Whitehouse Fashion Drawing School
2024-08-04 09:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney)
A one day workshop that includes illustrating, rendering, rendering different fabrics techniques, sketching designs on figures and designing to a brief with portfolio layout including swatches and mood boards.

DATE | one-day Saturday 3 August 2024 OR Sunday 4 August 2024
TIME | 9.00am -4.00pm
WORKSHOP COST| Student $80 Adult $130
VENUE | Packsaddle Studio (lower level of NERAM building)

MATERIAL LIST | Bring the following equipment or purchase a resource kit when booking your place, 2B pencil, double sided tape, sharpener, black fine liners, eraser, roller cutter, paper scissors, steel ruler, glue stick, rubber cutting mat.

FULL RESOURCE KIT | $85 Includes 2B pencil, double sided tape, sharpener, black fine liners, eraser, roller cutter paper scissors, steel ruler, glue stick, rubber cutting mat. Kit does NOT include ticket.
RESOURCE KIT- CUTTER & MAT | $47 This kit contains cutting board and roller cutter only.

Printmaking Studio Sessions
2024-08-05 10:30 - 15:30, 2024-08-12 10:30 - 15:30
Studio Sessions with Rhonda Ellem in the Museum of Printing studio.
This is a great opportunity to spend three sessions in the studio to improve your knowledge of dry-point etching or lino printing processes with experienced artist and printmaker Rhonda Ellem.
The sessions allow you to either extend and/or resolve an existing drypoint or lino block, or to begin a new drypoint or lino print. Bring your exisiting plates to the sessions to discuss all the possibilities.
Date | Mondays 29 July, 5 & 12 August
Time | 10.30am – 3.30pm
Venue | Museum of Printing, located at the back of NERAM.
Cost | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $120 , General – $130
Ages | 18 yrs +
Materials | Most materials will be supplied: Drypoint plates and tools, inks, papers and lino tools.
Participants are asked to bring lino blocks if working in lino printing.
Min 8/Max 10

Image credit: Courtesy of Rhonda Ellem
Terms and Conditions

All bookings for events, art classes and workshops require payment in full at the time of booking
A minimum number of 8 students required for classes to proceed, please book and pay before 9am Friday 26 July 2024 to ensure classes go ahead
Please be aware that once bookings close, we are unable to offer a refund
If the class does not proceed, you will be refunded any cash amount
NERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential
Student contact details may be passed on to facilitators for communication purposes

Opening Night | Friday 16 August
2024-08-16 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions and the official launch of the Winter Blooming Festival!
6 pm Friday 16 August

Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection

Ley Lines: Dr Neerja Peters

Rainbow: Alun Rhys Jones

Image credit: Neerja Peters, The Self 6, 2023. Acrylic and archival ink on paper. Courtesy the artist.

Winter Blooming Festival
2024-08-16 18:00 - 2024-08-18 16:00
WINTER BLOOMING IS A FESTIVAL THAT CELEBRATES FIRST NATIONS, MULTICULTURAL, LGBTQA+ ARTS, CULTURE, COMMUNITIES AND ALLIES. THE FESTIVAL IS AN INCLUSIVE EVENT THAT SUPPORTS DIVERSITY AND IS OPEN TO ALL.

FRIDAY 16TH
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Opening Night and Festival Launch
Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions Rainbow: Alun Rhys Jones, Neerja Peters: Ley Lines & Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection and the official launch of the 2024 Winter Blooming Festival. This event will include the Launch of the University of New England Allyship report:
Being Myself at UNE: A report of the UNE Allyship steering committee
The launch of Being myself at UNE is the culmination of work that began with a university-wide survey in Nov 2021 which invited UNE staff, students and alumni to share their experiences of inclusion, both as people of diverse sexualities and gender identities, and the wider UNE community. The survey findings and report form the cornerstone of efforts to acknowledge and support LGBTQIA+ people online and on campus, as well as strategies and vision for building more inclusive spaces and communities. Please join us for the launch and a discussion of some key findings.
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SATURDAY 17TH
11.00AM – 12.00 PM
In Conversation: Omar Sakr and Rob Waters – Art as Resistance: How we use poetry and story telling in oppressive circumstances.
Omar Sakr does not have a bio in the genocide.
Rob Waters is a Gomeroi man with deep cultural connections to the North West of NSW. He is the 2023 Australian Poetry Slam Champion, a proud father and grandfather and now lives with his partner on Darkinjung Country. Rob is a poet, storyteller, cultural educator and spoken word artist who has been performing and sharing Story for over 20 years.

