Creative Program August 2020 – January 2021
Welcome back! Welcome to our latest Creative Program for the next six months. Given the fluctuating nature of life at this point in time, this program will remain in digital format in case there are future changes. While 2020, and no doubt 2021 has been, and will continue to be an incredibly challenging time for us all, we also believe in the power of the arts to unite us in navigating a better world. It has been wonderful to open our doors to our community, but we do so in the knowledge that the dynamism of our space has lost something without the ability to host so many of our valuable events and programs. We are slowly starting to introduce some of regular programs, such as after school art classes and Hannah Cabinet tours, others, such as Playground Festival, Thursday Night Live! (in the flesh) and even a good old fashioned exhibition opening may be some way away. We continue to provide a safe space for visitors, and have been complying with the NSW Public Health Order for Cultural buildings, libraries, galleries and museums. We ask visitors to follow our new guidelines to ensure we keep our spaces safe for staff and visitors.
Brett Adlington Director 2 Cover: Karla Dickens, 21st Century Protection 1 2019, mixed media, 33 x 30 x 11 cm, courtesy the artist and Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane. Above: Ross Manning, Bricks and Block 2016, LCD TV, video camera, fluorescent lights, and mirror, Installation view, Dissonant Rhythms, Institute of Modern Art, 2017. Photograph: Carl Warner
Dissonant Rhythms Ross Manning 17 Jun – 16 Aug 2020 | Gallery 1 & 2 Dissonant Rhythms is Brisbane-based artist and musician Ross Manning’s first-ever survey exhibition. Best known for his use of everyday materials, Manning’s exhibition features sculptures that repurpose ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors. Propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces, Manning’s work engulfs the entirety of the spaces they exist in, capturing viewers in mesmerising experiences with light and sound. Spanning the past decade of Manning’s practice, Dissonant Rhythms was originally presented at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and has now been reconfigured to tour across Australia. Dissonant Rhythms is curated by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Madeleine King.
A travelling exhibition organised by Institute of Modern Art (IMA), toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Federal, State, and Territory Governments. The IMA is a member of Contemporary Art Organisations Australia (CAOA). Ross Manning is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Ross Manning, Dichroic Filter Piece (extended projection) 2012-2017, Dichroic filters, cut glass, media players, and data projectors. Image courtesy Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Photograph: Tony Nathan.
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CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She’ll Be Right, Mate! Paulette Hayes 17 Jun – 23 Aug 2020 | Gallery 3 CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She’ll Be Right, Mate! is the result of years of experience, thought and art-making about women. The exhibition honours the women who were murdered in Australia in 2013. Using data from Counting Dead Women (an awareness campaign from the University of Technology which researches, records and publishes every reported femicide in Australia), the artist invites the viewer to confront what cannot be said and brings light to heal the wounds around what has been kept secret. Hayes uses two powerful symbols to signify women and men, and to speak about where this violence frequently occurs. She takes the home as a symbol of women’s safety and daily life and highlights it as a site of ongoing and accumulative violence. The blue singlet, casually called “the wife basher” in Australian vernacular, is a poignant and brutal motif, with the child’s singlet pointing to when this behaviour is sometimes learned, starting a continuous cycle of violence.
4 Paulette Hayes, CONTROL. ABUSE. KILL. She’ll Be Right, Mate!, 2019, cardboard, scrapbooking materials, vellum, old drawings, ink, wire, beads, sewing needles, foamcore, 20 x 30 x 21 cm. Image courtesy the artist.
