ON behalf of Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest, we warmly invite you to celebrate the official opening of our Summer Suite of exhibitions, featuring:
Spot the Difference
Featuring 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, Chris Whiticker & Linda Brescia.
Spot the Difference brings together artists from Penrith and across Australia to celebrate and interrogate the story of ‘The Big Black Cat’ as a foundational mythology for our region. Working across drawing, painting, sculpture, fashion and installation, these artists highlight the varying origins of the mythology, and the ways in which the story is being told and retold today.
Marian Abboud & Vicki Van Hout: Magic Malfunction
Magic Malfunction is a roaming experience reflecting a coming together: of women’s work from busy hands; of evil eyes and pointing bones; and of dances mediated through pixelated slips. Presenting a collection of archival research and unfinished works by
long-time collaborators Marian Abboud and Vicki Van Hout, Magic Malfunction explores themes of process, logic, discussion and research, rationalising the bizarre until it becomes a truth of sorts.
Felix Jackson: transcript
The first solo exhibition by local artist Felix Jackson (they/them), who employs artistic processes of drawing, marking, casting and recording as strategies to reflect experiences of transition and translation from one state to another – physical, psychological, or otherwise. For Felix, transcript is a witness to moments of personal transformation and an assertion of self.
ReDivining
ReDivining showcases the work of artists distinguished by their powerfully insightful re-presentation of established visual languages and historical narratives. Erasure, obfuscation, appropriation and re-configuration are among the strategies employed by Brook Andrew, Daniel Boyd, Lorraine Connelly-Northey and Tracey Moffatt to undermine myths of national history and to illuminate the magical, the beautiful and the powerful in the questionable, the maligned and the mundane.
Join us for the official opening reception on Friday, 15 November, starting at 6pm. Enjoy light refreshments and entertainment by DJ Blak President.
If you would like to attend the official opening, please RSVP by sending an email to gallery@penrith.city by Friday, 01 November.
DATE & TIME
Friday 15 November, 6pm – 8pm
VENUE
Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of the Lewers Bequest
86 River Road, Emu Plains, 2750, NSW
