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Peggy Shaw: A Retrospective
14 January – 26 February
Comprising over 50 works covering all periods of Peggy Shaw’s creative life, this exhibition includes early landscape sketches through to her more recent and very popular floral watercolours.

Ray Pearce: Bite
10 March – 29 April
Recent ceramics and prints by this Maiden Gully artist recently featured on the ABC Arts Program.

Lionel Lindsay: Works from the Permanent Collection
Benefactors Gallery  10 March – 29 April
Recognised as a painter, graphic artist, writer and critic, this exhibition features the complete holdings from the permanent collection with a focus on his superb woodcuts of birds and still life.

Max Middleton: Painter of Light
5 May – 24 June
A tribute exhibition covering landscape, still life, figure work and animals spanning over 60 years as a professional painter.

Buda Contemporary Textiles 2012 Exhibition & Award
2 – 17 June

Richard Crichton: Works from the Studio
1 – 29 July
Born in 1935, Richard Crichton has been known as a lecturer in Fine Art at RMIT but his own paintings deserve greater recognition by the art public. This exhibition highlights his original subjects and techniques. Supported by Eastgate & Holst, Dealers in Fine Art.

Jeff Makin: Drawings
4 August – 2 September
Jeffrey Makin is a full-time artist, art critic and Director of Port Jackson Press Australia, who now lives in Chewton. He recently published his essays and reviews on Art in Australia titled Critical Moments. The exhibition will focus on drawings of Central Victoria and elsewhere based on the landscape.

John Borrack: Selected Paintings and Drawings 1970–2011
9 September – 28 October
Best known for his lyrically structured paintings, John Borrack’s sensitive interpretation of the Australian landscape balances the needs of technique and theory with clarity of emotional expression.

Susan Weste – Elements of Nature: Meanderings with a Camera
3 November – 9 December
Photographs around the Central Victoria countryside, observing and recording elements of the landscape – wood, water, rock, grass, clouds and the ever changing light.

Ray Stanyer and Ellen Hansa – Wither shall I wander?
Higgins Gallery 3 November – 9 December
Ceramic sculpture lends itself to beautiful storytelling. Wither shall I wander? A question we all should ask. Working with the same theme each artist demonstrates a different approach.