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exhibition program

2018JANUARY – DECEMBER

Mayoral Message Co-ordinator’s Message

About the Gallery

The 2018 program of upcoming exhibitions looks vibrant and exciting, again highlighting what a magnificent place the Northern Rivers Community Gallery is to visit and to display artists’ works.

The Gallery showcases local and visiting artists and also features exhibitions from BACCI members, NAIDOC contributors and the Ballina Art Society, whose combined expertise is growing with each new exhibition.

The Gallery has been successful in receiving funding from the NSW Government through Create NSW ($55,000) to support the establishment of ‘Ignite Studios @NRCG’ and the continuation of two public programs that were trialled last year in the Gallery; ‘BOLDsparks - Lifelong Learning’ program for people in living in Aged Care Facilities in the Shire; and the ‘1000 Words - Arts and Literacy’ Schools program.

These exciting new programs will add significantly to the Council’s commitment to a community cultural experience.

Excitingly, 2018 is the commencement of artistic endeavours in the heritage listed fire station behind the Gallery. It is hoped that this, combined with the Gallery itself, will further enable artists to achieve their optimum.

I urge visitors to attend each month’s opening where you will have opportunities to converse with the artists and enjoy refreshments at the same time.

Again, I congratulate Lee and the volunteers for making the Northern Rivers Community Gallery a must see by any visitor to the region. The delightful food experience garnered from the Gallery Café works hand in hand with the Gallery in promoting a wonderful tourist destination for locals and visitors alike.

Mayor David Wright

Our team of staff and volunteers feel very humbled by the continued patronage our Gallery receives from our community, artists and visitors.

Year after year our audience is growing larger than we could ever anticipate. During 2017 we

welcomed over 23,000 visitors through our doors and look forward to sharing our 2018 program with an even wider audience.

This year’s program presents 40 stunning exhibitions including works by local and visiting artists and the expansion of ‘Ignite Studios @ NRCG’ will extend our arts programs to offer more worshops and community led creative activities than ever before.

Enjoy and I look forward to sharing 2018 with you!

Lee Mathers

The NRCG is a community-engaged cultural hub in the Northern Rivers region that supports and develops cultural and artistic pursuits through accessible, innovative exhibitions, public programs and events.

The NRCG is housed in the historic former Ballina Municipal Council Chambers. Built in 1927, Ballina Shire Council renovated this building in 2007 to the highest standard in lighting, climate control and security. The NRCG features four exhibitions spaces with capability to present a broad range of professinal multi-arts and cultural programs.

Adjacent to the Gallery, and part of the historic Chambers building, is the popular Ballina Gallery Café which provides quality hospitality services including catering for functions and events.

Stay up to date with all things NRCG by subscribing to our regular E-News.

To register visit www.nrcgballina.com.au

northern rivers community gallery | exhibition program

Cover image: Linda Angledal, Fearless 2017

JANUARY

Exhibition Dates: 9 January - 4 FebruaryLaunch: Thursday 11 January 2018

Dreaming Group ExhibitionsThings I saw today Practicing Artists Network (PAN)Dans le jardin Wanda Hitch and Lorraine Spring

FEBRUARY

Exhibition Dates: 7 February - 4 MarchLaunch: Thursday 8 February 2018

Saturday Morning Group ExhibitionsPoetic Silence Shelly AnfieldShifts in Perspective Victoria PitelReply Bec Duff

Exhibition Dates: 7 March - 1 AprilLaunch: Thursday 8 March 2018

Escape of nature Clare HopkinsPaper Enzo Zen Circle Suzanne RienitsExperienced Landscapes II Emily Imeson

Exhibition Dates: 4 - 29 AprilLaunch: Thursday 5 April 2018

The Ripple Effect Dell StrongLOUD in the Gallery Secondary Schools of the Ballina Shire

Exhibition Dates: 2 May - 3 June Launch: Thursday 3 May 2018Falling into Place Laila PageThe View Reveals Itself Jane WoodroffMy mothers speaks to me in a foreign language Oksana WaterfallDifferent Settings John Smith | Sheila Morgan | Nikky Morgan-Smith

