Rodney Forbes and Owen Rye, Mariner and the Mermaid, 1990. Painted ceramic, 46 x 36 x 36cm. Courtesy: the artist and Gippsland Art Gallery Artworks Gallery Collection, donated by Norman and Petah Creighton, 2018.

Stories from the Collection delves into the deep, multi-layered history of the Gippsland Art Gallery’s permanent collection in an ever-evolving journey through the ages.

Spanning the colonial to the contemporary, this expansive and illuminating exhibition presents a vivid account of the influence of place on the cultural imagination.