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Welcome! This publication marks our first year in our new Gallery. And what a huge year it’s been. In our first 12 months we’ve delivered 31 exhibitions, presented work by 230 artists, held 185 events (with event attendance of 11,179), conducted 101 group tours and staged 17 art workshops. All this activity has resulted in 110,000 people coming in to the Gallery. On top of that, the Quadrangle has presented the work of 70 artists, delivered 17 events, with over 17,000 people attending those events. Of course, none of this activity would have been possible without our incredible team. Sarah, Kezia, Fiona, Claudie, Marisa, Nathan, Sky, Mercy, Alex, Andy, Chas and Padi continue to do an astounding job in ensuring all this activity is delivered to high degree of professionalism. We also have a stellar team of volunteers, who are too many to name, who have become fantastic ambassadors for the gallery. However I do want to single out one, Jacqui, for her continued support. Our first year has also come with a great deal of support from local business. To that end I would like to off my deepest gratitude to The New Camera House, Powermax Computers, Betta Electrical, the Friends of Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore City Council, Linnaeus Estate, Hurford Hardwood and of course Southern Cross University. Enjoy our next 6 months of offerings!
Peggy Popart Kids’ Tour
Exhibition Opening
The Hannah Cabinet Tour
Friends Morning Tea
Thursday Night Live!
The Quad Event
Gallery Closed
Brett Adlington Director 1 Installation view of From Here to There: Australian art and walking, July/August 2018. Photo: Carl Warner
Heart and Soul Jacklyn Wagner and Peter Derrett
Dirt & Ash Fiona Fell and Kellie O’Dempsey
29 September – 25 November 2018 | Gallery 2 & 3
20 October – 2 December 2018 | Gallery 1
Jacklyn Wagner and Peter Derrett are two of Lismore’s most established photographers, but this is the first time they have collaborated on a project.
Dirt & Ash displays a dynamic exchange between two mid-career artists. Fiona Fell and Kellie O’Dempsey explore the links between artists’ bodies, ceramic sculpture and performance drawing and video, inquiring into the nature of each other’s creative processes. As works are built, stacked, re-formed and incorporated through performance and live drawing the underbelly of their creative practices is exposed.
Their individual photographic styles and professional backgrounds may be totally different, however when it comes to understanding and belief in the power of photography they are on the same page. Namely — they are interested in the power of photography to document the human condition. This exhibition features a series of portraits of local subjects, but largely unknown by the photographers.
Sharing the material relationships of clay and charcoal the shared experience of loss and survival is uncovered (in terms of life and their creative processes). Fiona Fell and Kellie O’Dempsey dramatize their perseverant search for presence, synchronising moments in the studio as performance.
The process of making contact, interviewing and photographing individuals has been as much an adventure and challenge for the photographers, as hopefully a great experience and privilege for the subject — and indeed audiences.
Proudly supported by The New Camera House, Lismore
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3 Peter Derrett Del Johnson 1 & Del Johnson 2 black and white photograph
Fiona Fell and Kellie O’Dempsey pre-production still, Dirt & Ash 2018.
Riverstones and Ramifications Bronwyn Bancroft
Official Opening FRI 7 DEC, 6PM
Between Nature and Sin David Griggs
Official Opening FRI 7 DEC, 6PM
1 December 2018 – 10 February 2019 | Gallery 2 & 3
8 December 2018 – 24 February 2019 | Gallery 1
Bronwyn Bancroft attributes the inspiration for this exhibition to the life of, and connection to her Uncle Pat Bancroft, who died at the age of 94 in 2015. ‘His knowledge of the country was phenomenal and it was an absolute joy and privilege to learn from him. He had no time for fools’, she says.
Between Nature and Sin brings together key works by leading Australian artist David Griggs for the first major survey of his work. Griggs’ work draws on political imagery, underground media, local histories and personal experience.
As an artist Bronwyn has dedicated 30 years to exploring and recording her family and their history; and the weaving of her own story into that as a Bundjalung woman, mother and artist. She is in awe of this history and the fact that her people have lived in the same spot since colonisation is to be admired.
For the last 10 years Griggs has resided in the Philippines and has created a significant body of work traversing painting, photography and film that reveals the social hierarchies and underground culture of his adopted home.
Bronwyn has been living in Sydney since 1981 but returned back to her traditional land, at the base of the Bundjalung State Forest (at the back of Grafton) every year. She recently moved to live in Bundjalung country permanently.
