Exhibitions
Featured Exhibitions
Dec 7, 2019 – Feb 2, 2020
The Partnershipping Project
Group Show
The Partnershipping Project was conceived to link regional artists, regional galleries and regional audiences to ask: ‘Does Place Matter’?
Jan 10, 2020 – Feb 21, 2020
Kat Deschan
Illustrator Kat Deschan is showcasing her current body of work within the RVCA Gallery in Byron Bay. Through her hyper-real illustrations, Kat uses her art to inspire audiences to create something themselves
Jan 15, 2020 – Mar 8, 2020
Intimate Fragments
Sabine Pick
Through her delicately balanced compositions, Sabine Pick, an Australian artist based in Byron Bay, seeks to create new stories and conversations through the intuitive process of collage.
All Exhibitions
Jan 18, 2020 – Jan 29, 2020
Light Graffiti
Group Show
This pop-up exhibition presents the works of participants who undertook a creative youth mentorship held at Ignite Studios in December 2019. The program provided local creative youth an exclusive opportunity to work with the internationally recognise
Dec 21, 2019 – Feb 2, 2020
A New World
Zom Osborne
Now, as we appear to be coming ever closer to an environmental cataclysm with its ultimate humbling and a possible end of the world as we know it, ‘a New World’ asks the question: What if we were to remember that we are inseparable from Nature?
Dec 7, 2019 – Feb 2, 2020
The Partnershipping Project
Group Show
The Partnershipping Project was conceived to link regional artists, regional galleries and regional audiences to ask: ‘Does Place Matter’?
Jan 31, 2020 – Feb 13, 2020
Up In The Trees
Tanya Ogilvie-White
Tanya burns layers of melted beeswax into enlarged, heatproof photographs, which she bonds to hardwood panels and transforms them into encaustic originals by adding oils, inks, and pastels between the wax layers.
Jan 24, 2020 – Feb 18, 2020
Five Loan Goats on Cezanne's Mountain
Group Show
Alexandra Mowday, Andjana Pachkova, Matthew Gorgula, Richard Goodwin, and Wendy Arnold present FIVE LONE GOATS ON CÉZANNE'S MOUNTAIN.
Jan 10, 2020 – Feb 21, 2020
Kat Deschan
Illustrator Kat Deschan is showcasing her current body of work within the RVCA Gallery in Byron Bay. Through her hyper-real illustrations, Kat uses her art to inspire audiences to create something themselves
Feb 14, 2020 – Feb 27, 2020
A Colourful Life
Helen Halliday
Helen’s new works are Gardens painted in watercolour and mixed media to remind us of the fragility and beauty of life and the need to protect this wonderful land.
Jan 15, 2020 – Mar 8, 2020
Intimate Fragments
Sabine Pick
Through her delicately balanced compositions, Sabine Pick, an Australian artist based in Byron Bay, seeks to create new stories and conversations through the intuitive process of collage.
Feb 11, 2020 – Mar 8, 2020
About Grafton
Harry Westera
Harry seeks to create images that express the wonderful in the ordinary through keen observation and an appreciation of light, tone and colour. This exhibition contains new works exploring the Clarence Valley.
Jan 15, 2020 – Mar 8, 2020
I Harbour An Obsession
Joanne MulcahyZubani
Using innovative methods to enhance discarded materials, Joanne Mulcahy-Zubani probes into the indelible ramifications of our carbon footprint upon the spectacular landscape of the Northern Rivers.
Feb 11, 2020 – Mar 8, 2020
Geometrica
Andrew Shillam & Rin
Recent work by the artists exploring the modernist tradition of geometric abstraction. Andrew explores the rhythm of abstraction in his timber sculptures and Rindi abstracts the everyday experience in her paintings.
Feb 21, 2020 – Mar 17, 2020
Jacob Boylan
Jacob Boylan
Jacob Boylan explores national identity, utilising satire and sampled imagery. Through the use of visual puns and the re-contextualising of existing imagery, Jacob presses us to look at banal imagery in a new light.
Jan 15, 2020 – Mar 18, 2020
Pockets of Green
Nikki Wood
Wood’s detailed pastel drawings and energetic acrylic paintings depict the areas she frequents including Killarney, Scenic Rim, the Sunshine Coast hinterland and the Northern Rivers. Nikki Wood is a Darling Downs artist born in Warwick, Queensland.
Feb 8, 2020 – Mar 22, 2020
Lore
Skye Baker
This exhibition explores history and memory, the fantastical and sublime, place, and relationships.
Feb 1, 2020 – Apr 5, 2020
Blinman Slag
Grayson Cooke
Blinman Slag is an art/science exploration of mining slag waste from the Blinman Copper Mine in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
Feb 1, 2020 – Apr 5, 2020
Media Studies
Bennett Miller
Media Studies continues Western Australian artist Bennett Miller’s ongoing thematic interests in human behaviour as it is expressed within groups; and the many complicated relationships that exist between humans and the natural world.
Feb 14, 2020 – Apr 19, 2020
ROCOCOLONIAL
Group Show
Rococo and Colonial are often considered to be disparate, undisputable categories that neatly divide periods of time. This separation offers little opportunity to consider parallel histories.
Mar 11, 2020 – May 3, 2020
Cause and Effect
Rae Saheli
Saheli experiments with a range of conventional and non-conventional drawing and painting media creating artwork through physical action.
Mar 11, 2020 – May 3, 2020
By the Flesh
Mark Stapelfeldt
A photographic series taking an abstract look at lust, sensuality, life, death and the fading role of Christianity in our modern society.
Mar 11, 2020 – May 3, 2020
Marks of Time
Helen Halliday
Halliday’s work explores ancient landscapes reflecting on the interconnected histories of people and place.
Apr 24, 2020 – Jun 14, 2020
Dissonant Rhythms
Ross Manning
Dissonant Rhythms is Brisbane-based artist and musician Ross Manning’s first-ever survey exhibition. Best known for his use of everyday materials, Manning’s exhibition features sculptures that repurpose ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead p
May 6, 2020 – Jun 28, 2020
Creatures of Leisure
Bonnie Larden
Larden finds inspiration for her work in two simple pleasures; nature and the comfort of home. The Creatures of Leisure series began with the idea of juxtaposing untamed wild animals with intentionally designed spaces of leisure.
May 6, 2020 – Jun 28, 2020
Impressions of Nature
Group Show
An exhibition showcasing nature’s beauty and diversity in a variety of print media featuring four passionate printmakers: Susan Byrne, Sue Chakos, Rachel Dun and Peter Schardin.
May 6, 2020 – Jun 28, 2020
Countenance
Jenny Sayer
Sayer’s portraiture practice challenges her to portray multilayered personalities, to uncover the camouflaged, and depict individuals and lives.
