The first exhibition from this program is Karla Dickens with Rise and Fall (15 March - 1 June) – exploring climate crisis from a First Nations perspective.
Seeing Things (22 March – 3 August) draws together works from our collection alongside recent video and collage works by Shoalhaven-based artist, Wade Marynowsky.
Teo Treloar: A Void A Maze (5 April – 29 June) brings together two decades of drawings. He is a Wollongong based artist, and WAG has acquired the exhibition centrepiece Journal archive for our collection.
Patrick Pound reimagines selected pieces from our collection as 'sleeping objects' in Dream Vitrine(17 May – 16 November). Each cabinet displays a work alongside its imagined dream.
Ideas in Dream Vitrine are extended in the exterior panel project with Windows. The gallery's exterior panels (once windows) will feature images of windows from Patrick Pound's curated photobook, which have never been publicly exhibited beyond book-form.
WAG will present Greetings from Wollongong (14 June – 31 August). This features iconic Redback Graphix items from the collection, a survey of films by local independent director Mary Callaghan (1955-2016), along with works by selected invited artists. WAG's resident curatorium will be led by Guest co-curator, Kaylene Milner (WAH-WAH fashion label founder).
Fafangu: To Awaken (5 July – 7 September) is a new body of work by queer Tongan-Australian artist Adriana Māhanga Lear. The exhibition revitalises and re-imagines Tongan concepts and practices using photography, video, sculptures, installation, sound, and music.
Mitch Cairns Restless Legs (6 September – 30 November) is a touring exhibition from Art Gallery of New South Wales. His striking paintings take inspiration from the world outside, from nature and the built environment to the working lives of the people around him. Cairns grew up in the Illawarra.
Here + Now 5: There's No Place Like Home (13 September – 23 November) explores the multi-dimensional idea of home as both a refuge and a site of conflict. Here + Now is a biennial exhibition celebrating local emerging curators and artists under 30 and will be guest curated by local artist Matthew Grayson.
The Wollongong Art Prize (6 December – 1 March) first dazzled the local arts scene in 1956 and is making its triumphant return in 2025. This reimagined prize embraces a bold, contemporary vision, welcoming artists across all mediums with a focus on access, inclusivity, and community.
