New England Regional Art Museum

All the Excellent Dolphins
2024-09-27 18:00 - 2024-11-10 16:00 (Australia/Sydney)
This new body of work by abstract artist Catherine Cassidy demonstrates her current focus on the long history of mark-making by generations of humans. The insistent history of marks, glyphs and images, and the urgent need to inscribe, record and re-invent our worlds.
The exhibition title is inspired by artist Judith Nangala Crispin’s perspective on neurodiversity and the artist: why be seen as “a disabled wombat when you are actually an excellent dolphin.”
A partnership with AK Bellinger Gallery

Opening night: Friday 27 September, 6-8pm
Artist talk: Saturday 28 September, 10.30am
All The Excellent Dolphins Catalogue
Catherine Cassidy Artist Talk Transcript

Image credit: Catherine Cassidy, Edge 12 Gold, 2024, polymers on wood panel. Courtesy the artist.

Packsaddle Exhibition 2024
2024-10-25 17:00 - 2024-11-10 16:00
Packsaddle is an annual art exhibition that has been raising funds for NERAM since 1985. Each year the Packsaddle Exhibition presents a diverse range of paintings, original prints and sculpture by leading Australian artists, providing local collectors and art lovers the opportunity to purchase great artworks to start or build their own collections, while also supporting NERAM.
The 2024 fundraising exhibition runs from 25 October – 10 November with the opening night on Friday 25 October.
Opening Night Event: Friday 25 October
Viewing from 5.00pm | Selling from 6.00pm
Opening remarks by Madeleine Tuckfield Carrano, Gallery Director and owner of Artsite Contemporary

Packsaddle 2024 Program of Events

Saturday 26 October 10.30am: Packsaddle floor talk with Madeleine Tuckfield Carrano
Saturday 3 November 10.30am: Packsaddle floor talk
Sunday 10 November 1.00 – 4.00pm: Pick up Party for customers to collect their works

HOME Program Exhibition Opening
2024-11-02 11:00 - 12:30
The HOME Program, in partnership with the Art Gallery of NSW and NSW Department of Education’s Art Unit.
EXHIBITION OPENING | Saturday 2nd November 11am – 12.30pm
VENUE | Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, 96-104 Kentucky St, Armidale
Celebrating works by Stage 3 students from Drummond Memorial, Armidale City Public, Uralla Central, Bonshaw Public and Ebor Public schools.
This exhibition is part of the HOME program, a collaboration between the Art Gallery of NSW, NSW Department of Education’s Art Unit and Aboriginal communities and regional galleries across NSW. It connects schools to local Aboriginal artists, community, language and culture. In 2024 this program was delivered on Anaiwan country at the New England Regional Art Museum and Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place. This exhibition came together under the guidance of Gamilaraay artist Debbie Taylor-Worley and in collaboration with Widders Consultancy.

Clay on Country
2024-11-15 18:00 - 2025-01-28 16:00
Co-curated by Jo Foster and Neridah Stockley, and toured by Artback NT, Clay on Country, ceramics from the central desert, is an impressive survey of ceramic practice that includes over thirty artists and collectives. Some are established ceramic artists others are incorporating clay into their practice for the first time, all have produced accomplished insightful and contemporary works that reflect the culturally and historically rich and complex region where they live and work.
Opening night: Friday 15 November, 6-8pm

Clay on Country, ceramics of the central desert is proudly toured by Artback NT with support from the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.
Image credit: Hermannsburg Potters, Antala-iperral weather, 2022, hand built terracotta, underglazes, 550 x 390mm. Image courtesy of Sara Maiorino.

Inner/Space: Helen Eager
2024-11-15 18:00 - 2025-02-02 16:00
This significant survey exhibition examines Helen Eager’s progression from interiors and still lifes to the pure abstract images that she is known for today. With works sourced from the NERAM collection, Utopia Art Sydney, and the artist herself, Inner/Space celebrates Eager’s passion for colour, light, and deconstruction.
This exhibition is the latest of a series NERAM has staged highlighting significant Australian women artists including Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Hilarie Mais, Barbara McKay, and Aida Tomescu.
A partnership with Utopia Art Sydney
Opening night: Friday 15 November, 6-8pm
Image credit: Helen Eager, Satellite, 2017-8, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Utopia Art Sydney.

