Gippsland Art Gallery

The Gippsland Art Gallery, formerly Sale Regional Art Centre, is a Victorian Regional Public Gallery based in Sale, 220 km (140 mi) east of Melbourne. The gallery is operated by the Shire of Wellington, and has a focus on the natural environment and artists based in Gippsland. History The gallery was opened on 25 September 1965 by Rupert Hamer , as the Sale Regional Art Centre. It was built above the Sale Library at 82 Macalister Street, Sale. Construction of the gallery was funded by a state government grant of £20,000, with the Sale City Council contributing a further £10,000. An intensive program of temporary exhibitions was organised, complete with educational materials, and the institution soon became an important resource centre for schools, arts and crafts groups and the public, covering the whole area of Central and East Gippsland. In 1989 the. Permanent collection Gippsland Art Gallery is home to a permanent collection of over 3,000 items, consisting of paintings, works on paper, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, woodwork and metalwork. The collection has a focus on the natural environment, and specifically Gippsland artists and Gippsland themes. The collection includes works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder , Jan Hendrik Scheltema , Portia Geach , Fred Williams , Peter Booth , Rodney Forbes, Victor Majzner, Rosemary Laing, Tony Lloyd , Polixeni Papapetrou , Annemieke Mein , Charles Rolando, Bill Henson , Ann Greenwood , Andrew Browne , and Sam Leach.