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Bangalow artist Karla Dickens has won the $2000 open prize in the Bundjalung Art Award, ‘Our Spirit Our Country’, for her work ‘Spirit’.
The annual award is co-hosted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and Lismore Regional Gallery.
NPWS Regional Manager Mark Johnston announced winners in four categories on the opening day of the award’s exhibition but [...]

Refugees, reconciliation and environmental degradation are just some of the human rights issues covered in a new book co-sponsored by the United Nations University, Southern Cross University and the University of Ulster.
The book, Activating Human Rights, looks at what kind of vision for humanity and the world is necessary given the harsh realities and challenges [...]

Digby Moran, the most successful of our local Bundjalung artists, is one of the judges for this year’s National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Bundjalung Art Award.
Other judges are Bundjalung Elder Aunty Bertha Kapeen, Mathew Poll from Sydney’s Boomalli Gallery, and Steven Alderton, director of the Lismore Regional Gallery.
Digby, who won the people’s choice award [...]

A sports marketing and management business, Vantage Management, has set up what it says is the world’s first film and television agency for surfers.
“Vantage Surf Faces is creating an extensive database of Australian surfers and ‘beachy’ types who will be available to appear in films, television shows, TV commercials and photo shoots,” the agency said.
“VSF is [...]

The Lennox Head water reservoir is now more pleasing to the eye, thanks to the work of Californian artist Seth Womble.
Seth has painted the previously unsightly reservoir with a mural which Ballina Shire Council says has provided Lennox Head with a ‘fantastic piece of art’.
“The painting of the mural was approved by council last year [...]

Ballina’s Thursday Plantation is inviting artists to submit proposals for the annual East Coast Sculpture Show.
The 11th annual show will be at Thursday Plantation, on the Pacific Highway just north of town, from September 24 until January 31.
An acquisition fund of $15,000 is offered, along with prizes totalling almost $5000.
Artists have until June 9 to [...]