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Sunday Reading – In the Gallery: Sally Anderson: Holding Pattern, River Hug.⁠⁠Sally Anderson’s Holding Pattern, River Hu...
17/10/2026

Sunday Reading – In the Gallery: Sally Anderson: Holding Pattern, River Hug.⁠
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Sally Anderson’s Holding Pattern, River Hug explored the interconnected experiences of motherhood, domestic life and artmaking, reflecting on the rhythms of care, memory and personal change. Through paintings of familiar household objects, Sally found deeper meanings in the everyday, exploring themes of labour, tenderness, loss and renewal.⁠
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Drawing on her own experience of motherhood, Sally transformed domestic spaces and objects into reflections on what it means to hold and be held. Jugs, dish racks and bead mazes became quiet vessels for the complexities of care, while River Hug evoked the enduring connection between memory, place and the bond between mother and child.⁠
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Featuring words by Laura Couttie, this In the Gallery reading offers a personal reflection on the relationship between motherhood and creative practice, and the ways each can hold and sustain the other.⁠
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Read In the Gallery: Sally Anderson: Holding Pattern, River Hug in the latest issue of NSG Edition. Print copies are available via our website.⁠
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Final day to view Savannah Jarvis: The house watches and Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the night sky at N.Smith Galler...
16/10/2026

Final day to view Savannah Jarvis: The house watches and Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the night sky at N.Smith Gallery.⁠
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A look back at the works, details and moments from both exhibitions.⁠
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Visit us in the gallery or explore exhibitions online.

Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the Night Sky continues at N.Smith Gallery.⁠ ⁠⁠Included in the exhibition is "Venus" Ta*...
13/10/2026

Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the Night Sky continues at N.Smith Gallery.⁠ ⁠
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Included in the exhibition is "Venus" Ta**us — Ruled by Venus (Copper) | Symbol: ♀, 2026, a miniature painting that explores the relationship between the movements of the night sky and the materials of the earth. Part of a suite of seven paintings, the work draws on the Southern Hemisphere sky, rendering constellations as intimate celestial maps suspended over low horizons.⁠ ⁠
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In "Venus" Ta**us — Ruled by Venus (Copper) | Symbol: ♀, 2026, Venus embodies “the receptive feminine principle of attraction, beauty, and emotional harmony,” grounding cosmic desire into physical form. Drawing from historical planetary rulerships and their ties to early metallurgy, the series considers Venus through its association with copper, alongside the Sun and gold, Moon and silver, Mercury and quicksilver, Mars and iron, Jupiter and tin, and Saturn and lead.⁠ ⁠
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Painted in oil on copper, the work continues Walsh’s exploration of copper as an active material within her practice. The exposed metal surface allows delicate patinas to develop organically, bringing together the enduring geometry of the night sky with the slow, metamorphic chemistry of raw matter.⁠ ⁠
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Visit in person at the gallery or explore online via our website.⁠ ⁠
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Final week to view Savannah Jarvis: The house watches and Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the night sky at N.Smith Galle...
12/10/2026

Final week to view Savannah Jarvis: The house watches and Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the night sky at N.Smith Gallery.⁠
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Visit the gallery before exhibitions close on 17 October, or view online via our website.⁠
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Artworks:⁠
Savannah Jarvis⁠
SIGNAL SPREAD, 2026⁠
oil on gessoboard⁠
40.5 x 30.5 cm⁠
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Natasha Walsh⁠
"Mercury" Virgo — Ruled by Mercury (Quicksilver) | Symbol: ☿, 2026⁠
oil on copper⁠
5.5 x 7.5 cm⁠
⁠jarv⁠

Final week to view works by Christopher Zanko in Edge City and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro in New Religion.⁠⁠Christophe...
11/10/2026

Final week to view works by Christopher Zanko in Edge City and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro in New Religion.⁠
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Christopher’s featured works in Edge City include Regent I–V (2024), a series of acrylic on wood relief carvings that reflect on the enduring presence of the Regent Theatre within Wollongong’s cultural memory.⁠
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro are among the eight contemporary artists and collectives commissioned for New Religion, an exhibition that brings newly commissioned works into dialogue with objects and artworks drawn from significant state and national collections.⁠
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Visit Wollongong Art Gallery and Ngununggula before both exhibitions close on 18 October, or view the exhibitions online via our website.⁠
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Sunday Reading – In the Studio: Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro.⁠⁠For The Village Idiom, Claire & Sean drew from their ever...
10/10/2026

Sunday Reading – In the Studio: Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro.⁠
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For The Village Idiom, Claire & Sean drew from their everyday surroundings and the landscape around their Blackheath studio, bringing together found forms, natural references and traces of human presence.⁠
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Their process reflects an ongoing interest in the ways objects and environments are encountered, transformed and given new meaning. Through this interplay between the natural and the manmade, their work invites us to look again at the familiar and consider how we relate to the world around us.⁠
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Read In the Studio: Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro in the latest issue of NSG Edition. Print copies are available via our website.⁠
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Join us at the gallery today to view new exhibitions – Savannah Jarvis: The house watches and Natasha Walsh: Transmutati...
09/10/2026

