The celebrated and longest running student gallery in Australia, Watt Space Gallery continues to excite audiences through its diverse and dynamic calendar. Located in the heart of Newcastle in the award winning re-purposed Northumberland House, designed by our esteemed University alumnus Andrew Donaldson, Watt Space remains a centre for contemporary ideas.

Since its establishment in 1989, Watt Space has been a community leader in innovation and creative experimentation. Through engagement with contemporary issues and artistic practices, Watt Space has a proud legacy featuring a host of talented emerging and established cross-disciplinary artists and curators. Watt Space continues to challenge, inspire and inform with an ever-changing program of innovative creative endeavours.

Watt Space Gallery is committed to its long history of student professional development opportunities and is continually evolving to best serve our student community. Since its inception, Watt Space has embedded an extended student internship program across a diverse range of disciplines. Our student internship placements challenge students to step outside their comfort zone, inspire new ways of thinking and acquire practical, transferable workplace skills in a supportive and fast-paced environment.

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Banner image: Kylie Moore, Foundations, 2018.

WH!P COLLECTIVE
Stories of Light

8 March - 4 May
Girl floating in the ocean
Hilda Bezuidenhout Achol and the Ocean 2023 Photograph Image courtesy of the artist

Please join the artists to celebrate International Women’s Day 5:30pm on Friday 8 March 

Stories of Light presents WH!P’s anthology of lens-based stories devised around a sense of place, the personal, the familial and the inspirational. These tales from visual artists are told through the medium of photography, akin to the written words of authors.

WH!P (Women from the Hunter in Photography) is a collective of photographers. They come together to share stories, ideas, knowledge and inspiration, creating opportunities for collaboration and to promote photography as a multi-faceted artform.

25 Participating Photo Artists: Kelly Barlin, Hilda Bezuidenhout, Karen Brown, Janice Cameron, Justine Cogan, Shana Dennis, Louise Faulkner, Penelope Green, Lotte Hilder, Lee Illfield, Tara Jones, Kate Kennedy, Melanie Muddle, Catharine Neilson, Brydie Piaf, Edwina Richards, Hannah Robinson, Dominique Ryan, Malvika Satelkar, Renae Saxby, Wednesday Sutherland, Emma Warren, Clare Weeks, Katherine Williams and Liz O’Brien 1995-2022.

Stories of Light will launch in celebration of International Women’s Day and will connect its visual stories with written stories during Newcastle Writers Festival on 5-7 April.

Please see link for full exhibition events and workshops program.

Workshops in Watt Space Gallery | Secure your spot

Stories of Self: Conversations about authorship & socially engaged practice - free event
Finding My Story: A creative workshop to inspire storytelling about people and place - free event
Spotlight! - free event

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Image: Leo Robba, The Gully series, 2022 acrylic on timber board, 30cm x 30cm. Courtesy of the artist.

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