Language Of The Wounded Penny Evans 22 Aug – 1 Nov 2020 | Gallery 2 Language of the Wounded is an exhibition of powerful new work by Penny Evans. Referencing bones or keloid scars, Evan’s ceramic wall installation explores a system of signs, an hieroglyphics-like language strewn across the gallery wall. Each piece is striated and scarred exploring the widespread traditional practices in Australia of body scarification like a history inscribed on the body, where each deliberately placed scar tells a story of pain, endurance, identity, status, beauty, courage, sorrow and grief. Evolving from the designs and patterns Evans has explored for many years in the decorative aspect of her ceramics practice, these new works reference dispossessed ancestors fallen during frontier conflicts, the billions of our native animals who perished as a consequence of multiple environmental disasters in recent years and intergenerationally traumatised peoples from everywhere. The work also creates a rhythm of cultural forms that evokes cultural connectedness, a cadence that lies at the very heart of our country.
This project is supported by NSW Government through Create NSW.
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Penny Evans, Language of the Wounded (detail) 2020 ceramic, mixed media. Image courtesy the artist.
Mnemonic Vegetables Charlotte Haywood & Edward Horne 29 Aug – 1 Nov 2020 | Gallery 3 & Lismore Quadrangle Mnemonic Vegetables help us “remember” our connection to the plant world, Mother Earth and each other. Through recent residencies at the Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre (JCU) Cairns, GoctaLab- Amazonas, Peru, various locations in Mexico and the participation of invited guests; multi-layered stories of plant knowledge, practices, materials and collaborations are honoured through process and form. An exhibition in two parts, Mnemonic Vegetables combines the work of Horne’s large-scale outdoor see-saw installation in The Quadrangle, with wall works, vocals, multi-channel video, community workshops, performances and exchanges by Haywood and invited artists inside the gallery. The works look at multi-cultural mnemonics-or-memory devices; by way of our relationships to story, mythologies, melodies, landscapes, the plant kingdom, ecologies and ourselves. In the hope of creating space for reverence and remembrance of our connection to the plant world, the planet and each other.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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Charlotte Haywood, Mnemonic Vegetables, 2020, digital collage of original sourced images: henequen (agave fourcroydes) fibre, Yucatán; Mexico. Ixim (Zea mays) Chiapas, Mexico. Banana (Musa acuminate) petiole, North Tumbulgum, NSW; Australian fishtail palm (Caryota albertii) seeds, Wilsons Creek, NSW; Historical Ambulance Station, Brunswick heads, NSW. Image courtesy the artist.
Body Language 29 Aug – 8 Nov 2020 | Gallery 1 As a direct response to the United Nation’s International Year of Indigenous Languages, the National Gallery of Australia is touring Body Language, which explores the identity of Australia’s diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. ‘For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, identity is a source of strength and resilience and there are many ways in which they identify: what they believe in, how they look, how they feel and how they see themselves in society.’ Kelli Cole, Curator An exhibition for all the family, Body language explores the iconography of language as expressed through symbols and patterns and includes works that explore these themes. Featuring artists: Brook Andrew, Lyndsay Bird Mpetyane, Mavis Bolton, Jeremiah Bonson, Robert Campbell Jnr, Robert Ambrose Cole, Rose Graham, Josephine Grant Nappangarti, Philip Gudthaykudthay, Queenie Kemarre, Mary Kemarre, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Arone Raymond Meeks, Butcher Joe Nangan, Arthur Koo’ekka Pambegan Jnr, Wally Petyarr, Prince of Wales, Angelina Pwerle, Reko Rennie, Phyllis Ricky, Elizabeth Riley, Jean Riley, Damien Shen, Joan Nancy Stokes, Jimmy Thaiday, Warwick Thornton, Aubrey Tigan, Alick Tipoti, Evonne Tompson, David Wallace, Judy Watson, Nawurapu Wunungmurra
Body Language is a National Gallery of Australia Exhibition. The project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the National Collections Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
David Wallace, eastern Arrernte people, Stockman and horse 1997, copper wire and recycled material, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 1998 © David Wallace
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Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize 7 Nov 2020 – 31 Jan 2021 | Gallery 2, 3 & 4 Entries close: 10pm Thursday 27 August 2020 The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is our bi-annual ($10,000 acquisitive) prize featuring portraiture from across the country, this year to be judged by artist Abdul Abdullah. Now covering all media, the prize will illustrate the various ways in which the portrait is imagined by artists.