Fusion: Max Powell
2024-11-15 18:00 - 2025-02-02 16:00
For Glen Innes ceramicist Max Powell, fusion not only describes the ceramic process but the merging of ideas, influences and approaches. Fusion also illustrates the ceramic process of changing clay and glaze with heat.
Powell finds the natural world an endless source of inspiration and by observing the shapes, colours and surfaces is where he begins when creating paintings and ceramics. The simple act of looking and exploring reminds us to slow down and to disconnect with all the craziness of modern life.
Opening night: Friday 15 November, 6-8pm
Image credit: Max Powell, Dolomite water bowls – Ripple series, 2024, stoneware. Courtesy the artist.

Wild Rivers: Lizzie Horne
2024-11-15 18:00 - 2025-02-02 16:00
A journey to capture the essence of the wild rivers of New England on paper has taken Armidale printmaker Lizzie Horne far beyond local gorge country. A more than decade-long exploration of printmaking techniques with teachers and mentors in studios around the world has led her to a deep dive into sugar lift etching.
Horne has experimented with the medium to create a body of gestural, expressive works informed by the scale, movement and force of the New England awe-inspiring land and waterscapes.
Opening night: Friday 15 November, 6-8pm
Artist talk: Saturday 18 January, 10.30 – 11.30am
Restricted exhibition access 29 January – 2 February. Viewing by appointment only. Please call the Gallery on 02 6772 5255 to enquire.
Image credit: Lizzie Horne, Cloudfall (II), 2024, open bite etching, US. Courtesy the artist.

Colourful Coventry
2024-11-15 18:00 - 2025-02-02 16:00
Celebrating Chandler Coventry’s 100th birthday, this exhibition is a cracker for the kids showcasing some of the brightest and boldest artworks in the Chandler Coventry Collection. Coventry moved from Armidale to Sydney and opened his own commercial art gallery in the 1970s, later donating his personal art collection to NERAM when it was founded.
See gems from the Chandler Coventry Collection in a new way with this interactive display of colourful artworks accompanied by a variety activities – a scavenger hunt, dress ups, colouring in and more. Colourful Coventry is perfect for the whole family these summer holidays.
Opening night: Friday 15 November, 6-8pm
Image credit: Gunter Christmann, Attis, 1975, acrylic on canvas. Gift of Chandler Coventry 1979.

The Interior: Natalya Hughes
2025-02-07 17:30 - 2025-04-06 16:00
The Interior is an immersive installation combining sculptural seating, richly patterned soft furnishings, and uncanny object d’art, nestled around a hand painted mural to generate a stimulating space to unpack our collective and unconscious biases.
Natalya Hughes, one of Australia’s most exciting mid-career artists, is known for her explorations of decorative and ornamental traditions and their associations with the feminine, the human form, and excess. Recent bodies of work investigate the relationship between Modernist painters and their anonymous women subjects.
Curated by Tulleah Pearce.
The Interior is a travelling exhibition organised by Institute of Modern Art (IMA), toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland.
The Interior has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the Australia Council’s Contemporary Touring initiative; the Fini Artist Fellowship through the Sheila Foundation; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University; Creative Art Research Institute, Griffith University; and Porter’s Paints, New Farm.
Natalya Hughes is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane, and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.

Opening night: Friday 7 February
In Conversation with Natalya Hughes, 5.30pm
Opening remarks, 6pm
Image credit: Installation view, Natalya Hughes: The Interior, 2022, Institute of Modern Art. Photography: Charlie Hillhouse.

