Get drawn in by Wollongong Art Gallery's latest exhibition

Wednesday 2 April 2025

Image: Teo Treloar, Someone Must Have Been Telling Lies About Joseph K, 2024-24

Wollongong Art Gallery’s second exhibition for 2025, has been two decades in the making.

A Void A Maze opens on Saturday 5 April and features the work of Wollongong-based artist Teo Treloar. The exhibition features work loaned from the artist, as well as those borrowed from significant public and private collections across Australia.

"Teo Treloar is an exceptional artist whose unwavering dedication to drawing sets him apart,’’ Wollongong Art Gallery Director and curator of A Void A Maze Daniel Mudie Cunningham said.

“A local talent with national significance, Teo’s work explores compelling narratives of labour, masculinity, and existence, all while showcasing extraordinary technical mastery.

“We are proud to celebrate Teo’s artistic achievements as part of the Gallery’s commitment to supporting and showcasing artists from the region."

Treloar is a visual arts lecturer at the University of Wollongong and finds inspiration for his drawings in literary texts such as The Trial by Franz Kafka, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and The Plague by Albert Camus.

“I really leant into that idea of this kind of maze-like world often reflected in existential literature – worlds that do not surprise but are illogical,’’ he said.

“In my work you can't trust the narrator or gauge whether this thing is happening, or whether it's all a psychological dreamlike process.”

The centrepiece of the exhibition is Treloar’s Journal archive, a collection of journals and sketchbooks that have been stitched together as each one is completed.

“This is the first time this work by Teo is on exhibition at Wollongong Art Gallery and what makes it particularly poignant is that Journal archive and its accompanying print edition were recently acquired by the Gallery,’’ Mr Mudie Cunningham said.

“It’s a rare opportunity to provide us a glimpse into the artist’s very personal process and their private world.’’

This free exhibition will be on 5 April to 29 June 2025 at Wollongong Art Gallery during regular opening hours: 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Friday and 12pm – 4pm Saturday to Sunday.

Public Programs and Related Events

Official Opening

Saturday 5 April, 2pm

Artist and Curator Talk

Thursday 10 April, 6-7pm

Book Launch of Luke Johnson's Poetry Anthology

Saturday 12 April, 2-3pm

Film screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979)

Sunday 13 April, 1-4pm

Curatorial Walkthrough

Wednesday 7 May, 11am- 12 noon

Golden Fang – Live in Concert