Exhibition Dates: 6 June - 1 JulyLaunch: Thursday 7 June 2018

The Eighth Annual Grace Cruice Memorial ExhibitionBallina Arts and Craft Club Inc. (BACCI)

Exhibition Dates: 4 - 29 JulyGathering Event: Thursday 5 July 2018

2018 Annual NAIDOC Exhibition Group ExhibitionWater-falls Dave Hickson | Lismore TAFE GroupRe-connection Alex Wales

AUGUST

Exhibition Dates: 1 - 26 AugustLaunch: Thursday 2 August 2018A Thread of Birds Janet MackayWhat would I do without you? Ryan + WrightNo Boundaries Belinda SochackiIn Full Flight Jennifer Long

SEPTEMBER

Exhibition Dates: 29 August - 23 September Launch: Thursday 30 August 2018

The Spaces Within Maraya RodostianosStillness and Time Brooke ClunieChem-iserations Deborah BellIn c.a.s.e. of emergency c.a.s.e. Inc

OCTOBER

Exhibition Dates: 26 September - 21 October Launch: Thursday 27 September 2018

Saltwater Murris Michael PhilpSisters of the sea Kathleen Browne | Natalie Grono GroupThe Colour of Light Dave Sparkes

NOVEMBER

Exhibition Dates: 24 October - 25 NovemberLaunch: Thursday 25 October 2018

Between Times Allen Koppe Finding Home Katka Adams Allure Carol O’Sullivan Twenty Years - Selected Works Kirstie Rea | travelling exhibition

DECEMBER

Exhibition Dates: 28 November - 23 December Launch: Thursday 29 November 2018

The Mirror Cracked Open... Samantha Taylor | SCU GradUncontained Vessels Melinda Blair PattersonThrough the Shadows Linda Angledal Ambiguous light. Ambiguous sky Lynne Wallis

JANUARY 2019

Exhibition Dates: 9 January - 3 February 2019Launch: Thursday 10 January 2019

Myth and Magic Ann BellePeregrine to Platypus Gray + Watts“O” to be a young poet in Paris Kerry Elias Moore

ARTS PROGRAMS

GETTING INVOLVED

IGNITE STUDIOS @ NRCG

Dreaming features works by five Northern Rivers artists, Katie Alleva, Julia Curtis, Jasmine Phillips, Jill Runciman and Rebecca Tapscott. Dreaming explores the ways in which the subconscious manifests itself through dreams. This multi-disciplinary exhibition delves into the depths of the dreaming mind and how our thoughts, desires, memories and fears often jarringly juxtapose against the world of physical reality.

Exhibition Dates: 9 January - 4 February 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 11 January 2018

Image: JIll Runciman, Mall of Levitation, 2017

Whilst the works carry diverse narratives, they reflect a spontaneous response to the immediate environment, at a contemporary moment in time. Using a broad range of materials and media, the exhibition is a presentation of the creative diversity of the artists within the Practising Artists Network (PAN). PAN is locally based and committed to the visual arts in the Northern Rivers; providing a forum for support and networking between artists, social events and group exhibitions.

Image: Rick Molloy, And out of the window..., 2017

Wanda and Lorraine view life like a garden of delights. These expressive artworks capture the variances of colour and form of flowers which can be translated to a particular type of personality.

Image: Lorraine Spring, Bright and Bubbly, 2017

Things I saw today Practicing Artists Network (PAN)

Dans le jardin Wanda Hitch & Lorraine Spring

Dreaming Group Exhibition

A small group of artists brought together with the common purpose of creating, learning and enjoying good company over a cuppa and homemade cake. Exhibiting Artists include Katka Adams, Angela Bettes, Maggie Cross, Pam Eliott, Carmen Guzman, Lee Hunter, Ian Lennon, Lindy Margan, Jane Trappes, Emma Walke and Julie Witt.