Contemplations: Contemporary still life
2025-02-07 18:00 - 2025-03-16 16:00
This exhibition of still life artworks offers a compelling exploration of one of the oldest and most enduring genres in art history. In contemporary art, still life continues to captivate artists with its potential for experimentation and reinterpretation. Still life allows artists to engage with both the ordinary and the symbolic, offering a meditative space to reflect on the relationship between objects and human experience. In today’s fast-paced, image-saturated world, still life remains a powerful vehicle for introspection and an enduring testament to the ability of art to capture the beauty and meaning in the simplest of things.
Featured artists include Andrea Gledhill, Fiona Cotton, Fiona O’Byrne, James White, Jodi Thompson, Kate Durack, Kir Larwill, Leah Bullen, Lucy McCann, Michaela Laurie, Phoebe Hillard, Samantha Dennison, and Simone Hale.
Opening Night: Friday 7 February, 6-8pm (opening remarks 6pm)
Contemplations Catalogue
Image credit: Jodi Thompson, Does my bum look big in this?, 2024, oil on ply, 63 x 42cm. Courtesy the artist.

Dancing with Colour: Jamie-Lee Garner & Frances Edwina Powell
2025-02-07 18:00 - 2025-03-16 16:00
A joint exhibition between local artist and potter Jamie-Lee Garner and Brisbane-based artist Frances Edwina Powell. Each embraces bold colour in their artistic practices, imbuing their works with movement and dynamism. Garner creates her pottery vessels then ‘upholsters’ them with vintage textile offcuts while Powell mimics acts of daily pantomime with her collages reminiscent of Matisse.
Jamie-Lee Garner is an interdisciplinary artist that lives and works from her studio in the Northern Tablelands, on Ngarabal country in NSW, Australia. She received her BA in Architecture from the University of Sydney in 2018. By working across various mediums, including ceramics, recycled textiles and oil painting, Garner creates work about the discovery of self in a way that aims to be accessible and most importantly delightful.
Frances Edwina Powell is an emerging artist and arts facilitator based in Meanjin (Brisbane). She received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Studio) and Business (Marketing) from the Queensland College of Art in 2021. Powell often references figure drawing, abstract shapes and colour associations within her work, crafting collages and illustrative oil paintings that explore form and concept, along with ideas of the body, relationships, performance and home, primarily working on paper. Frances Powell is represented by Side Gallery, Brisbane.
Opening Night: Friday 7 February, 6-8pm (opening remarks 6pm)
Image credit: Frances Edwina Powell, Ribbons and twirls! (hyper today), 2023, oil paint and pencil on archival paper, 59.4 x 42cm. Courtesy the artist and Side Gallery.

Vibrations: Abstract women in the collection
2025-02-07 18:00 - 2025-03-30 16:00
Vibrations: Abstract women in the collection shines a spotlight on incredible works in the NERAM collections created by leading contemporary women artists.
Featured artists include Suzanne Archer, Vivienne Binns, Marion Borgelt, Judy Cassab, Elizabeth Coats, Michelle Collocott, Elisabeth Cummings, Debra Dawes, Helen Eager, Vivienne Ferguson, Rosalie Gascoigne, Helen Geier, Julienne Harris, Mimi Jaksic-Berger, Eva Kubbos, Pat Larter, Rosemary Madigan, Hilarie Mais, Barbara McKay, Wendy Paramor, Fay Porter, Marisa Purcell, Cassandra Sharp, Ann Thomson, Aida Tomescu, Louise Tuckwell, Maeve Woods, and Margaret Worth.
Opening night: Friday 7 February, 6-8pm (opening remarks 6pm)
Image credit: Barbara McKay, Wattle, 1974, acrylic on canvas. Gift of the artist 2024.

Oddity Part 1: KHR Stewart
2025-02-07 18:00 - 2025-03-30 16:00
KHR Stewart explores the subliminal world of the subconscious in this exhibition, drawing from life experience in collaging influential moments in time and personal relationships interspersed with the surreal. Her current process involves collecting and combining photographs into digital tableaux which are then reproduced as detailed oil paintings.
KHR Stewart was born in Orange, NSW. Moving to Lismore at an early age, and then studying Architecture and Fine Art at University of Newcastle, she completed her Fine Art studies at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Whilst now based in Brisbane, her work continues to draw upon her lived regional experience, and that of her family more broadly, intertwining natural and built landscapes with eclectic memory.
Opening Night: Friday 7 February, 6-8pm (opening remarks 6pm)
Image credit: KHR Stewart, The Victorians (Giantess), 2018, oil on canvas, 85 x 70cm. Courtesy the artist.

