Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG) Ballina presents four innovative exhibitions from artists across the region and nationally, pinpointing the Northern Rivers as a major contributor to contemporary art in Australia. November and December will be an exciting time to visit the gallery, with new work from emerging artists and a competitive national art prize on display.
Gentle Structure | Jenny Schirmer | NRCG x BSA Graduate Award Recipient
Jenny Schirmer explores a connection between found objects and deliberately formed materials to conjure elusive memories of time or place. In Gentle Structure, Schirmer plays with architectural elements and scale in her search for balance between the safety of structure and a playful freedom.
Expanded Feel | Nikky Morgan-Smith and Nicki Wynnychuk
In collaboration Morgan-Smith and Wynnychuk present a series of combined images & objects that dance together in an improvised harmony. The work will embrace the tools of texture, tone, colour and materiality to riff with the material as well as each other, creating an expanded feel.
Finalist Exhibition | The BAM Art Prize 2022
Presented by Byron Arts Magazine in partnership with Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG), the BAM Art Prize promotes awareness of the arts in the Northern Rivers by presenting a national art prize within the region. Open to all mediums and artists, the BAM Art Prize Finalist Exhibition showcases shortlisted works in the 2022 prize and features a diverse range of works, selected by the judges.
The 2022 judges are Susi Muddiman OAM, Director of Tweed Regional Gallery; BAM Editor-in-Chief, Alana Wilson; and illustrator and artist, Alex Mankiewicz. Program partner: BAM Byron Arts Magazine.
All exhibitions open Wednesday, 19 October 2022 and continue until Sunday, 11 December 2022. The official exhibition launch will be held 5.30 – 7.30pm, Thursday, 27 October.
Please note bookings are not required. This event has a maximum capacity of 100 people. Doors will be closed when the Gallery reaches this capacity.