Entry forms online now > More details at www.lismoregallery.org
The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is kindly supported by Hurford Hardwood
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Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize 2018. Photograph: Carl Warner
A Dickensian Sideshow Karla Dickens 18 Nov 2020 – 21 Feb 2021 | Gallery 1 Drawn from recent work created for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, A Dickensian Sideshow takes as its starting point the Lismore-born and worldfamous Aboriginal tightrope walker Con Colleano, known as “The Wizard of the Wire”. Colleano performed to great acclaim on the European and American vaudeville circuits with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, becoming one of the most highly paid circus performers of his time. Working in her trademark method of collecting found objects, Lismore-based Karla Dickens has amassed what she classifies as “the memories, whispers and materials” from which these works have been constructed. The result is the creation of a multifaceted memorial for bygone sideshow, circus and boxing-tent performers of Indigenous descent to unearth underlying narratives of tender and melancholy co-existence among performers and harrowing interactions with audiences. This exhibition will be touring to Orange Regional Gallery in mid 2021
A Lismore Regional Gallery and Orange Regional Gallery partnership exhibition
9 Karla Dickens, Cruel Buffoonery 2019 (detail), mixed media, 115 x 60 x 60 cm, courtesy the artist and Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane.
Gallery 5: The Jenny Dowell Gallery Gallery 5 is prominently located downstairs at the entry of the building, and prioritises local early career artists in approximately ten exhibitions per year. This space is named after our recent mayor, a staunch advocate for local artists. Its large windows make the space highly visible to people passing by and those engaging in activities in the Lismore Quadrangle at any time of the day.
Are you interested in exhibiting with Lismore Regional Gallery? Proposals can be submitted any time. They are assessed by a panel, after the 15 November 2021 deadline. More information on submitting a proposal can be found on our website >
10 Virginia Reid and Nicky McLaughlin, Jewelled Net installation, 2019. Image: Michelle Eabry
Celebrating 60 years Lismore Art Club
The Silent Pool Melissa Harvey
Roger Jones, Lismore Post Office Tower 2019, acrylic on canvas. Image couretesy the artist.
Possibilities, 2020 cotton pulp made from reused domestic cloth. Photograph: Felicity Jenkins
Latitudes of Salt and Sky Beki Davies
Ingress Jeremy Hawkes
The Places Between, 2019 cyanotype, ink and charcoal on paper. Photograph: Mia Zapata
covid 3 (detail) 2020 mixed media on paper, 2020. Image courtesy the artist.
4 Jul – 16 Aug 2020
10 Oct – 22 Nov 2020
22 Aug – 4 Oct 2020
28 Nov 2020 – 10 Jan 2021
Felons Robyn Staines
16 Jan – 28 Feb 2021 Mrs Mort (detail), 2020 monotype with etching ink on paper. Image courtesy the artist 11
Permanent Collection: The Vicki Fayle Gallery The last 12 months have seen a significant increase to our permanent collection, thanks to the generosity of donors; Lionel Bawden, Lawrence English, Lyell Bary, Felicity Fenner, Katherine and Robert Littlewood, Rose McKinley, the estate of Tania Elizabeth Whyte, John Witzig, Fiona Fraser and the many generous individuals who donated towards the purchase of The Hannah Cabinet. Recent acquisitions (totalling 95 works) and valued at over $1,185,000 include artists; Lionel Bawden, Lawrence English, Scott Redford, Rodney Pople, Tony Irving, Andrew Sibley, Paddy Fordham, Geoffrey Ricardo, Rose McKinley, James Guppy, Tanmaya Bingham, John Witzig, Dadang Christanto, Judy Watson and Geoffrey Hannah OAM. In partnership with North Coast Area Health Service, we also have the collection displayed in two gallery spaces in the Lismore Base Hospital. Contributions to the collection can take the form of cash donations, donations of artwork or through the Cultural Gifts Program. If you are interested in supporting the collection please contact the Gallery.
