Photo: courtesy of Ineke Dane.

Lismore Regional Gallery Announces Their New Curator

Lismore City Council and Lismore Regional Gallery have announced the appointment of Ineke Dane as Curator at Lismore Regional Gallery.

Ineke is an award-winning curator with national and international experience. Her multidisciplinary practice is thought-provoking, conceptually rigorous, and grounded in contemporary art theory, law, and policy. Ineke is interested in how creativity can be a conduit to new ways of understanding the human condition and entangling with the world around us.Ineke spent her childhood in the Northern Rivers region and has since lived and worked in cities across Australia and Europe. She recently co-curated a major new commission for Mona Foma in Hobart with Mona’s senior curatorial team and preeminent Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh.

She has previously held curatorial roles with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, UAP | Urban Art Projects, and Kaldor Public Art Projects. She has also curated numerous independent exhibitions in regional galleries and is currently on the Board of Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts in Townsville.

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Concerns Over the Closure of Arts Degrees at Southern Cross University

Arts Northern Rivers, Museums & Galleries of NSW, and NAVA have expressed strong concern over Southern Cross University's decision to close its Bachelor of Arts and related creative degrees. This move threatens not only the region’s rich cultural legacy but also broader national and global trends in the decline of arts education.

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Longstanding, Bulaan Dalang Galii Naa 's First Group Show

Bulaan Dalang Galii Naa supports emerging First Nations creative practitioners. The inaugural cohort held their first group show on Arakwal Country at Lone Goat Gallery.

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Who Are Our Candidates?

A questionnaire developed by Arts Northern Rivers in consultation with the Northern Rivers creative community, this questionnaire was created and distributed to coincide with the 2024 Local Elections across the 7 LGAs in the Northern Rivers Region, NSW.

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Tabulam Trail of Light and Sound 2024

A series of free creative community workshops and storytelling days that culminated in a multi arts performance in Tabulam Town.

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CASP 2024 Recipients Announced

We are excited to announce the successful recipients of CASP 2024 funding!

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Experimental Practice with Performance Space x Elevator x ANR

Arts Northern Rivers and Elevator ARI collaborated with Performance Space (Gadigal Land, Sydney) to support and profile experimental performance practices in the Northern Rivers. This initiative featured a discussion with Kate Britton (Artistic Director, Performance Space) and Jane Fuller (Executive Director, Arts Northern Rivers) and a workshop led by internationally celebrated artist and storyteller, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, alongside a series of artist studio visits.

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Who Are We? by Tandi Palmer Williams

Arts Northern Rivers’ sector mapping project, ‘Who Are We?’ intends to discover the full picture of our arts and culture sector. What art is being made here? By whom, for whom? What do artists and audiences need?

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Horizons Mentors Announced!

Horizons, the creative industry career development program has announced the fifteen mentors who will be working across all art forms with 75 young people across regional NSW.

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