Exhibition Dates: 7 February - 4 March 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 8 February 2018Image: Ian Lennon, Eltham Valley, 2017

For Shelly Anfield, the silent language of painting offers the opportunity to express a poetic inner landscape of deep questioning and contemplation that she doesn’t easily find words for. Using a limited palette and layers of finely blended oil paint to achieve an atmospheric glow, the vast and seemingly infinite skies act as a metaphor for the complexities of human life.Exhibition Dates: 7 February - 4 March 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 8 February 2018

Image: Shelly Anfield, Impending Renewal, 2016

Inspired by ancient terracotta toys, children’s literature and shared childhood experiences. Through this work the artist questions; what is it, exactly, that our next generations will inherit?

Exhibition Dates: 7 February - 4 March 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 8 February 2018

Image: Victoria Pitel, Note to Self (detail), 2015

Saturday Morning Group Exhibition

Poetic Silence Shelly Anfield

Shifts in Perspective Victoria Pitel

A series of works on paper collecting moments of balance and imbalance in nature. Watercolour washes and repetitive markings capturing conversations between open and rhythmic elements of the natural landscape. Drawing parallels from the coast to the hinterland; referencing the ocean, coastal tree lines, rockfaces, flora, waterways, hills, flats and valleys. Exhibition Dates: 7 February - 4 March 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 8 February 2018

Image: Bec Duff, Lighthouse Reflections, 2017

REPLY Bec Duff

Escape of nature provides a fascinating opportunity for the observer to take a unique journey of emotions, feelings and memory through evocative pastel drawingson paper. This exhibition powerfully embraces and enhances subjective experience, inviting endless and evolving creation and recreation of relationship with this land.

Exhibition Dates: 7 March - 1 April 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 8 March 2018

Image: Clare Hopkins, Yes, Pink, 2017

‘Paper Enso’ are layered Zen Circles on canvases and wooden tables, but instead of using ink for calligraphy, using Chigirie technique, where Washi (Japanese handmade paper) is torn up and glued layer upon layer to create a rich image.

Image (L-R): Suzanne Rienits, Enso - Through Space Time, 2017; Enso - coming Through, 2017

Experienced Landscapes II is an exhibition of nine large paintings of regional NSW. The paintings are developed from referencing en plein air paintings and sketches made on journeys taken into the landscapes around NSW. Experienced Landscapes is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Image: Emily Imeson, Blue Skies, Pink Earth, 2017

Escape to nature Clare Hopkins

Paper Enso (Zen Circle) Suzanne Rienits

Experienced Landscapes II Emily Imeson

Focusing on that crucial place where the land meets the sea. A place of serenity, beauty and constant movement, these are aspects the artist captures and and honours.

Exhibition Dates: 4 - 29 April 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 5 April 2018

Image: Dellene Strong, Tallows, 2017

LOUD is a dynamic exhibition celebrating National Youth Week, with final year works on showcase from secondary schools in Ballina Shire.

Students from Alstonville High, Ballina Coast High, Xavier Catholic College and the Emmanuel Anglican College will experience their artwork being exhibited in a professional gallery while giving the community a valuable insight into the processes, skills and concepts the students explore in art making.

Exhibition Dates: 4 - 29 April 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 5 April 2018

Image: Rhea Tibbey, d Eaubonne, 2017 (Xavier Catholic College)

The Ripple Effect Dellene Strong

LOUD in the Gallery Youth Week Exhibition

Artist Laila Page uses the language of symbolism to make sense of life and its difficulties. Inventing gods for protection, processing a life the artist has found traumatising; sometimes simply painting the play of the wind in the trees or the fragility of a small new seedling.

Exhibition Dates: 2 May - 3 June 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 3 May 2018

Image: Laila Page, 7 Blessings, 2017

The physical and metaphysical were intimately entwined in the journey of the building of Woodruffs’ art studio in 2017. These artworks are a record of the removal of inner and outer obstructions and a celebration of the emerging view that has revealed itself to the artist in the process of her deconstructing/constructing a creative studio space.

Image: Jane Woodruff, Hilltop, 2017

My mother speaks to me in a foreign language exhibition is the artist’s subconscious documentation of family. This body of work looks at family travels, stories and memories with embroidery elements incorporated into each work.

