timber sculpture in foreground with a lake and reflected icey mountains in distant background.
timber sculpture in foreground with a lake and reflected icey mountains in distant background.
Tia Mavanie, Me Too (detail), 2024, Courtesy of the artist

Tia Mavanie

Tia Mavanie

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Preservation, decay and memory are the unifying themes at the core of this work, focusing on Mesopotamian mythology, philosophy and forgotten heroines of history. Tia Mavanie applies the alchemical forces of fire and water on timber to explore the interplay between chaos and order and their impact on the structured realms of culture and nature. Fire represents destruction and renewal and water signifies life and its ever-flowing, changing course. These elements play crucial roles in stories of creation, regeneration and the cyclical nature of life, which continues to shape our understanding of the world today.

timber sculpture in foreground with a lake and reflected icey mountains in distant background.
Tia Mavanie, Me Too (detail), 2024, Courtesy of the artist

Exhibitions

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 black and white image by Sonka Pietrek
Sonka Pietrek
Memory of motion
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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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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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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.