Ballina Information Blog

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 [...]

                      3 Rivers Aboriginal Art Space and Arts Northern Rivers are pleased to announce the opening of Men’s Business, an Indigenous men’s only exhibition at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, on Thursday, 3 December, at 5.30pm. The exhibition, the first of its kind in [...]

Current exhibiting artist at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina Charly Wrencher will facilitate a painting workshop on Tuesday 17 November 2009. In the three-hour workshop Charly will explore the concept of intuitive landscape painting. For his own works Charly draws inspiration from the Northern Rivers landscapes and seascapes. His current exhibition, ‘Dive in’, [...]

Water, the landscape and quintessential qualities of Australia are main themes running through the three new exhibitions that will open at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery on Saturday, October 31. The exhibitions are a wonderful way to celebrate the gallery’s second birthday and the month of Rivafest. The exhibitions, by leading artists Charly Wrencher, Inge [...]

Ballina Players’ latest production, Inherit The Wind, opens this week on Friday, September 11, at 8pm at the Swift Street Theatre. Background to the play: Charles Robert Darwin was born in England in 1809 and his bearded, beetle-browed image has become one of the totems of the 20th Century. Charles Darwin is arguably the best-known [...]

The ATO has announced a tax break for small businesses with an annual turnover of  less than $2 million. Until 21 December, businesses are eligible to receive an investment allowance of up to 50% on new art assets over $1,000. Retrospect Galleries Director, Bree Delian says she is over the moon to hear about the [...]

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina is set for some whimsical boots coming their way this month with The Pendragon Boot Company’s remarkable exhibition Arts Shoes presented by the Queensland Arts Council and Friends of the Northern Rivers Community Gallery. Cobbling since 1987, Art Shoes artistic creators Jackie Orme Ward and Adrian Lockwood founders [...]

The stunning exhibition, Visual Voices, by Cabarita based artist Babette Angell has opened at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina. This body of etched prints on Hahnemuhle rag paper was created after Babette visited Mount Borradaile in the north-west of Arnhem Land, in May 2008 with a group of artists, led by printmaker Basil Hall [...]