Castlemaine Art Museum
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CAM Commissions to launch
Lisa Dennis A fundraiser on Friday will mark the first crucial step for Castlemaine Art Museum’s board as it works to raise much-needed funds to bridge the gallery’s funding shortfall and ensure it is a successful going concern from June 2023. CAM invites the community to celebrate the inaugural CAM Commissions launch event this Friday.…
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Gallery closure looms
Lisa DennisCastlemaine Art Museum is facing closure in the middle of next year. It needs a large injection of funding to be able to stay open. Ahead of its upcoming Annual General Meeting, the CAM Board has indicated that the Lyttleton Street gallery is facing a large structural deficit despite the work that has been…
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Dan visits CAM
Lisa Dennis Premier Daniel Andrews stopped over in Castlemaine on Friday to enjoy a tour of the Castlemaine Art Museum with Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards. The visit follows the state government’s commitment of $6 million in May towards upgrades at the gallery and a master plan for redevelopment. The funds will enable CAM to…
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Artist floor talk at CAM
Art lovers are about to have a unique chance to catch an afternoon floor talk with Malmsbury artist Gabrielle Martin, discussing her exhibition Through the Long Grass at Castlemaine Art Museum on Saturday. The exhibition celebrates the landscape near Martin’s home in the Goldfields town of Malmsbury. The land was reshaped in the 19th Century…
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From gallery to garden
Eve Lamb Castlemaine’s botanical gardens have a new feature … and if you think you’ve seen it somewhere else before then you’re spot on. Ever since it was created back in 2009 by local artist Zoe Amor, the striking bronze sculpture, Dusk, has graced the portico at the front of Castlemaine Art Museum in Lyttleton Street. But…
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Cool $6 million for Castlemaine Art Museum
Eve Lamb A cool $6 million allocation in the state budget has placed the team at Castlemaine’s beloved Art Museum in a glowingly positive frame. Delivered on the art museum’s steps by the state member for Bendigo West, Maree Edwards, last Thursday’s announcement of the $6 million allocation for CAM has also painted the future…
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Art book fair this weekend
To complement the 2022 Melbourne Art Book Fair, Castlemaine Art Museum is hosting a two-day regional art book fair inside the beautiful 1931 art deco building this weekend, March 26 and 27. The two-day National Gallery of Victoria satellite event will from run 12-4pm each day and will see CAM host stalls showcasing work by…
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The interconnectedness of all things
A new exhibition by renowned Hepburn Springs artist Peter Tyndall is currently on show at Castlemaine Art Museum. The Express recently caught up with Tyndall to discuss his latest work. Tyndall said that when he was invited to exhibit at CAM he had planned to continue to extend on the themes of his most recent exhibitions. But…
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Terrace nights, projections bring CAM façade to life
Castlemaine Art Museum launched its new ‘Terrace Nights and Terrace Projections’ series last Friday. The new series of exhibitions, installations and public programs will be running from now until mid-2023. The series kicked off with contemporary photographer Michael Corridore’s photographic collection Angry Black Snake projected on the gallery façade. At sunset every night, Angry Black Snake is the first…
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Rewards in risk and experiment
Willingness to take risk lies at the heart of the Experimental Print Prize exhibition freshly launched at Castlemaine Art Museum. Work featured is that of the winners and the finalists in this year’s newly announcedprize results. The judges, Catherine Pilgrim and Trent Walter, had initially selected 43 artists as finalists from among 140 entries submitted,…
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Electrical ecologies
A fascinating new exhibition, Electrical Ecologies, was quietly unveiled at Castlemaine Art Museum’s Sinclair Gallery last Thursday. Vaughan-based photographer Felix Wilson’s work is concerned with visualising connections across ecologies in this moment of global environmental crisis. The launch was timely, coinciding with School Strike for Climate action on Friday and Faiths For Climate Justice event on…
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Artists in orbit around CAM
A new exhibition at Castlemaine Art Museum celebrates central Victorian artists in the orbit that surrounds the gallery. The first artist to feature in Orbit, which was launched on Boxing Day in the Benefactors Gallery, is Bendigo artist and visual arts lecturer Kylie Banyard. Banyard’s artistic practice is grounded in painting and intersects with photography,…