12.00 – 1.00pm
Panel – Re-remembering queer histories through objects, archives and stories
Speakers: Marina Jansen, Dr Ariella Van Luyn & Jody Ekert
‘Queer has always been here’ is a powerful idea that demonstrates the importance of the past to queer movements. But historical queer lives are not always visible. Compulsory heterosexuality, the assumption that a person is heterosexual unless proven otherwise, has meant biographers and historians sometimes overemphasise the need for proof of same sex relationships. The concern that imposing contemporary identities and terms on to past lives also means gender non-conformity goes unrecognised. This panel will explore the ways writers, historians and artists can re-remember queer lives and read between the lives of archives and other historical narratives.
Marina Jansen is a Melbourne based historian at Heritage Victoria and will discuss the challenges of finding surviving material culture (buildings and objects) related to queer people in the past.
Dr Ariella Van Luyn is an academic in creative writing at UNE, and writes and researches queer historical fiction. She explores how contemporary artists and writers reimagine queer lives. Ariella is the curator of Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection, that draws on NERAM’s collection from a queer perspective.
Jody Ekert is a community advocate and events organizer from Tamworth. Her recent focus is on Tamworth queer history and the work of Vernon Marshall, a German figure from the 70s. She has relaunched his work with the Hey Vernon project, 50 years later. Jody is passionate about uncovering forgotten queer history, fostering connections, storytelling, and supporting small town queer groups through their advocacy and events.

1.00PM – 2.00PM
LUNCH BREAK

2.00PM – 5.00PM
Workshop Sessions – workshop tickets sold separately (not included in your festival pass)
Still Life Drawing with Alun Rhys Jones – 2.00 – 5.00pm
Join artist Alun Rhys Jones in this engaging workshop that will focus on still life drawing. Participants will be encouraged to experiment with different drawing techniques and styles throughout the 3-hour session.
This workshop will foster creativity, observation skills, and artistic growth for keen drawers. It is designed for participants of all skill levels, offering basic instruction for beginners through to more advanced techniques for experienced artists.
Alun will give participants a short tour of his exhibition ‘Rainbow’, before launching into a series of guided still life drawings.

I Will Speak Now – Spoken Word Workshop with Rob Waters
Every one has the right to speak but who is really being heard. This workshop looks at how to amplify your voice through spoken word. Learn how to have impact by turning your political, social and cultural ideas into oral stories and poetry.

Song Writing with Jhana Allen
Have you ever wanted to write songs but not known how to get started? Do you have an existing song that you need help with finishing? Or perhaps you’re a poet with hopes of turning one of your poems into a song. Come along to the Winter Blooming songwriting workshop led by local singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist, Jhana Allan and find ways to breathe some life into your creative ideas.

ACON Salon
Come and relax in the Museum and listen to ACON Community Health Promotion Officer Ivan Crozier reading selections from Fever By Jonathan Bazzi. Following the reading, Ivan will be opening the floor for a discussion of the text, and sexual health.
Open to all 18+ members of the LGBTQ Community and their allies.

Song writing with Jhana Allan – Details to be released soon

7.00 – 10.00pm
Winter Blooming Ball
It’s time to get fabulous at the 2024 Winter Blooming Ball! It’s the prom you always dreamed of, the event of the season, a night to remember. Dress to impress as your true self, grab your boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, friends or slay it solo. Everyone is welcome!
DJ Betty Bilby is back in charge of the music. There will be drag and performances throughout the night! We can’t wait to see you on the dance floor!
The Winter Blooming Ball is a 16yrs+ event.

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SUNDAY 18TH
10.00am – 12.30pm
Queer Brunch

Social meet up for the LGBTAQ+ community at the Six Counties at NERAM. Tickets for Queer Brunch are free but limited. Brunch purchased on the day from the Six Counties menu. Enjoy a big brekkie or sip on a coffee.

