Inviting Viewers into a New Dialogue Hanna Kay in the Paddock. Photo Leslie Wand. Introduction: Jo Moulton. Jan 2026 I recently revisited the remarkable artist Hanna Kay in her galvanized iron shed/studio on her five acre plot on the banks of the Pages River in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW. Hanna brings with her the knowledge and wisdom that comes from an ‘artistic and intellectual trajectory’ that has taken her across continents, civilizations, cultures, languages, war and

“FLOAT is a stopping and a surrender. It is without distraction and excuse. It's a creative reckoning, or so it was for me.” 

JOMO (Jo Moulton) Jan 10, 2018 3 min read "When you work in a landscape, dynamism is a natural element of it...The 'space' is not a...

Circle (blue) 2021. acrylic, pigment & string on stainless steel 114.00 x 114.00 Photo: Charles Nodrum Gallery Distinguished art...

"The quiet rise of Annemieke Mein from a regional textile artist to a global art phenomenon is one of the great stories of Australian Art...

“ The role of creative skills in the evolution of our future economy needs to become mainstream knowledge. Creative skills are some of the least likely to be supplanted by automation and they have been integral to fast-growing industries over the last decade.” Stuart Cunningham, Professor, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Canberra. Sanctuary E.G. Inc. co-design lab is advocating for a regional mind-shift, one that recognizes the potential of the Creative Industry to

"Cow Up A Tree' by John Kelly, Bronze Sculpture 2000 for Docklands Melbourne The up-coming 2026 Commonwealth Games offers Gippsland an...

Two Men Lifting a Cow by Irish Australian Artist John Kelly Oil on Canvas 1995. It is nearly thirty years since former Prime Minister,...

East Gippsland Art Gallery discovered a collective psyche of creativity and resilience when they reached out to artists in isolation....

Our mindset is multi-sensory, educational, conservation-minded, respectful of First Nations Country & culture & nourishing to both mind & body. Native Orchid Celeana (Flying Duck Orchid). Photo by Michael Prideaux We bring memory and a creative, long-term vision to development in our region. Sanctuary East Gippsland Inc. is an advocacy group focused on the Creative Industries as a means of building trans-generational prosperity in East Gippsland and exploring strategic opport

Exhibition Introduction by Jo Moulton Exhibition Description by Hanna Kay Impact too 2012, oil and tempera on linen 155x140cm...

Text: Jo Moulton JOMO Pelicans Photo Jo Moulton, Pelican Float Lantern Festival, Lakes Entrance. Pelicans by artist Gordon Bain. Rethink - What Makes Gippsland 'Pop' There’s a fresh perception of Gippsland emerging. It’s coming from Melbourne’s design industry via Open House Design Week. It’s called Open Nature and it has showcased Float and its cultural collaborations at the eastern end of the Gippsland Lakes, Traralgon-based design practice The View From Here, the innovativ

Danièle is a Saltwater woman of the Budawang tribe of the Yuin nation, with French and Czech heritage. Her research contributes an...

Wicked problems are defined by their innate complexity. They derive from their inherently system-based origins. As such, they have no single readily grasped solution, nor ever a perfect one. A wicked problem usually involves multiple stakeholder groups, each holding different parts of a possible solution, often completely unaware of the perspectives and potential contributions of other stakeholder groups. It stands to reason, therefore, that collaboration and negotiation by t

Author: Jo Moulton Stockhausen looks deep into 'the eye of the Apocalyptic fire-storm' to re-capture Nature's beauty and to reclaim her...

0121-1110=115075 by Korean JaeHyo Lee 2015. Photo: Giacomo Bianca, Arte Sella. This Art-Nature-Tourism destination is an outdoor museum...

British artist Jason deCaires Taylor, sculptor, diver, photographer and marine conservationist, has single-handedly dragged the Land Art...

In places of remote and regional wilderness artists are creating tourism destinations with a 21st century WOW factor“. In forests, oceans...

Moongan and Lit (meaning father and child in Gunai language) is the title of a recent exhibition of artist Ray Thomas and his son Tirilli. The show at East Gippsland Art Gallery is dedicated to Tirilli’s older brother, Raymond Noel Lindsay Thomas, who died prematurely in 2017. It underlines the driving force of Thomas’ work – to address the critical need to pass knowledge on to younger Gunai artists and kin. Ray Thomas Echidna gouache and ink drawing on paper 24 x 28cm Ray T

Möller heightens awareness of the fragility of Nature to audiences well beyond the inner circles of the Australian art world

"Powerful works that, like nature itself, contain a complex set of tensions" JOMO Nest Back from the pink salt pans of Lake Bumbunga (a...

Profile of Lisa Roberts - media artist documenting the Flying-Fox colony on the Mitchell River Bairnsdale Victoria Australia

Her delicate drawings and embroidery on stained and 'marinated' linen point to the intricacies and profusion of life that are the ec

"Firestick creates a shared understanding of science and culture which speaks to many people." Oliver Costello, Bundjalong country...