25 years of inclusion
7 DECEMBER 2013 – 26 JANUARY 2014
The Vicki Fayle Gallery and 24:7 Front Window Space
Tropical Fruits Inc is the primary Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Intersex social club on the North Coast. It hosts a number of gatherings throughout the year culminating with its New Year’s Eve party which draws people from across the globe. Tropical Fruits has played a crucial part in making Lismore the GLBTI capital of regional Australia. This exhibition will examine the role Tropical Fruits has played in the community through documentation, costuming and ephemeral material.
A Lismore Regional Gallery exhibtion curated by Uncle Teacosy and Shane Duniam
This exhibition is a collaboration between Lismore Regional Gallery and Tropical Fruits Inc.
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The Secret Life of Collage Club
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Where They Walked: Kylie Caldwell, Nickolla Clark, Luke Close, Jenn Rowe
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Jodi Woodward: How much art can you store under the bed
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20 July - 19 August 2023
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Jana Moser: moss moves
24 June - 15 July 2023
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Mathew Daymond: The Complacency of Man and Machine
22 April - 13 May 2023
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SITE LAB // Small Gestures Toward Infinity
24 July - 17 September 2023
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Lyndall Phelps: Re-collect
29 October - 11 December
Grafton Regional Gallery
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Andrew Rewald: Plant Treaty
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The Quad
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5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 3
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22 January 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 5
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12 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 1
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5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 2
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Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2021
4 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022
Galleries 2, 3 & 4
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Mr Pink - Gaze of Our Lives
27 Nov 2021 - 16 Jan 2022
Gallery 5
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6 Nov 2021 – 6 Feb 2022
Gallery 1
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29 Oct - 21 Nov 2021
Event Space
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Aly Russell :: Learning to See
2 Oct - 21 Nov 2021
Gallery 5
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Antoinette O'Brien :: Kids that are banned from the Square
7 Aug - 26 Sept 2021
Gallery 5
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7 Aug - 3 Oct 21
Gallery 2 & 3
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Jenny Kitchener :: Seed
9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 3
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Michael Cusack :: Steel Frames and Figureheads
9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 2
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Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
14 Aug - 24 Oct 21
Gallery 1
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Ancient Vibrations :: Barry RAINMAN Boland
19 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 5
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Ryan Lee :: Wonnarua
5 May - 8 Aug 21
Corridor
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Geoffrey Cotton and Georgi Milln :: After the Plague
24 Apr - 13 Jun 2021
Gallery 5
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The Department of Non-Human Resources :: Make or Break
1 Apr – 6 Jun 2021
Gallery 3
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Max Dupain: Australian Modern
5 May - 8 Aug 2021
Gallery 1
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Amber Wallis and Kylie Banyard :: The Heroine Paint
12 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 3
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Colleen Coy's Films :: '2020 Each Week'
10 Mar to 21 March 2021
Event Space
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Akio Suzuki :: Sense of Ekō
12 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 2
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Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020
6 Mar - 25 April 2021
Gallery 1
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Verity Nunan :: Where are we supposed to go?
6 Mar - 18 Apr 2021
Gallery 5
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Sihotie, Nioge: new from old :: Omie Tapa Art PNG
6 Feb - 28 Mar 2021
Gallery 3
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Lucas Wright :: In my town and your town
6 Feb – 28 Mar 2021
Gallery 2
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Emma Gardner :: Wildish
16 Jan - 28 Feb 2021
Gallery 5
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Jeremy Hawkes :: Ingress
28 Nov 2020 - 10 Jan 2021
Gallery 5
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Beki Davies :: Latitudes of Salt and Sky
10 Oct - 22 Nov 2020
Gallery 5
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2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize
7 Nov 2020 - 31 Jan 2021
Gallery 2, 3 & 4
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Karla Dickens :: A Dickensian Sideshow
21 Nov 20 - 21 Feb 21
Gallery 1
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Melissa Harvey :: The Silent Pool
22 Aug - 4 Oct 2020
Gallery 5
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Body Language
29 Aug - 8 Nov 2020
Gallery 1
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Penny Evans :: Language of the Wounded
22 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 2
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Charlotte Haywood & Edward Horne plus Invited guests :: Mnemonic Vegetables
29 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 3 & The Quadrangle
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Lismore Art Club :: Celebrating 60 years