Opening Night
2025-03-21 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions.
Panel discussion with BGP: 5.45 – 6.30pm (opening remarks 6.30pm)

Pass the Print: An experimental collaboration with the Black Gully Printmakers

Fifty/ 50

Image credit: Del Kathryn Barton, Wild carrot dream, limited edition archival print. Courtesy of the artist.

Pass the Print: An experimental collaboration with the Black Gully Printmakers
2025-03-21 18:00 - 2025-05-04 16:00
A collaborative printmaking project challenging the Black Gully Printmakers to embrace experimentation and freedom in printmaking. Each participant provides a print to another member who then responds to the initiating artist’s imagery and approach. Each participant is relieved from conceiving an entire finished work, and instead, brings their own flavour, technique and finesse to another’s. The results are anyone’s guess!
Participants include: Eve Chan, Heather Cowie, Clint Harvey, Cat MacGregor, Beth Macraild O’Loughlin, Dzintra Menesis, Jennifer Miller, Dinny Perry, Emily Simson, Rosalie Rigby Susie Spencer, Chris Vickery, and Margaret Vickery.
Opening night: Friday 21 March, 6-8pm (opening remarks from 6.30pm)
Panel discussion: Friday 21 March, 5.45 – 6.30pm
Image credit: Jennifer Miller, Untitled, reduction Lino Print with collaged gelli plate.

Fifty/ 50
2025-03-21 18:00 - 2025-05-04 16:00
Back by popular demand! Fifty/ 50 is an exhibition, it’s a raffle, and it’s a fundraiser for the Art Museum. Artists have donated artworks that are up for grabs in a progressive raffle that will be drawn at the conclusion of the exhibition. If your name gets drawn out first, you get first pick from all of the artworks on display, and so on until the last person drawn gets the last artwork remaining. There are limited tickets available and with artworks by artists such Ben Quilty, Angus Nivison, Del Kathryn Barton, Isabelle Devos, Ken Done, Stuart Boggs, Hiromi Tango, Paula Jenkins, Martin King, Adrian Lockhart, and Caroline Zilinsky, we suggest you buy yours quick!
Opening night: Friday 21 March, 6-8pm
Fifty/ 50 will be drawn on Sunday 4 May, 3pm
Fifty/ 50 artists include: Adrian Lockhart, Alex Sugar, Angus Nivison, Anna Johnson, Anne-Marie Zanetti, Arthur Boyd, Ben Frost, Ben Quilty, Caroline Zilinsky, Chelsea Gustafsson, Del Kathryn Barton, Denise Faulkner, Ebony Russell, Elizabeth Barnett, Emily Day, Fiona O’Byrne, Hiromi Tango, Isabelle Devos, John R Walker, Judith Nangala Crispin, Julianne Ross Allcorn, Kate Rohde, Ken Done, Leah Bullen, Lihao Lu, Liz Gridley, Mandy Francis, Marie Mansfield, Martin King, Max Powell, Michael Simms, Narelle Zeller, Nat Ward, Natasha Junmanee, Neerja Peters, Paula Jenkins, Petra Reece, Rachel Favelle, Rhiannon Mowat, Robyn Lees-West, Rosie Lloyd-Giblett, Rowen Matthews, Ryan Pola, Sally Kent, Samantha Frye, Sandra McMahon, Sarah Waghorn, Scott Breton, Stuart Boggs, Vanessa Ashcroft.
Fifty/50 Artwork List
Fifty/ 50 is supported by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.

Image credit: : Del Kathryn Barton, Wild carrot dream, limited edition archival print. Courtesy of the artist.

Terms and Conditions

Tickets go on sale on Friday 21 March.
Total tickets available will equal total artworks available.
Individuals are able to purchase multiple tickets.
All artworks are valued at $500 or over (value information received from artwork donors).
Artwork labels detail if the work comes framed or unframed.
On the last day of the exhibition (Sunday 4th May) a public event will be held where tickets will be drawn.
All ticket holders will receive an artwork from the Fifty/ 50 exhibition that they will select in order of the public draw.
The first name drawn at the event, gets to choose from all of the artworks on display in the Fifty/ 50 exhibition. The second name drawn gets to choose from the remaining works and so on. The last name drawn receives that last remaining work and a bottle of bubbles.
Tickets are non-refundable.
All selections are final and NERAM will not be involved in any negotiations to swap or exchange artworks. An exception may be made if an artwork is damaged, and the damage is recognised and reported prior to it leaving NERAM.
Ticket holders who are unable to attend the public event can complete a Fifty/ 50 Preference List – the form will ask you to rank all Fifty/ 50 artworks in order of your preference. When your name is drawn a NERAM staff member will secure your highest-ranking artwork from those still remaining.
All proceeds will support the NERAM exhibition program.

