Art Galleries in GRIFFITH

Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Address: 167 – 185 Banna Ave, Griffith
Ph: 02 6962 5991
Open: 10.30am - 4.30pm Tuesday – Saturday

The art gallery is part of the refurbished, "Griffith Soldiers Memorial Hall Complex", which was built in the 1930’s in the art deco style to the design of a local architect Mr A.B. Long. The gallery has two exhibition spaces and although small, both spaces have a lovely sense of space due to the 4 metre high ceillings. A yearly exhibition programme of international, national and local exhibits change monthly.

Griffith Cottage Gallery
Address: Bridge Rd, Griffith
Ph: 02 6962 5512
Open: 11.00am – 5.00pm Wednesday to Sunday and Public Holidays

Griffith Cottage Gallery features local and imported paintings, pottery and handicrafts. Exhibitions displayed at various times of the year. Set in a uniquely quaint old-fashioned Tudor styled building. 

Art Galleries in GUNDAGAI

The Gabriel Gallery
Address: Sheridan St, Gundagai
Ph: 02 6944 1722
Open: 8.30am - 5.30pm Monday – Friday, 9.00am - 12.00pm Saturday (and Sunday in the summertime)

The GabrielGallery was created by Mr. A.C. (Cliff) Butcher and is housed above the Mitre 10 store in Sheridan Street. Mr. Butcher has had a lifelong interest in the history of Gundagai and has been an avid collector of items of interest to Gundagai. While renovating premises bought for a business, he found 450 negatives on glass plates together with Dr. Gabriel’s library, medical instruments and personal possessions. In 1956 he used some of them in his book, Gundagai-Its History Verse and Song. Subsequently he donated the negatives to the National Library and they printed a book called the Gundagai Album, which featured photos of life in Gundagai around the turn of the  20th century.

In the gallery, you can see  reproductions of these negatives, plus many other items of historical interest. Well worth a visit.

Rusconis Marble Masterpiece
Address: Gundagai Visitor Information Centre, Gundagai
Ph: 02 6944 1341
Open: 8.00am – 5.00pm Daily, Closed Christmas Day

Rusconis Marble Masterpiece is a cathedral in miniature containing 20,948 pieces of N.S.W marble, every piece cut, turned and polished by hand. It took 28 years of spare time work to build, and it is not a replica of any other Cathedral.

Rusconi also sculptured the Dog-on Tuckerbox monument and at the tourist centre is another of his works, the replica of the altar of Saint Marie’s Cathedral in Paris.                          

Art Galleries in WAGGA WAGGA

Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery
Address: Cnr Baylis and Morrow St, Wagga Wagga
Ph: 02 6926 9610
Web: wagga.nsw.gov.au/art.htm
Open: 10.00am - 5.00pm Tuesday to Saturday, 12.00pm - 4.00pm Sunday and Public Holidays. (Closed Good Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.)

Art Galleries in HILLSTON

Red Dust and Paddy Melons Gallery
Address: 170 High St, Hillston
Ph: 02 6967 1594
Open: Everyday from 9.30am - 4.30pm (except Tuesdays). Closed on Public Holidays.

Entry is a Gold Coin donation.