HOW TO MAKE A PORTRAIT OF A BIRD: Artworks from the Collection

This selection of artworks draws our attention to the beauty and fragility of Australia's endemic flora and fauna.

This exhibition presents artist’s responses and connection to the world of birds through the artworks of seventeen contemporary artists using diverse mediums.

Ongoing concerns for the environment and the natural world are themes explored by many artists and artworks featured in the Grafton Regional Gallery collection.

This selection compliments the exhibitions featured in the main galleries, drawing our attention to the beauty and fragility of Australia’s endemic flora and fauna.

A Grafton Regional Gallery collection exhibition on show in Prentice House from 16 July to September 2024.

IMAGE CREDITS:
Above: Ken Done, New Parrots 1990, screen print on paper, edition 2/200 (detail). Image Courtesy of the artist.
Homepage square: Stuart Payne, Yellow Throated Honeyeater 2015, steel, brass and wood. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Slider: Anne Marie Graham, Tree fern with Cockatoos 2008, oil on linen. Image Courtesy of the artist.

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Current Exhibitions

This section provides information regarding Current Exhibitions

Birds of Australia STORYBOX

Discover the Birds of Australia on a digital storytelling cube inspired by the work of John and Elizabeth Gould.

PLIABLE PLANES | Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices

Presenting contemporary Australian textiles and fibre art in expansive and plural forms.

BLAKE LAWRENCE | Psittacines

An exhibition comprising photography, large-scale cyanotype textiles, installation and performance.

CASS SAMMS | Towards Extinction: Into the Afterlife

Bringing attention to the issues surrounding threatened species, extinction, and humankinds impact on the species of Australia.

CLAUDIE FROCK | Gather

This exhibition explores relationship to place through sustainable foraging and collaboration with the land.

2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA)

Celebrating the enduring importance of national contemporary drawing practice.