Shape Shifters: Collages from the Collection

Curated by Angie Cass

9 November - 16 March 2025

Shape Shifters is an innovative retrospective of Australian collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth century, have manipulated their images with adjuncts to do many things: to correct drawings, to play with composition, to decorate, and to make social and political comment.

Shape Shifters will examine how re-purposed materials, concepts and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects will be exhibited in a celebration of this thrilling and accessible art form.

Image: Vicki Varvaressos, The best face value for Autumn (detail), 1978, synthetic polymer paint, collage of cut magazine illustrations on canvas. Collection Wollongong Art Gallery. Purchased 1981.