Exhibition Tour. OPEN HOUSE: 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial 2017

This exhibition celebrates the open-ended nature of textiles practice today. All of the participant artists’ works are linked with things outside of themselves and their studios. Through the process of creating, talking and exhibiting, the artists join together with visitors as equal participants in an open house where all ideas and responses are welcome. Click here for more...

About Love: Myfanwy Gullifer

For her latest exhibition About Love, Myfanwy has used papier-mâché, recycled blankets, fabric and clay, to reflect on the intimacy, emotional connection, joy and tension, that is love. Her quirky, joyous and outrageous works are sure to delight; the viewer cannot help but smile.

All is Not Lost:

Natasha Soonchild

Natasha Soonchild is an artist and upcycler based in Nundle. Using collected found objects and neglected treasures (what might seem like “junk” to others) she creates narrative objects and Mini-Museums, breathing new life into discarded items.

Obsessed: Compelled to make

ADC On Tour: An Australian Design Centre national touring exhibition.

Obsessed: Compelled to make explores the preoccupations that drive the creative process, providing an insight into the working practices of fourteen artists from across Australia. Moving beyond the finished work, this project tells the hidden stories of making, uncovering the artists’ inspirations, day-to-day studio experiences, hours of expertise, and the joys and frustrations of obsession.

Land is Emotional

Rowen Matthews

I overheard the phrase ‘Land is an emotional subject for farmers’, and I thought, ‘yes, land is emotional’. For me, land is not passive, it responds to me as I paint, it lets me in, allows me to know more, as I immerse myself. It openly displays its history and health.

2018 JADA

Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award

JADA celebrates drawing in all its splendour from hyper-realism that is beyond belief to the expressive and the abstract, evoking the poetic and emotional response to the human condition and our environment. Many of the works selected question and challenge the notion of traditional drawing; while others provide a contemporary perspective and reinvigorate those traditions.