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.
May 2025
NOW OPEN // Isabelle Devos (Armidale) and Anna Glynn (Jaspers Brush) are finalists in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2025 in Paddington, Queensland. Until 25 May. MORE
NOW OPEN // Sarah Dugan (Walgett/Quirindi) has a show at Woollhara Gallery at Redleaf titled In Sanctuary. Drawing upon photographic and filmic visual language, she gestures toward social perceptions and interactions embedded within landscapes. Until 1 June. MORE
NOW OPEN // Several Studio Co!Lab members including Nic Mason (Napoleon Reef), Linda Chant, and Shani Nottingham (both Cowra) are in the regional art prize, Central Belonging Art Award at Cowra Regional Gallery. Until 1 June. MORE
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 25 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)
NOW OPEN // 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
NOW OPEN // 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
7 June // Clementine Belle McIntosh (Gilgandra). Sowing and Sewing challenges the human-centric relationships which define our inherent “sense of place”. A HomeGround exhibition, produced by the WPCC, supported by Orana Arts. Artist talk on 7 June at 2pm. Until 7 September. MORE
Hairdo, Clementine Belle McIntosh, 2025. (Image supplied)
7 June // Anna Glynn (Jaspers Brush) is in the group exhibition, Burnt into Memory at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. The exhibition explores the complex impact of the Black Summer Bushfires on individuals and communities. Until 17 August. MORE
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)
14 June // Amanda Donohue (Lake Macquarie) is one of two artists featured at the Australian Design Centre, Darlinghurst, on 14 June, 11am - 3pm. The regular Makers Marketplace will include her handmade unique textile items, including decorative items (fish, birds, cats), .shibori indigo scarves, coasters, table runners and bags as well as felt vessels and glasses cases. MORE
Amanda Donohue with Shibori (image Thomas Donohue)
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
>> Leanne Wicks (Bogee) picked up the Studio Co!Lab members’ grant, First Steps for a project she’s working on for Cementa26. MORE
>> In June - member profiles in What they said…, starting with Sarah Dugan (Walgett/Quirindi)
>> 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.
>> Kim V. Goldsmith (Dubbo) has an international callout for tree sound submissions to arboreus.earth, a website indexing the sounds of trees across the world that launched on World Earth Day. A second round of uploads are being prepared for another reveal on World Environment Day on 5 June. MORE
>> 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.
