paintings of Sky, Sea and shore
6-19 December, 2025
Now Closed
A Royal subject - portrait of the new king
a special Frinj festival show
King Charles III is our new King and Memorial Halls around the country are having to replace their old photos of King Charlie’s mum with his new official royal portrait.
As a part of the famous NatiFrinj Festival in November this year, local and regional artists produced a diverse range of artworks that explore what it means to have a new King in the colonial outpost that is the Commonwealth of Australia. Whether you are a staunch republican, a devout royalist, an eternal fan of Queen Elizabeth, an anti-royalist, or completely indifferent to our British head of state, this exhibition gives you a glimpse into the ways our artists think about our new king.
Now Closed
KNIT YOUR REVOLT
sticking our needles to misogynistic knit-wits and extreme conservatism since 2012
Knit Your Revolt (KYR) is a network of rad crafters banding together to produce mass acts of craftivism. They aim to subvert society’s low expectations of craft and women (who are most commonly associated with the artform) to combat other crazy-arse notions that abound and create a powerful force of change towards a more equitable world.
Consciously using artforms and materials that have gendered expectations, KYR highlights many other ridiculous assumptions afoot in the world today relating to gender identity and sexual orientation and other fields of generally bizarro inequity or injustice.
Now Closed
Images from the opening night, May 31st 2025. (L-R) Casey Jenkins, Shannon Morton, Jacquie Tinkler.