4 July - 16 August 2020
Gallery 5
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CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She'll Be Right, Mate! :: Paulette Hayes
17 June - 23 August 2020
Gallery 3
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Defiant
3 Apr - 6 June 2021
Gallery 2
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Occulture :: Steve Waller
28 Mar - 28 June 2020
Gallery 5
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Lore :: Skye Baker
8 Feb - 22 Mar 2020
Gallery 5
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Dissonant Rhythms :: Ross Manning
17 June - 16 August 2020
Galleries 1 & 2
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a New World :: Zom Osborne
21 Dec 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Gallery 5
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Blinman Slag :: Grayson Cooke
1 Feb – 5 Apr 2020
Gallery 2
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The Partnershipping Project
7 Dec 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Gallery 1
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The Alchemists: North Coast Woodfire
23 Nov 2019 - 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 3
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The Museum Project
2 Nov 2019 – 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 2
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Media Studies :: Bennett Miller
1 Feb – 5 Apr 2020
Gallery 3
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Reynaldo Alcocer :: Abyss
9 Nov – 15 Dec 2019
Gallery 5
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Open Air :: Grayson Cooke & Emma Walker
Screening in the Event Space
31 Aug - 20 Oct 2019
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thing space :: Maggie Schreiber & Michael Donnelly
21 Sept - 3 Nov 2019
Gallery 5
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Idle Worship
17 Aug- 13 Oct 2019
Gallery 1
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Gunyah :: Melody Popple
3 Aug - 15 Sept 2019
Gallery 5
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Chesta Drawz and the LowBoys :: An exhibition of fine woodwork by Geoff Hannah and his students
19 Oct - 1 Dec 2019
Gallery 1
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Comes from the shadow :: Jumaadi
14 Sept - 17 Nov 2019
Gallery 3
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The Dark Sublime :: Emma Walker
31 Aug - 27 Oct 2019
Gallery 2
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Gesture of Balance :: Grant Vaughan
6 Jul - 8 Sept 2019
Gallery 3
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Eesti :: Jay-Dea Lopez
22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019
Gallery 2
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Coming Home :: Katka Adams
15 June - 28 July 2019
Gallery 5
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Object Therapy
22 Jun – 11 Aug 2019
Gallery 1
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Fighting not Dancing :: Scott Harrower
18 May – 30 June 2019
Gallery 3
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Data Streams :: Dan McDonnell
27 Apr – 9 Jun 2019
Gallery 5
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Museum of My Friends #1 :: Marion Conrow
9 Mar - 21 Apr 2019
Gallery 5
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Young Archies
Finalists on display
from 16 Apr – 16 Jun 2019
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2018 Archibald Prize
18 Apr - 16 June 2019
Gallery 1, 2 & 4
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Jewelled Net :: Nicky McLaughlin & Virginia Reid
19 Jan – 2 Mar 2019
Gallery 5
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Unrestful Emptiness, Restless Silence :: Jessica O’Connor
1 Dec 2018 – 13 Jan 2019
Gallery 5
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Paperbark :: Lionel Bawden
6 Apr – 12 May 2019
Gallery 3
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Rhythm of Protest :: Lawrence English
2 Mar – 11 Apr 2019
Gallery 1
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The Terania Creek Protest :: David Kemp, Michael Murphy, Hugh Nicholson, Paul Tait & Jeni Kendall
16 Feb - 11 Apr 2019
Gallery 2
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Hey, Listen Up :: Amanda Bromfield
16 Feb – 31 Mar 2019
Gallery 3
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BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN :: David Griggs
8 Dec 2018 - 24 Feb 2019
Gallery 1
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Riverstones and Ramifications :: Bronwyn Bancroft
1 Dec 2018 - 10 Feb 2019
Gallery 2 & 3
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Dirt and Ash :: Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey
20 Oct - 2 Dec 2018
Gallery 1: The Margaret Olley Gallery
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The Trailer Project :: The Lure of the Sea
28 Sept - 6 Oct 2018
In The Quad
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Matt O'Brien :: Meander - Place and Experience
20 Oct - 25 Nov 2018
Gallery 5
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Walking Home: Ailsa Piper
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5.30 - 6.30pm
Fri 3 Aug 2018 in Gallery 1
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Victoria Pitel :: Far to Go
8 Sept - 14 Oct 2018
Gallery 5
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Susan Fell Mclean :: Gondwana Colour: Eucalyptus Colour
4 Aug - 2 Sept 2018
Gallery 5
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Missing You :: The Missing You Collective: Hilary Herrmann, Rene Bolten, Kellie O'Dempsey, Michelle Dawson
30 June - 29 July 2018
Gallery 5
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Binjil Dubais Northern Rivers Sea of Bellies
6 - 15 July 2018
Event Space
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Screenworks :: Createability Films
2 June- 22 July 2018 | Event Space
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Natalie Grono :: Seeker.Keeper.Lover
26 May - 24 June 2018
Gallery 5
A body of work documenting the unique and diverse events, movements, rituals and rites of passage that allow members of the Northern Rivers community to unite and find corresponding purpose, symbolism and meaning.
