On a tangent and Interference Pattern will open on Friday, along with a small showing of the gallery’s most recent acquisitions.

Curator Michelle Mountain said the two exhibitions were specifically curated for the Horsham gallery.

On a tangent features works with a range of unique artists working in a number of different mediums.

Artists with work in the exhibition include Catherine Bell, Minna Gilligan, Laresa Kosloff, Jesse Marlow, Alasdair McLuckie, Michael GF Prior and Cathy Staughton.

Ms Mountain said the exhibition explored the ideas around the human experience of tangents.

“Going off on a tangent can be beneficial to work and this exhibition explores the different ways these artists have done that,” she said.

“We have a very kinetic installation being installed by artist Michael Prior, which will be fantastic. Then there is street photography from Jesse Marlow which are very funny.

“Minna Gilligan is a very interesting artist and she explores fleeting personal moments and contemporary everyday life through collages.”

Interference Pattern features photographic landscapes from Melbourne-based artists Rebecca Najdowski and Vivian Cooper Smith.

”Rebecca takes photos on film and plays around with them by scratching them, or marking them in different ways. It’s about changing this very analogue medium into something else, and changing the landscape,” she said.

“Vivian works around playing with exposure, light and reflection to destruct the images. They travelled up to the Wimmera when they were creating the exhibition, so there will be some landscapes from the Wimmera in the show.”

The gallery will also open a small exhibition of the acquisitions it has purchased through the past year.

“It will be a good chance for people to take a look at some new works,” she said.

THE gallery’s ground floor was closed on Monday until at the end of January.  

Ms Mountain said the new exhibitions will be displayed on the gallery’s first floor.

“Some of the gallery’s permanent pieces have been taken down to make space and are resting at the moment,” she said.

“We also gave that space a new coat of paint which gives it all a fresh feel. It’s good to change things up.”

A hands-on workshop with artists Rebecca Najdowski and Vivian Cooper Smith will be held on Saturday December 15 from 11am to 12.30pm.

The artists will give participants insights into their respective art practices and what drives their interest in landscape photography.

They will demonstrate the different ways in which they intervene in the photographic process including direct manipulation of the negative or print, through to techniques of long exposure and re-photography.

The official opening of the gallery’s latest exhibitions On a Tangent and Interference Pattern will be held on Friday, December 14 at 6pm. 

For more information about the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, head to its website.