Stories and Dreams at East Gippsland Art Gallery 2026
Michael Donnelly | Stories and Dreams 31 July - 05 September 2026
Michael’s artwork includes a strong line of narrative pictures over three decades, drawing on personal experience, the Bible, film, dreams, life. Beginning with paintings from the 1990s this exhibition weaves together a diverse mix of stories and dreams across a landscape of expansive compositions.
“Noah Builds More Boats - Brian and Elizabeth Blakeman of Wairewa”, Oil on Linen, 183 x 183cm, 2026
“Paul Kelly Singing to the Prawners”, Oil on Linen, Diptych, 96.5 x 245 cm, 2024
“Visit to the Farm” Oil on Canvas, Polyptych - four panels, 1m x 4m, 1990. Private Collection.
“Bedtime Prayer” Oil on Linen, Diptych, 92 x 194cm, 1994
“Bedtime Prayer” Oil on Linen, Diptych, 92 x 194cm, 1994 (Right-hand panel).
“Bedtime Prayer” Oil on Linen, Diptych, 92 x 194cm, 1994 (Left-hand panel).
“Cancer Diptych”, Oil on Linen, 152 x 101cm each, 1994 (Private Collection).
“Death Diptych”, Oil on Linen, 152 x 101cm each, 1994
“Three Heads at the Farm”, Oil on Linen, 60 x 92cm, 1993
“The Bible Study”, Oil on Linen, 97 x 138cm, 1993 (Private Collection)
“Girls Falling”, Oil on Linen, 122 x 92cm, 1992
“Farewell Dinner”, Oil on Linen, 97 x 138cm, 1992
“Bobi Lost in Rockdale”, Mixed media on Arches Watercolour paper, 57 x 76cm, 2007.
“Baptism at Anglesea”, Watercolour Pencil on Arches Watercolour paper, 115 x 115cm, 2013.
“Autumn, Fairview Park, Hawthorn’”, Oil on linen, 97 x 67 cm, 2023.
“Ancestral Lands, Galong Cemetery, NSW”, Oil on Linen, 92 x 102 cm, 2016.
“Glen Iris Tableau”, Oil on Linen, 122 x 183cm, 2003.
‘Shelter, Bert Thompson Reserve, Traralgon’. Oil on Cardboard, 2023.
‘Old Trees Gathering, Howitt Park, Bairnsdale’. Oil on Cardboard, 2023.
“Big Skies of East Gippsland, December 2019 / January 2020.” Each work: A4 Landscape size, 21 x 29 cm, Oil Pastel on Paper, framed size 34 x 42 cm, 2022 - 2023.
“Big Skies of East Gippsland, December 2019 / January 2020.” Each work: A4 Landscape size, 21 x 29 cm, Oil Pastel on Paper, framed size 34 x 42 cm, 2022 - 2023.
“Big Skies of East Gippsland, December 2019 / January 2020.” Each work: A4 Landscape size, 21 x 29 cm, Oil Pastel on Paper, framed size 34 x 42 cm, 2022 - 2023.
“Big Skies of East Gippsland, December 2019 / January 2020.” Each work: A4 Landscape size, 21 x 29 cm, Oil Pastel on Paper, framed size 34 x 42 cm, 2022 - 2023.
“Big Skies of East Gippsland, December 2019 / January 2020.” Each work: A4 Landscape size, 21 x 29 cm, Oil Pastel on Paper, framed size 34 x 42 cm, 2022 - 2023.
“Big Skies of East Gippsland, December 2019 / January 2020.” Each work: A4 Landscape size, 21 x 29 cm, Oil Pastel on Paper, framed size 34 x 42 cm, 2022 - 2023.
‘Mosman Idyll’, Oil on Linen, 41 x 56 cm, 2016-2023.
‘Walk in the Park’, Oil on Linen, 41 x 51 cm, 2022.
“Elizabeth and Mary”, Oil on Linen, 103 x 76cm, 2012
“Jesus Dies at Guilfoyle’s Volcano”, Triptych, Gouache and Watercolour on Saunders Waterford Watercolour Paper, 3 x 76 x 56cm, (framed 92 x 185cm), 2018
“Resting in Brunswick on a Flight into. . .” Acrylic and Oil on Linen, 56 x 66 cm, 2014.
“McCabe & Mrs Miller set up Shop east of Lilydale, Vic.”, Mixed media on Arches Watercolour paper, 174 x 122cm, 2005. Framed.
“Assault on SPECTRE Is”, Mixed media on Arches Watercolour paper, 122 x 168cm, 2005. Framed.