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The Trailer Project :: The Lure of the Sea
18 - 31 August 2018
The Quad
The Trailer Project is a mobile art center.
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Heart & Soul :: Jacklyn Wagner and Peter Derrett
29 Sept - 25 Nov 2018
Gallery 2 & 3
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Growing up on The Island :: Albert (Digby) Moran
1 Sept - 14 Oct 2018
Gallery 1
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Standing Rock :: Angus Mordant
2 June - 22 July
Gallery 3
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From Here to There: Australian Art and Walking
7 July - 26 Aug 2018
Gallery 1
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Frequency Red: REDinc.
2 June- 22 July 2018
Gallery 2
Frequency RED is a series of new works created in the REDinc. Supported Art studio in Lismore.
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The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize
28 July - 23 Sept 2018
Gallery 2 & 3
Official opening 12noon Sat 28 July 2018
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Facing World War One: Stories of loyalty, loss and love By Facing Australia (Karen Donnelly, Tony Nott and Raimond de Weerdt)
7 April - 27 May 2018
Event Space
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Montages: The Full Cut, 1999 - 2015
Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg
7 Apr - 27 May 2018
Gallery 2 & 3
Montages: The Full Cut, 1999 - 2015 presents the full suite of eight montage films by artist Tracey Moffatt and her long-time collaborator Gary Hillberg. Exhibited all together for the first time, these works span 16 years of their collaborative practice, from the first montage work created in 1999 to the latest in 2015.
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Justene Williams :: The Curtain Breathed Deeply
12 May - 1 July 2018
Gallery 1
The Curtain Breathed Deeply is an expansive new commission by Sydney-based artist Justene Williams.
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Beguile: European Masters:17th - 20th Century
3 Mar - 6 May 2018
Gallery 1
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Caitlin Reilly & Kate Ford :: The roads take us to where the quiet hills speak
21 Apr - 20 May 2018
Gallery 5
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Penny Evans :: Death to a Stereotype
17 Mar - 15 Apr 2018
Gallery 5
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Bryce Anderson :: Rodeo Role Play
10 Feb - 11 Mar 2018
Gallery 5
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Works from the Permanent Collection
The Vicki Fayle Gallery has a selection of works from the Permanent Collection and The Hannah Cabinet on display.
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Geoff Harvey :: DOGGED
17 Feb - 1 Apr 2018
Upstairs Corridor
The dog symbolises unconditional love and companionship which are two characteristics I very much admire.
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Pearl, Perle, Purl: Celebrating 30 years of stitch
17 Feb - 1 Apr 2018
Gallery 2
This exhibition will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Lismore and District Group-NSW Embroiderer's Guild .
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Hobie Porter :: Unnatural History: The Tower Hill Project
17 Feb - 1 Apr 2018
Gallery 3
Unnatural History: The Tower Hill Project commemorates over 160 years since Australian artist Eugene von Guerard painted Tower Hill VIC (1855).
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Ali Noble & Cybele Cox :: The Golden Flowerpot: Arcane Folly
6 Jan - 4 Feb 2018
Gallery 5
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EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection
16 Dec 2017 - 26 Feb 2018
Gallery 1
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Art on Bundjalung Country
9 Dec 2017 - 11 Feb 2018
Gallery 2 & 3
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sarah-jane mcgrath :: obsolete
1 Dec - 31 Dec 2017
Gallery 5
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Leora Sibony :: Industrial Relations
29 Oct - 26 Nov 2017
Gallery 5
An ongoing exploration of industrial structures in the landscape.
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Four Women: (I do Belong) Double
29 Oct - 10 Dec 2017
Gallery 1
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Dreaming Trails
29 Oct - 3 Dec 2017
Gallery 2 & 3
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Adrian Cameron :: Widjabul Dreaming
10 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017
Gallery Upstairs
A twenty year retrospective of Bundjalung artist Adrian Cameron's meticulous and mesmerising paintings depict local animals, spirits, sacred places and dreaming.
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Madeline Kidd and Masato Takasaka :: Playroom
10 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017
Vicki Fayle Gallery
An exhibition where Kidd and Takasaka are working together, creating an installation in which their works are in conversation.