There is a special shuttle bus service to support UNE students attend the Winter Blooming Festival, check out the timetable at the link. Remember to have your current student ID card to to access the service! https://www.unelife.com.au/useful/transport-options/
Winter Blooming has been Produced in collaboration with the University of New England, Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council, and ACON.

The Winter Blooming Festival program is subject to changes at any time. Please refer to website for any updates or amendments.

Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection
2024-08-16 18:00 - 2024-09-22 16:00
Queer lives and artistic practices are inextricably linked in Australia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As this exhibition demonstrates, the collections held at NERAM are ripe with such queer stories and potentials. The words queer and queering are far from neutral. This exhibition seeks to counter ideas of queer as a category, label or a fixed or knowable identity. Instead, the collection of artworks in Fantastical Scenes explores queering as a way of being, discovering, re-interpreting, resisting and making.
Curated by Dr Ariella Van Luyn
Read the Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection exhibition essay
Opening night: Friday 16 August, 6-8pm
Image credit: Henri Van Noordenburg, Composition XXXV, 2015, hand-carved inkjet print. Gift of the Artist, 2020. NERAM Collection.

Part of the Winter Blooming Festival

Ley Lines: Neerja Peters
2024-08-16 18:00 - 2024-09-22 16:00
New Delhi based artist Neerja Peters finds creating paintings through geometry and colour articulation contemplative and meditative. Her distinct visual language evokes synaesthesia, perceiving beyond what is evident, leading the viewer to self-discovery, soul awakening, and divine knowledge. Ley Lines, Peter’s first exhibition in Australia, presents several bodies of work and includes drawing, painting and artist books, that demonstrates Peter’s spiritual expression through abstract geometry.
Opening night: Friday 16 August, 6-8pm
Image credit: Neerja Peters, The Self 6, 2023. Acrylic and archival ink on paper. Courtesy the artist.

Part of the Winter Blooming Festival

Rainbow: Alun Rhys Jones
2024-08-16 18:00 - 2024-09-22 16:00
Rainbow colours are often used by companies and brands to create products and services to attract the LGBTQIA+ community. In Rainbow, Bellingen-based artist Alun Rhys Jones creates a fake gift shop maximalist in its hang with bright graphics and merchandise, including T-shirts, wallpaper, and mugs, to reflect on how rainbow colours are utilised to attract the pink dollar of LGBTQIA+ consumers.
Opening night: Friday 16 August, 6-8pm
Image credit: Alun Rhys Jones, Pantone Belief System (pink), 2024, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist.

Part of the Winter Blooming Festival

Song writing with Jhana Allen
2024-08-17 14:00 - 15:30
Have you ever wanted to write songs but not known how to get started? Do you have an existing song that you need help with finishing? Or perhaps you’re a poet with hopes of turning one of your poems into a song. Come along to the Winter Blooming songwriting workshop led by local singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist, Jhana Allan and find ways to breathe some life into your creative ideas.
Jhana will lead you through techniques she uses, such as stream-of-consciousness writing and poetry.
The workshop will be in 3 stages: The raw, ‘word-vomit’ uncensored phase, workshopping phase, and polishing phase.
BYO instrument, but being able to play an instrument is not necessary. There will be a couple of instruments (guitar, ukulele, piano) available for you to play around on to aid your process.

Winter Blooming has been Produced in collaboration with the University of New England, Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council, and ACON.

The Winter Blooming Festival program is subject to changes at any time. Please refer to website for any updates or amendments.

I Will Speak Now - Spoken Word Workshop with Rob Waters
2024-08-17 14:00 - 16:00
Every one has the right to speak but who is really being heard. This workshop looks at how to amplify your voice through spoken word. Learn how to have impact by turning your political, social and cultural ideas into oral stories and poetry.
Gomeroi man Rob Waters, is the current Australian Poetry Slam Champion. Rob has over 20 years experience writing, performing and teaching Story. He helps empower people in local communities to use oral storytelling and poetry to share their ideas with world.

Image: Rob Waters, photograph by Kris Wnter
This workshop is part of the Winter Blooming Festival.