Image: Oksana Waterfall, Boosya, 2017

Finding Peace in Traditional Symbolism Laila Page

The View Reveals Itself Jane Woodruff

My mother speaks to me in a foreign language Oksana Waterfall

This exhibition examines aspects of artistic relationships between four family members who have developed art practices in close proximity for decades. The focus of the project is about developing a concept of ‘different settings’ as a subset of broader notions of ‘influence’ and ‘collaboration’ in art practice.

Exhibition Dates: 2 May - 3 June 2018 Launch Event: Thursday 3 May 2018Image (L-R): Sheila Morgan | John Smith | Kimberly Morgan-Smith | Nikky Morgan-Smith, 2017

Different Settings J. Smith | S. Morgan | N. Morgan-Smith | K. Morgan-Smith

The Eighth Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition Ballina Arts and Craft Club Inc. (BACCI)

The Gallery ShopThe NRCG Shop features locally handcrafted jewellery, giftware and greeting cards and is a popular destination for locals and visitors seeking special and unique gifts and homewares.

If you are a local designer, artist or craftsperson and would like to apply to sell product in the Gallery Shop please contact the Gallery Services Officer via email at nrcg@ballina.nsw.gov.au.

The Eighth Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition features new work by members of Ballina Arts and Craft Club Incorporated (BACCI). The exhibition showcases the diverse talents of the group and celebrates its members’ shared passion for creativity.

Exhibition Dates: 6 June - 1 July 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 7 June 2018

Image: Mark Davis, Gone But Not Forgotten, 2017

Re-connection Fredrick Alexander Wales

2018 Annual NAIDOC Group Exhibition

WATER-FALLS Lismore TAFE Group Exhibition Following the 2017 Northern Rivers floods, a group of Lismore TAFE artists have created works sharing their personal experiences of devastation and recovery.

All artists were studying or teaching at Lismore TAFE when the flood inundated the town; completely closing the campus for more than a term. The studios are again buzzing with artists. ‘Water-Falls’ is a show of works-on-paper.

Exhibition Dates: 4 - 29 July 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 5 July 2018

Image: B Z van der Heyden, Exodus, 2017

Re-connection is the artist’s first solo show outside of the UK and explores his connection to Ballina and Byron Shire through painting familiar scenes and aspects of surf culture. Each work captures the energy of the location with texture and unique black and white compositions: often creating a graphic style touching on expressionism.

Image: Fredrick Alexander Wales, A view from Lennox, 2017

This vibrant exhibition coincides with NAIDOC Week celebrations featuring a diverse selection of works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists living and working in the Northern Rivers region. This year’s NAIDOC theme ‘Because of her, we can‘, is an opportunity to celebrate the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made, and continue to make, to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation.

Image: Artworks by Nancy Walke, Leah Walke and Amanda Francis

A Thread of Birds presents a collection of fleeting moments within the bird world. Janet explores the use of thread and fabric to create images which honour her observations of these wonderful creatures.

Exhibition Dates: 1 - 26 August 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 2 August 2018

Image: Janet Mackay, Glass Play, 2017

Two contemporary fine artists share their divergent art practices. Melissa Wright exhibits her sculptural artworks, carved marble figures which play on ancient contemporary mythologies, and Lesley Ryan displays her mixed media works, that have been influenced by Japanese woodblocks and children’s literature.

Image: Lesley Ryan, Fuchsias and Humming Birds, 2017

No Boundaries encompasses a collection of works taken from our unique locality with emphasis on Sochacki’s addiction to detail through the manipulation of the humble Biro.

Image: Belinda Sochacki, No Boundaries, 2017

A Thread of Birds Janet Mackay

What would I do without you? Ryan + Wright

No Boundaries Belinda Sochacki

An exhibition of mixed media work that explores different ‘flight’ paths and evokes thoughts about the journeys we take in life. Inspired by stories of war and families fleeing persecution, images of bird and cage, boat and water, tower and tunnel hint at freedom and its loss.

Image: Jennifer Long, Rocky Landing, 2016

In Full Flight Jennifer Long

The Spaces Within explores the human condition; investigating life, death, depth and the process of inner transformation and rebirth. Responding to the idea of impermanence, and search for the beauty in stillness and simplicity in a complex world. Maraya is the recipient of the 2017 NRCG Graduate Award – Byron School of Art (BSA).

