Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

Marian Tubbs 'lotus eaters (wellness)' (detail) 2025, lenticular photograph. Courtesy the artist and STATION.
Marian Tubbs
I don’t sleep I just dream: unrefined in high definition
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Club Ate, Ex Nilalang (video still) 2017. Courtesy the artists and Art Gallery of New South Wales Club Ate
Club Ate
Ex Nilalang, episodes 1 - 4
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An orange, yellow and grey painting of two figure hunched over exchanging flames, by Clare Milledge
Clare Milledge
complex notophyll vine forest: ground-proof
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A room of people looking at a large projection
Marian Tubbs
And then plants are confused with stones. Rocks look like brains, stalactites like breasts, veins of iron like tapestries adorned with figures
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A white ceramic sculpture of two doll heads and a mollusc shape in between
Belinda Smith
Headstands and other feats of normal life
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Upcoming exhibitions

A colour photo of a silouetted figure standing next to a gate in a tunnel with the sea behind them
Isaac Julien
Western Union: small boats (The leopard)
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Guy Fredericks, Bleeding hearts and Morning glory (installation). Image courtesy Studio A
Guy Fredericks with Studio A
Bleeding hearts and Morning glory
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Damian Showyin, Suede blue (installation view), Mosman Art Gallery. Photo by Jacquie Manning
Damian Showyin with Studio A
Suede blue
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Sandra Kaji O’Grady 'Mixed gods' (detail) 2025, acrylic on cardboard box. Courtesy the artist
Sandra Kaji O’Grady
Boding
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Narmada Smith 'Shut Up and Paint' (detail) 2023, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist
Narmada Smith
Colour : gentle awareness
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Sarah Ujmaia 'And thank you to my baba for laying the timber floor' 2024. Photo by Christian Capurro.
Sarah Ujmaia
Marmoreum (28°48’34.4”S 153°16’45.6”E)
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Babette Robertson 'When we were in a forest, but the forest was called Paris’ (detail) 2025, oil and water-based pigment on canvas. Courtesy the artist.
Babette Robertson
And her hallway moves like the ocean
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Lindy Lee ‘The topography of rain’ 2022, fire, Chinese ink and rain on archival paper. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Lindy Lee.
Lismore Regional Gallery Permanent Collection
Recent acquisitions and restored works
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Past exhibitions

A black and white image by Sonka Pietrek
Sonka Pietrek
Memory of motion
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The Lismore City Library at night with a large scale projection of an animation of colourful boab trees.
Bronwyn Bancroft
Boab tree, bountiful in shape, standing on the plains
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Fania Connection Vase
Estefania Minniti
El tiempo es oro (time is gold)
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MMC Lismore
Mark Maurangi Carrol
Islands not to scale (Maru a’o) – Act II
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Install photo of Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali exhibition
Various artists
Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali Exhibition …we weave together
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Sonia Levi Artwork
Sonia Levy
We marry you, O sea, as a sign of true and perpetual dominion
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Melanie Valentine artwork
Melanie Valentine
Active Stillness
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A colourful and imaginative portrait
Various
Young Archie exhibition
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A portrait of Baker Boy by Matt Adante
Archibald Prize 2024
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Lisa Reihana GROUNDLOOP (video still)
Lisa Reihana
GROUNDLOOP
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An artwork by Peter Faulkner
Peter Faulkner
Dream vibrations
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Photo by Jacklyn Wagner
Jacklyn Wagner
Through the Heart...
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A black and white photo of the artist painting a canvas on the ground
Shadow Work
Veronica Rojas Nunez
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A black and white photo by Clare Conroy
Claire Conroy
The sky from here
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A landscape painting by Matt O'Brien
Matt O'Brien
What if the wind could speak
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Merinda Davies, 'Stone Skins', process photograph
Merinda Davies
We are all eating and being eaten
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A desert landscape photography by Monica Buscarino
Monica Buscarino
The heart is a lonely hunter - somewhere between time
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Install photograph of Chas Glover paintings
Chas Glover
Swan songs and other tunes
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Occurrent affair banner
Various
ProppaNOW
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Oil painting on paper by Aafia Ali Shah
Aafia Ali Shah
To Love the Empty Cup
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A colourful painting of people in a waterhole, with oversize carnivorous plants
Various artists
ARTEXPRESS
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Shoreline of sandy beach with bushland in distance with people on beach, swimming and in boats.