Opening Night
2025-04-11 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions.
The Landscape of Giving: Celebrating 10 years of the Adopt an Artwork program at NERAM

Halfway Home: Bridie McKelvey

Galah: Regional Photography Prize

Opening remarks will commence at 6.30pm
Join us prior to the opening at 5.45pm to hear from Julian Bickersteth AO, CEO of International Conservation Services. Julian will discuss his global experience in conservation, with highlights from the past 10 years of NERAM’s Adopt An Artwork Program, and celebrate the generous contributions to this incredible project which supports the preservation of our beautiful collection. Please R.S.V.P for the talk here…

Image credit: Elioth Gruner, Winter Afternoon, Bellingen, 1937, oil on canvas. Gift of Howard Hinton 1938. The Howard Hinton Collection. Sponsored by Paul & Miriam Martin, Lynne Walker and Richard Bird in 2021 for the Adopt An Artwork Program.

Halfway Home: Bridie McKelvey
2025-04-11 18:00 - 2025-06-08 16:00
A solo exhibition of delightful and whimsical assemblages and dioramas representing a small escape from life’s hectic and sometimes harsh realities. Bridie McKelvey’s work takes seemingly mundane objects transforming them into intricate reimagined landscapes. Favoured materials include paper, tins, toys, beads, threads, old books, paper, found objects, wire and pressed flowers, that are applied with repetition throughout her work – continually toying with colour, balance and texture, and delivering on an objective that is purely decorative and designed to delight.

Now based in the Northern Rivers, Bridie McKelvey grew up and attended high school in Armidale. McKelvey has studied visual arts and graphic design and has participated in several group exhibitions in NSW.

Credit: Bridie McKelvey, Owl and flowers, n.d., mixed media assemblage. Courtesy the artist.

2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize
2025-04-11 18:00 - 2025-06-08 16:00
The biennial Galah Regional Photography Prize, established in 2023, has been created to encourage excellence in contemporary photography from regional Australia. The intention of the prize is to celebrate, support and advance the practice of regional photographers.
Galah has announced 42 contemporary photographs as finalists in this year’s $27,000 Regional Photography Prize, Australia’s richest photography prize for regional artists. The judging panel selected 42 images made by 37 regional photographers from more than 1100 entries across regional Australia.
The finalists’ work will be presented at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale, NSW, in an eight week exhibition from 11 April to 8 June 2025.
The winning works will be announced at an exhibition party at NERAM on Friday 2 May 2025.

Image: Mike Terry, Beef Week, 2024. Ilford Fibre Gloss 310gsm – archival print

The Landscape of Giving: Celebrating 10 years of the Adopt an Artwork program at NERAM
2025-04-11 18:00 - 2025-07-06 16:00
NERAM is proud to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Adopt an Artwork program, developed to support the ongoing preservation and conservation of artworks across the NERAM collections. Since the program was launched in 2015, over 208 artworks have been adopted for treatment and over $460,000 in funding has been raised. Showcasing a large selection of artworks that have undergone preservation treatments over the decade and acknowledging the incredible and generous support received from community engagement, this exhibition offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the program and a new range of artworks from NERAM available for adoption.
The exhibition will be opened by Julian Bickersteth AO, CEO of International Conservation Services on Friday 11th April 2025 at 6.30 pm
Please join us at 5.45pm in the Mazda Gallery to share Julian’s global experience in conservation, with highlights from the past 10 years of the Adopt An Artwork Program, and celebrate the generous contributions to this incredible project which supports the preservation of our beautiful collection.