Still Life Drawing with Alun Rhys Jones
2024-08-17 14:00 - 17:00
Join artist Alun Rhys Jones in this engaging workshop that will focus on still life drawing. Participants will be encouraged to experiment with different drawing techniques and styles throughout the 3-hour session.
This workshop will foster creativity, observation skills, and artistic growth for keen drawers. It is designed for participants of all skill levels, offering basic instruction for beginners through to more advanced techniques for experienced artists.
Alun will give participants a short tour of his exhibition Rainbow, before launching into a series of guided still life drawings.
Paper and drawing materials provided.
Alun Rhys Jones is an Australian-based artist, whose practice focuses on themes related to identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. He graduated with Honours from the National Art School, Sydney in 2011. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally. Since graduating he has participated in twelve solo exhibitions and more than 30 group shows and has been shortlisted for over 40 Awards and Prizes.

Image: Alun Rhys Jones, The Wrestlers, 2016. Charcoal on Stonehenge paper

This workshop is part of the Winter Blooming Festival.

Winter Blooming Ball
2024-08-17 19:00 - 22:00
It’s time to get fabulous at the 2024 Winter Blooming Ball! It’s the prom you always dreamed of, the event of the season, a night to remember. Dress to impress as your true self, grab your boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, friends or slay it solo. Everyone is welcome!
DJ Betty Bilby is back in charge of the music. There will be drag and performances throughout the night! We can’t wait to see you on the dance floor!
Pre-order a snack from the Six Counties Restaurant.
The Winter Blooming Ball is 16yrs+ event.

There is a special shuttle bus service to support UNE students attend the Winter Blooming Festival, check out the timetable at the link. Remember to have your current student ID card to to access the service! https://www.unelife.com.au/useful/transport-options/
Winter Blooming is a festival that celebrates LGBTQA+, First Nations and multicultural arts, culture, communities, and allies.
Winter Blooming has been Produced in collaboration with the University of New England, Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council, and ACON.

Winter Blooming - Queer Brunch
2024-08-18 09:30 - 12:30
Social meet up for the LGBTAQ+ community at the Six Counties at NERAM. Tickets for Queer Brunch are free but limited. Brunch purchased on the day from the Six Counties menu. Enjoy a big brekkie or sip on a coffee.
Winter Blooming has been Produced in collaboration with the University of New England, Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council, and ACON.

Collector's Talk: Alex Moule
2024-08-21 18:00 - 19:00
Armidale local Professor Alex Moule and Dr Judy-Ann Moule, have a deep appreciation and interest in Australian Indigenous art. This interest was sparked nearly 20 years ago and since then they have forged strong connections to artists and gallerists in various communities and have assembled a significant private collection.
Join us for an in conversation with Professor Alex Moule and NERAM Director Rachael Parsons as they discuss the Moule’s art collection, Alex’s experiences visiting Aboriginal communities and connecting with artists, and some of the stories told by the artworks on display in Marks are Memories: Selected Indigenous works from the Moule Collection.

This is part of the HAND-IN-HAND Peace with Justice month of events.

The Flower and the Fiddle: The Eclectic and Magical Music of Goldheist and Andrew Clermont.
2024-08-25 15:00 - 18:00
Arts North West On Tour presents The Flower & The Fiddle.
This musical powerhouse duo features multi-instrumentalist Andrew Clermont (violin/mandolin/guitar/didgeridoo) and singer-songwriter GOLDHEIST (piano/vocals), presenting an evocative and enchanting show full of stories, characters and connection, beautifully rendered with exquisite musicianship shimmering with folk, classical and Celtic elements. Eclectic and exhilarating – a great concert for all ages.

