Merinda Davies: We are all eating and being eaten

2 May - 22 June

Aafia Ali Shah: To Love the Empty Cup

7 March – 27 April 2025

ProppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR

1 March – 27 April 2025

Tim Fry: Local Knowledge

10 January – 2 March 2025

Buruugaa Garaa Buruu Garaa Budgeramgali (Saltwater people Freshwater people stories)

27 September - 17 November 2024

Works from the Collection

6 December 2024 – 9 March 2025

William Kentridge: I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine

6 December 2024 – 16 February 2025

Tia Mavanie

15 November 2024 – 5 January 2025

Chloe Smith: Unbearable Incandescence

27 September - 10 November 2024

Nell Pearson and Matthew Brooks: Blue Island

27 September - 17 November 2024

The ArtHitects Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh: HANNAH HALLE

27 September - 17 November 2024

Offering

2 April - 11 May 2024

The Huxleys

21 December 2023 – 28 January 2024

MARTY BAPTIST: TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

24 November – 16 December 2023

The Secret Life of Collage Club

Thursday November 2 - Saturday 18 November

Where They Walked: Kylie Caldwell, Nickolla Clark, Luke Close, Jenn Rowe

30 September - 28 October 2023

Jodi Woodward: How much art can you store under the bed

25 August - 23 September 2023

Lismore Encore

20 July - 19 August 2023

Lucia Canuto: Seven Circles

24 June - 15 July 2023

Xanthe Dobbie: Cloud Copy

20 May - 17 June 2023

Mathew Daymond: The Complacency of Man and Machine

22 April - 13 May 2023

Aris Prabawa, Flame of Power

31 January to 25 February

SITE LAB // Small Gestures Toward Infinity

24 July - 17 September 2023

Lyndall Phelps: Re-collect

29 October - 11 December
Grafton Regional Gallery
Courtyard Gallery

Kath Egan and Kate Rohde - We were made for these times

5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 3

Joanna Kambourian - Fear Catchers & Neon Talismans

22 January 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 5

I Weave What I Have Seen: The War Rugs of Afghanistan

12 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 1

Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2021

4 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022
Galleries 2, 3 & 4

Mr Pink - Gaze of Our Lives

27 Nov 2021 - 16 Jan 2022
Gallery 5

Deborah Kelly - CREATION

6 Nov 2021 – 6 Feb 2022
Gallery 1

Aly Russell :: Learning to See

2 Oct - 21 Nov 2021
Gallery 5

Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award

Entries open: 14 June - 15 September

Antoinette O'Brien :: Kids that are banned from the Square

7 Aug - 26 Sept 2021
Gallery 5

Jenny Kitchener :: Seed

9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 3

Michael Cusack :: Steel Frames and Figureheads

9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 2

Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop

14 Aug - 24 Oct 21
Gallery 1

Ryan Lee :: Wonnarua

5 May - 8 Aug 21
Corridor

Geoffrey Cotton and Georgi Milln :: After the Plague

24 Apr - 13 Jun 2021
Gallery 5

The Department of Non-Human Resources :: Make or Break

1 Apr – 6 Jun 2021
Gallery 3

Amber Wallis and Kylie Banyard :: The Heroine Paint

12 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 3

Colleen Coy's Films :: '2020 Each Week'

10 Mar to 21 March 2021
Event Space

Akio Suzuki :: Sense of Ekō

12 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 2

Verity Nunan :: Where are we supposed to go?

6 Mar - 18 Apr 2021
Gallery 5

Sihotie, Nioge: new from old :: Omie Tapa Art PNG

6 Feb - 28 Mar 2021
Gallery 3

Lucas Wright :: In my town and your town

6 Feb – 28 Mar 2021
Gallery 2

Jeremy Hawkes :: Ingress

28 Nov 2020 - 10 Jan 2021
Gallery 5

Beki Davies :: Latitudes of Salt and Sky

10 Oct - 22 Nov 2020
Gallery 5

2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

7 Nov 2020 - 31 Jan 2021
Gallery 2, 3 & 4

Melissa Harvey :: The Silent Pool

22 Aug - 4 Oct 2020
Gallery 5

Body Language

29 Aug - 8 Nov 2020
Gallery 1

Penny Evans :: Language of the Wounded

22 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 2

Lismore Art Club :: Celebrating 60 years

4 July - 16 August 2020
Gallery 5

CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She'll Be Right, Mate! :: Paulette Hayes

17 June - 23 August 2020
Gallery 3

Defiant

3 Apr - 6 June 2021
Gallery 2

Lore :: Skye Baker

8 Feb - 22 Mar 2020
Gallery 5

Dissonant Rhythms :: Ross Manning

17 June - 16 August 2020
Galleries 1 & 2

a New World :: Zom Osborne

21 Dec 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Gallery 5

The Partnershipping Project

7 Dec 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Gallery 1

The Alchemists: North Coast Woodfire

23 Nov 2019 - 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 3

The Museum Project

2 Nov 2019 – 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 2

Reynaldo Alcocer :: Abyss

9 Nov – 15 Dec 2019
Gallery 5

Open Air :: Grayson Cooke & Emma Walker

Screening in the Event Space
31 Aug - 20 Oct 2019

thing space :: Maggie Schreiber & Michael Donnelly

21 Sept - 3 Nov 2019
Gallery 5

Gunyah :: Melody Popple

3 Aug - 15 Sept 2019
Gallery 5

Chesta Drawz and the LowBoys :: An exhibition of fine woodwork by Geoff Hannah and his students