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René Bolten :: Paintings and Drawings
10 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017
Gallery 1
Brings together still lifes, abstract drawings, figures and faces
Creating a presence that is more than just the seen
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Nathan Gooley :: Superheroes and Monsters
10 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017
Gallery 2
good and happy
draw and paint and print
I draw superheroes monsters
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Kenzee Patterson :: A tree branches, so does a river
1 Oct - 3 Dec 2016
Vicki Fayle Gallery
This exhibition begins by looking at the roles two of my ancestors played in the logging of red cedar in the Lismore area during the mid-nineteenth century, and the construction of the old Lismore Post Office clock tower.
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Rachel Farlow :: Passing Through
1 Oct - 3 Dec 2016
24:7 Window Space
Rachel Farlow's work centres on abstract painting, integrating casual gestures and more formal lines to suggest a deceptively rigorous exploration of the painting medium.
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Lucien Hervé : When do we cast off for happiness?
1 Oct - 3 Dec 2016
Galleries 1, 2 & Screen
This exhibition showcases the work of Hungarian photographer Lucien Hervé, leading figure and master of architectural photography.
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Svea Björnsson :: AlphAmaze
1 Oct - 3 Dec 2016
Gallery Upstairs
AlphAmaze is a multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary exploration into the mysteries and origins of the letters of the alphabet.
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Jacob Boylan :: Australian Race
20 Aug - 24 Sept 2016
24:7 Window Space
Jacob Boylans' practice centres on Australian iconography, with a particular emphasis on nostalgia.
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Amanda Bromfield :: Damned Whores and God's Police
20 Aug - 24 Sept 2016
Gallery Upstairs
My installation is a tableau; good and bad women are grouped together to form a reflection of society. I invite you to gaze into the mirror and reflect on what you see.
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Geoff Hannah & students :: In Glue and Dust we Trust
20 Aug - 24 Sept 2016
Gallery 1,2,Vicki Fayle & Screen
An exhibition showcasing Geoff Hannah's latest work, Chinoiserie Cabinet, which will be shown alongside the work of his students, some of whom have been doing classes with Geoff for over 15 years.
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Karen Stone :: Last Night I Dreamt of Banksias
11 June - 13 August 2016
24:7 Window Space
Last night I dreamt of banksias is a grouping of pulp-paintings, produced from recycled clothing, in honour of that memory of my mother.
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Nikky Morgan-Smith :: Wing Song
11 June - 17 July 2016
Gallery Upstairs
This body of work explores flight and movement. My process explores the relationship between the body and emotional memories (telling a story or a secret) and the way in which the conscious and the unconscious might collide in a sinister yet beautiful manner.
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What a Life! Rock Photography by Tony Mott
11 June - 13 August 2016
Galleries 1, 2 & Vicki Fayle
Australia's premier rock photographer, Tony Mott, has captured all aspects of the rock'n'roll lifestyle through his camera lens.
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Bundjalung stories: our art, our connection to country
10 May - 4 June 2016
Gallery Upstairs
Aboriginal students from across Lismore's primary public schools gathered to meet with, and talk to, respected Bundjalung Elder and renowned artist, Uncle Digby Moran. Digby's storytelling became the inspiration for the children's works of art presented in this exhibition.
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Jasper Hills :: Trip
9 Apr - 4 June 2016
24:7 Window Space
Jasper Hills investigates the affective resonance of grotesque, schlocky and low-brow imagery, alluding to '60s psychedelic patterns.
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Martin Munz :: Not a pretty picture
8 Mar - 2 Apr 2016
Gallery Upstairs
Not a Pretty Picture is a truncated, somewhat random and incomplete typology (a series of images of similar kind) of portraits of our time, of personalities readily identified with the conservative agendas for Australia. The work consists of 28 portraits which come together to make up a single work.
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Emma Burrows :: Mothertongue
9 Apr - 7 May 2016
Gallery Upstairs
This exhibition looks at the innate human desire to forge connections with people and with place by way of still and moving imagery.
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INSIGHT, the Hermannsburg Potters Collection of the Moreton Bay Region
9 Apr - 4 June 2016
Vicki Fayle Gallery & Screen Gallery
An exhibition of the colourful and distinctive pots of the Hermannsburg Potters, a group of Aboriginal women who live and work in Ntaria (or Hermannsburg) in Central Australia.
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The Art of Nutter Buzacott
9 Apr - 4 June 2016
Galleries 1 & 2
An exhibition of works by Nutter Buzacott (1905-1976) curated by the artist's daughter, Lee Dunn. The show spans from the late 1920s to the 1970s, tracing the legacy of this important but overlooked Australian artist.
