For Superposition, Lewers is hosting an evening of art, performance, music, workshops, and food within the grounds of Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery. For Portal Penrith, the gallery gardens host live music and shadow puppetry from Bria McCarthy, with poetry reading and performance from Elyas Alavi in the Main Gallery, a beading workshop with Sione Mōnu, drop in workshop with local collective Potluck ARI, local 92WRLD DJs throughout the event, and a tapas-style menu from Cafe at Lewers. The event is in conjunction with the major visual arts exhibition Piece by Piece, a free, site-wide project that celebrates the meticulously repeated gesture: the practice of making something line by line, stitch by stitch, piece by piece. With new commissions and key works from artists including Adrienne Doig, Rosalie Gascoigne, Antony Gormley, Julie Gough, Khaled Sabsabi, and what.
Superposition is a multi-day festival of performance, music, nightlife, visual art, and conversation, held across Penrith and the Blue Mountains. Their program extends across the towns, amplifying the artistic, ecological, scientific, and community life of this place.
For four days, artists and communities inhabit different ways of being together, with place, time, loss, and pleasure. This is a portal, not an escape: a hopeful invitation to rehearse better futures together. Superposition asks that you dive in and be ready for unexpected surprises.
Piece by Piece is a site-wide exhibition that celebrates the meticulously-repeated gesture, demonstrating how the practice of creating something line by line, stitch by stitch, or piece by piece, transcends distinctions between figurative and abstract, hobbyist and professional, historic and contemporary, and connects practitioners across temporal, cultural, and geographical boundaries.
Taking as its starting point the mosaics Margo Lewers made at Emu Plains between 1951 and 1964—dotted in and around the buildings on the property, making them among the most unique artworks in the PRG collection—Piece by Piece seeks to expand understandings of the term ‘mosaic,’ presenting a selection of works which illustrate multiple interpretations of the concept across eras and cultures. Featuring both new commissions and major loans, this exhibition sees the ‘mosaic’ unfold in materials as disparate as marble, silk, ceramic, cardboard, and plastic.
