Growing Rural Arts In Nathalia
The G.R.A.I.N Store is a not-for-profit nationally recognized rural arts center with a history of exhibitions, performances and workshops located in a converted grain store shopfront in the middle of town.
The G.R.A.I.N. Store has been designated as a “Model Project” for rural development and arts and a unique relationship has been established with La Trobe University. It fosters art which furthers community, the environment, rural health, reconciliation and education locally, statewide and nationally while contributing to the economic development of the area.
The G.R.A.I.N. Store acknowledges the Yorta Yorta people of the Yorta Yorta Nations as traditional custodians of the lands skies and waters where we work. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future and recognise the strong connection to culture and innovation that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.
CURRENT
EXHIBITION
Gold
12 Aug – 10 October 2026
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Studio with Tim Hocking and Creagh Manning.
$60 per session, Tickets and more details here
Next session with Creagh Manning: Tuesday 20th October 2026, 9am – 1pm.
Next Session with Tim Hocking: Tuesday November 3rd 2026 9am-1pm
On the First and Third Tuesdays of the month, you can have access to one of these two experienced visual arts educators from Shepparton who are also incredibly skilled artists themselves. The sessions run 9am – 1pm and begin with a guided lesson, followed by the opportunity to show Tim Hocking or Creagh Manning your work in progress and seek their feedback alongside your artist peers.
Suited to beginners right through to experienced artists.
COMMUNITY
GALLERY
The Kelly Library. October 25th-31st 2026. Opening Event October 25th 2pm.
A week long book sale from the personal collection of Bill Kelly. Celebrating a life of legacy, creativity and commitment to peace.
Tickets $50 – includes afternoon tea and 5 books from the general collection. Get tickets here
Do you want to hire our community gallery?
Find out more here!
Making Space on Mondays
Every Monday 10am – 2pm The G.R.A.I.N Store is open via Petticoat Lane, for anyone to come in for a chat or to bring something in to work on.
UPCOMING
LIVE MUSIC
Woodsong
Robyn Mellor and Rodney Waterman
Sunday 25th October 2026
11am- 12.15pm
Tickets $10 – $40 kids under 12 free (must be accompanied by an adult)
A Sunday lunchtime concert at The G.R.A.I.N. Store featuring the remarkable Recorder Duo WOODSONG, with Canberra-based recorder virtuoso Robyn Mellor joining Melbourne musician, composer and recording artist Rodney Waterman.
With a program spanning 500 years of recorder music, WOODSONG explores the surprising versatility, beauty and expressive possibilities of an instrument that is often underestimated. Expect a musical journey through early music, contemporary compositions, improvisation and a wonderfully eclectic mix of sounds.
Robyn Mellor is a Canberra-based recorder player, music director and teacher, and choir leader. She studied recorder performance and music education in Perth, WA and undertook further intensive recorder study for 3 years in the Netherlands. Robyn has performed with many of Australia’s leading recorder players and early music specialists in Australia and New Zealand over the past 30 years. Robyn presents diverse concerts of early and modern music in Canberra as director of the women’s vocal ensemble Polifemy and of the recorder ensemble, BlockSounds. She performs regularly with the Canberra Bach Ensemble and is a member of the newly-formed early music group FOUR-15. She is much in demand as a private and community music teacher, and as conductor and director at recorder workshops and festivals throughout Australia.
Rodney Waterman is a Melbourne-based musician, composer and recording artist. His repertoire is eclectic, with a particular interest in improvisation. He enjoys exploring, and inspiring others to experience, the recorder’s expressive possibilities. 2021 saw the release of Rodney’s solo album twelve fantasias – 12 improvised fantasias for imagined acoustic spaces. And in November 2022, he released the first ever recording, on recorder, of all eight solo Ricercate (1585) by the Venetian composer, Giovanni Bassano. Rodney performed the complete Ricercate in the Bluestone Chapel, Montsalvat, Eltham on November 5th, 2022. In January 2024, his Duo Windborne group with recorder player Ryan Williams, launched an original, totally improvised album, Venus Bay Fireside Sessions. Until recently, Rodney taught music and Italian in a small semi-rural primary school on the north-eastern fringe of Melbourne.
