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Artists: Neil Frazer, James Burgess, Albert Namatjira, Hector Gilliland, Hal Missingham, Valerie Fay Smith, Neil Frazer, John Witzig, Tim Storrier, David Strachan, Robyn Sweaney
Artworks from Lismore Regional Gallery’s permanent collection showing the diversity and character the Australian landscape. From suburban Lismore to the deep red centre, this exhibition reflects something quintessentially Australian.
30 September - 28 October 2023
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29 October - 11 December
Grafton Regional Gallery
Courtyard Gallery
5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 3
22 January 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 5
12 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 1
5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 2
29 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 3 & The Quadrangle
17 June - 23 August 2020
Gallery 3
19 Oct - 1 Dec 2019
Gallery 1
1 Dec 2018 – 13 Jan 2019
Gallery 5
16 Feb - 11 Apr 2019
Gallery 2
20 Oct - 2 Dec 2018
Gallery 1: The Margaret Olley Gallery
28 Sept - 6 Oct 2018
In The Quad
The Trailer Project is a mobile art center.
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5.30 - 6.30pm
Fri 3 Aug 2018 in Gallery 1
30 June - 29 July 2018
Gallery 5
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.
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18 - 31 August 2018
The Quad
The Trailer Project is a mobile art center.
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2 June- 22 July 2018
Gallery 2
Frequency RED is a series of new works created in the REDinc. Supported Art studio in Lismore.
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28 July - 23 Sept 2018
Gallery 2 & 3
Official opening 12noon Sat 28 July 2018
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7 April - 27 May 2018
Event Space
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.
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12 May - 1 July 2018
Gallery 1
The Curtain Breathed Deeply is an expansive new commission by Sydney-based artist Justene Williams.
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21 Apr - 20 May 2018
Gallery 5
The Vicki Fayle Gallery has a selection of works from the Permanent Collection and The Hannah Cabinet on display.
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17 Feb - 1 Apr 2018
Upstairs Corridor
The dog symbolises unconditional love and companionship which are two characteristics I very much admire.
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17 Feb - 1 Apr 2018
Gallery 2
This exhibition will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Lismore and District Group-NSW Embroiderer's Guild .
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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).
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16 Dec 2017 - 26 Feb 2018
Gallery 1
29 Oct - 26 Nov 2017
Gallery 5
An ongoing exploration of industrial structures in the landscape.
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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.
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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.
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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
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10 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017
Gallery 2
good and happy
draw and paint and print
I draw superheroes monsters
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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20 Aug - 24 Sept 2016
24:7 Window Space
Jacob Boylans' practice centres on Australian iconography, with a particular emphasis on nostalgia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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6 Feb - 2 Apr 2016
Gallery 1
The Voyage features new works by the locally based painter, Hilary Herrmann.
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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.
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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.
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5 Dec 2015 - 30 Jan 2016
Vicki Fayle Gallery
An exhibition of the costumes of Maude Boate, the Queen of Lismore's drag queens
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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
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12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
24:7 Front Window Space
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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18 Apr - 23 May 2015
24:7 Front Window Space
Silenced is an installation of screenprints, papercuts and paper objects
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?â€
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Read MoreSplendour In The Grass 'New Art' Commission. A partnership between Splendour In The Grass & Lismore Regional Gallery
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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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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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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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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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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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Leigh Arnold is a Lismore-based artist who approaches art with an individual vision
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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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A reflection on an affinity with the Bundjalung National Park by artists; Christine James, Janet de Boos and Christopher Meagher
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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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19 Oct - 1 Dec 2013 :: Vicki Fayle Gallery
A unique collaborative exchange between local artists and landholders.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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8 June - 14 July 2013
Gallery Upstairs
An exhibition and installation by local artist, Anna Dorrington.
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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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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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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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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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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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The 2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is a biennial prize and a continuation of the Northern Rivers Portrait Prize
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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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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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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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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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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.
Read MoreLismore 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, present and emerging and extend that respect to all First Nations cultures and their contributing connection to land, waters, community and the arts.
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