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The Northern Rivers Community Gallery will be celebrating the start of spring with a burst of colour featuring five fresh new exhibitions now on display. A Journey Through the Seasons travels through the four seasons of fruit and flowers by artist Barbara Tillsley. From her property in Meerschaum Vale, Barbara paints through the four seasons [...]

A mother shares her heartfelt journey into the chaos and confusion of autism in a new exhibition showing at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery this month. Through the Looking Glass is Gladstone mother and artist Melanie Jai’s artistic endeavour to understand the inner world of her autistic son. Ms Jai has created a series of [...]

The opening of the inaugural Artfelt Art Prize and Exhibition is on Friday, July 2, at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina. The Artfelt Exhibition explores the theme ‘relationships – what they mean to you’ and is a major fundraiser for Heartfelt House, which operates in Wollongbar. Heartfelt House aims to heal and support [...]

Have you created a work of art with love, and dreamed of it hanging in a public art gallery for all to see? There is still time to enter your work in the inaugural Artfelt Art Prize and Exhibition to be held at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina in July 2010. The exhibition will [...]

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery will host the 2009 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize. The exhibition begins on Wednesday 26 May, with the official launch on Friday 28 May at 6.00pm. The Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive prize awarded annually to one of the many outstanding New [...]

NSW Minister for the Arts Virginia Judge meet with Mayors and councillors from the Northern Rivers and Member for Page Janelle Saffin last night to celebrate six years of partnership in supporting the arts in the region through Arts Northern Rivers. It was also announced that Ballina Shire councillor Sue Meehan had taken over as [...]

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery hosts three exhibitions that honour the talents of women in a diverse range of crafts; past and present. ‘Crafty Ladies’, ‘The Quilt Room’ and ‘Through the Eye of a Needle’ all open at the Gallery on Wednesday 24 March, with the official launch on Saturday 27 March at 2pm. Ballina [...]

Recycling and reusing items in materialising artworks will be the focus of free art workshops to be held at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery during March. Sculptor Teah Fort will be running two workshops sponsored by the Ballina Shire Council Waste Education Program on Saturday 13 March in conjunction with her exhibition, ‘Rare Plastics’. The [...]

Recycling and reusing items in materialising artworks is a major focus in the upcoming exhibitions to be hosted by the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina. ‘Darker Shades of Royal’ by Denise N Rall features a series of textile sculptures which represent dystopian royal figures decorated in recycled materials. Each figure is expressed in a vignette [...]

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina is pleased to advise that Geoff Hannah will be presenting a further talk and unveiling of his masterpiece, The Hannah Cabinet, at the Gallery this Sunday, 13 December, at 3pm. The Hannah Cabinet will be on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, in Cherry Street, Ballina until [...]