19 Oct - 1 Dec 2019
Gallery 1

Comes from the shadow :: Jumaadi

14 Sept - 17 Nov 2019
Gallery 3

Gesture of Balance :: Grant Vaughan

6 Jul - 8 Sept 2019
Gallery 3

Eesti :: Jay-Dea Lopez

22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019
Gallery 2

Coming Home :: Katka Adams

15 June - 28 July 2019
Gallery 5

Fighting not Dancing :: Scott Harrower

18 May – 30 June 2019
Gallery 3

Data Streams :: Dan McDonnell

27 Apr – 9 Jun 2019
Gallery 5

Museum of My Friends #1 :: Marion Conrow

9 Mar - 21 Apr 2019
Gallery 5

2018 Archibald Prize

18 Apr - 16 June 2019
Gallery 1, 2 & 4

Jewelled Net :: Nicky McLaughlin & Virginia Reid

19 Jan – 2 Mar 2019
Gallery 5

Unrestful Emptiness, Restless Silence :: Jessica O’Connor

1 Dec 2018 – 13 Jan 2019
Gallery 5

Rhythm of Protest :: Lawrence English

2 Mar – 11 Apr 2019
Gallery 1

The Terania Creek Protest :: David Kemp, Michael Murphy, Hugh Nicholson, Paul Tait & Jeni Kendall

16 Feb - 11 Apr 2019
Gallery 2

Hey, Listen Up :: Amanda Bromfield

16 Feb – 31 Mar 2019
Gallery 3

Riverstones and Ramifications :: Bronwyn Bancroft

1 Dec 2018 - 10 Feb 2019
Gallery 2 & 3

Dirt and Ash :: Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey

20 Oct - 2 Dec 2018
Gallery 1: The Margaret Olley Gallery

The Trailer Project :: The Lure of the Sea

28 Sept - 6 Oct 2018
In The Quad

The Trailer Project is a mobile art center.

Walking Home: Ailsa Piper
In partnership with Byron Bay Writers Festival

5.30 - 6.30pm
Fri 3 Aug 2018 in Gallery 1

Victoria Pitel :: Far to Go

8 Sept - 14 Oct 2018
Gallery 5

Susan Fell Mclean :: Gondwana Colour: Eucalyptus Colour

4 Aug - 2 Sept 2018
Gallery 5

Binjil Dubais Northern Rivers Sea of Bellies

6 - 15 July 2018
Event Space

Screenworks :: Createability Films

2 June- 22 July 2018 | Event Space

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.

Heart & Soul :: Jacklyn Wagner and Peter Derrett

29 Sept - 25 Nov 2018
Gallery 2 & 3

Growing up on The Island :: Albert (Digby) Moran

1 Sept - 14 Oct 2018
Gallery 1

Standing Rock :: Angus Mordant

2 June - 22 July
Gallery 3

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.

The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

28 July - 23 Sept 2018
Gallery 2 & 3

Official opening 12noon Sat 28 July 2018

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

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.

Beguile: European Masters:17th - 20th Century

3 Mar - 6 May 2018
Gallery 1

Caitlin Reilly & Kate Ford :: The roads take us to where the quiet hills speak

21 Apr - 20 May 2018
Gallery 5

Bryce Anderson :: Rodeo Role Play

10 Feb - 11 Mar 2018
Gallery 5

Works from the Permanent Collection

The Vicki Fayle Gallery has a selection of works from the Permanent Collection and The Hannah Cabinet on display.

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.

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).

Ali Noble & Cybele Cox :: The Golden Flowerpot: Arcane Folly

6 Jan - 4 Feb 2018
Gallery 5

EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection

16 Dec 2017 - 26 Feb 2018
Gallery 1

sarah-jane mcgrath :: obsolete

1 Dec - 31 Dec 2017
Gallery 5

Leora Sibony :: Industrial Relations

29 Oct - 26 Nov 2017
Gallery 5

An ongoing exploration of industrial structures in the landscape.

Four Women: (I do Belong) Double

29 Oct - 10 Dec 2017
Gallery 1

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HILARY HERRMANN :: THE VOYAGE

6 Feb - 2 Apr 2016
Gallery 1

The Voyage features new works by the locally based painter, Hilary Herrmann.

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.

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

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

Still Life: Varying Domesticities :: Miriam Salomon

12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
24:7 Front Window Space

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Silenced :: Jennifer Collins

18 Apr - 23 May 2015
24:7 Front Window Space

Silenced is an installation of screenprints, papercuts and paper objects

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

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

Dreamer :: Daphne Kal-Ma-Kuta Dux

7 Feb - 21 Feb 2015
Gallery Upstairs

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eternity :: Leigh Arnold

Leigh Arnold is a Lismore-based artist who approaches art with an individual vision

25 years of inclusion

The Tropical Fruits Inc. a GLBTI social his/her/our/story An exhibition examining the important role Tropical Fruits Inc serves and the fun, creativity and social awareness it fosters

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Anna Dorrington :: It's wasn't all Woodstock

8 June - 14 July 2013
Gallery Upstairs

An exhibition and installation by local artist, Anna Dorrington.

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...

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...

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

2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

The 2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is a biennial prize and a continuation of the Northern Rivers Portrait Prize

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.

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.

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.

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.