Exhibition Dates: 29 August - 23 September 2018

Image: Maraya Rodostianos, Hidden Jewels Within, 2017

Celebrating 25 years as a potter. This exhibition captures quiet moments of Brooke’s studio practice. Her tools, the clay, the craft and her ceramics are acknowledged with photographic images and still life tableware settings.

Image: Brooke Clunie, Still Life - Apples, 2017

Chem-iserations is a body of work using sculptural ceramics to bring an awareness of the practice of spraying toxic chemicals into our skies and the long term effects on our planet, Mother Earth, and all of her inhabitants.

Image: Deb Bell, Chemcloud1, 2017

The Spaces Within Maraya Rodostianos

Stillness and Time Brooke Clunie

Chem-iserations Deb Bell

In c.a.s.e. of emergency... is a collaborative installation encompassing the work of ten practicing artists who are working on the premise that a creative endeavour can be interpreted as a critical act of the utmost importance and urgency. Using a restricted palette of materials, each artist will respond to the theme using their particular skill set to transform the chosen items.

Exhibition Dates: 29 August - 23 September 2018Launch Event: Thursday 30 August 2018Image: c.a.s.e. Inc, In c.a.s.e. of emergency box, 2017

In c.a.s.e. of emergency c.a.s.e. Inc

A Minjungbal man of the Bundjalung nation, born to a white fisherman and a Murri woman, Philp grew up in Minjungbal country between Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast. Michael’s paintings tell his family story of growing up around the ocean and near the river and how that affected him on an emotional and spiritual level.

Exhibition Dates: 26 September - 21 October 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 27 September 2018

Image: Michael Philp, Spirit View, 2012

Sisters of the Sea includes works inspired by Lennox Head and the beauty of the natural and built landscapes and the women who live there.

Image: Natalie Grono, The Golden Hour, 2017

Saltwater Murris Michael Philp

Sisters of the Sea Kathleen Brown | Natalie Grono | Narelle Bretherton

The Colour of Light evokes a sense of whimsical, almost melancholy reality, an alternate or parallel world, suggesting a time before our interference with the landscape. The artist is intrigued by sunlight, shadow and reflections, often painting from the contra jour (facing into the light). An atmospheric mood; painting a impressionism and realism hybrid.

Image: Dave Spakes, The Pass, 2017

The Colour of Light Dave Sparkes

Between Time reflects the artist’s interest in graphic, non-figurative, geometric forms found within the natural and man-made landscape. The images sit in a place between time where beauty is realised in their simplicity.

Exhibition Dates: 24 October - 25 November 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 25 October 2018

Image: Allen Koppe, Canola Field, 2016

Accepting what fades, understanding what remains, and discovering new ways to live. This exhibition is as much about the struggle of holding on as it is about the relief in letting go. A personal experience, yet touches on feelings associated with the migrant journey – cultural dislocation, loss of tradition, and the search for belonging.

Image: Katka Adams, Nest, 2017

The hidden detail of the land around us makes us pause....what we see when we look close, what we see through half closed eyes, what we feel...

Image: Carol O’Sullivan, Leaf 2, 2016

Between Time Allen Koppe

Finding Home Katka Adams

Allure Carol O’Sullivan

This exhibition of contemporary works in glass looks back over the past 20 years at the work of internationally renowned, Canberra based artist, Kirstie Rea. Kirstie’s work explores issues around place, landscape and solitude.

Image: Kirstie Rea, Paddocks, 2013

20 Years - Selected Works Kirstie Rea

Incorporating light and sound a series of sculptures transform detritus of our throwaway culture into redundant structures alluding to the contradiction in an obsession with the material and the desire for freedom and nature.

Samantha is the recipient of the 2017 NRCG Graduate Award - Southern Cross University (SCU).

Exhibition Dates: 28 November - 23 December 2018

Launch Event: Thursday 29 November 2018

Image: Samantha Karina Taylor, The Mirror Cracked, 2017

The artist adopts the simple shape of a vessel as a metaphor for the human form, this exhibition explores experience of form (body, thoughts and emotions) and formlessness (silence, stillness, spaciousness) experienced during personal meditations and contemplations.

