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

Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2024 Exhibition

30 November 2024 – 9 February 2025

Tia Mavanie

15 November 2024 – 5 January 2025

Chloe Smith: Unbearable Incandescence

27 September - 10 November 2024

Sprung Dance Theatre: Sprung News

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

Earth Matter

3 February – 23 March 2024

MARTY BAPTIST: TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

24 November – 16 December 2023

The Secret Life of Collage Club

Thursday November 2 - Saturday 18 November

Aquarius50

12 May – 20 May 2023

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

25 August - 23 September 2023

Lismore Encore

20 July - 19 August 2023

Jana Moser: moss moves

24 June - 15 July 2023

Mathew Daymond: The Complacency of Man and Machine

22 April - 13 May 2023

HIROMI TANGO: RAINBOW

11 March - 15 April 2023

Aris Prabawa, Flame of Power

31 January to 25 February

Lyndall Phelps: Re-collect

29 October - 11 December
Grafton Regional Gallery
Courtyard Gallery

Andrew Rewald: Plant Treaty

July 2022 - Dec 2022
The Quad

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

5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 3

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

12 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 1

Sandra Taylor - Lonesome for Love in the Garden of Eden: A little Operetta

5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 2

Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2021

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

Deborah Kelly - CREATION

6 Nov 2021 – 6 Feb 2022
Gallery 1

Love, Lies and Indoctrination :: Asphyxia

29 Oct - 21 Nov 2021
Event Space

Aly Russell :: Learning to See

2 Oct - 21 Nov 2021
Gallery 5

Face Me: The Art of Deafhood

7 Aug - 3 Oct 21
Gallery 2 & 3

Jenny Kitchener :: Seed

9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 3

Michael Cusack :: Steel Frames and Figureheads

9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 2

Ancient Vibrations :: Barry RAINMAN Boland

19 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 5

Ryan Lee :: Wonnarua

5 May - 8 Aug 21
Corridor

Geoffrey Cotton and Georgi Milln :: After the Plague

24 Apr - 13 Jun 2021
Gallery 5

Max Dupain: Australian Modern

5 May - 8 Aug 2021
Gallery 1

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

Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020

6 Mar - 25 April 2021
Gallery 1

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

Emma Gardner :: Wildish

16 Jan - 28 Feb 2021
Gallery 5

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

Karla Dickens :: A Dickensian Sideshow

21 Nov 20 - 21 Feb 21
Gallery 1

Melissa Harvey :: The Silent Pool

22 Aug - 4 Oct 2020
Gallery 5

Body Language

29 Aug - 8 Nov 2020
Gallery 1

Charlotte Haywood & Edward Horne plus Invited guests :: Mnemonic Vegetables

29 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 3 & The Quadrangle

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

Occulture :: Steve Waller

28 Mar - 28 June 2020
Gallery 5

Lore :: Skye Baker

8 Feb - 22 Mar 2020
Gallery 5

Dissonant Rhythms :: Ross Manning

17 June - 16 August 2020
Galleries 1 & 2

Blinman Slag :: Grayson Cooke

1 Feb – 5 Apr 2020
Gallery 2

The Partnershipping Project

7 Dec 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Gallery 1

The Alchemists: North Coast Woodfire

23 Nov 2019 - 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 3

Media Studies :: Bennett Miller

1 Feb – 5 Apr 2020
Gallery 3

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

Idle Worship

17 Aug- 13 Oct 2019
Gallery 1

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

The Dark Sublime :: Emma Walker

31 Aug - 27 Oct 2019
Gallery 2

Gesture of Balance :: Grant Vaughan

6 Jul - 8 Sept 2019
Gallery 3

Eesti :: Jay-Dea Lopez

22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019
Gallery 2

Object Therapy

22 Jun – 11 Aug 2019
Gallery 1

Fighting not Dancing :: Scott Harrower

18 May – 30 June 2019
Gallery 3

Data Streams :: Dan McDonnell

27 Apr – 9 Jun 2019
Gallery 5

Young Archies

Finalists on display
from 16 Apr – 16 Jun 2019

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

Paperbark :: Lionel Bawden

6 Apr – 12 May 2019
Gallery 3

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

BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN :: David Griggs

8 Dec 2018 - 24 Feb 2019
Gallery 1

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

Matt O'Brien :: Meander - Place and Experience

20 Oct - 25 Nov 2018
Gallery 5

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

Missing You :: The Missing You Collective: Hilary Herrmann, Rene Bolten, Kellie O'Dempsey, Michelle Dawson

30 June - 29 July 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

The Trailer Project :: The Lure of the Sea

18 - 31 August 2018
The Quad

The Trailer Project is a mobile art center.

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

From Here to There: Australian Art and Walking

7 July - 26 Aug 2018
Gallery 1

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

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.

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

Penny Evans :: Death to a Stereotype

17 Mar - 15 Apr 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.

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 .

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

Art on Bundjalung Country

9 Dec 2017 - 11 Feb 2018
Gallery 2 & 3

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.

Dreaming Trails

29 Oct - 3 Dec 2017
Gallery 2 & 3

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?”

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

2015 Splendour In The Grass NEWART Commission

Splendour In The Grass 'New Art' Commission. A partnership between Splendour In The Grass & Lismore Regional Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Retracing Bundjalung National Park

A reflection on an affinity with the Bundjalung National Park by artists; Christine James, Janet de Boos and Christopher Meagher

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

8 June - 14 July 2013
Gallery Upstairs

An exhibition and installation by local artist, Anna Dorrington.

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

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...

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

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.

2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

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

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.

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.

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.