Wagga Wagga Art Gallery - National Art Glass Gallery — Attraction in Wagga Wagga City Council

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery inspires a vibrant, innovative and diverse Riverina arts culture. It engages with local and global communities, we support artists regionally and nationally, and promotes a flourishing and experimental creative environment accessible to all.

It brings artwork by Riverina artists as well as the best visiting exhibitions from Australia and overseas. Home of the Margaret Carnegie Print Collection, which consists of over fourteen hundred original prints by some of Australia's foremost artists, the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery also houses a world class, nationally significant collection of contemporary art glass, featuring approximately five hundred pieces in a stand alone gallery. As well as displaying the National Art Glass Collection, the gallery also exhibits a number of curated exhibitions which feature well known Australian and international glass artists throughout the year. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery welcomes over 40,000 people each year to exhibitions, events, educational and public programs. One can join for tours, interactive workshops, special events and innovative displays that showcase impressive and ever-growing collections.

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery is a cultural facility of the City of Wagga Wagga and is supported by the NSW Government...

(4.5 stars) Reminding you that intergenerational transmission of knowledge doesn’t have to be traumatic, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery are running Miyagan: Relations. This exhibition celebrates artistic knowledge and skills bring passed down through generations with pieces from seven Aboriginal families.

Aunty Lucy Connelly Williams from Waradjere land lined one wall with colourful Dillybags (2019–20), while her daughter, Lorraine Connelly-Northey explores the bag form using rusted and burnt tin, mesh and wire on an adjacent wall. Lorraine takes the practical to conceptual in her piece called narrbang-galang (many bush baskets) (2019–20).

Star of the show is Emily Johnson from Barkindji land, whose work, Blak Future Mood (2018–20) appears alongside work from her grandfather. Emily’s funky series of interconnected panels, explores virtual reality and futuristic ways of living blak.

Downstairs you can visit Hardenvale—our home in Absurdia by Catherine O’Donnell, Kellie O’Dempsey & Todd Fuller. It’s a homage to the 1960s Western Sydney fibro shack—just like the one I spent my own...

Wagga Wagga’s regional art gallery started collecting glass in 1979 and has since put together Australia’s leading collection of contemporary studio glass.

There are more than 600 pieces in these reserves, representing a wide variety of forms, styles, subjects and techniques.

Selections from this inventory go on display at curated exhibitions, but you can also check out temporary shows for important Australian and international glass artists.

To promote the art form and nurture up-and-coming talent, the gallery hosts the annual National Emerging Art...