Image (L-R): Melinda Blair Paterson, Uncontained Vessels #17, 2017;

Uncontained Vessels #6, 2017

A collection of new works, Gold Coast based conceptual photographer, Linda Angledal, uses composite photography to create surreal portraits that explore triumph in adversity.

Image: Linda Angledal, Fearless, 2017

The Mirror Cracked Open the Bejewelled Garbage of a Ragged Rhizome Samantha Karina Taylor

Uncontained Vessels Melinda Blair Paterson

From the Shadows Linda Angledal

Exploring the ambiguity of time and place when shifting light or atmospheric conditions render familiar landscapes unfamiliar, reminding us of the transience of every moment. Sometimes such moments can also open the door to memories that continue to shape our responses to landscapes and to life in the present.

Image: Lynne Wallis, Gathering (I), 2017

Ambiguous light. Ambiguous sky Lynne Wallis

Myth and Magic Ann Belle | Philippa Leader

Peregrine to Platypus Gray + Watts

“O” to be a young poet in Paris Kerry Elias Moore

Works by Anne Belle and Philippa Leader share an exploration of otherworldly experience . Philippa’s work is concerned with the spiritual relationship between the rainbow people and nature in the Northern Rivers region. Anne Belle’s dramatic work explores our origins and archetypes from a dark past.

Image: Anne Belle, Mage, 2017

From the rainforest to our back yard, artists Gray and Watts are passionate about the serendipitous nature of colour and form in Australia’s flora and fauna. Their kismet is to portray past and present, influenced by what they see and feel.

Image: Carmel Watts, Inside each cell, 2017

Inspired by the T.S. Eliot poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, the artist maps her own journeys, culturally and personally, from Paris and presents a series of emotive, nostalgic and celebratory paintings.

Image: Kerry Elias Moore, After the sunsets and the dooryards, 2016

northern rivers community gallery | arts programs

Creative Learning @ NRCG

The Gallery hosts a diverse range of fun, hands on, creative programs that will spark your imagination and unleash your inner artist. NRCG collaborates with industry and local artists to teach classes that will develop creative skills for adults and kids of all ages.

Visit the ‘What’s On’ section of the NRCG website and sign-up to our E-News for information on upcoming workshops. www.nrcgballina.com.au

Education Groups

The Gallery welcomes special and educational groups to visit the Gallery at any time. To arrange a Gallery tour and to ensure the Gallery Co-ordinator is available to meet with you, please contact the Gallery prior to your visit on 02 6681 6167.

Image: René Bolton Drawing Workshop

1000WORDS | arts and literacy program The ‘1000WORDS’ arts and literacy schools program is a creative hands-on learning program that includes a series of distance and on-site activities with local primary and secondary schools.

The program aims to implement creative ways for the students to harness arts potential and improve literacy outcomes through artistic discussions, creative writing and vocabulary enrichment by interpreting and conceptualising artworks from the Gallery’s annual exhibition program.

For further information and bookings phone: 02 6681 6167 or email: nrcg@ballina.nsw.gov.au

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Image: Holy Family Primary School Students with our 1000 Words Program Facilitator, Jeht. Excited to be sharing their Haiku Poem

Music in the Gallery

Enjoy a changing program of live performances in the Gallery for a musical evening served with a glass of wine and nibbles. A visually stimulating way to enjoy an evening of music in the relaxing ambience of the Gallery.

These special fundraiser events support the Gallery’s travelling exhibition program.

Visit the ‘What’s On’ section of the NRCG website and sign-up to our E-News for the latest Music in the Gallery events. www.nrcgballina.com.au

Image: Shelly Hughes, Music in the Gallery event 2016

BRIGHTsparks | creative kids program

BOLDsparks | lifelong learning program

The Gallery’s ‘BRIGHTsparks’ creative kids programs invite children and their families to discover the Gallery through the joy and fun of art making. Learning from skilled artists, the program offers a range of hands-on creative activities during school holidays and throughout the year.

