Beyond the Studios
Our Studio Co!Lab members are visual artists, writers, performers of various genres, and more. This page is a snapshot of the activity happening within our member network across Regional NSW. We update this each month. We encourage you to follow our members on social media — find their information at the bottom of our homepage.
April 2025
NOW OPEN // Tina Pech (Baradine) is asking why do we like books? Is it just their content we admire, or their look and feel? What makes a book more than a literary object? She’s exploring these questions in her exhibition, Bookish, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) in Dubbo in a HomeGround exhibition, produced by the WPCC, supported by Orana Arts and sponsored by Wingewarra Dental. Until 1 June. MORE
Tina Pech, a work from the exhibition, Bookish. (Image supplied)
NOW OPEN // Rhonda Campbell (Orange) is having a 15-year survey exhibition at Little Mapgie Gallery Cowra titled, Landscape Dialogues, curated by Arts Historian and Writer Peter Haynes. An essay and publication are being produced. Opening event and floor talk Thursday 10 April at 6pm. Until 30 April. MORE
Rhonda Campbell and Inel Date at Little Magpie Gallery in front of Rhonda's paintings, March 2025. (Image: Kim V. Goldsmith)
NOW OPEN // Greg Daly (Cowra) has a solo exhibition at Sabbia Gallery titled Line of Sight. Until 3 May. MORE
NOW OPEN // Vicki Luke (Albury) is in a group exhibition Overhead and Underneath at the Tamworth Regional Gallery. This exhibition reminds us to take a breath, listen, observe and respond. responding to the natural environment with deep observation and a direct response to place. Until 15 June. MORE
Vicki Luke, Eastern rosella. (Image supplied)
May 2025
3 May // Leanne Wicks (Bogee) and Therese Gabriel Wilkins (Central Coast) are part of a comprehensive survey show of walking art titled Way Beyond Goes Way Out, opening at the WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos on 3 May. Involving 24 artists, the exhibition is an initiative of the Australian Walking Artists network, including a wide range of artforms, walking events, walkshops and talks. Until 22 June. MORE
10 May // Therese Gabriel Wilkins (Central Coast) is having a solo exhibition titled, Unearthed -The Women of the Gulgong Goldfields, at Holtermann Museum Theatrette, Gulgong. It will give voice to the women of the goldfields of Gulgong in 1872. The offficial opening is 5pm, 10 May in the Theatrette of Holtermann Museum. Open every day. Until 31 August. MORE
Therese Gabriel Wilkins, Educator of Girls, Miss Richards (image supplied)
Anna Glynn, Superimposition, Colonial Selfie, I’m Extant, They’re Extinct, 2021, photomontage on 310gsm cotton rag (image supplied)
June 2025
12 June // Lisa Germany (Inverell) is the creative director of and participant in a collaborative photography exhibition at The Greenlandic House in Copenhagen, Denmark, titled In my Backyard, which is also part of the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Opening event is 12 June at 5pm. MORE
Photograph by Lisa Germany (image supplied)
15 June // Kim V. Goldsmith (Dubbo) is facilitating a performative sound-based event by invitation in Beni Forest for the Forests’ Dreams project with the French-based Les Nuits des Forêts members of Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN). Titled 5 minutes of silence, it will be one of a series of site-specific artworks in forests worldwide. In July, Kim is joining international and Australian members of AiNIN on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland for another performance of 5 minutes of silence. MORE
Kim V. Goldsmith, 5 minutes of silence, photograph (image supplied)
News from our Studio Co!Lab members
>> Lisa Germany (Inverell) has had one of her field recordings included in the highlights album of the latest project by Cities and Memory: Sonic Heritage: field recordings highlights album. Her recording is of the Morning prayer at Kasuga Taisha Shrine (Nara, Japan) - one of the World's UNESCO sites. LISTEN
>> Lusi Austin (Cowra) recently received a Diversity Arts Grant through their Shifting the Balance Leadership Program (Stage 2) to produce a short series of podcasts.
>> Jane Richens (Dungog) and Kim V. Goldsmith (Dubbo) are two of the sound artists and field recordists who have released sonic portraits of trees on a new international project website called arboreus.earth, that launched on 22 April for World Earth Day.
>> Inel Date (Cowra) has an active gallery in Cowra putting the spotlight on regional artists. Check out what’s on and coming up. MORE
Little Magpie Gallery, Cowra NSW
Keep checking in as we update the Studio Co!Lab member event listings each month. And don’t forget to check out our members on the Creatives page.
