Gallery Opening Hours
When is the Gallery open?
The Gallery Store is open from 10:00am to 4:00pm Tuesday to Sunday, alongside My Clarence Valley Tourism Information services. For Visitor information enquries on Mondays phone 02 6643 0800.
Exhibition On Show from 10:00am Saturday 17 February to 4:00pm Saturday 20 April
Kellie O'Demspey: Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here began as a response to the lockdown life of the pandemic. Uncanny household objects collide with uncertain landscapes. In search of progress, multiple figures attempt to travel yet go nowhere in this oddball world. Their figurative and abstract forms gently smash together to imitate how we fumble for connection. Wish You Were Here is an immersive installation of collaged works on paper, projected animation, sound, and Augmented Reality (AR). Through repetitive rhythm and monotonous loops, non-specific locations and an unspecified time, this work blends the physical and the psychological for a moment of hypnotic but joyful reprieve.
Exhibitions On Show from 10:00am Saturday 17 February to 4:00pm Sunday 28 April
Jennier Keeler-Milne: Close Focus
Close Focus explores Jennifer Keeler-Milne’s fascination with documenting what is near and intimate. Comprising a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture, each artwork explores one small aspect of nature. From the whisp of feathers repeated a hundred-fold, to the flower garden of her family home, Keeler-Milne’s subjects convey a sense of the universal contained within the minutiae, the enduring presence of beauty and mystery, and the fragile state of our natural world.
Cher Breeze: 339 Steps...
In 2022, Cher Breeze was selected to undertake a Yulgilbar Travelling Fellowship, a program developed to broaden and enhance professional development for Clarence Valley Artists. Cher used this opportunity to trace the footsteps of her forbears through the back alleys and cemeteries of Sydney. This exhibition responds to these observations and memories, finding meaning, expression, and empathy for the human condition in mark-making.
A Yulgilbar Travelling Fellowship exhibition
Madeleine Richey: Proud to be a Binge
Continuing her life-long dedication to learning about her Kamilaroi culture, Madeleine used the 2022 Yulgilbar Travelling Fellowship to spend more time on-country learning about her familial connections to Gunimaa (mother earth) and how this determines her art practice. Tjhis exhibition explores her personal cultural growth during this time, with a collection of mixed media pieces featuring natural pigments, alongside materials which are more accessible when following protocols off-country such as acrylic paint and raffia.
A Yulgilbar Travelling Fellowship exhibition
Rindi Salomon and Andrew Shillam: Interior with Figures
An enclosed interior is a safe space until something breaks through its barriers. These works explore interior spaces, the shadow within the individual, the domestic interior, and the enclosed space of a community. Rindi will be showing paintings with a range of subject matter including portraits and landscapes. Andrew will be showing mainly interiors - and exhibiting some of the sculptures that are depicted in the paintings.
Entry to the Gallery is by donation.
Image credit: Prentice House, 2021. Image courtesy of Simon Hughes Photography.
