Ryan Lee :: Wonnarua
5 May - 8 Aug 21
Corridor
'Wonnarua' aims to provoke discussion around themes of Indigenous ways of living in juxtaposition with Western Settler-state system's unsustainable, damaging ways of using stolen lands. In today's current global state of environmental (and cultural, communal and spiritual) emergency, the need to embrace traditional Indigenous knowledge is now more crucial than ever before. The traditional custodians of these lands have sustainably looked after country for over 90,000 years, yet in the short 231 years since colonisation these lands have been abused and sold for profit while the Aboriginal people and culture along with their vast knowledge for country and sustainable land management methods have been suppressed and put to the side.
The video diptych juxtaposes living portraits of five Aboriginal men from the Wonnarua Nation with provoking drone shots of the vast Musswellbrook coal mines, which are situated in the heart of the Wonnarua Nation.
This moving image installation advocates for profound inquiry into the events and resulting cultural, environmental and spiritual impacts that have taken place in this country in the short period since colonisation began in Australia. This work is a statement on a way of living; a plea for cultural embracement, reconciliation, and change; a push for government and corporate systems to stop oppressing Indigenous people and culture. It is a plea to listen, learn and implement the vast knowledge of First Nations people in the re-thinking of today's current systems that are clearly not working, in order for everyone to move forward inclusively, together as one.
Ryan Lee is an Indigenous Director of Photography and video artist who holds a Bachelor of Media Arts - Honours (Digital Media) from the University of New South Wales. He has exhibited in the Sydney Fringe Festival and contributed to a number of projects in the film and television industry.
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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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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
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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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