Nell Pearson and Matthew Brooks: Blue Island

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

The Huxleys

21 December 2023 – 28 January 2024

MARTY BAPTIST: TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

24 November – 16 December 2023

The Secret Life of Collage Club

Thursday November 2 - Saturday 18 November

Where They Walked: Kylie Caldwell, Nickolla Clark, Luke Close, Jenn Rowe

30 September - 28 October 2023

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

25 August - 23 September 2023

Lismore Encore

20 July - 19 August 2023

Lucia Canuto: Seven Circles

24 June - 15 July 2023

Xanthe Dobbie: Cloud Copy

20 May - 17 June 2023

Mathew Daymond: The Complacency of Man and Machine

22 April - 13 May 2023

Aris Prabawa, Flame of Power

31 January to 25 February

SITE LAB // Small Gestures Toward Infinity

24 July - 17 September 2023

Lyndall Phelps: Re-collect

29 October - 11 December
Grafton Regional Gallery
Courtyard Gallery

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

5 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 3

Joanna Kambourian - Fear Catchers & Neon Talismans

22 January 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 5

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

12 February 2022 - 27 February 2022
Gallery 1

Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2021

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

Mr Pink - Gaze of Our Lives

27 Nov 2021 - 16 Jan 2022
Gallery 5

Deborah Kelly - CREATION

6 Nov 2021 – 6 Feb 2022
Gallery 1

Aly Russell :: Learning to See

2 Oct - 21 Nov 2021
Gallery 5

Antoinette O'Brien :: Kids that are banned from the Square

7 Aug - 26 Sept 2021
Gallery 5

Face Me: The Art of Deafhood

7 Aug - 3 Oct 21
Gallery 2 & 3

Michael Cusack :: Steel Frames and Figureheads

9 Oct - 28 Nov 21
Gallery 2

Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop

14 Aug - 24 Oct 21
Gallery 1

Ancient Vibrations :: Barry RAINMAN Boland

19 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 5

Geoffrey Cotton and Georgi Milln :: After the Plague

24 Apr - 13 Jun 2021
Gallery 5

The Department of Non-Human Resources :: Make or Break

1 Apr – 6 Jun 2021
Gallery 3

Max Dupain: Australian Modern

5 May - 8 Aug 2021
Gallery 1

Colleen Coy's Films :: '2020 Each Week'

10 Mar to 21 March 2021
Event Space

Akio Suzuki :: Sense of Ekō

12 Jun - 1 Aug 2021
Gallery 2

Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020

6 Mar - 25 April 2021
Gallery 1

Sihotie, Nioge: new from old :: Omie Tapa Art PNG

6 Feb - 28 Mar 2021
Gallery 3

Lucas Wright :: In my town and your town

6 Feb – 28 Mar 2021
Gallery 2

Emma Gardner :: Wildish

16 Jan - 28 Feb 2021
Gallery 5

Beki Davies :: Latitudes of Salt and Sky

10 Oct - 22 Nov 2020
Gallery 5

2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

7 Nov 2020 - 31 Jan 2021
Gallery 2, 3 & 4

Karla Dickens :: A Dickensian Sideshow

21 Nov 20 - 21 Feb 21
Gallery 1

Body Language

29 Aug - 8 Nov 2020
Gallery 1

Penny Evans :: Language of the Wounded

22 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 2

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

29 Aug - 1 Nov 2020
Gallery 3 & The Quadrangle

CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She'll Be Right, Mate! :: Paulette Hayes

17 June - 23 August 2020
Gallery 3

Defiant

3 Apr - 6 June 2021
Gallery 2

Occulture :: Steve Waller

28 Mar - 28 June 2020
Gallery 5

Dissonant Rhythms :: Ross Manning

17 June - 16 August 2020
Galleries 1 & 2

a New World :: Zom Osborne

21 Dec 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Gallery 5

Blinman Slag :: Grayson Cooke

1 Feb – 5 Apr 2020
Gallery 2

The Alchemists: North Coast Woodfire

23 Nov 2019 - 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 3

The Museum Project

2 Nov 2019 – 26 Jan 2020
Gallery 2

Media Studies :: Bennett Miller

1 Feb – 5 Apr 2020
Gallery 3

Open Air :: Grayson Cooke & Emma Walker

Screening in the Event Space
31 Aug - 20 Oct 2019

thing space :: Maggie Schreiber & Michael Donnelly

21 Sept - 3 Nov 2019
Gallery 5

Idle Worship

17 Aug- 13 Oct 2019
Gallery 1

Chesta Drawz and the LowBoys :: An exhibition of fine woodwork by Geoff Hannah and his students

