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The Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG) & Ignite Studios operated by Ballina Shire Council. This site is monitored from 8.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday.

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG) and Ignite Studios, are owned and operated by Ballina Shire Council. OPENING HOURS

9:00am - 3:00pm Wednesday to Friday
9:30am - 1:00pm Weekends

Closed public holidays

HOUSE RULES

We welcome you and your comments to our page. The purpose of this site is to:
i) direct members of the community to the Northern Rivers Community Gallery information and services
ii) build a reliable identity by adhering to the social media engagement principles of openness, relevance, accuracy and respect. iii) create social networking places for community building and interaction to facilitate and support discussion around our services, activities and resources. We reserve the right to prevent submissions that contain vulgar language, personal attacks of any kind, or offensive comments that target or disparage any ethnic, racial, religious group, gender or sexual orientation. Parties engaging on this platform must not post or share comments, photos, videos, electronic recording or other information that:
a) is defamatory, offensive, humiliating, threatening, or intimidating to council officials or members of the public
b) contains profane language or is sexual in nature
c) constitutes harassment and/or bullying within the meaning of the Model Code of Conduct for Local Councils in NSW
d) contains content about the Council, council officials or members of the public that is misleading or deceptive
e) breaches the privacy of council officials or members of the public
f) contains allegations of suspected breaches of the Council's code of conduct or information about the consideration of a matter under the Procedures for the Administration of the Model Code of Conduct for Local Councils in NSW
g) violates an order made by a court
h) breaches copyright
i) advertises, endorses or solicits commercial products or businesses
j) constitutes spam
k) would be in breach of the rules of the social media platform

Where practicable, NRCG will contact the person who uploaded the content that is to be removed and the reason(s) for its removal and their rights of review. We reserve the right to block users who contravene the above conditions. If you are blocked, you have a right of review. If you have any questions concerning the operation of this site, please contact the Gallery Coordinator at:

Ph 02 6681 0530
Email [email protected]

14/10/2026

LAUNCH EVENT | NOVEMBER EXHIBITIONS ⁠
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Please join us tonight, 5.30 – 7.30pm., to celebrate the launch of our new exhibitions.⁠
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Meet the artists and enjoy a beverage from our sponsors, The Cellar Ballina, Yulli's Brews and Pyewacket's Traditional non-alcoholic shrubs, and delicious catering from The Gallery Café Ballina.⁠
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Gallery 1 | Fragile Mappings - Rachel Dun ⁠
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Gallery 2 | Emblems of Memory - Kirsty Marshall .marshall.art⁠
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Gallery 3 | It Becomes Light - Antoinette O’Brien .art⁠
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Gallery 4 | The World Came Flooding In - Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine ⁠
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💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au
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📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530⁠
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📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina⁠
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The Cellars, Ballina ⁠
Pyewacket’s Traditional Drinks ⁠
Yulli's Brews ⁠
The Gallery Café Ballina

11/10/2026

LAUNCH EVENT | NOVEMBER EXHIBITIONS ⁠
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Please join us this Thursday, 15 October, 5.30 – 7.30pm., to celebrate the launch of our new exhibitions.⁠
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Meet the artists and enjoy a beverage from our sponsors, The Cellar Ballina, Yulli's Brews and Pyewacket's Traditional non-alcoholic shrubs, and delicious catering from The Gallery Café Ballina.⁠

Gallery 1 | Fragile Mappings - Rachel Dun

Gallery 2 | Emblems of Memory - Kirsty Marshall .marshall.art

Gallery 3 | It Becomes Light - Antoinette O’Brien .art

Gallery 4 | The World Came Flooding In - Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

The Cellars, Ballina ⁠
Pyewacket’s Traditional Drinks ⁠
Yulli's Brews ⁠
The Gallery Café Ballina

09/10/2026

This weekend is your last chance to view our current round of exhibitions which finish tomorrow, Sunday 11 October.⁠
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The Gallery is open Sat & Sun 9.30am - 1pm.⁠

Gallery 1 | The duality of - Dale Burke ⁠
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Gallery 2 | If not now, when? - Christina Waterson ⁠
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Gallery 3 | Happy Birthday - Estenfania Minniti (FANIA)⁠ ⁠
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⁠Gallery 4 | The 15th Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition - BACCI⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

Image 1: Dale Burke, "The duality of" (installation view), 2026⁠
Image 2: Christina Waterson, "If not now, when?" (installation view), 2026⁠
Image 3: Estefania Minniti "Happy Birthday" (installation view), 2026⁠
Image 4: The 15th Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition (installation view) 2026

06/10/2026

Last days to see our current round of exhibitions which end this Sunday, 11 October.⁠
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The Gallery is open Wed - Fri 9am - 3pm | Sat - Sun 9.30am - 1pm.⁠

Gallery 1 | The duality of - Dale Burke ⁠
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Gallery 2 | If not now, when? - Christina Waterson ⁠
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Gallery 3 | Happy Birthday - Estenfania Minniti (FANIA)⁠ ⁠
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⁠Gallery 4 | The 15th Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition - BACCI⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

Image 1: Estefania Minniti "Happy Birthday" (installation view), 2026⁠
Image 2: Christina Waterson, "If not now, when?" (installation view), 2026⁠
Image 3: Dale Burke, "The and then suddenly" (installation view), 2026⁠
Image 4: The 15th Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition (installation view) 2026

