Plants form the central language of this exhibition, acting as vessels for the human journey. The work explores themes of endurance, presence, and emotional resonance, using botanical forms to reflect lived experience.

Working across charcoal drawing, stitched textiles, and photographic silk pieces, Barbara examines the tension between strength and vulnerability.

Abstract Connotations is an exhibition where I explore our connections and interactions with the natural environment and human nature. I find that in contemporary societies, we are faced with rapid changes due to the advancement of technology and social change.

In concept, I allow the simplicity of everyday thoughts and experiences to inspire the paintings. The process can be quite dynamic between contemplation and the use of colour, form and tone, along with the fluidity of paint with various forms of mark making.

Line and colour have long been the base of Steve Roper’s art. He tends to draw with line, very rarely with tone. Steve’s favourite artists, like Bruce Petty, often do the same in focusing on lines rather than tone. This exhibition features drawings on paper in a variety of media including pencil, crayons, ink, and watercolour.

These are not necessarily drawings of things; they are abstract works but may evoke subjects. As clay dries, it hardens, and each stage creates a different engagement with the drawing process.

We are two artists living together for over 40 years with a shared interest in our environment, our landscape, our wildlife, our waterways.

Kerry McInnis has been painting and drawing the River for many decades. The focus of her renditions of a waterway, wet or dry, has always been to represent the interconnectedness between the river and the earth that shapes it. Mike MacGregor’s sculptural oeuvre has had, as its primary theme, the interaction of man and nature.

Artists from throughout Australia bring a lens onto the concept of ‘earth’: our home, the environment, soil, land, inclusive of all that lives within.

This is an open exhibition that welcomes artists of all ages, viewpoints, and levels of experience to explore the theme in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and mixed media. This diverse collection of work provokes awareness, dialogue, political activism, experimentation, thoughtfulness, playfulness, or deep contemplation.

A printmaker, a glassblower, a ceramicist, a wood carver and a fabricator come together in ‘Good Neighbour‘, a group exhibition celebrating local makers and the quiet creative lives unfolding around us.

These five artists live and work in our neighbourhoods as people we may recognise as a familiar dogwalker, a regular at the corner café, or simply a “good neighbour”.