aAR's editor finds a vibrant world of exhibitions beyond the metropolitan regions.

Regional galleries around Australia play an active and ever-expanding role in bringing a robust program of travelling exhibitions to the attention of regional centres and indeed, in nourishing the art of their own local communities. Their structures - which span Victorian sandstone splendour to converted council chambers and country homesteads, and most recently a dazzling and adventurous construction in Port Macquarie called The Glasshouse, could not be more different from each other and, like brothers, sisters and first cousins, each has a distinct personality.

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Image: Albury Regional Museum, Victoria.