A Campbelltown Arts Centre exhibition presented nationally by Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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5 Brownwyn Bancroft Falling Through Time (detail) 2015, acrylic on canvas, courtesy the artist. Photo: Sharon Hickey
David Griggs Frat of the Obese 14 (detail) 2011, acrylic on canvas 110 x 119cm, courtesy of the artist & Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Terania Creek Protest David Kemp and Michael Murphy
Official Opening FRI 15 FEB, 6PM
Hey, Listen Up Amanda Bromfield
16 February – 7 April 2019 | Gallery 2
16 February – 31 March 2019 | Gallery 3
In 1979 Terania Creek became the focus of a landmark environmental protest. People formed a human shield to protect an environmental wonder. The protest represented the first time the presence of protesters challenged the government’s authority over forests and stopped a logging operation.
Hey, Listen Up champions the empowerment of women through storytelling.
The Terania Creek Protest made headlines all around Australia. David Kemp and Michael Murphy were there with their cameras. Their images capture an historical event and act as a time capsule for remembering it. This exhibition will include photographs, archival material (such as signs and banners) and music generated to protect the rainforest at Terania Creek.
Official Opening FRI 15 FEB, 6PM
Feminist activist Gloria Steinem said ‘You cannot empower women without listening to their stories’. It is the sharing of and listening to women’s stories that begins a conversation that creates social and political awareness about women’s issues that enables the possibility, for positive, social transformation.
Hey, Listen Up gives voice to women’s hidden stories, untold by generations of women who have been silenced by servitude, anger, embarrassment and fear of retribution. Clay ‘women’s embroidery’ and pre-loved underwear are combined to represent women telling the stories of their lived experiences. These objects include handmade ceramic flowers, life size women’s undergarments and large-scale sculptures that represent women. The inclusion of women’s craft references both the labour of love, and the low value assigned to traditional women’s art and ‘work’ and, the unpaid hours of domestic servitude of past generations of women.
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Amanda Bromfield Stories that Bind – Bound 1 and Bound 2 2018, glazed ceramic, one with lace from preloved women’s underpants
Rhythm of Protest Lawrence English
Official Opening FRI 1 MAR, 6PM
Paperbark Lionel Bawden
Official Opening FRI 5 APR, 6PM
2 March – 7 April 2019 | Gallery 1
6 April – 12 May 2019 | Gallery 3
Rhythm of Protest is a major solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Lawrence English exploring themes of the shifting role sound plays in protest and public assembly. Specifically, it asks how sound has the ability to expose, remap and reframe the lived experience of protest. The exhibition considers voice, as one of the primary tools of protest, tracing its history across the 20th Century from the slogans of call and response chanting, to the human microphone of the Occupy movement and also the increasing use of non-lethal acoustic devices by those opposing protest. The works also acknowledge the Northern Rivers as an important site of historic and continued protest, and will sit alongside an exhibition of documentation of the 1979 Terania Creek rainforest protest.
Lionel Bawden’s new solo exhibition continues the artist’s fascination with the forms of nature taking the tree as both conceptual focus and material form.
English is an internationally regarded artist, composer and curator, whose work is broadly concerned with the politics of perception, the nature of listening and sounds’ capability to occupy the body.
Living in the Northern Rivers for a number of years, the artist is turning his attention to trees as a core symbol of his connection to the region and selects the Paperbark as the most fertile motif of a life in continual flux, where damage and vitality flourish side by side. Bawden explores the motifs of tree and forest, whilst reflecting on his own use of wood and paper throughout his art career. The work reflects on the artist’s relationship to the earth and simultaneous consumption of it, a life of alternating reverence and forgetting. The exhibition is created in part during Bawden’s residency at Lismore Regional Gallery in The Binns Artist Studio in early 2019 and is activated by a conversation with the large Paperbark tree outside the gallery window.
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9 Lawrence English Spectral Voices (Bethlehem 2018). Courtesy the artist
Lionel Bawden The Kandinsky has two sides (cereal box paintings), Artereal Gallery, Sydney 2017. Photo: Zan Wimberley
The 2018 Archibald Prize 18 April – 16 June 2019 | Gallery 1 & 2
Ticketed Gala Event WED 17 APR, 5:30PM
Permanent Collection: The Vicki Fayle Gallery The past few years has seen great growth in the Gallery’s permanent collection, primarily due to the generosity of donors.