Packsaddle Lecture: Jackie Dunn - Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau
2024-08-27 18:00 - 19:00
For the 2024 FT Wimble Lecture on Printmaking, join Jackie Dunn, Senior curator of exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curator of their current Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau exhibition, to explore the life and work of one of art’s great stylistic innovators, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939). Through his lithographic posters and illustrations, Mucha created some of the most instantly recognisable and best-loved works in modern European art: the seductive, sinuous compositions that formed a new language and defined the look of late 19th-century Paris. But Mucha was also a mystic philosopher and activist for the liberation of his homeland, today’s Czech Republic. Together we’ll take a journey through his rich career to uncover the artist behind the famous images.
Your ticket includes a welcome glass of sparkling wine.
Jackie Dunn is Senior curator of exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She is co-curator of the 2024 Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau exhibition. Other major exhibitions she has curated for the Art Gallery include, in 2023, Kandinsky, from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Desmond Lazaro’s Point and Line to Plane, and Georgiana Houghton: Invisible Friends. In 2021 she co-curated Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, as well as the associated gallery-wide contemporary art responses, Matisse Alive. That year she was also facilitating curator of Franklin Sirmans’ international video exhibition, Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity. In 2019, her Dora Ohlfsen and the Facade Commission led to a new commission for the Art Gallery’s heritage frontage and, in 2018, she curated The Lady and the Unicorn, from the Musée de Cluny, Paris.

The Packsaddle Lecture Series invites leading guest speakers to explore aspects of Australian and international artistic practices and history. These informative and entertaining talks provide the community with an opportunity to explore themes and ideas related to some of our key collection areas. The annual lecture series includes the Howard Hinton Lecture on art history, the Chandler Coventry Lecture on contemporary art and the F.T. Wimble Lecture on printing history and art.

Image: Alphonse Mucha Reverie 1898 © Mucha Trust 2024, colour lithograph, 72.7 x 55.2 cm.

ART FOR PEACE | A workshop for children & teenagers
2024-09-01 10:30 - 12:30
As part of the HAND-IN-HAND Peace with Justice month of events, Maxine Ross and Marty Branagan are facilitating ART FOR PEACE – A workshop for children and teenagers.
All children and teenagers are welcome to come along, just drop into the Packsaddle studio between 10.30am – 12.30pm.

DATE | Sunday September 1st
TIME | 10.30am – 12.30pm
VENUE | Packsaddle Studio (Lower level of the NERAM building)
FREE EVENT
No bookings needed.

This is part of the HAND-IN-HAND Peace with Justice month of events.

OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE
2024-09-07 10:00 - 2024-10-20 16:00
OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE links objects and artworks to investigate universal themes such as love, vanity, motherhood, mourning, adornment and more. A collaboration between the New England Regional Art Museum and the University of New England’s Museum of Antiquities, the exhibition also includes thought provoking texts by ten experts, drawing out the themes and giving their own unique perspectives, resulting in an absorbing exploration of ideas and viewpoints.
Co-curated by Alina Kozlovski (UNE), Belinda Hungerford (NERAM), and Bronwyn Hopwood (UNE) with texts written by Matthew Allen, James Brooks, Penny Craswell, Lily Dedman, Mahalath Halperin, Felicity Joseph, Peter Langston, Jennifer McDonell, Siobhan O’Hanlon, and Lou Streeting.
A partnership with the University of New England

read more from OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE here
Public Programs
Opening event panel discussion: Saturday 7 September, 2-3pm
Stories from the Field – Archaeologists: Wednesday 18 September, 6-7.30pm
Creative Writing Workshop – Object biofictions: creative writing and archaeology: Thursday 10 October, 6-7.30pm
See the results of the Creative Writing Workshop here
Image credit: Garrett Kingsley, Eighteen, 1942. Oil on board. Gift of Howard Hinton 1943. Sponsored by John & Barbara Beynon in 2021 for the Adopt An Artwork Program.

OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE | Opening Event
2024-09-07 14:00 - 15:00
Panel Discussion
Join Alina Kozlovski (UNE), Belinda Hungerford (NERAM), and Bronwyn Hopwood (UNE), the curators of OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE, to hear about the genesis and realisation of the exhibition along with several of the contributing writers including Matthew Allen, Mahalath Halperin, Felicity Joseph, Peter Langston, and Siobhan O’Hanlon.
Bookings are required.

Image credits:
Plate, late 4th century BCE, South Italy, ceramic. MA1969.1. UNE Museum of Antiquities.
Garrett Kingsley, Eighteen, 1942, oil on board. Gift of Howard Hinton 1943. Howard Hinton Collection. Sponsored by John & Barbara Beynon in 2021 for the Adopt An Artwork Program.