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HEATHER MATTHEW :: I was here
6 Feb - 5 Mar 2016
Gallery Upstairs
An exhibition by Heather Matthew, I Was Here celebrates the 'tagging' of graffiti artists and the tradition of proclaiming existence at a geographical place in time.
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HILARY HERRMANN :: THE VOYAGE
6 Feb - 2 Apr 2016
Gallery 1
The Voyage features new works by the locally based painter, Hilary Herrmann.
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DEBORAH KELLY: NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (IN ALL OUR GLORY)
6 Feb - 2 Apr 2016
Galleries 2, 3 & Screen
No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), is comprised of 20 life-sized collaborative collage portraits and a collective collage process of learning and exchange, conceived and co-ordinated by artist Deborah Kelly and commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney.
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Room to Move :: Kathryn Dolby
5 Dec 2015 - 30 Jan 2016
Gallery Upstairs
Kathryn Dolby is an artist whose process starts when she is going about her daily life, transiting through the world. Motion, colour and environment lodge themselves in her memory as painterly thoughts to be reclaimed in the studio through the process of laying down her material.
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Maude Boate :: Maudeville
5 Dec 2015 - 30 Jan 2016
Vicki Fayle Gallery
An exhibition of the costumes of Maude Boate, the Queen of Lismore's drag queens
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Presagio :: Alberto Sanchez
31 Oct - 28 Nov 2015
Gallery Upstairs
Alberto Sanchez's work sets out to alter and re-imagine our perception of the landscape, whether urban or natural, exploring the boundaries between painting and photography in search of a reality unconstrained by space or time
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Still Life: Varying Domesticities :: Miriam Salomon
12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
24:7 Front Window Space
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Trading Place :: Clare Urquhart & Cassandra Purdon
12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
Gallery Upstairs
As the name suggests Trading Place is an interactive Art installation that trades objects and artworks from one place for another place.
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Auditory Visions
12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
Vicki Fayle Gallery & Screen Gallery
Auditory Visions is an exhibition combining works by seven Australian printmakers with original interpretive soundscapes responding to the artworks
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Emma Wright :: Record Me Then
18 July – 4 Sept 2015 :: 24:7 Window Space
This painting installation by emerging artist Emma Wright is a personal reflection on nostalgia,
comprising painted albums made by the artist's parents
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G-Click
18 July - 4 Sept 2015
Gallery Upstairs
G-Click is a photographic exhibition presenting the many perspectives of Goonellabah through the eyes and lenses of young people attending programs with Northern Rivers Social Development Council (NRSDC) from the Computer Clubhouse
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The Rennie Ellis Show
18 July - 5 Sept 2015
Galleries 1 & 2
Although invariably inflected with his own personality and wit, the thousands of social documentary photographs taken by Ellis now form an important historical record
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Hiromi Tango Art Magic :: Remnant
12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
Galleries 1 & 2
Hiromi is a sculptural installation and performance artist who uses textiles to weave together tactile and immersive environments by hand. Her stunningly intricate works use new and recycled fabrics, yarn and objects
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am_n boxes :: Kurtis Adamson
30 May - 11 July 2015
24:7 Front Window Space
Kurtis Adamson utilises discarded photographic negatives from the early-1900s to address a relation between analogue and digital media, and the changing perceptions around photographic archives
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Somewhere over the Rainbow :: Scott Harrower
30 May - 11 July 2015
Gallery Upstairs
A poignantly reflective exhibition exploring feelings of powerlessness, but at the same time, of hope and finding a way through
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Southern Cross University Curatorial Lab
This object-based installation by the peripatetic artist Miriam Salomon comprises plastic domestic objects from the late-1960s and early-‘70s, alongside sand-blasted tins collected from second-hand stores in Lismore
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Rodney Glick: Hi, I'm Everyone...