Various artists
Works from the Collection
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ceramic cassette tap with yellow background and 'Mental As Anything' title
Tim Fry
Local Knowledge
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two men walking in front of a wall - image is of the same man in different walking positions.
William Kentridge
I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine
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Multiple objects with inscriptions related to the issues concerning Indigenous Australians presented in the form of an elephant.
Various Artists
Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2024 Exhibition
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timber sculpture in foreground with a lake and reflected icey mountains in distant background.
Tia Mavanie
Tia Mavanie
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Image of woman in dance pose looking a her reflection in mirrored surface
Various artists
Buruugaa Garaa Buruu Garaa Budgeramgali (Saltwater people Freshwater people stories)
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colourful painting with patterns in circular forms
Nell Pearson and Matthew Brooks
Blue Island
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image of building interior detail with staircase, balconies, window and rail details with faded out areas in the image
The ArtHitects Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh
HANNAH HALLE
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a person in a men's suit with feet on a timber desk, arms in the air and face and much of their body covered by newspaper pages.
Sprung Dance Theatre
Sprung News
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sculptured dog form is made from sculptures of different foods including eggs, melons, gourds and bananas
Chloe Smith
Unbearable Incandescence
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Composite image of three different clay works. Object on left is a hand worked molded panel, in the centre, a ceramic bowl and on the right is a sculpture of a woman's head and torso on a clay ball
Luke Atkinson, Antionette O'Brien and Wally McGregor
Offering
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Blue crystals set on piece of stone surrounded by multiple narrow bamboo poles.
Various Artists
Earth Matter
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Two figures with gold faces, high 'beehive' hair, and a single set of large wings shared by the two figures.
The Huxleys
The Huxleys
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image of selection of objects including a snake, fish,skull, a bird and captions including 'awake', 'I'll take my chances', 'now', 'tomorrow', 'my life is was it safe', and others.
MARTY BAPTIST
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
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Multiple embroidered patches
Lyndall Phelps
Re-collect
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Collage of snakes and women
Various Artists
The Secret Life of Collage Club
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abstract patterns created by charcoal and Melaleuca tanins on paper
Jodi Woodward
How much art can you store under the bed
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Smoke from explosion with blue sky
Site Lab
Small Gestures toward infinity
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Floating sanctuary space with inflatable domed cvering
Various artists. Curated by Sandra Kaji-O’Grady and Kezia Geddes
Lismore Encore
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Abstract detail from colourful painting.
Jana Moser
Moss Moves
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A puddle of opaque substance the shape of two joined circles
Lucia Canuto
Seven Circles
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Three women sitting in hanging circular chairs with virtual reality headsets on
Xanthe Dobbie
Cloud Copy
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Man dancing in foreground with crowd behind.
Peter Derrett OAM
Aquarius50
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collage with musical instruments, parts of buildings a woman, and drawings of a cartoon creature and an eye
Mathew Daymond
The Complacency of Man and Machine
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Portait of the artist surrounded by colourful textile forms
Hiromi Tango
Rainbow
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Drawing with multiple depcitions of people and nature
Aris Prabawa
Flame of power
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Potted plants with screens decorated with artwork
Andrew Rewald
Plant Treaty
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Sculptures and images with formal funiture pieces
Kath Egan and Kate Rohde
We were made for these times
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Woven map of Afganistan showing territories of occupying power with the flags of all the occupying nations
Various
I Weave What I Have Seen: The War Rugs of Afghanistan
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Cartoon like painted image
Sandra Taylor
Lonesome for Love in the Garden of Eden: A little Operetta
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Neon light rings around a neon light eye
Joanna Kambourian
Fear Catchers & Neon Talismans
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depictions of aspects of the disruptions to the lives of Indigenous people caused by colonisation
Gus Kelly
Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These, 2021
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bright pink lighted sign 'GAYS GAZE'
Mr Pink
Gaze of Our Lives
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Steel frame structure
Michael Cusack
Steel Frames and Figureheads
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linocut print of plants
Jenny Kitchener
Seed
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linocut image of plants
Jenny Kitchener
Seed
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two images of women - one facing us, the other walking away
Asphyxia
Love, Lies and Indoctrination
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Abstract embroidery
Aly Russell
Learning to See
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Two women dressed in butterfly constumes
Deborah Kelly -
CREATION
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Accordion artist book
Lindy Lee
Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
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A suitcase with name tag attached
Various
Face Me: The Art of Deafhood
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sculpture of a young person sitting on a stool
Antoinette O'Brien
Kids that are banned from the Square
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Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2021 promotion
Various
Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2021 Exhibition
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painting of bat flying against night sky
Barry RAINMAN Boland
Ancient Vibrations
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Aboriginal man from Wonnarua nation with forest in the background
Ryan Lee
Wonnarua
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women in queue in butcher shop
Max Dupain
Australian Modern
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painting of a leaf covered A frame and painting of people gardening
Amber Wallis and Kylie Banyard
The Heroine Paint
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timber block maker
Akio Suzuki
Sense of Ekō
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sculpture of body on recycled door, chairs and tin coffin liner
Geoffrey Cotton and Georgi Milln
After the Plague
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young woman surrounded by bright coloured lines and painted patterns
Various Artists
Defiant
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two people on ladders looking into a full skip bin
Make or Break
Department of Non-Human Resources
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Portrait of Frank
Verity Nunan
Where are we supposed to go?