art.gallery@lismore.nsw.gov.au
12 Lawrence English, Solicitudes Suite 2018, ink on archival paper, 63.5 x 80.5cm, Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Lawrence English, 2020
The Hannah Cabinet
We are delighted that The Hannah Cabinet is now a permanent part of Lismore Regional Gallery’s collection. The Hannah Cabinet Steering Committee, so expertly led by Gaela Hurford and Brian Henry, worked tirelessly to raise the funds to keep this iconic work in Lismore. This exquisite masterpiece was created over six and half years by internationally renowned and local master craftsman Geoff Hannah OAM, and crafted from 34 different types of Australian and exotic timbers, rare shells, precious stones and elaborate marquetry inlays. It is a magnificent work of decorative art that will now remain in Lismore Regional Gallery for perpetuity.
Guided Tours Come and marvel at the wonders of The Hannah Cabinet and attend a presentation held 11am and 12pm every Wednesday and the fourth Sunday of month. Due to Covid-19 restrictions bookings are essential as spaces are limited for each session.
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The Hannah Cabinet 2009, 34 fine timbers and veneers, 17 types of stone, 4 types of shell, and 23CT gold leaf, 244 x 240 x 60cm. Photograph: Clayton Lloyd
Thursday Night Live! Online Delve into the latest, sometimes dangerous, ideas in art, culture, science, politics and the lives behind those driving the scene. Thursday Night Live! is an online evening of provocation, discussion and dialogue, responding to the questions of our times with artists, researchers and thought shapers. What is live right now? Find out! Brought to you by Lismore Regional Gallery and Southern Cross University.
Held the second Thursday of each month from 5.45pm Check our website for monthly provocations, speakers and booking link > Listen to the Thursday Night Live! podcast available on iTunes; Stitcher and Soundcloud and follow us on facebook.
14 Thursday Night Live! Online, Always Was - Always Will Be? with speakers Dhinawan Baker, Janine Dunleavy, Rachel Lynwood and Rod Williams, 2020.
The Quad: Together // Alone The Lismore Quadrangle, together with Lismore Regional Gallery, reached out to our regional artists here in the Northern Rivers, many of whom faced and still face unexpected income loss, to explore the ways in which we can amplify our human capacity to creatively respond to adversity. We offered at-home creative residencies to makers, artists, musicians, designers, arts workers, techs, crafters and idea innovators that have been affected by the Coronavirus, across the digital screen and into the home of our Northern Rivers community. The Together//Alone program saw artists respond to: ‘How do we remain connected to community places from our homes?’ Featured artists: Brett Canning, Katie Cooper-Wares, Philip Channells, Sean Campbell, Robbie Alejandro Tinning, Annie Tinning, Kevin Privett, Ariel Cameron, Rich Stone, Beki Davies, Elvis Callaghan, Dave Hickson, Karenza Ebejer, Tim Fry, Tania Marlowe, Lisa Walker, Jo Kambourian, Kate Stroud and Sigrid Macdonald.
Click here to view these works >
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
15 Katie Cooper-Wares, Lovemore Dance Off – Iso-style, 2020. Photograph: Lisa G
Spaces for Hire The gallery has spaces for hire, though all events will be subject to Covid-19 NSW Health restrictions so please check with the Gallery. The Binns’ Family Artist Studio is a non-residential artist studio available to artists who want a space to develop a body of work for periods up to 4 weeks. The Gallery will also be utilising this space for projects connected to the gallery’s program, and small scale workshops. The Event Space is a multi-use room for a range of gallery purposes. It is also available for hire for events that have an educational or cultural component. The room comes with an adjoining utility kitchen and courtyard useful as a break out space, as well as lectern, PA system and projector. Full Gallery Hire also available to groups and organisations for after-hours events, giving exclusive access to our exhibitions.