Awarded to the best painting of a notable Australian, the Archibald Prize is a who’s who of Australian culture, from politicians to celebrities and from sporting heroes to artists. Prestigious and controversial, the Archibald Prize is Australia’s foremost portraiture prize. The Archibald Prize awards $100,000 prize money for the winning artist. In its 97th year, the Archibald Prize has been held annually since 1921. An open competition, the Archibald Prize is judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Entries to the Archibald Prize must be painted in the past year from at least one live sitting.
Our current collection exhibition includes some highlights over the last 2 years. Key amongst these is a gift of 43 photographic images by a group of 8 American photographers facilitated by Robert Von Sternberg in 2016; and a substantial gift of 11 Australian work by Shane Simpson including Anne Zahalka, Gloria Petyarre, Michael Mutjitjangala and Linda Syddick Napaltjarryi. In partnership with North Coast Area Health Service, we also have the collection displayed in two gallery spaces in the Lismore Base Hospital.
The Gallery will be launching Auslan led tours, by tour guide and native Auslan speaker Sigrid Macdonald, during the Archibald Prize, and will then continue monthly. Contact the Gallery for details.
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.
Archibald Prize 2018 finalist Jonathan Dalton Abdul (detail) oil on linen, 141 x 171 cm. © the artist. Photo: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins
John Witzig Headless McTavish 1966 (printed 2017), inkjet print from photographic negative Permanent Collection Lismore Regional Gallery, gift of the artist, 2017
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Meander — Place and Experience Matt O’Brien 20 October – 25 November 2018 There’s no water (detail) 2016, digital print, installation component
Unrestful Emptiness, Restless Silence Jessica O’Connor – SCU Graduate Award Winner 1 December 2018 – 13 January 2019 Petrified (detail) 2018, concrete, material, wood
Jewelled Net Nicky McLaughlin & Virginia Reid 19 January – 3 March 2019 Jewelled Net No. 1 2018, fused glass and wire, 240 x 140 cm
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.
Museum of My Friends #1 Marion Conrow 9 March – 21 April 2019 Unravellegg 2016. photo: Ben Wyeth
Are you interested in exhibiting with Lismore Regional Gallery? Proposals can be submitted any time. They are assessed annually by a panel, after the November 27 deadline. More information on submitting a proposal can be found on our website.
Data Streams Dan McDonnell 27 April – 9 June 2019 Watermelon Skies (still) 2018, HD single channel video, looped, 1 min 31 sec
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13 Victoria Pitel Far to Go installation at Lismore Regional Gallery 2018
The Hannah Cabinet
Tours
The Hannah Cabinet is an exquisite masterpiece created over six and half years by internationally renowned and local master craftsman Geoff Hannah OAM. 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.
Weekly Tours Weekly tours of our current exhibitions run every Wednesday at 10:00am and Sunday at 10:30am with our Volunteer Tour Guides.
The short film A Passion for Cabinets on Geoff Hannah’s life and the cabinet is screening at different times in the Gallery and can be purchased as part of The Hannah Cabinet fundraising campaign.
Guided Tours Come and marvel at the wonders of The Hannah Cabinet and attend a regular free talk by Geoff or his students at 10:30am every Wednesday and 11:00am the fourth Sunday of the month.
Guided & Educational Tours School and group tours can be booked through our website, or by contacting the Gallery. Our resident tour guide, Peggy Popart is also available for a fee. Bus subsidies for schools based in the Lismore Government Area are available until December 2018. Arts and Dementia Tours Tours can be organized upon request for people living with dementia facilitated by arts educator Jennifer Collins. Family and carers are also welcome.
Free Hannah Cabinet talks can be arranged for High Schools with Geoff Hannah or one of his students at 11:45am – 12:45pm on Wednesdays throughout the 2018 school term.
Peggy Popart Tours Our charismatic and informative art tour guide, Peggy Popart runs kids’ tours and workshops on the second Sunday of every month at 11:30am. Free event, no bookings required. This is an Auslan interpreted event, proudly supported by The Friends of the Gallery.
Other tours for groups of 12 or more can be arranged by contacting the Gallery.
Contact the Gallery for more information about our tours.
School Bus subsidy made possible by the 2017/18 Annual Community Grants Scheme
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15 Peggy Popart presenting the The Hannah Cabinet. Photo: Rebecca Rushbrook
Learning Officer Claudie Frock with a school group in From Here to There: Australian art and walking exhibition. Photo: Carl Warner
Learning
Thursday Night Live!
