Project Pride: The Light Between
The Light Between John Michael Rogowski, Queer visions in colour, light, and code. Digital art serves as a medium for exploring colour not just as a visual experience, but as a language of light—an emotional, energetic force that transcends words. Rooted in queer perspectives, this practice embraces fluidity, transformation, and a playful engagement with technology. […]
Around and About by Jane Hewetson
Around and About is a lyrical collection of semi-abstract and representational paintings by local artist Jane Hewetson. Inspired by the rugged beauty of Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain and the quiet presence of native flora, including her signature ‘Scribbly Gum’ series, this collection captures the essence of place through texture, tone and a deeply personal lens. Her […]
Claire Conroy: Artist Talk
Join artist Claire Conroy in conversation with Public Engagement Officer, Linsey Gosper, as they discuss the processes and stories behind The Sky From Here. Images in the exhibition are created through analogue photographic techniques, including darkroom printing and a pin hole camera obscura made by the artist from a 1950’s caravan. The camera obscura caravan […]
Bentley Art Prize
The Bentley Art Prize has been held annually at the Bentley Public Hall since 1985. “The Bentley” is a vehicle for emerging artists to showcase their talent to the wider community. All proceeds raised from the event go toward the upkeep of the Bentley Public Hall, a focal point for the Bentley Community. The Bentley […]
Chas Glover – Swan Songs and Other Tunes
Chas Glover grew up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, painting footballers, cowboys, bikies, and pirates. Preferring to work on paper, Glover’s simple and often loose approach to mark-making leaves room for mystery. Unconcerned with perspective or proportion, his work is off-beat and altered, a quasi-dreamscape of the intimate and domestic. Glover’s interests in history, […]
Monica Buscarino – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The heart is a lonely hunter – somewhere between time is a visual journey into desert landscapes with Monica Buscarino. A love letter to vastness, this body of work presents a meditation on the enigma of the unmeasurable. Elastic and metric at once, time is a constant, tangible companion to Buscarino and her gentle interrogation […]
Claire Conroy – The Sky From Here
As a recent arrival in Northern NSW, Claire Conroy’s exhibition explores themes of relocation, displacement and connection. The sky from here unfolds relationships between people and their environment, and looks at how these relationships are impacted by movement and new social bonds. Conroy’s portraits-inplace are captured with the soft and reversed effects of pinhole photography, […]
Merinda Davies: We are all eating and being eaten
Merinda Davies’ practice explores speculative futures. She is dedicated to investigating how many might thrive within ecological collapse, and heroes the sensory experience as the intelligence that underpins relationships with humans and other beings. Within this, Davies encourages relational thinking and feeling with the more-than-human world. Collaborating with plants, Davies creates multi-species sites for softening […]
Matt O’Brien: What if the wind could speak
Experimenting with drawing, painting and technology, Matt O’Brien discovers new ways to respond to the Australian landscape. Framed by grand narratives passed on through generations and informed by historical depictions of the iconic Australian bush, O’Brien mingles his own experiences to create artworks that are intimate and surreal. Often using materials found on fieldtrips, O’Brien […]
Lisa Reihana: Groundloop
Groundloop is a major immersive audio-visual artwork by internationally regarded artist Lisa Reihana. Through the work Reihana imagines a future where giant banksias form harbourside homes, traditional patterns wrap CGI coastlines and Indigenous voyagers sail between Aotearoa and Australia. In Reihana’s words, ‘I am creating a magical world where the moana, the ocean, is the […]
