19 October to 8 December 2024

Sourcing clay from the Creswick Clay Pit to make beads, Paradoxa Collective bring the earth into the air and a constellation of stars to the ground to contemplate what the Dja Dja Wurrung community refer to as ‘our upside-down Country’. In doing so, the artists enact and encourage the possibility of renewal through small acts of caring and connection.

_{Image credit: Creswick Clay Pit, 2024, photography Penelope Aitken}

19 October to 8 December

This exhibition takes a closer look at the individual artists that make up Paradoxa Collective: Penelope Aitken, Anna Farago, Siri Hayes, and Susan Wirth. Based on Wurundjeri Country, they share an interest in peri-urban landscapes, connecting to the land through practical restoration and regeneration activities combined with site-informed art making. Their art practices range from photography, to textiles, painting, sound and video.

^{Image credit: Susan Wirth, Light through the trees, 2017, wool and acrylic, courtesy of the artist.} 

22 June to 14 October 2024 

Take a tour, ‘around town’ with artist Matthew Dettmer, featuring paintings and digital drawings of Creswick and surrounds. Capturing the charms of Creswick, Matt has focused on simplified views that speak to his painting style. Created specifically for the rooms at RACV Goldfields Resort, explore the story behind these commissioned artworks.

_{Image credit:  Matthew Dettmer, Tremarne House (After Litherland), 2023. Oil on Masonite, 36 x 36cm. Courtesy the artist} 

22 June to 14 October 2024

Sangeeta Sandrasegar has worked with master dyer Heather Thomas using botanical materials from the Creswick region to create a new tonal palette of yellows and native golds. Sangeeta reflects the goldfields history as a magnet of migration, connection to landscape and land, and contemporary stories of employment. 

^{Image Credit: Sangeeta SANDRASEGAR; Process image for Yellow deep that drew your eyes, 2023. Image courtesy Sarah Hunnisett} 

16 March to 16 June 2024

Jacob Raupach investigates the shifting history of industry across regional Australia, and their legacies. He uses multiple forms of photographic process and presentation methods to explore the relationship between natural and societal environments. Embracing the original motto for Creswick School of Forestry Circumspice as his exhibition title, Jacob asks us to look around, to inspect, to search for, and look again.

^{Image Credit: Jacob Raupach, Installation view CCP, 2018}

9 December 2023 to 11 March 2024

Setting up a temporary print workshop at RACV Goldfields Resort, Negative Press founder, Trent Walter, will conduct a series of workshops that will reflect on the material, natural and representational aspects of Creswick. Trent Walter is a master printer and has designed and delivered community printmaking workshops across Australia. Visit ArtHouse to explore the outcomes of these workshops presented as a mass installation of printed matter.

_{Image Credit: Living Museum of the West workshop, Maribyrnong 2021. Courtesy Negative Press.}