01/10/2026

The 15th Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition | BACCI⁠
Now Showing in Gallery 4⁠
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United by a shared commitment to creative exploration, BACCI brings together artists and artisans working across a multitude of disciplines. Each member maintains a distinct artistic practice, informed by their own experiences, philosophies, and ideologies. BACCI celebrates difference and embraces diverse perspectives, techniques, and conceptual approaches.⁠
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The Gallery is open Wed - Fri 9am - 3pm | Sat - Sun 9.30am - 1pm.⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

Images 1-3: The 15th Annual Grace Cruice Memorial Exhibition (installation view)

30/09/2026

OPEN STUDIO THIS FRIDAY | with Artist-In-Residence, Nicholas Aplin⁠
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This Friday, 2 October, NRCG artist-in-residence, Nicholas Aplin, will open his studio to visitors. This is free to attend and all are welcome to come and experience a working studio, learn about Aplin’s process and creative practice, and see some of the outcomes of his two-week residency at Ignite Studios.⁠
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"The residency is an opportunity to work experimentally and at a larger scale, allowing drawings, fragments, photographs and works-in-progress to accumulate in the studio and gradually inform the direction of the larger body of work.” ⁠
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Where: Ignite Studios - 60 Crane Street Ballina⁠
Date: Friday 2 October 2026 ⁠
Time: 9am - 3pm ⁠
Age: Open to all⁠
Cost: Free to attend, no bookings required⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Ignite Studios, 60 Crane Street, Ballina

Image 1:⁠ Nicholas Aplin, "Stop Looking At Yourself In The Mirror", 2025⁠
Image 2: Nicholas Aplin, 2025, image supplied

29/09/2026

If not now, when? | Christina Waterson⁠
Now Showing in Gallery 2⁠

Through the transformation of everyday materials into sculptural objects, Christina Waterson reflects on the personal journeys of growth, grief, healing and renewal.

Balancing self-doubt with self-belief, her practice celebrates the restorative power of art as a pathway back to self and home.

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The Gallery is open Wed - Fri 9am - 3pm | Sat - Sun 9.30am - 1pm.⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

Images 1&2: Christina Waterson, "If not now, when?" (installation view)

26/09/2026

Ignite Studios Artist-in-Residence Nicholas Aplin examines the collision between built environments and the natural world, reflecting on the quiet tensions embedded in Australia’s suburban and public landscapes and commercial spaces. Aplin’s current body of work builds on a recent research trip to the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is inspired by the city’s mix of architecture and nature.

Melbourne-based, Aplin has held solo exhibitions at Off the Kerb Gallery, has exhibited nationally in group shows at No Vacancy Gallery, Wagner Contemporary, and Michael Reid Northern Beaches, and has been a finalist in the Hawkesbury Art Prize (2023), R.M. McGivern Art Prize (2019), and Adelaide Parklands Art Prize (2025).

Alongside his visual arts practice, Aplin has worked extensively in film and television as a production designer and prop maker, with credits including the ARIA-nominated music video Geronimo and the Emmy Award-winning series Survivor. He holds a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Northern Institute of TAFE (Hornsby) and a Diploma of Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy.

On Friday 2 October from 9am - 3pm, Aplin will open his studio to visitors. Free to attend, all are welcome to come and experience a working studio, learn about Aplin’s process and creative practice, and see some of the outcomes of his two-week residency at Ignite Studios.

⁠💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au ⁠
⁠
📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530⁠
⁠
📍 Ignite Studios, 60 Crane Street, Ballina ⁠

Image 1 : Nicholas Aplin in the studio, 2025
Image 2: Nicholas Aplin, "Sunset Tower", 2025
Image 3: Nicholas Aplin, "Stop Looking At Yourself In The Mirror", 2025

23/09/2026

Happy Birthday | Estefania Minniti (FANIA)⁠
Now Showing in Gallery 3⁠

Through painting, ceramics, sculpture and textile, "Happy Birthday" uses the visual language of birthday celebrations to explore the tension between joy and introspection. Familiar symbols become a way of thinking about time, identity, social performance and the expectations we carry from the moment the candles are lit to the silence that follows once they’re out.⁠
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Together, these works invite viewers to reconsider what a birthday really marks, and what it quietly reveals about the way we see ourselves.

The Gallery is open Wed - Fri 9am - 3pm | Sat - Sun 9.30am - 1pm.⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

Image 1: Fania, "Forever", 2026
Image 2: Fania, "Fin de fiesta (The Party's Over) 2", 2026⁠
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All images courtesy of the artist.

22/09/2026

The duality of | Dale Burke⁠
Now Showing in Gallery 1

Burke carefully crafts an imagined world that engages the viewer and questions the concept of what landscape can be. He introduces an element of figuration to landscape, where the viewer becomes a witness to an inner world that plays and interacts with the subconscious, offering a glimpse into an imagined other world, a dreamscape.⁠
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His work is deeply rooted in the art of symbolism and the neo-expressionism movement that evolved in the 1980s through a rejection of minimalism. It placed great emphasis on the expression of emotive ideas and values, introducing an element of the unknown through mythological structures of self-exploration.

The Gallery is open Wed - Fri 9am - 3pm | Sat - Sun 9.30am - 1pm.⁠

💻️ For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au

📞 Call the Gallery on 02 6681 0530

📍 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina

Image 1: Dale Burke, "Give Me a Mountain 2", 2026
Image 2: Dale Burke, "Give Me a Mountain", 2026
Image 3: Dale Burke, "Canopy", 2024
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All images courtesy of the artist.

Address

44 Cherry Street
Ballina, NSW

Opening Hours

Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm
Friday	9am - 3pm
Saturday	9:30am - 1pm
Sunday	9:30am - 1pm

Telephone

+61266810530

Website

https://www.nrcgballina.com.au/v1/

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