Exhibitions

Life and art are intrinsically entwined in Lucy Culliton's paintings. An avid gardener, her own plants, garden and surrounding landscape are frequently featured, as too are the many animals that inhabit and share her home.

Creative Moments is an annual joint exhibition of the Shoalhaven Woodcraft Society, Nowra Spinners & Weavers and the Shoalhaven Potters.This local, non-competitive exhibition provides an opportunity for the artisans and craftspeople of these three community groups to share their gifts and talents with others, extending their enjoyment in their craft.

Vicki Varvaressos’ works emphasize her inner feelings and emotions over objective depictions. Her dramatic figures contrast with a limited palette applied in broad, loaded brush strokes. After twenty years as a renowned figurative artist, her style eased its way into abstraction, and since then Vicki continues to work in both styles, with some paintings seemingly transitioning in-between.

Inspired by the arabesque, an ornamental design based on patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage and tendrils, this exhibition explores sculptural basketry through an installation and a series of wall pieces and bowls. The artworks are informed by a study of the flora of the Shoalhaven and incorporate vines, rushes and grasses using coiling and other basketry techniques.

Dawson and Hayden are exploring a connection with place and the environment. Plant printing, drawing, collage and paint will be used to create semi abstract art pieces that echo phases of the natural world imbued with a sense of depth and mystery. Both artists explore how we dwell and move within our landscape, balanced unpredictably with a sense of intuition and tension.

Shadow Place is a body of work inspired by the Australian landscape - the desert, the bush, the coast.
Paintings and drawings formulated by memory and best described as a fusion of the real and the imaginary world, Meagan Jacobs combines representational imagery with an abstract language to create works capturing a sense of place.

Kaye Johnston's bug drawings come from a weird part of her brain in which her bug community reside. They are based on biology and have biomorphic forms. They are all individual with different personalities and could live in all geographical locations from extreme hot volcanic niches, the desert, to cold polar areas and even under water. They are often concerned with social and political issues such as sexism, racism, homophobia, misogyny and the environmental.

?The streets of the Japanese port of Uno were the starting point for this exhibition based around roads, pavements and distinctively crafted manhole covers. Japanese design and iconography are blended in works which are visual hybrids of cast iron, concrete, tarmac and weathered paint.

Nature and memory meld in the works of Warwick Francis and Judy Panucci, two great friends who enjoy sharing their art practice and its connection with their lived and imagined worlds. Through collaboration, experimentation, contemplation and frustration both Shoalhaven based artists explore these personal yet universal themes.

For Guy Warren personal experience and memory are vitally important, intertwining with subject matter across his works. Certain events and places had such strong impact that they appear constantly throughout the paintings, prints and drawings Warren has produced over the past six decades.
A canoeing trip down the Shoalhaven River Warren undertook in 1939, at the age of sixteen, and a block of land at the head of the Jamberoo valley on which Warren built a shed have both been integral to his practice. Images of the river, canoe and the ‘hut on the hill,’ all imbued with memories and fantasies, are a strong presence throughout his works and the complex overlapping of form found within the rainforest has impacted depth and patterning across his entire oeuvre.