19 Oct - 1 Dec 2019
Gallery 1

Comes from the shadow :: Jumaadi

14 Sept - 17 Nov 2019
Gallery 3

The Dark Sublime :: Emma Walker

31 Aug - 27 Oct 2019
Gallery 2

Eesti :: Jay-Dea Lopez

22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019
Gallery 2

Coming Home :: Katka Adams

15 June - 28 July 2019
Gallery 5

Object Therapy

22 Jun – 11 Aug 2019
Gallery 1

Data Streams :: Dan McDonnell

27 Apr – 9 Jun 2019
Gallery 5

Museum of My Friends #1 :: Marion Conrow

9 Mar - 21 Apr 2019
Gallery 5

Young Archies

Finalists on display
from 16 Apr – 16 Jun 2019

Jewelled Net :: Nicky McLaughlin & Virginia Reid

19 Jan – 2 Mar 2019
Gallery 5

Unrestful Emptiness, Restless Silence :: Jessica O’Connor

1 Dec 2018 – 13 Jan 2019
Gallery 5

Paperbark :: Lionel Bawden

6 Apr – 12 May 2019
Gallery 3

The Terania Creek Protest :: David Kemp, Michael Murphy, Hugh Nicholson, Paul Tait & Jeni Kendall

16 Feb - 11 Apr 2019
Gallery 2

Hey, Listen Up :: Amanda Bromfield

16 Feb – 31 Mar 2019
Gallery 3

BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN :: David Griggs

8 Dec 2018 - 24 Feb 2019
Gallery 1

Dirt and Ash :: Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey

20 Oct - 2 Dec 2018
Gallery 1: The Margaret Olley Gallery

The Trailer Project :: The Lure of the Sea

28 Sept - 6 Oct 2018
In The Quad

The Trailer Project is a mobile art center.

Matt O'Brien :: Meander - Place and Experience

20 Oct - 25 Nov 2018
Gallery 5

Susan Fell Mclean :: Gondwana Colour: Eucalyptus Colour

4 Aug - 2 Sept 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

Natalie Grono :: Seeker.Keeper.Lover

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.

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

Standing Rock :: Angus Mordant

2 June - 22 July
Gallery 3

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.

Facing World War One: Stories of loyalty, loss and love By Facing Australia (Karen Donnelly, Tony Nott and Raimond de Weerdt)

7 April - 27 May 2018
Event Space

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.

Caitlin Reilly & Kate Ford :: The roads take us to where the quiet hills speak

21 Apr - 20 May 2018
Gallery 5

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

Geoff Harvey :: DOGGED

17 Feb - 1 Apr 2018
Upstairs Corridor

The dog symbolises unconditional love and companionship which are two characteristics I very much admire.

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).

EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection

16 Dec 2017 - 26 Feb 2018
Gallery 1

Art on Bundjalung Country

9 Dec 2017 - 11 Feb 2018
Gallery 2 & 3

sarah-jane mcgrath :: obsolete

1 Dec - 31 Dec 2017
Gallery 5

Four Women: (I do Belong) Double

29 Oct - 10 Dec 2017
Gallery 1

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.

René Bolten :: Paintings and Drawings

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

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.

Lucien Hervé : When do we cast off for happiness?

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.

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.

Geoff Hannah & students :: In Glue and Dust we Trust

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.

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.

Bundjalung stories: our art, our connection to country

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.

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.

INSIGHT, the Hermannsburg Potters Collection of the Moreton Bay Region

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.

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.

DEBORAH KELLY: NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (IN ALL OUR GLORY)

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.

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

Still Life: Varying Domesticities :: Miriam Salomon

12 Sept - 24 Oct 2015
24:7 Front Window Space

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

G-Click

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

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

Somewhere over the Rainbow :: Scott Harrower

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

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

From here to there :: Julie De Lorenzo

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

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

Dreamer :: Daphne Kal-Ma-Kuta Dux

7 Feb - 21 Feb 2015
Gallery Upstairs

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.

Archibald Prize 2014

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.

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.

Untitled :: Brigette Lucas

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

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

The Three Brothers Art Project

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eternity :: Leigh Arnold

Leigh Arnold is a Lismore-based artist who approaches art with an individual vision

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.