Join us at the gallery today to view new exhibitions – Savannah Jarvis: The house watches and Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the night sky.⁠
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Come and experience both exhibitions in person, or explore them online via our website.⁠
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Artworks:⁠
Savannah Jarvis⁠
FALSE POSITIVE, 2026⁠
oil on gessoboard⁠
24 x 44 cm⁠
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Natasha Walsh⁠
"Helios" Leo — Ruled by the Sun (Gold) | Symbol: ☉, 2026⁠
oil on copper⁠
5.5 x 7.5 cm⁠
⁠jarv⁠

We are thrilled to announce two new exhibitions opening soon at N.Smith Gallery – UNDERBELLY by Robert Fielding and Miny...
07/10/2026

We are thrilled to announce two new exhibitions opening soon at N.Smith Gallery – UNDERBELLY by Robert Fielding and Minyma Maku (Witchetty Grub Women), bringing together women artists from Mimili.⁠
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In UNDERBELLY, Robert Fielding turns to the abandoned vehicles scattered across the APY Lands, exploring histories of movement, community, and Country through paintings and works incorporating car parts. The exhibition considers memory, place, and the traces people leave across Country.⁠
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Minyma Maku (Witchetty Grub Women) celebrates the collective practice, shared knowledge, and relationships that shape the community of Mimili. Bringing distinct artistic voices into conversation, the exhibition reflects the strength of generations of women connected through Country, culture, and contemporary artmaking.⁠
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Join us for the opening celebration, Wednesday 28 October, 5–7pm. All welcome. No RSVP required.⁠
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Image credits: Meg Hansen, courtesy the artists and Mimili Maku Arts

Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the Night Sky continues at N.Smith Gallery.⁠ ⁠⁠Included in the exhibition is "Saturn" Aq...
06/10/2026

Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the Night Sky continues at N.Smith Gallery.⁠ ⁠
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Included in the exhibition is "Saturn" Aquarius — Ruled by Saturn (Lead) | Symbol: ♄, 2026, a miniature painting that explores the relationship between the movements of the night sky and the materials of the earth. Part of a suite of seven paintings, the work draws on the Southern Hemisphere sky, rendering constellations as intimate celestial maps suspended over low horizons.⁠ ⁠
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In "Saturn" Aquarius — Ruled by Saturn (Lead) | Symbol: ♄, 2026, Saturn represents “the heavy, structured energy of time, discipline, and limitation,” embodying the raw material that must endure trials to be purified. Drawing from historical planetary rulerships and their ties to early metallurgy, the series considers Saturn through its association with lead, alongside the Sun and gold, Moon and silver, Mercury and quicksilver, Venus and copper, Mars and iron, and Jupiter and tin.⁠ ⁠
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Painted in oil on copper, the work continues Walsh’s exploration of copper as an active material within her practice. The exposed metal surface allows delicate patinas to develop organically, bringing together the enduring geometry of the night sky with the slow, metamorphic chemistry of raw matter.⁠
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Visit in person at the gallery or explore online via our website.⁠ ⁠
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Savannah Jarvis: The house watches continues at N.Smith Gallery.⁠⁠⁠Presented as a before and after, these paired paintin...
06/10/2026

Savannah Jarvis: The house watches continues at N.Smith Gallery.⁠⁠
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Presented as a before and after, these paired paintings consider the profound shift in how the body, and the world around it, can be experienced following injury and the onset of chronic pain.⁠
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In TWIN PEAKS (BEFORE INJURY), the staircase is ordered and stable. Its architecture is clearly defined, its perspective familiar, and the patterned runner follows a predictable path through the composition. In Wobble: TWIN PEAKS (AFTER INJURY), Jarvis returns to the same staircase, but its structure has begun to buckle and distort. Straight lines become unstable, the carpet swells and contracts, and a once-familiar domestic space becomes difficult to navigate.⁠
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The transformation reflects Jarvis’ own experience of chronic pain, and the way pain can fundamentally alter a person’s relationship with their body and surroundings. Rather than depicting pain itself, Jarvis gives visual form to its effects: instability, disorientation, and the sense that something familiar can suddenly feel uncertain.⁠
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The white horizontal bars reference the Twin Peaks model, a framework for understanding pain as part of the body’s protective system. In persistent pain, this protective threshold can become dramatically lowered, creating an increasingly sensitive alarm system: pain as a response can be produced much earlier, creating a widening gap between the experience of pain and the actual risk of harm. Across the two paintings, these markers shift in response to the world around them changing, connecting the clinical language used to quantify pain with the far more complex lived experience of it.⁠
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Together, the works create two versions of the same space: one before injury, and one after. The pairing speaks to a dividing line in Jarvis’ life, while asking how an experience as subjective and difficult to articulate as pain might be made visible through painting.⁠
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Visit in person at the gallery or explore online via our website.⁠
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Artwork:⁠
Savannah Jarvis⁠
(left) TWIN PEAKS (BEFORE INJURY), (right) Wobble: TWIN PEAKS (AFTER INJURY), 2026⁠
oil on polycotton⁠
106 x 55 cm (each)⁠
⁠jarv

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