30 May - 11 July 2015
Gallery 1
Rodney Glick is an Australian artist currently living and working across Indonesia whose sculptures combine real, spiritual and imagined realms
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Silenced :: Jennifer Collins
18 Apr - 23 May 2015
24:7 Front Window Space
Silenced is an installation of screenprints, papercuts and paper objects
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From here to there :: Julie De Lorenzo
18 Apr - 23 May 2015
Gallery Upstairs
This exhibition captures glimpses seen on the move; roads, powerlines, figures in the streets, dusty landscapes and changing light
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Cosmology in Me :: Michael Philp
18 Apr - 23 May 2015
Gallery 1
Philp's lyrical, poignant works are about experiences that have affected him and this exhibition brings together two bodies of work from different periods of his life
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Judy Cassab :: Dear Bodhi
18 April - 23 May 2015
Vicki Fayle Gallery & Screen Gallery
Judy Cassab has an enduring relationship with the Northern Rivers, primarily through her son John Seed, grandson Bodhi and at Bodhi Farm
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Mahala Magins :: Post Iceland
28 Feb - 12 Apr 2015
Gallery Upstairs
After returning from a residency in Iceland, Magins found it changed her painting, so that when she returned to Australia she felt the influences everywhere
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Dreamer :: Daphne Kal-Ma-Kuta Dux
7 Feb - 21 Feb 2015
Gallery Upstairs
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The Lucinda Digital Video Project :: Amazing Myths and Legends
7 Feb - 21 Feb 2015
Gallery 2
Weird and wonderful short films by children in years 4, 5 and 6, exploring the theme of Amazing Myths and Legends
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Australia Fair
7 Feb - 21 Feb 2015
Gallery 1
Artworks from Lismore Regional Gallery's permanent collection showing the diversity and character the Australian landscape.
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Keg De Souza :: If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood...
7 Feb - 21 Feb 2015
Vicki Fayle Gallery
Keg De Souza explores the gentrification of a squatter settlement built in the 70s on a graveyard alongside Yogyakarta’s main river, Kali Code
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Archibald Prize 2014
28 Feb 2015 - 12 Apr 2015
The Archibald Prize has continued to be one of Australia’s most prestigious art awards and never fails to draw interest, attention and debate.
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I wish my house had legs :: Vitor Dos Santos
20 Dec 2014 - 31 Jan 2015
Gallery Upstairs
Vitor Dos Santos explores painting as an analytical exercise of finding personal motifs and imagery, and exploring form, colour and the medium of pain
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Resistant Obsolescence
20 Dec 2014 - 31 Jan 2015
Galleries 1 & 2
Resistant Obsolescence is a partnership between Lismore Regional Gallery, RealArtWorks and Tralala Blip – the latter 2 being creative collectives for differently abled artists.
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DAVID BURNETT :: The Presidents: from JFK to Obama
5 Dec 2015 - 30 Jan 2016
Galleries 1 & 2
David Burnett is one of the world's leading photojournalists covering politics, sport, conflict and portraiture. He is one of the few photographers to have photographed all the American presidents since John F. Kennedy
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Untitled :: Brigette Lucas
1 Nov – 14 Dec 2014
24:7 Window Space
Brigette Lucas explores her identity as a woman with Alopecia (hair loss), questioning the pervasive association between luxurious head hair and the feminine ideal
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Rahima Jackson :: It's my house, but you can't come in
1 Nov - 14 Dec 2014
Gallery Upstairs
An exhibition which investigates individual perceptions of the conscious experience. Rahima Jackson was winner of the 2013 Lismore Regional Gallery Graduate Award
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Raimond de Weerdt :: Silent Speech
1 Nov - 14 Dec 2014
Gallery 3 & Screen Gallery
Raimond de Weerdt subverts the notion that photography captures reality and is therefore a measure of truth
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Lismore 2074: Imagining Lismore 60 years Hence
1 Nov - 14 Dec 2014
Galleries 1 & 2
A participatory project, led by Duke Albada in which the community were asked: “How do you imagine Lismore in 2074?â€
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The Three Brothers Art Project
13 Sept - 26 Oct 2014
Gallery Upstairs
On May 22nd 2014, selected Bundjalung students from the six local public primary schools and Roy Gordon came together at Albert Park Public School to produce a series of paintings based on The Three Brothers Dreaming story
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Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize 2013
13 Sept - 26 Oct 2014
Galleries 1 & 2
Finalists from the richest art incentive on offer for Aboriginal artists born in or living in New South Wales
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ANNIQUE GOLDENBERG :: LIVING WATER: the river hid
19 July - 6 Sept 2014
Gallery Upstairs
As inspiration for her latest exhibition, Annique Goldenberg spent many hours kayaking
along the Wilson River and Leycester Creek.