We are committed to having the Gallery be a place of continued learning.
Delve into the latest, sometimes dangerous, ideas in art, culture, science, politics and the lives behind those driving the scene.
Arts and Literacy Kit A new Arts and Literacy Kit, written by educator Karen Rantissi, based on artworks from our permanent collection is available for schools to purchase and inspire classroom based learning. The Gallery will be contacting local schools to seek interest in engaging with the kit and teacher training. Guided Educational Tours Guided School and group tours with Learning Officer Claudie Frock can be booked through our website, or by contacting the Gallery. Our resident tour guide, Peggy Popart is also available for a fee.
Join us for a drink with friends, and immerse yourself in a world of new ideas, in a program of talks, films, and more! 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.
Thursday Night Live! From 6:00 – 7:30pm the second Thursday of each month (no sessions in December/January).
Bus subsidies for schools based in the Lismore Government Area travelling to the Gallery are available until December 2018. Contact the Gallery if you are interested in more information regarding artist run workshops, talks and other public programs.
School Bus subsidy made possible by the 2017/18 Annual Community Grants Scheme
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17 Rainbow Region Homeschool group attending a workshop with artist Rebecca Gallo. Photo: Rebecca Rushbrook
Thursday Night Live!, September 2018 with Rob Garbutt, Greg Telford, Lizette Twisleton and Phil Blackman
Innovate | Situate Southern Cross University Design Prize November 2018 – February 2019 Image courtesy Cave Urban
Our Backyard Music Program Live music by local musicians 6 – 8pm Every Month Jimmy Willing and The Real Gone Hiccups in The Quad Photo: Natsky
The Quad: Lismore’s Creative Playground Since opening its imagined doors in October 2017, Quad events have been attended by 17,000 visitors! This unassuming patch of grass has taken Lismore’s heart by storm with its experimental residencies, performances, cross-disciplinary collaborations and mentorships.
The Dance Cycle Get your dancing shoes on over summer
The inaugural program saw the space transformed, with site-specific theatre, experimental films, awesome local music, skating comps and kids festivals.
October – December 2018 Kids dancing at Playground Festival. Photo: Jess Foote
We started there, but there’s so much more to come. The Quad is for everyone. It’s your space too, come down and kick a ball, chill under the stars, read a book, own it in any way that makes your heart sing. For bigger events you can hire the whole site — go to the website for details. lismorequad.org.au
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Coming Soon... Talk to Me | Craig Walsh 23 – 26 May 2019
Craig Walsh 2012, Emergence, Hyde Park, Sydney The activation of the Quad is brought to life thanks to a partnership between Southern Cross University and Lismore City Council
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Colour Palette: Monotone Fill
Playground Festival in The Quad. Photo: Jess Foote
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Spaces for Hire
Friends of the Gallery
The Gallery has two spaces for hire:
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 and Gallery publications.
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.
Friends Morning Tea
The Binns 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.
Held the first Tuesday of every month at 10:30am — a great opportunity to meet with like-minded people and get inspired.
Contact the Gallery for more information.
Volunteering & Guiding Join our dedicated and enthusiastic team of volunteers and experience first-hand our great programs, exhibitions, events and collections. 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 job experience; and contribute to the creative life of Lismore. Contact the Gallery for more information.
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21 Rebecca Gallo artist in residence workshop with Rainbow Region Home Schooling Group in LRG Event Space. Photo: Rebecca Rushbrook, 2018
Curator Kezia Geddes giving a tour of our permanent collection store room to The Friends of the Gallery
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Eat the Street Saturday 9 March is Eat the Street, a celebration of our local & regional producers, manufacturers, vendors and restauranteurs, where they are able to showcase their opportunities in our vibrant city street environment.
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Contact details
Gallery Opening Hours
11 Rural St / PO Box 23A Lismore, NSW 2480
Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun 10am – 4pm Thu 10am – 6pm Mon closed Free Admission
The Gallery and Quad 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.
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Public Holiday Closure dates: 25 & 26 December, 1 January, 19 April
Slate Café is situated in the 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 Monday – Sunday, 8:00am – 4:00pm. 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. Proudly supported by The Friends of the Gallery.
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Scott Harrower Object Therapy JD Lopez Grant Vaughn
Robert Von Sternberg Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada 1983, Ultrachrome print on paper, 20.1 x 30.5cm Permanent Collection Lismore Regional Gallery, gift of the artist, 2016