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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE - limited edition T-shirts
As part of his work titled ‘From the Area Picasso’ (2024), Osselan Tupai Scanlan was invited to create a custom T-shirt for our exhibition, ‘Spot the Difference’. This T-shirt is available to purchase from our Penrith Regional Gallery Store, while stocks last.
There are only a few limited edition T-shirts remaining. To purchase a shirt, visit the Gallery Store, open daily from 10am-3:30pm.
Spot the Difference is exhibiting for its final days in our Main Gallery, open daily from 10am-4pm.
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Photography: Eddy Summers
It’s the final days of ‘Magic Malfunction’, the collaborative exhibition between Marian Abboud and Vicki Van Hout.
Distilling 15 years of their individual and collaborative practices into the four rooms of our Lewers House Gallery, this exhibition recalls their shared experiences of the diaspora and dialogues of temporality, being, belief, and magic, working to transcend perceived boundaries of place, language and identity.
‘Magic Malfunction’ is open daily from 10am-4pm until Sunday 16 February, 2025.
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Image 1: Marian Abboud and Vicki Van Hout, ‘Magic Malfunction’, 2024-2025, installation views. Photography: Silversalt Photography
Images 2-8: Marian Abboud and Vicki Van Hout, ‘Magic Malfunction’, 2024-2025, installation views. Photography: Eddy Summers
Join us for our first Twilight at Lewers of the year at Penrith Regional Gallery on Friday 28th February!
Enjoy live local music, art, and tapas, surrounded by our night garden, under the evening sky!
🎶 Performance by: Tanner Wilson Music
📅 Date: Friday, 28 February 2025
🕔 Time: 5pm - 8:30pm
🍷 Drinks + Tapas: Café at Lewers
🎟️ Entry: FREE, walk-ins welcome!
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PENRITH YOUTH ART PRIZE 2025 - ENTRIES OPEN
Enter the Penrith Youth Art Prize and have your artwork exhibited at Penrith Regional Gallery! Submit an artwork that responds to the theme ‘echoing nature’, and you could see your work hung on our walls. Plus, we’ll be awarding prizes for winners and highly commended artworks for each age category.
Submissions are open to artists aged 5-18yrs with a connection to Penrith and the Gallery.
The Penrith Youth Art Prize is free to enter.
Entries close 5 May 2025. To submit your entry, or to find out more, visit our website via the link in our bio.
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Image 1 & 3 Photography: Maja Baska
Image 2 Photography: Eddy Summers
It’s the final week to see our summer group show, ‘Spot the Difference’, which ends this Sunday 16 February.
Lingering somewhere between myth and reality, the story of the infamous and elusive panther that is said to roam Penrith and the Blue Mountains is one that continues to grow with the evolving identity of Penrith and its communities.
‘Spot the Difference’ invited 16 artists from Penrith, western Sydney and broader Australia to present new or existing bodies of work that connect with the mythology and iconography of the panther, or engage with the cultural and social functions of myth and storytelling in contemporary culture. Including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, fashion and a mural, ‘Spot the Difference’ celebrates the symbol of the panther as something that has become synonymous with a sense of place and pride for the people of western Sydney.
‘Spot the Difference’ is exhibiting in our Main Gallery, open daily from 10am-4pm, until Sunday 16 February 2025.
Artists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Billy Bain, Daniel Boyd, Shannon Boyd, Blak Douglas, Troy Emery, Lyndal Irons, Claudia Nicholson, Jason Phu & Maja Baska, Anna Louise Richardson, Kate Rohde, Osselan Tupai Scanlan, Regina Walter, Christopher Whiticker & Linda Brescia
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‘Spot the Difference’, Penrith Regional Gallery, 2024. Installation views. Photography: Silversalt Photography.
PENRITH OPEN STUDIOS 2025
Applications for Penrith Open Studios 2025 are now open!
If you are a local high school student in years 8-11 looking to meet creative peers and gain mentorship from professional artists to explore new techniques and develop new bodies of work, this program is for you.
In this program, you’ll take part in artist-led creative workshops, connect with creative peers from western Sydney, experience behind-the-scenes visits at Penrith Regional Gallery and Art Gallery of New South Wales, and contribute to a group exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery.