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Protest Songs: Artful Actions
19 July - 6 Sept 2014
Galleries 1, 2, Vicki Fayle & Screen
Protest Songs includes artists and activists who use art or creative means to give visibility to issues
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Jitka Donnelly
Uranus
5 April - 25 May 2014
24:7 Window
Jitka Donnelly appropriates from popular culture and cult movies to create portraits and still lifes that often appear subtly menacing and uncanny
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Retrospective :: 20 Light Years On :: The Lismore Lantern Parade
31 May - 13 July
24:7 Window
A Lismore Lantern Parade exhibit presenting an archive of previous Lismore Lantern Parades in a digital media display
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Sense of self ... through the eyes of Jarjums
31 May - 13 July
Gallery Upstairs
Jarjum Centre Preschool Lismore has accelerated the art program and engaged artists, Digby Moran and Penny Evans, to teach children at Jarjum. Some of the resulting works will be shown in this exhibition
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DUO
31 May- 13 July 2014
Galleries 1 & 2
In 2014 Lismore Regional gallery ran Duo: Learning the ropes a program that presented 5 young people with unique one-on-one sessions with a professional artist as a mentoring and creative exchange that culminated into an exhibition of the artworks created during the program.
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Close to Home: Cec Bown
5 Apr - 25 May 2014
Gallery Upstairs
Cecil Bown's imagery increasingly stems from how the camera’s lens brings a particular perspective on the world, drawing out the aesthetic qualities in landscape
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Big Garden: Jan Davis
31 May - 13 July 2014
Vicki Fayle Gallery
Big Garden, an exhibition in the Lismore Regional Gallery’s sixtieth anniversary year, uses installation to articulate a relationship with place
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2015 Splendour In The Grass NEWART Commission
Splendour In The Grass 'New Art' Commission. A partnership between Splendour In The Grass & Lismore Regional Gallery
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living things
5 Apr - 25 May 2014
Galleries 1, 2, Vicki Fayle & Screen
Curated by Wes Hill, this exhibition centres on two artists whose practices centre's on the staging of chance encounters with found materials
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The AB-sorption Method: Penny Evans
This exhibition of works on paper and film by Penny Evans refers to the artist's Indigenous (Kamilaroi/Gomeroi) heritage and is a reconstruction of her family identity subsequent to assimilationist policies in NSW
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Journeying :: Lloyd Rees
8 Feb - 30 Mar 2014
Galleries 1 & 2
This exhibition will cover 70 years of the artist's practice in over 40 works
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Sounding Out Frames: Isabelle Delmotte
8 Feb - 30 March 2014
24:7 Window Space
Isabelle Delmotte's Sounding Out Frames draws attention to ambient noise and its role within cinematic language, examining the slippages between real and virtual soundscapes
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Stepping stones :: Ana Wojak
8 Feb - 30 Mar 2013
Vicki Fayle & Screen Galleries
Ana Wojak retraces her family's journey of migration in reverse order, following the matriachal line, weaving them together with a performative gesture to be recorded at each site of significance
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Eternity :: Leigh Arnold
Leigh Arnold is a Lismore-based artist who approaches art with an individual vision
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Retracing Bundjalung National Park
A reflection on an affinity with the Bundjalung National Park by artists; Christine James, Janet de Boos and Christopher Meagher
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Private Bits
Liz Menzies
19 Oct - 1 Dec 2013 ::: Gallery Upstairs
New work by Liz Menzies, winner of the 2012 Lismore Regional Gallery Graduate Award, offered annually to students graduating from Visual Arts at Southern Cross University.
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The Source
Luke Close, Louise Irving, Liz Stops
19 Oct - 1 Dec 2013 :: Vicki Fayle Gallery
A unique collaborative exchange between local artists and landholders.
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Pam Tippett
a survey exhibition
19 Oct - 1 Dec 2013 :: Galleries 1 & 2
Tippett's still life's depicting isolated domestic objects in staged interiors are striking in their accuracy. This mannered attention and command of paint elevates her superficially ordinary subject matter to become objects of grace
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The circus of life
Sarah Harvey
31 Aug - 13 Oct 2013
24:7 WIndow Space
The circus is a realm of imagination, delight, comedy, and wondrous happenings which for most of us is beyond the everyday
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OPEN NARRATIVES
Jonathan Crowther
31 Aug – 13 Oct 2013
Gallery Upstairs
This exhibition consists of recent paintings by Jonathan Crowther focussing on the idea of narrative and the unfolding of our individual personal stories
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Buyuhyn-wana
The transformative persona
31 Aug - 13 Oct 2013
Galleries 1 & 2, Vicki Fayle & Screen Galleries
Curated by esteemed curator Djon Mundine, this exhibition will bring together historical and spiritual objects from the collection of Robert Bleakley, and place them in context against contemporary screen based works alluding to ideas of transformation.
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EMBEDDED IMAGERY
Sharon Thompson
20 July - 25 Aug 2013
24:7 Window Space
Sharon Thompson’s installation recontextualises random, everyday, and overlooked elements and objects usually belonging to the domestic environment.