Artist Talk - Neerja Peters
2024-09-12 16:30 - 17:30
Join us at NERAM for an in conversation between exhibiting artist Neerja Peters and NERAM Director Rachael Parsons as they discuss Peter’s current exhibition Ley Lines.
New Delhi based artist Neerja Peters finds creating paintings through geometry and colour articulation contemplative and meditative. Her distinct visual language evokes synaesthesia, perceiving beyond what is evident, leading the viewer to self-discovery, soul awakening, and divine knowledge. Ley Lines, Peter’s first exhibition in Australia, presents several bodies of work and includes drawing, painting and artist books, that demonstrates Peter’s spiritual expression through abstract geometry.

Image credit: Neerja Peters, The Self 8, 2023. Acrylic and archival ink on paper. Courtesy the artist.

OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE | Stories from the Field
2024-09-18 18:00 - 19:30
Coinciding with NERAM’s current exhibition OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE join us for Stories from the Field, a night of archaeologists sharing their curious adventures, spills and thrills of working in the field… listen at your own risk!!!
Speakers include:
Professor Martin Gibbs – A field team digs on its stomach: the gastronomic challenges of archaeological research
Professor Lloyd Weeks – Backfilling for Pottsie: the strange places a ‘just say yes’ policy can take a humble grad student
Adjunct Professor June Ross – Raiders of the Lost Art: rose coloured glasses and the desert
Bookings are required.

Credits:
A.J. Woolmer, The Mirror, (1870). Oil on canvas. Gift of Howard Hinton 1944.
Mirror, 4th century BCE, Greek world, bronze. MA1964.7.1. UNE Museum of Antiquities.

Opening Night
2024-09-27 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions.
Drawing from the Collection
Women and Other Demons
All the Excellent Dolphins

Credit: William Robinson, Chookyard, 1979, pastel. Purchased 1981. The Armidale City Collection.

Drawing from the Collection
2024-09-27 18:00 - 2024-11-10 16:00
Good draughtsmanship is the foundation of all forms of art. Sourced from the NERAM collections, this exhibition features sketches and studies, to fully realised still lifes, portraits, and landscapes where the skill of the artist’s eye, realised solely by a drawing implement in the hand, is on plain view.
Drawing from the Collection highlights the variety and skill of more than 35 artists including Judy Cassab, Margaret Coen, Elisabeth Cummings, Nora Heysen, Lionel Lindsay, Angus Nivison, Lloyd Rees, William Robinson, Desiderius Orban, Guy Warren, and Margaret Woodward amongst others.
Opening night: Friday 27 September, 6-8pm
Image credit: William Robinson, Chookyard, 1979, pastel. Purchased 1981. The Armidale City Collection.

Women and Other Demons
2024-09-27 18:00 - 2024-11-10 16:00
Maria Pia Mosquera is a Colombian-born artist based in Sydney. Rooted in the aesthetics of medieval and Latin-American colonial art, her work wryly re-imagines the contemporary world through the lens of religious iconography, mythology and folklore, vestiges from a time when the power of the supernatural to intervene in our lives was taken to be self-evident.
Making use of oneiric imagery that challenges the macabre with whimsical humour and invites reflection on our everyday lives, the paintings in this exhibition re-imagine depictions of women in ancient stories in order to engage with contemporary society, which is only beginning to reckon with the misogyny that drives persistent violence against women.
Opening night: Friday 27 September, 6-8pm
Women And Other Demons Catalogue

Image credit: Maria Pia Mosquera, Taken II, 2023, oil on board. Courtesy the artist.

All the Excellent Dolphins
2024-09-27 18:00 - 2024-11-10 16:00
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.

Artist Talk: Catherine Cassidy
2024-09-28 10:30 - 11:30
Join us at NERAM to hear from exhibiting artist Catherine Cassidy as she discusses her creative practice and current exhibition, All the Excellent Dolphins.
Image credit: Catherine Cassidy, Big Spring Kati Thanda, 2024, polymers, aerosol on polycotton. Courtesy the artist.