Key details:
When: Mondays 3:30-5:30pm, Term 2 (05 May - 30 June) -Term 3 (28 July - 22 September)
Where: Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School
Applications open: 4 February 2025
Applications close: 24 March 2025
Successful applicants notified: 14 April 2025
This program is free, and limited to 20 places. To apply, visit our website for more information, or follow the link: https://www.penrithregionalgallery.com.au/opportunities-for-students-penrith-open-studio-2025/
Obscured beneath vibrant colours and textures, Troy Emery’s textile-based sculptures are both decorative and taxidermic, blurring lines between fine art, natural history, and craft.
His work ‘Volcano Lover’ (2023), included in our Summer exhibition ‘Spot the Difference’, has been made using polyester, polyurethane, epoxy, adhesive, screws, pins, wire, and timber - a combined materiality of mass-produced decorative craft components - creating a form that is uncannily familiar and foreign.
‘Spot the Difference’ continues for just one more week, with the final day on Sunday 16 February 2025. The galleries are open daily from 10am-4pm.
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Troy Emery, ‘Volcano Lover’, 2023. Polyester, polyurethane, epoxy, adhesive, screws, pins, wire, timber. 112 x 130 x 70cm. Courtesy the artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin. Photography: Eddy Summers
Teachers: are you looking for an enriching art program for your students?
Our 2025 excursion program offers unique opportunities for students in preschool to year 12 to engage with art and ideas. Explore our artist’s garden with drawing and sculpture workshops, or enjoy a hands-on tour of our exhibitions featuring local photography, contemporary textiles, a selection of sculpture and collage by Margo Lewers, and a survey of works by Archibald-winning artist Blak Douglas.
To enquire about an excursion booking, visit our website via the link in our bio.
“Recently I have been interested in my relationship to my country of birth, Colombia, and more broadly the Latin American region, in an ongoing negotiation of the geographic, cultural and temporal distance of being diasporic. These interests constitute an exploration of kinship, memory and the struggle against forgetting - in both conscious and unconscious terms.”
Drawing from her archive of over two hundred photographs of Colombia and her life in Australia, Claudia Nicholson’s new photographic work ‘Primera Comunión’ re-tells her own origin story through found material: a 1970 press photograph she purchased depicting the moment a Guio (Anaconda) was removed from the Amazon to be transported to the USA to live in a Zoo; and a VHS home video she found in 2011, showing a group of young people taking their first communion.
Presented as part of our current exhibition ‘Spot the Difference’, Nicholson’s ‘Primera Comunión’ positions moments of removal, catholic ceremony and transubstantiation as akin to the experience of intercountry adoption; an imperceptible moment of radical transformation.
‘Spot the Difference’ is exhibiting in our Main Gallery, open daily from 10am-4pm until Sunday 16 February.
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Image 1: Claudia Nicholson, ‘Primera Comunión’, 2024, archival pigment print, 40 x 60cm each. Photography: Silversalt photography
Image 2: Claudia Nicholson, artist portrait, 2024. Photography: Eddy Summers.
As the summer holidays draw to a close, we’re looking back at the amazing artworks and fun moments from our school holiday workshops and activities.
Thank you to all the families who joined us - we can’t wait to see you back at the Gallery for our 2025 programs!
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Images 1-2: Eddy Summers
It’s the final month to see Felix Jackson’s first solo exhibition, ‘transcript’, at Penrith Regional Gallery.
transcript: noun
1. a written or printed version of material originally presented in another medium.
Comprising a selection of works created over the last two years, Felix Jackson’s exhibition suggests a transcription of personal and artistic growth over this period of time. Artistic processes of drawing, marking, casting and recording are employed as strategies to reflex experiences of transition and translation from one state to another - physical, psychological, or otherwise.
Felix Jackson: ‘transcript’ is exhibiting in our Loungeroom Gallery, open daily from 10am-4pm.
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Felix Jackson, ‘Untitled (Pink Skin)’, 2024, silicone. Photography: Silversalt photography.
ADULT WORKSHOP SERIES
‘Drawing with Nature’ with Clare Delaney
Join artist Clare Delaney in the ‘Drawing with Nature’ workshop in Penrith Regional Gallery’s studio and gardens on Sunday 23 March. Clare is an artist, art facilitator, gardener, and compost-maker with a deep concern for the planet’s health and future survival.
Under Clare’s guidance, participants will complete a series of experiments with natural inks and handmade tools, as well as gain insight into the process of making natural inks.
Book online via our website - link in bio
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