Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG) Ballina brings together four new exhibitions from local artists whose works draw upon personal, cultural, lyrical, and historical stories of nature, as well as our relationship to discarded objects. Together, all four exhibitions span sculpture, installation, photography, painting and drawing – presenting diverse approaches to contemporary art practice.
Origin | Nathalie Dahlgren
In this body of work, Dahlgren explores her Swedish origins by fusing primordial symbolism with her own motifs. Using a Scandinavian colour palette, she makes reference to memories, stone carvings, birch forests, and Norse culture.
Stories of the Big Scrub | Tom Wolff
Only 1% of the lowland subtropical rainforest known as the ‘Big Scrub’ still remains on Bundjalung Country. Wide-scale deforestation has reduced these majestic forests to isolated remnants scattered across the region. This exhibition of 35mm film photographs seeks out the stories embedded in these surviving pockets – a living lineage to Gondwana.
Through the Canopy with Words and Music | Claire Yerbury
This exhibition harnesses the divine heights inspired by classical music and the Latin language. Working on hand-shaped wooden panels using acrylic paint, paper, and prints made from objects within the natural environment around her studio, Yerbury has created a series of works that take the viewer soaring into the great ‘cathedrals’ of the natural world found in the canopy.
In the Meantime | Miriam Salomon
Born in Uruguay and having lived in England, Spain, and Japan, Salomon’s work draws from diverse modes of cultural display, finding poetic resonance in discarded objects from bygone eras. In the Meantime is an immersive installation borne of the artist’s ludic explorations of the no-longer-useful.
All exhibitions open Wednesday 24 August 2022 and continue until Sunday 16 October 2022.
The official exhibition launch will be held 5.30 – 7.30pm, Thursday 1 September 2022. Please note – Bookings are not essential. This event has a maximum capacity of 100 people. Doors will be closed when the Gallery reaches this capacity.