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BIRDMAN
Jasmine Scheidler
20 July - 25 Aug 2013
Gallery Upstairs
These works explore the way shapes shift and change: the intangible, intermittent moments of in-between and the space of the indefinable.
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HERBARIUM VIVVM - A RICH CONFUSION
Shelagh Morgan
20 July - 25 Aug 2013
Galleries 1 & 2
Shelagh Morgan's work is a documentation of plants that are considered to be weeds growing on her property at Eureka near Lismore
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Laurence Aberhart :: The other side
20 July - 25 Aug 2013
Vicki Fayle & Screen Galleries
New Zealand photographer, Laurence Aberhart, is internationally renowned for his black and white prints of landscapes and interiors and overlooked details of small town life, all produced using a 100 year old wooden 8x10 inch view camera
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Anna Dorrington :: It's wasn't all Woodstock
8 June - 14 July 2013
Gallery Upstairs
An exhibition and installation by local artist, Anna Dorrington.
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FACES
ABC OPEN
For the month of June the ABC Open monthly photography challenge 'Snapped' has chosen FACES - big and bold as its theme. ABC Open North Coast and the Lismore Lantern Parade will project the FACES captured by local photographers onto two buildings in the CBD as well as during the finale at the 2013
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The Promtheus of Surrey Hills
Michael Moynihan
13 Apr - 2 June 2013
24:7 Front Window Space
Michael Moynihan's lyrical sculpture/installation takes discarded materials and objects that still contain material memory of past use. The Prometheus of Surrey Hills is a mechanical piece, assembled from materials salvaged...
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An Implicit Inheritance
Daniela Bradley
13 Apr - 2 June 2013
Gallery Upstairs
The front plane of a house is a presentation. Although it can be descriptive of our traits, our choices, or socio economic position, it does not tell the story of our experiences...
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Northern Rivers Portrait Prize 2013
8 June - 14 July 2013
Galleries 1, 2 & Vicki Fayle Gallery
The Northern Rivers Portrait Prize is a painting and drawing prize open to artists whose artwork depicts a person from the Northern Rivers who the artist believes to be of value to their lives and/or to the community
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Dodeca: Martha Beasley
15 Dec 2012 - 3 Feb 2013
24:7 Front Window Space
This installation made up of the dodecahedron, a 12-sided geometric form explored by many scientists and artists over the centuries because of its beautiful symmetry. Beasley uses multi-coloured dodecahedrons, hanging them to form a grid, and cultivating an incredible visual effect.
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2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize
The 2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is a biennial prize and a continuation of the Northern Rivers Portrait Prize
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The new charge
Australian women modernists
9 Feb - 7 Apr 2013
Galleries 2, 3 & Screen
The new charge takes as its lead work by Thea Proctor in Lismore Regional Gallery's collection, considering her practice against her contemporaries including Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Grace Cossington Smith, Clarice Beckett, Ethel Spowers and others.
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Not Quite Square
The story of Northern Rivers architecture
13 Apr - 2 June 2013
Galleries 1, 2, Vicki Fayle & Screen
The Northern Rivers is home to a multitude of wonderful houses designed, made and lived in by people who have chosen to live outside the square. This exhibition studies this phenomenon and tracks the influence of an owner builder culture that emerged in the region after the 1973 Aquarius Festival in Nimbin.
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SURVIVOR: DADANG CHRISTANTO
21 July - 26 Aug 2012
Gallery 3 & 24:7 Front Window Space
Survivor is a major art project by contemporary Indonesian-Australian artist Dadang Christanto. Initially developed in 2008 as a live protest against an environmental disaster that occurred in East Java which saw hot volcanic mud wipe out 11 villages and destroy many lives, Survivor has since transgressed beyond cultural borders, evolving into a universal, multi-faceted reflection upon human survival and what it means to endure tragic historical events, loss and death.
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In the Heart (Magellan Street, Lismore): Clare Twomey
15 Dec - 24 Feb 2012
Gallery Upstairs
In the Heart is a celebration of the daily maps created by foot traffic throughout the main streets of Lismore, maps that are marked by the laughter, fear and worry of those who live in or visit the area. The work reflects upon feelings of emptiness and vacancy, concentrating on the vulnerability of the man-made environment once it reaches its use by date, a stage where it is no longer something to be valued and admired.
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Night Visions
15 Dec - 3 Feb 2012
Galleries 1, 2, 3 & Screen Gallery
An exhibition that examines the changing light of the night. At night gaps in what we see are filled with atmosphere and forms from our imagination.
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