Australia’s First National Centre for Environmental Art Opens in Gariwerd Foothills
With ‘ample space’ for exploration and contemplation, the new centre in western Victoria will take art out into the wild. Save to My Ocula
A first-of-its-kind institution is opening this winter in the foothills of Australia’s Gariwerd/Grampians National Park.
The National Centre for Environmental Art will be Australia’s first art institution dedicated exclusively to environmental art as it combines curated exhibitions with a wider precinct encompassing a botanic garden, native grasslands, and site-specific commissions.
Victoria’s Wama Foundation announced the forthcoming launch of the centre in the town of Halls Gap, a gateway to the sandstone mountains of Gariwerd, a few hours drive northeast of Melbourne.
Foundation CEO Pippa Mott said the centre will ‘offer ample space for both playful exploration and deep contemplation’.
The Centre’s inaugural exhibition, End & Being, is a new body of work by Western Australian artist Jacobus Capone curated by José Da Silva, director of UNSW Galleries.
Capone’s exhibition documents a physically and emotionally demanding performance at the Bossons Glacier in France, aligning with the UN’s 2025 International Year of Glacier Preservation. —[O]
Main image: Jacobus Capone, End & Being (2025) (still). Synchronised four-channel 4K video with sound. 76 mins. Courtesy the artist and Moore Contemporary, Boorloo/Perth.
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