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Stained with Light | Sarah Murray
In this exhibition, Murray brings together earlier work exploring an embodied experience of landscape and current work exploring the sublime, spirituality and sin, all with their characteristic style of gestural abstracted work.
Murray has created a series of paintings in acrylic and oils that explore the painterly dynamics of figuration vs representation, layering, shifting grounds, gestural mark-making and vibrant use of colour.
Mental Health and Nature | Jennifer Adams
Mental Health treatment is often viewed as a clinical activity, taking place within four walls. This exhibition challenges that narrow view to see our experience of nature as vital for mental health. Jenny Adams has long term mental health disability and has been painting for over twenty years.
Mental Health and Nature offers Jenny the freedom to celebrate nature experienced locally in Canberra and in other locations around Australia.
Inhabiting Change | Fiona Heard
Inhabiting Change explores the nature
of impermanence, framing the present
not as a static destination, but as a dynamic threshold between what was and what
will be.
The images in this body of work originate in the landscape of South Western NSW: a reflection of both childhood memory and my evolving relationship with the region as an adult.
Witness | Jeanette Muirhead
Reef and coastal ecosystems are environments of inspiration, where many of us escape to rejuvenate, enveloped in the natural world.
These teeter on the edge of flourish and destruction, resilience and fragility. Witness focuses on the pursuit to explore, experience and bear witness to these ecosystems undergoing critical change in my lifetime – with a wavering mix of awe, grief and hope…
Between What Remains | Hilary Wardhaugh and David Manley
InBetween What Remains, David Manley and Hilary Wardhaugh reunite creatively in their hometown of Belconnen, reflecting on lives once intimately connected and now forever interwoven through friendship and shared artistic vision.
This exhibition represents a poignant homecoming — two artists who walked parallel personal and professional paths now come together to present conceptually aligned bodies of work.
Chasing Alice | Annie Lok
Chasing Aliceis an exhibition by Annie Lok featuring the latest works in her ongoing series titled Rabbit Holes.
Each piece features a female protagonist, the ‘Alice’, as she navigates her way through these carefully constructed compositions by utilising the tools available in photo editing software to manipulate imagery through either filtering, warping, stretching, or layering, all in a bid to invent a landscape for each ‘Alice’ to discover.
Good Neighbour | Estelle Briedis, Hugo Curtis, Jacky Lo, Isobel Rayson and Dan Venables
A printmaker, a glass blower, a ceramist, a mark maker and a knifemaker come together in Good Neighbour, an exhibition celebrating local makers and the quiet creative lives unfolding around us.
Autumn Gift Guide
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Maker Spotlight: Skitty Kitty Design
Skitty Kitty
Skitty Kitty’s creator, Janelle Gerrard had a graphic design career spanning several decades so design ideas come easily to her. She is inspired by the simplicity of mid-century style as well as sixties fashion designers like Mary Quant and Pierre Cardin. Many of Janelle’s designs are one-off and new ideas are constantly evolving. The Skitty Kitty mantra is that it’s not age that matters – it’s your attitude!
Skitty Kitty began in tumultuous 2020 when Janelle began designing jewellery while recovering from illness. She had some samples made and discovered
that people wanted to buy them. Why the name
Skitty Kitty? The inspiration came from Janelle’s very skitty Burmese kitty Mimi – one day she sent everything flying across Janelle’s work table and an idea was born.
Janelle’s designs can be unconventional which is what makes them so fun. Skitty Kitty is feminine, bold, daring and a little bit mad.