Exhibitions
Featured Exhibitions
May 7, 2021 – Jun 26, 2021
Breaking Boundaries
Group Show
Opening at Byron Bay's Lone Goat Gallery, Breaking Boundaries features eight Northern Rivers Creative artists who challenge boundaries between the arts, creative practice, society and culture in regional Australia.
May 5, 2021 – Jun 27, 2021
Culture Vultures
Group Show
Culture Vultures is a group exhibition by four artists from REDinc. supported Art Studio, based in Lismore. These four artists explore concepts of culture inspired by their cultural heritage, popular culture and community.
Jun 26, 2021 – Jul 17, 2021
Walk Draw Map Tent
Claudie Frock and Renè Bolten
Walk Draw Map Tent is a community art project that has connected children and young people with the natural environment around them. Collaborative works from this 8 month-long project will be showcased at Elevator ARI.
May 5, 2021 – Aug 8, 2021
Max Dupain | Australian Modern
Max Dupain pioneered a Modernist approach of high contrast, sharp focus, dramatic angles and creative compositions, departing sharply from the sentimentality of soft focused and nostalgic post-colonialism.
All Exhibitions
Jun 3, 2021 – Jun 22, 2021
Moving On
Group Show
Moving On is a group exhibition reuniting Southern Cross University Art & Design graduates of 2020 showcasing their artistic direction post graduation.
May 7, 2021 – Jun 26, 2021
Breaking Boundaries
Group Show
Opening at Byron Bay's Lone Goat Gallery, Breaking Boundaries features eight Northern Rivers Creative artists who challenge boundaries between the arts, creative practice, society and culture in regional Australia.
May 5, 2021 – Jun 27, 2021
Remembered Felt Imagined
Group Show
Three artists, three different modes of experiencing and expressing, highlighting that within our difference, lies our common ground.
May 5, 2021 – Jun 27, 2021
Culture Vultures
Group Show
Culture Vultures is a group exhibition by four artists from REDinc. supported Art Studio, based in Lismore. These four artists explore concepts of culture inspired by their cultural heritage, popular culture and community.
May 5, 2021 – Jun 27, 2021
Map of Water
Rebecca Cook
Rebecca Cook plays in the space between the seen and unseen. She says of her work, “each print is an individual skin, like the imprint of a persons story on their body." Rebecca is the recipient of the 2019 Byron School of Art ( BSA) Graduate Award.
May 5, 2021 – Jun 27, 2021
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Katie Cross
Reactions are shaped by acquired knowledge and experience. The layers in these works represent how at different times, past experiences and emotions will resonate more than others.
Jun 25, 2021 – Jul 8, 2021
"The Dress"
Neil Matterson
The dress, historically, has been associated with the female body. This collection of paintings of the mainly dressed female form references the elaborate dresses of high society of the eighteenth century with an added touch of whimsy and fantasy.
Jun 26, 2021 – Jul 17, 2021
Walk Draw Map Tent
Claudie Frock and Renè Bolten
Walk Draw Map Tent is a community art project that has connected children and young people with the natural environment around them. Collaborative works from this 8 month-long project will be showcased at Elevator ARI.
Jun 19, 2021 – Aug 1, 2021
CVIAA
Group Show
The CVIAA started in 2007 and is a biennial art award. The first prize $5,000 is acquisitive and the winner is invited to present an exhibition
Jun 12, 2021 – Aug 1, 2021
The Heroine Paint
Group Show
This exhibition brings together the work of Amber Wallis and Kylie Banyard, highlighting their visions of painterly utopia. Their work pays homage to American Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 50s, which strove towards an alternative image for art and painting.
May 5, 2021 – Aug 8, 2021
Max Dupain | Australian Modern
Max Dupain pioneered a Modernist approach of high contrast, sharp focus, dramatic angles and creative compositions, departing sharply from the sentimentality of soft focused and nostalgic post-colonialism.
Jul 9, 2021 – Aug 21, 2021
Place
Charmaine Davis
Charmaine Davis is a Goori Woman who is descended from the Gumbaynggir and Bundjalung Nations. Inspiration for her artistic creations are attributed to her culture, homelands and family. Charmaine is a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-op
Jun 30, 2021 – Aug 22, 2021
The Widening Gyre
Alex Mankiewicz
Two series of paintings reflecting upon the crises of our present moment – Covid-19 and the environmental and societal stress present before the virus appeared. Countering fear and anomia - the sense that social order is collapsing - both series
Jun 30, 2021 – Aug 22, 2021
2020 Graduates & Program Relaunch
Group Show
After their studies were disrupted by Covid-19, graduates from Southern Cross University’s Art & Design program shine in this exhibition, highlighting the University’s affiliation with some of the most promising contemporary artists in NSW.
Sep 22, 2021 – Sep 28, 2021
Brunswick Nature Sculpture Walk 2021
Group Show
This September Brunswick Heads comes alive showcasing the talents of over 40 Sculptors, working in various mediums. This FREE week-long exhibition is being held during the Spring holidays and offers community workshops working closely with artist.
Aug 25, 2021 – Oct 17, 2021
Oriel
Zen Staff
A collection of textural works inspired by local surrounds and satellite imagery, exploring how we perceive patterns, digitally and physically. Zen Staff is the recipient of the 2020 Byron School of Art Graduate Award.
Aug 25, 2021 – Oct 17, 2021
The Making of Impossible Things
Group Show
A behind the scenes look at the arts of dance theatre. An art in which choreography, music, costume, projections, and lighting combine in an alchemical way to transport an audience through a story without words.
Aug 25, 2021 – Oct 17, 2021
Slow Light. Slow.
Colleen DaRosa
Colleen studies of the impact of ‘slow’ light. The way natural ambient light constantly changes an object. She highlights the translucence and lustrous quality of various surfaces.
Aug 25, 2021 – Oct 17, 2021
Vitality
Jolene Maleficent + Kelly-Ann Oosterbeek
‘Vitality’ is the coming together of two distinct bodies of work developed under the premise of, collaboration in isolation. The final works are an unveiled flow of the narrative of positivity and harmony in uncertain times.
Oct 20, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021
BAM Art Prize 2021 Finalist Exhibition
Group Show
The BAM Finalist Art Prize exhibition promoting awareness of the arts in the Northern Rivers by presenting a national art prize within the region. The Finalist Exhibition showcases finalist artworks shortlisted for the 2021 prize.
Oct 20, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021
This is Nothing New
Gala Jane
Recipient of the 2020 SCU graduate art prize. Gala continues her study and self-reflection of sexism and assault that is so prevalent in our society. She combines found objects and text to empower, call out and open a dialogue with the viewer.
Oct 20, 2021 – Dec 12, 2021
Playing House
Amy Meng
Meng situates the bishoujo within the world of kawaii and domestic labour. Synthesizing elements of manga, video games and craft, she scrutinizes assigned female roles consequent of the accelerating infantilisation and pornification of society.
