Shadowlands

26 February—19 July 2026

Shadowlands
Whitchell Gallery
26 February - 19 July, 2026

Shadows are the dark side of light. They come in many mysterious forms; shadows fall, they lie in corners, behind rocks, lengthening in twilight. Artists love the pattern and play of light and dark: delicious green shade on a hot day in the works of Carrick-Fox and Meldrum, a strange space dimly lit in the works of Amor and Bellette. Dusk and gloaming in the images of Beckett and Wolfhagen. Faces are transformed through shadow in the paintings of Polly Hurry and David Davies and in the photographs of Julie Millowick and Hugh Frankland. The exhibition also includes works which hint at moral shadiness in Noel Counihan's Business and Rick Amor's The Call.

This exhibition draws on works from the CAM collection and features paintings, photographs and works on paper. Artists include Rick Amor, Clarice Beckett, Jean Bellette, Penleigh Boyd, Ethel Carrick Fox, Noel Counihan, David Davies, Hugh Frankland, Polly Hurry, Charles Houen, George Lambert, Percy Leason, Fred Leist, Frederick McCubbin, Max Meldrum, Julie Millowick, Florence Rodway, Jeffrey Smart, Arthur Streeton, Dora Wilson, Philip Wolfhagen.

Womindjika Woorineen willam bit
Willam Dja Dja Wurrung Balug
Wokuk mung gole-bo-turoi
talkoop mooroopook

Welcome to our homeland,
home of the Dja Dja Wurrung people
we offer you people good spirit.
Uncle Rick Nelson

The Jaara people of the Dja Dja Wurrung are the Custodians of the land and waters on which we live and work. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging. We extend these same sentiments to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations peoples.

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