Supported by Packsaddle

Credit: Brett Whiteley, Self portrait, (c. 1972), ink on linen, (cropped) Gift of Chandler Coventry 1979. The Chandler Coventry Collection. Sponsored by Wesfarmers in 2015 for the Adopt An Artwork Program.

Opening Night
2025-05-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions.

Outside our doors | Ascent GROUP exhibition
Movers and Shakers | Celebrating Art Deco

Image credit: ASCENT Group works, 2025.

Outside our doors | Ascent GROUP exhibition
2025-05-09 18:00 - 2025-06-08 16:00
The Ascent Group proudly presents Outside Our Studio Doors, a joyful and vibrant exhibition created by participants who work from the Packsaddle Studio at NERAM three days a week.

Guided by artist facilitator Lucy McCann, the group explored their local surroundings for inspiration—collecting materials, observing nature, and taking photographs. Through a creative journey of journal work, frottage, printing, pattern-making and collage, they’ve brought together a collection that captures both the process and the delight of artistic discovery.

This exhibition is a celebration of creativity, connection, and the joy found just outside the studio doors.

Ascent has been supporting people with disability across the New England region for over 60 years, offering choice, creating opportunity, and developing lifelong skills in an inclusive community.

Movers and Shakers | Celebrating Art Deco
2025-05-09 18:00 - 2025-07-20 16:00
The birth of Art Deco has been attributed to an exhibition held in France in 1925, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. It highlighted the new modern style of architecture, interior decoration, furniture, glass, jewellery and other decorative arts in Europe and throughout the world. Australia was not immune and this exhibition, sourced from the NERAM collections, celebrates the centenary of art deco by highlighting influential people, showcasing the style, and the city of Sydney where art deco has had a lasting impact.

Features work by Herbert Badham, Grace Crowley, Douglas Dundas, Adrian Feint, Raynor Hoff, Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Ethel Spowers, Sydney Ure Smith, Doris Zinkeisen and more

Image credit: Adrian Feint, The Dawn (The Howard Hinton Collections Album), 1925, pen and ink on paper. Bequest of Howard Hinton 1948. The Howard Hinton Collection.

Opening Night
2025-06-13 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions.
EMANATE: Recent National Art School Graduates
From Gunnedah to Gara Gorge: Anna Henderson, Maree Kelly and David Manks
Night & Day: Jane O’Sullivan

From Gunnedah to Gara Gorge: Anna Henderson, Maree Kelly and David Manks
2025-06-13 18:00 - 2025-07-20 16:00
This exhibition brings together three regional artists—Anna Henderson, Maree Kelly and David Manks—who explore the diverse and striking landscapes of northern New South Wales through deeply personal and place-based practices.

Traversing the vast Mooki and Namoi floodplains near Gunnedah, the granite country of Uralla and Armidale, and the dramatic escarpments of the New England gorges, each artist offers a unique response to land, light, and memory. Together, these works offer more than depictions of scenery—they reflect on how we see, remember, and connect with the land. From Gunnedah to Gara Gorge is a contemplative journey through Country, rich with personal insight and artistic exploration.

Image credit: Maree Kelly, Radiance and Shadows, 2025, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist.

Night & Day: Jane O’Sullivan
2025-06-13 18:00 - 2025-08-03 16:00
Inspired by the evocative Cole Porter lyrics—
“Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.”
—this series of abstract landscapes by Jane O’Sullivan explores the shifting moods and colours of the Australian landscape across time and season. The works celebrate not only place, but the emotions and sensory experiences tied to different times of day and year.

The exhibition was sparked by the creation of a single painting, Night and Day, which, to the artist’s surprise, appeared to depict a landscape caught simultaneously in sunlight and moonlight. This accidental duality prompted O’Sullivan to delve deeper into painting landscapes where the distinctions between light and dark, day and night, season and sensation are blurred and reimagined.

Credit: Jane O’Sullivan, Night and Day, 2024, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist.

