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Manipulating Traditional Practices
Working with word, textile, installation and recycled materials, Lucille Martin is a nationally recognised contemporary artist who has been exhibiting and included in curatorial shows for more than twenty years. Lucille’s work moves audiences and stimulates strong emotional response and she is often asked to speak about the issues raised. Lucille is a communicator using visual dialogue to take the viewer on an intimate journey that will resonate strongly with them for a long time to come. Lucille Martin provides a refreshing and honest insight into her life’s passion as an exhibiting artist. Inteviewed by […]
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Bleach 2013
The Gold Coast has long been renowned as the global home of surf and beach culture and the Bleach* Festival was created to celebrate this culture in all its forms. With over forty events and across sixteen days, the Bleach* Festival features art, music, theatre, food, fashion, lifestyle and surf. Held annually in February and launched before the Quiksilver and Roxy Pro, the 2012 opening event saw the streets lined with fashion market stalls, a stage with tunes rocking all day, street theatre and workshops. It also featured the world premiere performance of The Surfer […]
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Creative Hotspot – Cafe D’bar
Cafe D’bar at Point Danger is the perfect spot to chill out on the southern end of the Gold Coast. Situated high on a hill, right on the QLD and NSW border, this delightful Cafe boasts panoramic views of the entire coast, overlooking iconic surfing location ‘D’bah’ through to Snapper Rocks and Rainbow Bay. Among the fishing boats and freighters, patient Cafe D’Bar patrons might also spy the humpback whales passing between June and November. The D’bar is a café and art gallery situated in a circa 1925 three bedroom home built in the ‘Queenslander’ […]
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Still @ the Centre
Still @ the centre is a beautiful space dedicated to your art, creativity and inspiration. A place in which to bring your dreams, share the technical issues you encounter in making those come true so that, together, we can find the creative solutions to suit your art and your budget. Hand in hand with the centre becoming a creative space, came the need for…art supplies. We took our time, compared, studied and researched and now have a truly extensive range of the finest art materials from all over the world. We are also happy to […]
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Wilson Visual Arts Award and Exhibition
A vehicle to showcase the talent of local and national artists and to promote Lismore’s role as a leading arts destination. Established in 2012, The Wilson Visual Arts Award, under the auspices of Trinity Catholic College, is a vehicle to showcase the talent of local and national artists, to recognize top artists for their achievements in the field of visual arts, and to expand, promote, and document Lismore’s role as a leading arts destination. Open 10am – 6pm 23-25 August 2012 Opening night Friday 24th at 6.30pm tickets $30 bookings essential (02) 66276600 Trinity Catholic […]
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The Channon Gallery
Located in the picturesque village of The Channon in the Byron Bay hinterland of northern NSW, The Channon Gallery is committed to the exhibition of fine Australian contemporary art to delight and provoke. The Channon Gallery compiles, exhibits and engages in the discourse of the human condition;it’s beauty and challenges. The gallery nurtures the exploration of contemporary culture through the thought and perception of the arts community and those who provide input into it. Until 5 August 201 Studies in Harmony and Tension Paintings and sculptures by Stuart Cussons manifest a simple aesthetic that belies […]
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Art on the Move
A great chance to see some local art and chat with the artists in a relaxed environment. Art on the Move is a group of established and emerging artists from Northern NSW, who exhibit at the Bangalow markets, every fourth Sunday of the month. The group exhibits a diverse range of fine art prints, paintings, glass objects, ceramics, photography and sculpture. Members include, Karyn Fendley, Caroline McKay, Leonie Jackson, Jacqueline King, Pam Patterson, Marika Bryant, David Kill, Nicole Zupanovich, Garry Barden and Soren Carlbergg. Bangalow Market Sundays Moller Pavilion at the Band end of the […]
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Northern Rivers Community Gallery
The Northern Rivers Community Gallery is a community exhibition space created through the refurbishment of the heritage listed former Council Chambers in Ballina. The gallery provides a centre for the arts and crafts in the region, with four gallery spaces that can be rented for exhibitions and cultural activities, and a learning centre. All artists, arts organizations and community cultural groups, particularly those in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW, are invited to submit a proposal to present exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, cultural heritage, fabric and textile art, pottery, ceramics, woodworks, jewellery, photography etc. Contact […]
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Curious Art Gallery
The Dance of Life features work by Dianne Smith with works by other Curious Artists. ‘The exhibition celebrates the journey of life with my father Floyd Lombardi and uncle Ray when I was living at the Navajo Trading Post adobe house on the Four Corners of America Navajo Reservation. The Rio Grande ran behind the Trading Post located just an hour from Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It was early 1950’s and I was eleven years old. I grew up hearing many stories and gained insights into the Navajo culture and way of life which […]
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Earthlings From Outer Space
By Jeff Dawson Not all that far out from Roswell, deep in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada, tens of thousands of Earthlings slip through a portal. A kind of worm hole portal between the default world and their Home, the Playa. Many of these beings are not reptilian, many are not aliens, most do not look like you or me, well, not like me anyway, they are ‘Burners’. For eight days a year they cluster to recharge, then disperse back to the four corners (?) of the planet. Almost blending in with […]
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Interview with Barb Suttie
The Tweed region is known as the ‘Valley of Contrasts’ It offers an assortment of visuals to those inspired by nature… from oceans to forests, to the mountains and the river. With such an array of views to paint, sketch, or write about, it is no wonder that a great many artistic folk call it home. It’s a crisp June afternoon as I take the delightful drive along the Tweed Valley Way on my way to interview Murwillumbah artist Barb Suttie. Cruising beside the Tweed, I notice the silver ripples of a high tide gently […]
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Tweed River Art Gallery
Coming exhibition Beauty from Nature showcases art by the Scott sisters. Experience exquisite illustrations of butterflies, moths, caterpillars and plants by two of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history artists. Beautiful and intricate, this stunning exhibition features delicate watercolours, which form a fascinating record of the lives of Harriet and Helena Scott. Uncover the captivating story of these two extraordinary women, whose love of nature, and tremendous skill in rendering its beauty, enabled them to distinguish themselves amid the male-dominated world of 19th century science. Exhibited are selected watercolour paintings created between 1846 and […]
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Award winning animation at Byron Bay Film Festival
A hero with a gramophone head, an oboe-playing cat, an unscrupulous telephone head villain and a triangle-playing elephant. These are just a few of the whimsical characters in the award winning animated film The Missing Key brought to us by Australian animator/composer/screenwriter/director Jonathon Nix. Enjoying its Byron Bay premiere as part of the 6th Annual Byron Bay Film Festival, The Missing Key is a thirty minute explosion of colour and visual illusion created from hand-drawn pencil on paper and watercolour filled backgrounds and textures. ‘It is about an artist seeking to create something of beauty […]
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Eco exhibition to raise erosion awareness at Kingscliff
Coastal erosion is not a geographically isolated event with many low-lying areas increasingly threatened by rising seas. The massive coastal erosion that has impacted upon the tourist town of Kingscliff on the far north coast of NSW has been chronicled into a body of work by photographers Michael Bryant and Tracy Jay. As a participating venue in the Queensland Festival of Photography 4, Curious Art Gallery at Chinderah will present an exhibition of Bryant and Jay’s photographs titled The Hungry Ocean. The exhibition aims to promote awareness of the local issue as a microcosm of […]