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pencil drawing of forest
Various Artists
Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020
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black design on tapa cloth
Various artists
Sihotie, Nioge, new from old :: Omie Tapa Art PNG
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painting of church against blue sky
Lucas Wright
In my town and your town
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a hand with bunch of flowers
Colleen Coy's Films
'2020 Each Week'
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image of woman linocut on Indian textiles
Emma Gardner
Wildish
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collage with duck, child, kangaroo and tiger
Karla Dickens
A Dickensian Sideshow
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Banner for Hurford Portrait Prize
Various Artists
2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize
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painted representation of covid cells
Jeremy Hawkes
Ingress
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abstract paintings of storm clouds
Beki Davies
Latitudes of salt and sky
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sculpture of stockman on a horse
Various Artists
Body Language
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ceramic sculptures of bones
Penny Evans
Language of the Wounded
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collage of vegetables
Charlotte Haywood & Edward Horne plus Invited guests
Mnemonic Vegetables
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abstract landscape
Melissa Harvey
The Silent Pool
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child's singlet with car motif hanging on clothes line beside men's singlet with 'be a man' caption on front
Paulette Hayes
CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She'll Be Right, Mate!
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array of clock chimes
Ross Manning
Dissonant Rhythms
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painting of Lismore post office clock tower
Lismore Art Club
Celebrating 60 years
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mixed media image oj tree in landscape
Steve Waller
Occulture
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lit display case containing slay in front of wall the large mounted image of slag
Grayson Cooke
Blinman Slag
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white squirrel in front of striped background
Bennett Miller
Media Studies
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image of person in front of mountain in background and person falling
Skye Baker
Lore
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woman in red cot with a bird on her shoulder looking out with a city in ruins behind her
Zom Osborne
a New World
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boat with animal skin sails in foreground with another boat behind
Various Artists
The Partnershipping Project
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photograph of Andy Warhol
Various Artists
The Museum Project
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Three ceramic pieces with different cut out patterns
The Alchemists
North Coast Woodfire
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mixed media collage
Reynaldo Alcocer
Abyss
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geoff hannah pulls back the covers to show a sneak preview of his latest piece of woodwork
Chesta Drawz and the Lowboys
An exhibition of fine woodwork by Geoff Hannah and his students
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two people together with tree behind them and animals below
Jumaadi
Comes from the shadow
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assemblage with timber and carboard
Maggie Schreiber & Michael Donnelly
thing space
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artist in studio mixing paint with artworks behind her and jars of brushed in the foreground
Emma Walker
The dark sublime
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colourful abstract image
Grayson Cooke & Emma Walker
Open Air
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room with red lighting and red walls and floor with a large screen
Various Artists
Idle Worship
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one black and one white forms in shape of ginkgo seeds
Grant Vaughan
Gesture of balance
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image of storm clouds above treeless landscape
Jay-Dea Lopez
Eesti
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five women dancing with shawls on a high rock shelf with forest and lake landscape behind them
Melody Popple
Gunyah
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assemblage of repurposed objects to create shredder
Various Artists
Object therapy
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framed image of man and woman with a peacock in front
Katka Adams
Coming home
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a man with black eyes and another man threatening him with a closed fist.
Scott Harrower
Fighting not dancing
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Lismore Regional Gallery acknowledges the Widjabul Wia-bal people of the Bundjalung Nation as the traditional owners of the land upon which the gallery stands. We pay respects to elders past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples and their continuing connection to land, waters, community and the arts.