Visit the ‘What’s On’ section of the NRCG website and sign-up to our E-News for the latest ‘BRIGHTsparks’ program information. www.nrcgballina.com.au

Image: ‘Design-A-Deck’ workshop with Jeremy Austin

‘BOLDsparks’ for people living in the aged care community are invited to discover the monthly exhibitions in a tea totaling, fun, creative workshop event. This free monthly program includes morning tea in the Gallery Café, a tour of the current exhibition and a hands-on art activity. An enriching experience for participants through arts and creativity.

For further information and bookings phone: 02 6681 6167 or email: nrcg@ballina.nsw.gov.au

Image: ‘BOLDsparks’ weaving workshop

northern rivers community gallery | arts programs

northern rivers community gallery | getting involved

Applying to Exhibit

The NRCG welcomes exhibition proposals from artists, designers, curators, community and cultural groups in all art forms that display innovative ideas and approaches to contemporary arts and cultural practice.

Applications are accepted all year round and assessed once a year at the end of August for the following year’s exhibition period. Exhibitions are generally rotated every four to six weeks.

The NRCG features four professional exhibition spaces and works with both emerging and established artists to support professional development opportunities.

Apply online via the ‘Apply Now’ section of the NRCG website www.nrcgballina.com.au

Volunteering at the Gallery

Volunteering is a fantastic opportunity to further develop your skills within the industry, support your studies, meet arts industry contacts and immerse yourself in all things art.

If you are interested in volunteering at the Gallery, please download the NRCG Volunteer Registration Form from our website at www.nrcgballina.com.au

For more information contact the Gallery Services Officer via phone on 02 6681 6167.

Donations and Sponsorship

The NRCG is endorsed with ‘deductible gift recipient’ status and all donations of $2 or more are tax deductible. Donations assist Northern Rivers Community Gallery to provide new and wonderful cultural experiences that support, educate and inspire lives of our visitors and artists.

You can make a one-off tax deductible contribution or make a regular monthly, quarterly or annual donations.

For a copy of our ‘Giving Prospectus’ or more information contact the Gallery Co-ordinator via phone on 02 6681 6167.

northern rivers community gallery | ignite studios

Ignite Studios @ NRCG is an extension of the Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG), a community-engaged cultural hub in the Northern Rivers region, owned and operated by Ballina Shire Council.

Located in the heart of the Ballina CBD, adjacent to the NRCG and housed in the historic former Ballina Fire Station, Ignite Studios provides a dynamic shared access space supporting the development and participation of artistic pursuits.

Ignite Studios offers two venues to support four activities for the growing demand of local arts and cultural activities. This includes Artist Studios; an Artist-in-Residence Space; Workshop Spaces and an experimental project space utilising the original ‘Engine Room’. The ‘Engine Room’ doubles as both an art education and an experimental art project space.

An exciting program of workshops will take place throughout the year for all levels of creative development. As dedicated creative workshop spaces, the ‘Engine Room’ and ‘Locker Room’, provide a beautiful setting to learn, make and create. Make sure to check the ‘What’s On’ Section of our website for details of all upcoming workshops.

The Artist Studios and Visiting Artist program will provide visitors an opportunity to witness professional artists creating and making in their studios or learn from them through our extended resident artist public program of events.

Visit the ‘Ignite Studios’ section of the NRCG website and sign-up to our E-News for information on the latest news and events at Ignite Studios @ NRCG www.nrcgballina.com.au

Ignite Studios @ NRCG - A place to create.

Image: (top) ‘Ignite Studios @ NRCG’ - former Ballina Fire Station(bottom L-R) Artist Studio Space; Susan Jacobson works-in-progress

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Northern Rivers Community Gallery is an initiative of Ballina Shire Council

Northern Rivers Community Gallery44 Cherry Street, Ballina NSW 2478

phone 02 6681 6167 | email nrcg@ballina.nsw.gov.au

www.nrcgballina.com.au

Opening Hours: Wednesday to Friday 10.00am – 4.00pm

Saturday & Sunday 9.30am – 2.30pm Closed Public Holidays

Free admission

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For reservations and function enquiries phone (02) 6681 3888 or visit www.ballinagallerycafe.com.au

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