RSVP for Gosford Regional Gallery 2024 opening events
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Our 2024 program considers alternative and untold histories, blood memory and reflections on Australian culture. It centres on celebrating the artists of the Central Coast both past and present, exploring our permanent collection and bringing early career artists to the foreground, alongside recognised creators.
We are proud to showcase our program for 2024 and hope you will participate in the many public programs we offer to accompany the exhibitions.
Location
Gosford Regional Gallery
36 Webb St, East Gosford NSW 2250
Sessions
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Shana O'Brien: Inner Landscapes
Exhibition dates 25 May 2024 – 30 June 2024
Opening event Friday 24 May, 6pm
First Nations artist and dancer Shana O'Brien explores emotional landscapes as a form of storytelling. Her work is inspired by the land, the ways that we connect to the land and to each other. O’Brien considers ways in which the viewer's eyes will be taken on a journey when looking at shapes, colours and patterns in her works, and sees this movement as a kind of dance she can evoke in others. The works give insight into her inner world and the deep exploration of her emotions, as well as connection to her ancestors through Indigenous knowledge systems held in blood memory.
Karla Dickens: Embracing Shadows
22 June 2024 – 11 August 2024
Opening and Community Day Saturday 22 June from 11am
Leading on from Embracing Shadows, which was held as a survey exhibition by Lismore-based Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens at Campbelltown Arts Centre in early 2023, this exhibition spans 30 years of practice. Embracing Shadows focuses on themes of female identity and racial injustice that are enduringly explored in Dickens’ reflections on Australian culture.
Born in 1967 in Sydney, Karla Dickens is of Wiradjuri, Irish and German descent. Through collage, painting, installation, photography, film and poetry, Dickens’ practice is a highly personal and political interrogation of Australian culture and history. Her work has featured in major group exhibitions in Australia and internationally, including A Dickensian Country Show, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia and A Dickensian Country Circus, NIRIN: 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2020. She was one of nine artists selected to create a new commission for the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ major expansion project, Sydney Modern. Dickens’ artwork is held in many public and private collections across Australia and around the world.
Embracing Shadows is a Campbelltown Arts Centre touring exhibition originally presented in association with Sydney WorldPride 2023 and curated by Emily Rolfe. It is delivered at Gosford Regional Gallery in partnership with Campbelltown Arts Centre
The Makers Studio Central Coast - Dress Code: Behind the Seams
Exhibition dates 6 July 2024 – 11 August 2024
Opening event Friday 5 July, 6pm
Ten artists from The Makers Studio Central Coast: Cheryl McCoy, Leah Bennetts, Therese Wilkins, Ruth Thompson, Glenice Ware, Janine Debenham, Carol Vesper, Lisa McArthur-Edwards, Emilia Krumm and Fiona Brandes
Step into the provocative world of Dress Code: Behind the Seams, where image becomes a powerful vehicle for exploring the intricacies of society. This captivating exhibition peels back the layers to reveal the hidden stories ‘behind the seams’. Delve into the complexities of societal norms and power structures to find unexpected cultural values. Discover how gender and expectations intertwine transforming self-expression. These rich tapestries of life and times will instigate reflection on the environmental impact of fashion and our urgent need for change. Dress Code: Behind the Seams invites you to contemplate the threads that weave our world together, sparking conversations about identity, agency, and the unspoken language of clothing.
The Makers Studio Central Coast has grown in membership since April 2016 from an original membership of 13 artists. The studio, based in East Gosford, provides creative opportunities that engage the Central Coast community in a broad range of creative pursuits. The studio hosts international artists in printmaking, textile and fibre arts, and provides members with access to specialised equipment to learn an array of techniques and connect with other creatives.
Gosford Art Prize 2024
Exhibition dates 24 August 2024 – 20 October 2024
Award announcement Friday 23 August, doors open 6pm
The Gosford Art Prize is a significant facet of the Gosford Regional Gallery’s annual exhibition program. The prize was initially organised by the community in the early 1970s.
When the Gosford Regional Gallery opened in 2000, it became the new permanent home of the Gosford Art Prize. Both the main prize and the Ceramics Prize have grown in popularity and strength over the past 23 years, celebrating the diversity of practices from artists both on the Central Coast and from beyond our region.
Finalists are exhibited in all galleries with the main prize being awarded at $15,000.
Prizes across the different sections include Aboriginal Artist Award, Highly Commended, Ceramics Prize, Highly Commended Ceramics and People’s Choice Award.
Entries open on 24 May 2024 and close on 8 July 2024 at 4pm.
ZOONOSES
Exhibition dates 2 November 2024 – 2 February 2025
Opening event Friday 1 November, 6pm
Through drawing and lithography, Dr Nicola Hooper uses fairy-tale iconology and rhymes to explore concepts surrounding zoonoses (animal diseases that can infect humans). The exhibition ZOONOSES explores how we perceive certain animals in the context of fear and disease. The research for the exhibition was completed as part of Hooper’s doctoral thesis and first exhibited in 2018.
“This research conducted during study for my doctorate has resulted in the creation of lithographic diptychs, sculptures, artist books containing created rhymes and a number of zoonotic wallpapers. These works use fairy tales, myths, and rhymes as a metaphor to discuss zoonotic outbreaks in a non-threatening and restrained manner.”
The exhibition is particularly centred around the experience of young people with opportunities to contribute to the collaborative wallpaper project or create a giant fly.
ZOONOSES is a touring exhibition of works by Dr Nicola Hooper presented by Logan Art Gallery, Logan City Council, in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program, and is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy. Proudly sponsored by Haymes Paint.
Cathryn McEwen: Call Me Old Fashioned
Exhibition dates 26 October 2024 – 1 December 2024
Opening event Friday 1 November, 6pm
Within the genre of contemporary still life painting, Cathryn McEwen’s current work examines the world through a veil of glass. McEwen invites us to make a closer inspection and appreciate the translucent qualities of this fragile material, especially to discover the colours, shapes and the textural effects distorted in collectible glass bottles - nostalgic layers of another time and place.
Cultural Resurgence: Speaking in Colour
Exhibition dates 7 December 2024 – 28 January 2025
Opening event Friday 6 December, 6pm
Speaking In Colour is a 100% Aboriginal-owned company founded in 2010, with a vision to make a difference in the delivery of Aboriginal education.
Cultural Resurgence is an exhibition that results from collaboration between Central Coast-based students, community groups and Aboriginal cultural knowledge holders creating new works each year. Now in its eighth year, the team have taught the art of weaving and possum skin cloak making to thousands in the community through this series of engaging wellbeing programs.
About Face 2024 – Junior Portrait Prize
Exhibition dates 14 December 2024 – 12 January 2025 in The Community Gallery
Opening event Saturday 14 December from 10.30am
Supported by accomplished Central Coast-based portraitist Jocelyn Maughan, About Face is Gosford Regional Gallery’s Junior Portrait Prize for ages 5 to 18. It encourages young artists to look and see, drawing ‘from life’ with their subject sitting for the portrait. The competition will be judged based on observational drawing merit and originality, with a prize pool of $1,000 in gift cards awarded across different age groups.
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