School Holidays | Jewellery Making
2024-10-01 13:30 - 14:30
Jewellery making
Let’s celebrate spring weather with some brand-new accessories! Come along to our jewellery making workshop where you can make friendship bracelets, necklaces, key chains and more! For our younger ones, elastic string and strips of cloth will be used for beads and charms, and for our older kids joining us, learn how to attach charms and fasteners to a chain for some extra special handmade bling.
Open to all ages 5 yrs and over, we encourage parents to accompany children under 8 years old. All materials are provided.

Dates | Tuesday 1st October

Time | 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Venue | Packsaddle Studio (located at the rear of NERAM )
Cost | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $27 , General – $31

Please phone NERAM 67725255 to cancel your place if you are unable to attend so that it can be filled by someone else.

Terms and Conditions

All bookings for workshops require payment in full at the time of booking.
A minimum of 8 participants for workshop to proceed, maximum of 15 participants.
Bookings close on Monday 30th September at 10am. No refunds can be made after bookings close.
If the workshop does not proceed, you will be refunded any cash amount.
NERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential.

School Holidays | Woven Wall Hangings
2024-10-03 10:30 - 12:00
Make your own woven artwork to hang on your wall or in your window! This holiday session is all about the fun of weaving and exploring patterns created with wool, cotton and other repurposed materials. Learn step by step how to weave a small wall hanging using brightly coloured threads or try out the special knots used to make a circular weaving to hang above your bed.
Open to all ages 5yrs and over, we encourage parents to accompany children under 8 years old. All materials are provided.

Dates | Thursday 3rd October

Time | 10.30am – 12.00pm
Venue | Packsaddle Studio (located at the rear of NERAM )
Cost | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $26 , General – $30

Please phone NERAM 67725255 to cancel your place if you are unable to attend so that it can be filled by someone else.

Terms and Conditions

All bookings for workshops require payment in full at the time of booking.
A minimum of 8 participants for workshop to proceed, maximum of 15 participants.
Bookings close on Tuesday 1st October at 10am. No refunds can be made after bookings close.
If the workshop does not proceed, you will be refunded any cash amount.
NERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential.

School Holidays | Stitched Wall hanging
2024-10-09 10:30 - 12:00
Stitched Wall hanging
Create your own stitched wall hanging using colourful precut cloth. Create a fun and original design to follow along with your stitched cloth, learning step by step how to transform this into something amazing to hang in your house! Needles will be used for this process, so please be aware of this if you have little ones who might need some more help.
Open to all ages 5 yrs and over, we encourage parents to accompany children under 8 years old. All materials are provided.

Dates | Wednesday 9th October

Time | 10.30am – 12.00pm
Venue | Packsaddle Studio (located at the rear of NERAM )
Cost | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $26 , General – $30

Terms and Conditions

All bookings for workshops require payment in full at the time of booking.
A minimum of 8 participants for workshop to proceed, maximum of 15 participants.
Bookings close on Monday 7th October at 10am. No refunds can be made after bookings close.
If the workshop does not proceed, you will be refunded any cash amount.
NERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential.

School Holidays | Creatures & Critters
2024-10-10 10:30 - 11:30
Creatures and Critters garden stakes
Decorate your garden with some handmade fluttering creatures and critters and dazzling jewelled stakes. Decorate and design butterflies, dragonflies, bees or any other creature we might find in our garden before placing this onto wire. Be taught how to transform these from simple drawings into beautiful decorative stakes to place into your garden at home.
Open to all ages 5 yrs and over, we encourage parents to accompany children under 8 years old. All materials are provided.

Dates | Thursday October 10th

Time | 10.30 – 11.30am
Venue | Packsaddle Studio (located at the rear of NERAM)
Cost | Friends of NERAM/Culture Club Members – $23 , General – $26

Please phone NERAM 67725255 to cancel your place if you are unable to attend so that it can be filled by someone else.

Terms and Conditions

All bookings for workshops require payment in full at the time of booking.
A minimum of 8 participants for workshop to proceed, maximum of 15 participants.
Bookings close on Tuesday 8th October at 10am. No refunds can be made after bookings close.
If the workshop does not proceed, you will be refunded any cash amount.
NERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential.