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16 Northern courtyard at the Gallery during The 2018 Archibald Prize opening, 2019. Photograph: Natsky
Friends of the Gallery Being a Friend is a great way to get involved and keep up to date with all that is happening at the Gallery and in the visual arts of the Northern Rivers region. Membership entitles you to discounts at openings, workshops, Gallery publications and other events such as bus trips and outings to other galleries and artist studios.
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Volunteering Join our dedicated and enthusiastic team of volunteers and experience first-hand our great programs, exhibitions, events and collection. Through our volunteering program you can become more actively involved in the community; meet new people; build your confidence; learn new skills; help others; gain valuable experience; and contribute to the creative life of Lismore.
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The 2018 Archibald Prize opening event, 2019. Photograph: Natsky
Become a Gallery Supporter As the gallery continues to grow, we are looking for support to help us prosper. Becoming a Gallery supporter will help us deliver an active program of exhibitions and events for our diverse community to enjoy.
Tax Deductible Donations The Gallery presents a varied program of activities, including children’s programs; workshops for primary and secondary students and programs for people living with Dementia. We have also been highly recognised for our Auslan programming, especially our Deaf-led programs for which we were the first regional gallery in the county to introduce. To support these programs, as well as the care and development of our permanent collection, we’d love your assistance. You can make a one-off tax deductible donation to the Art Gallery Gift Account, or select a recurring donation. All funds are guaranteed to go towards gallery programs.
GIVE NOW > Program Sponsors A number of exhibitions and programs throughout the year will be made available to sponsors. A contribution of $5,000 will cement your organisation as the primary supporter of the given project. Your company logo will appear prominently on the exhibition title wall, and in all exhibition marketing, both online and in print. A representative from your business or organisation will also be invited to speak at the exhibition or program launch. If you are interested in donating through any of the above streams, please contact Gallery Director Brett Adlington on brett.adlington@lismore.nsw.gov.au 18 Rebecca Gallo during the Rainbow Region Home School workshop, 2018. Photograph: Rebecca Rushbrook
Visit Lismore Regional Gallery sits alongside the Lismore Library and Northern Rivers Conservatorium at the heart of the Lismore Quadrangle. The building and wider precinct offers plenty of opportunities to take time out for yourself, or meet with others, including the downstairs Event Space; the upstairs glass foyer with views across the Quad; Slate Café or in the Quadrangle. The Gallery and Quadrangle are easily accessed from Keen St, Magellan St, Rural St and Dawson St. Two hour parking is available off Rural St, or park in any number of carparks in the CBD.
Café Slate Café is situated in the new gallery, and is a beautifully appointed and cosy café, linking directly to the Lismore Quadrangle. Come and grab a mat and enjoy a tranquil escape on the grass. Open: Tuesday-Sunday 9am – 3pm. Contact 0411 708 868.
Accessibility We are always working to deliver a wider range of projects for people with a Disability — but please let us know how we could help improve your visit. Disabled parking and access There are two dedicated disabled parking spaces in the Rural St carpark. All areas in the Gallery are wheelchair accessible and the building contains a lift to the first floor. Please let us know if you require assistance in charging electric wheelchairs or scooters. Hearing impaired Many of the Gallery’s public programs have an Auslan interpreter — including our regular Peggy Popart sessions. Where possible, film screenings will have open captioning. An Auslan interpreter must be booked 2 weeks prior to an event. 19 Lismore Regional Gallery, 2020. Photograph: Denise Alison
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Gallery Opening Hours
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Public Holiday Closure dates: 26 Dec 2020, 1 Jan 2021
For all things Art + Culture Arts Northern Rivers are now located in the Gallery. They are the peak body who works with individuals, organisations and government to generate, promote and advocate for the arts and creative industries in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. 11 Rural St PO Box 1127 Lismore NSW 2480
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Lismore Regional Gallery is a Lismore City Council community facility and is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW
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