The Links Gallery and E3 art space 2016 exhibition programs seek to reflect the rich diversity of contemporary art practices and support artists across the Riverina.

The Links Gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to established artists from Wagga and the Riverina region.

The E3 art space is a separate space that will need to be minded in person.

This exhibition space is designed to offer emerging artists and recent graduates from the Riverina region the opportunity to exhibit and develop their skills in a regional gallery.

Application forms and proposal guidelines for both the Links Gallery and the E3 art space will be available at the Gallery from August 1.

All applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposals with the gallery’s curatorial team.

WAGGA Wagga Art Gallery is delighted to invite you to immerse yourself in the sublime and sad beauty of rural artists Joshua Thomas and Chiu Yin Tsang’s photographic work, Evanescent, on exhibition at the E3 art space.

With a combination of concepts and practices these two artists tap into their unique backgrounds to explore the psychological undertones of our rural landscape, exploring themes of anxiety, melancholy and the sublime.

The collection of photographs displayed in Evanescent present mixed narratives using large-scale and small-scale black and white landscape prints taken within the Riverina area, with images from places as diverse as The Rock, Tumut, Tumbarumba and Wagga Wagga.

Both Chiu Yin Tsang and Joshua Thomas draw upon visual aesthetic influences from Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Ron Rosenstock, and the philosophical and aesthetic ideas of Edmund Burke, to combine the sublime of the Australian landscape with an inherent melancholy.

Using these influences and familiar surroundings, the artists challenge viewers to think about the inevitable demise of the landscapes, and the disappearance of spaces – much like their own lives.

Visitors to Evanescent will come to term with the sad truth that these photographs may outlive not only their viewers but the landscapes themselves.

Evanescent: Joshua Thomas and Chiu Yin Tsang was officially launched on Saturday, July 25, by Christopher Orchard, Associate Lecturer in Photography at Charles Sturt University.

The exhibition will continue until Sunday, August 2, 2015.

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