EMANATE: Recent National Art School Graduates
2025-06-13 18:00 - 2025-08-10 18:00
EMANATE showcases the works of ten graduating students, selected from the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Postgrad final exhibitions held at the National Art School Gallery and Raynor Hoff Project Space in 2024. While the exhibition represents just a small sample of the many outstanding NAS graduates, the selected students are drawn from across the full range of disciplines taught at NAS including painting, sculpture, ceramics, photo media and printmaking.
Artists include: Benjamin Akuila, Eleanor Harris, Grace Buckley, Imogen Rowe, Julie Edgar, Maram Hassan, Mia Ardianto, Quan Zhu Ma, Sophie Victoria and Zi Xin.

Image credit: Benjamin Akuila, Emeline (Bumping Purses), 2024, stoneware, gold spray paint. Courtesy the artist.

Lost in Palm Springs
2025-07-12 10:00 - 2025-09-27 16:00
This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture, or reimagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city.

Connections between Palm Springs and Australia are remarkably strong, particularly when viewed through the lens of the current renaissance of interest in modernist architecture. Place and home, desert atmospheres, landscapes (real and imagined), and Bauhaus sensibilities inform the works.

The Australian artists represented in the exhibition are Kate Ballis, Tom Blachford, Anna Carey, Sam Cranstoun, Paul Davies, Rosi Griffin, Vicki Stravrou, Robyn Sweaney and Gosia Wlodarczak. American artists in the exhibition are Darren Bradley, Jim Isermann, Troy Kudlac, Lance O’Donnell and Kim Stringfellow.

Curated by artist Dr Greer Honeywill, Lost in Palm Springs is a touring initiative developed by HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through its Visions of Australia program and through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and proudly sponsored by IAS Fine Art Logistics and o2 Architecture.

Museums & Galleries Queensland is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funds from Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.

Educational Resource
Lost in Palm Springs: A Creative Classroom Companion
This vibrant education resource is packed with fun, flexible activities that spark curiosity and creativity across a range of subjects. With inspiring artworks, big ideas, and hands-on thinking routines, it’s designed to get students exploring place, culture, design and sustainability in fresh and meaningful ways. Whether you’re teaching art, geography, humanities or beyond, you’ll find ready-to-go content linked to the Australian Curriculum and Cross-Curriculum Priorities.
Follow this link: https://we.tl/t-oBQ2BZaM08

Image: Kate Ballis, 2350, 2017. Archival pigment ink on cotton rag. 103 x 153 cm. Image courtesy of the artist

UNESAP Let's Hang It!
2025-07-25 17:00 - 2025-08-10 17:00
Discover the talents and artwork of school students from across Northern NSW who have entered into the University of New England Schools Acquisitive Art Prize (UNESAP) and have been selected to be shown in the Let’s Hang It! exhibition.
In 2025, 59 finalists have been selected from more than 500 student entries representing 46 schools in regional NSW.
UNESAP is an annual event which provides New England/North West students, from Kindergarten to Year 12, the opportunity to take part in a large art prize, be part of the wider creative community and to have their work professionally hung in an art museum.
Exhibition opening from 5.00pm Friday 25 July, awards presentation will begin promptly at 5.30pm
Click here to cast your vote for the 2025 UNESAP Let’s Hang It! People’s Choice Award. Open from 6pm Friday 25 July until 6pm Sunday 10 August 2025.

Image: Krystal Gibson, Fruits, 2025. acrylic on canvas. Coffs Harbour High School
With Thanks to Our Sponsors
UNESAP Let’s Hang It! 2025 is proudly supported by the University of New England and Gallery 126.Their generous support helps us celebrate young artists from across the region and bring their creativity to the walls of NERAM.

A Way with Words: Lee Bethel
2025-08-15 18:00 - 2025-09-28 16:00
Lee Bethel explores the material and symbolic potential of paper, cutting and shaping it into intricate forms that cast shadows of memory, history, and meaning. A Way with Words is a powerful reflection on feminism, language, and domesticity, using song lyrics, political speeches, and names to honour and interrogate women’s experiences. From Julia’s Tablecloth to Counting the Dead, Bethel’s delicate yet charged works transform the aesthetics of lace and domestic craft into acts of remembrance and resistance, revealing unsettling truths that echo through generations. Each piece speaks quietly — but insists on being seen and heard.

Credit: Lee Bethel, Helens Tablecloth (detail), 2022, watercolour and hand cut paper.
