Regional Australian artists are about to flex their creative muscles in a big way this summer.
Warrnambool Art Gallery is launching The Regional, a landmark exhibition celebrating five artists born or based in regional Australia. Opening 15 November, the show runs until 15 March 2026 and brings together Atlanta Eke, Gus Franklin, Paul McCann, Bronwyn Razem and Peter Tyndall across visual and performance arts, sound and design.
Curated by Aaron Bradbrook and Micky Schubert, The Regional challenges the tired metropolitan-versus-regional dichotomy that’s dominated arts discourse for far too long. The exhibition commissions ambitious new work from artists shaped by the ideas, contexts and lived realities of regional, remote and rural Australia, exploring themes of family, tradition, interconnection and home.
The Regional
- 15 November 2025 – 15 March 2026
- Warrnambool Art Gallery, 26 Liebig Street
- Find out more here
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Atlanta Eke
Award-winning choreographer Atlanta Eke brings A Streetlight Named Empire, a surreal satirical musical theatre installation starring six old streetlights rescued from behind the Warrnambool tennis club. Set against 1990s Victoria and Jeff Kennett’s program of privatisation, deregulation and funding cuts, Eke weaves these seismic policy shifts into an unforgettable political fable.
Bronwyn Razem
Gunditjmara master weaver Bronwyn Razem presents her first public solo institutional exhibition on her Country. Born and raised in Warrnambool and currently based in Geelong on Wadawurrung Country, Razem is recognised as a leading cultural figure in reviving traditional weaving techniques. At the heart of her exhibition sits a newly commissioned traditional eel trap basket, referencing the Gunditjmara’s highly sophisticated aquaculture systems and the continuity of culture passed through her matrilineal line.
Peter Tyndall
Peter Tyndall presents The Blue Horizon, a deeply personal work based on a poem written by his late partner Christine while holidaying at Bridgewater Bay in 2010. After returning to Bridgewater Bay in May 2025 to scatter Christine’s ashes alongside her mother Joy’s, father Les’ and beloved dog Susie’s, Tyndall advances his lifelong quest for understanding one’s relationship and interconnection with all that surrounds us.
Gus Franklin
Warrnambool-based composer and founding Architecture in Helsinki member Gus Franklin debuts The edge of forever, a site-specific sound intervention transforming the gallery’s foyer into an intimate auditory experience. Drawing on field and natural vibration recordings from his birthplace Port Fairy, Franklin creates algorithmic compositions that never repeat, ensuring each visitor encounters a unique sonic exploration.
Paul McCann
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Marrithiyel fashion designer Paul McCann presents The Debutante, his most ambitious exhibition yet following critical acclaim at Australian Fashion Week’s inaugural Indigenous-led runway in 2021. The work examines the colonial legacy of debutante balls and their strict fashion, gender and racial codes. Working with award-winning architects Studio Bright, McCann references his grandmother Elizabeth Clarke’s debut at St Mary’s debutante ball in Darwin in 1952, updating traditional white gowns with hand-painted designs and material adornment as an act of reclamation, protest and cultural celebration.
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