RSVP for Gosford Regional Gallery 2024 - 25 opening events
RSVP for Gosford Regional Gallery 2024 - 25 opening events
Our 2024 - 25 program considers alternative and untold histories, blood memory and reflections on Australian culture. It centres on celebrating the artists of the Central Coast both past and present, exploring our permanent collection and bringing early career artists to the foreground, alongside recognised creators.
We are proud to showcase our program for 2024 -2025 and hope you will participate in the many public programs we offer to accompany the exhibitions.
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Gosford Regional Gallery
36 Webb St, East Gosford NSW 2250
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About Face 2024 – Junior Portrait Prize
Exhibition dates 14 December 2024 – 12 January 2025 in The Community Gallery
Opening event Saturday 14 December from 10.30am
Supported by accomplished Central Coast-based portraitist Jocelyn Maughan, About Face is Gosford Regional Gallery’s Junior Portrait Prize for ages 5 to 18. It encourages young artists to look and see, drawing ‘from life’ with their subject sitting for the portrait. The competition will be judged based on observational drawing merit and originality, with a prize pool of $1,000 in gift cards awarded across different age groups.
Tania Mason | Surrounded by Time with a Canary in a Coal Mine (opening event)
Exhibition dates: 1 - 23 February 2015
Surrounded by Time with a Canary in a Coal Mine aims to capture the fragility of our environment and the urgency of conservation. By juxtaposing historical illustrations of endangered species with their current plight, the objective is to create a poignant narrative that evokes both nostalgia and concern. All works are sitting on shelves as repositories of memory that add depth, suggesting that these once-vibrant beings could become mere relics of the past. The title references the canary’s role as an early warning signal, reinforcing the idea that the loss of biodiversity is a call to action for us all. This exhibition not only honours the beauty of these creatures but also serves as a rallying cry to protect them. It prompts viewers to reflect on their responsibility in preserving the natural world, transforming admiration into action.
ART in CONFLICT (opening event)
Exhibition Dates: 15 February - 23 March 2025
ART in CONFLICT is a touring exhibition of contemporary art from the Australian War Memorial. With widespread acclaim and more than 50,000 people visiting since the tour opening at Shepparton Art Museum in 2022, the exhibition tour has been extended to tour extensively across Australia. A showcase of responses to war, the exhibition includes more than 70 paintings, drawings, films, prints, photography and sculptures. Leading Australian artists are represented, such as Khadim Ali, Rushdi Anwar, eX de Medici, Denise Green, Richard Lewer, Mike Parr, and Ben Quilty. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art is featured, with works by Tony Albert, Paddy Bedford, Robert Campbell Jr, Michael Cook, Shirley Macnamara, and Betty Muffler. Three major new bodies of work debut in this exhibition: official war art commissions by Susan Norrie (Iraq, 2016) and Megan Cope (Middle East, 2017), and a commemorative work by Angelica Mesiti. Contemporary artists’ responses to conflict bring to light untold stories, reveal neglected histories and deepen our understanding of Australia’s experience of conflict, both past and present. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.
Ethan-james Kotiau | Dandhi - Grounded (opening event)
Exhibition Dates: 15 February - 23 March 2025
Dandhi means “Grounded” in my language, Gunggari. This exhibition is about being connected to the land, the waterways, and our culture. It’s about remembering where we come from - our roots, our language - and how that gives us strength. When we stay grounded in those things, it’s like building on a solid foundation. We can look ahead, but it’s always with our past in mind. These works reflect that balance between holding onto our traditions and growing from them, showing the positive impact it has on us and the generations to come.
A Central Vision 2025 (opening event)
Exhibition Dates: 1 - 23 March 2025
Partnering with the Department of Education, A Central Vision brings together the best artworks from students studying at local Public Secondary High Schools. This annual exhibition presents the opportunity for selected students to display their artwork in a professional gallery setting, with prizes awarded to a selection of artworks. The exhibition features artists from Years 7-12.
Ryan Andrew Lee, Eden Payne, Emma Pinsent and Jessica Smith | Futurescapes 2025 (opening event)
Exhibition dates: 4 - 30 April 2025
Futurescapes gathers young multidisciplinary artists who speculate sustainable ways of relating to the world. The exhibition and accompanying workshops foster an interactive ecology in which to imagine a future of diverse being, knowing and co-existence. Futurescapes is curated by emerging practitioner Anna-Francesca Seymour and is showcasing in The Community Gallery.
25 Moments: Reimagining Twenty-Five Years of Art (opening event)
Exhibition Dates 12 April - 15 June 2025
Drawing on the nearly 500 exhibitions held at the Gosford Regional Gallery since it opened in 2000, 25 Moments celebrates the vitality and diversity of the Central Coast’s much-loved gallery. From the very first exhibition A Century of Australian Painting to the 2024 exhibition Banksia by Atong Atem, the 25 moments selected to survey the Gallery’s history are a blend of nostalgia, a celebration of artistic triumph and an aspiration to take the conversation further. From internationally recognised to exceptional local artists, this eclectic exhibition is a true celebration of 25 years of art.
John Power | Wander and Dwell (opening event)
Exhibition Dates: 12 April - 29 August 2025
Wander and Dwell is a real-time generative artwork responding to the natural topographic environment radiating from Gosford and the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The traveller arrives in Gosford and begins a beguiling sensory journey, moving out into the landscape where rail and road networks wind busily through undulating coastline. Telco towers create their own lines of communication among sighing Norfolk pines. Deep time echoes through stratified colours of sandstone, conjuring apparitions, strange songs, and curious silhouettes which lead the traveller down forking paths. Through pencilling fern-light, the hinterland rainfall flows into estuarine mangrove stands and across the rippling surface of a lake on its way to the thrumming turquoise surf. Fascinated and buffeted by soaring cliffs, the traveller returns to the embrace of ancient casuarinas. Apprehension and beauty mingle in a liminal state of aporia - dissonance and paradox - forming a gateway. In time, we arrive at a transcendent state of tranquility.
Emerging 2025 (award announcement and exhibition opening event)
Exhibition Dates 28 June - 24 August 2025
Since 2003, Emerging has run as a biennial art award to support early-career artists develop their practice. Entries are open to artists across New South Wales aged 18 to 30. The exhibition of the Emerging finalists provides an opportunity for the selected artists to develop and exhibit a new or existing body of work at Gosford Regional Gallery. The prize supports artists who work in non-traditional mediums and a wide range of installation-based practices to present their artwork to a regional gallery audience.
For early career artists, opportunities to gain recognition and experience within a professional gallery setting are essential to building a sustainable and fruitful career in the contemporary arts. Emerging 2025 is the eleventh time the competition has been held and we are pleased to offer the $5,000 prize and continue our commitment to provide opportunities for young artists.
Aksara Harriram | Temporal Echoes from Surreal Landscapes (opening event)
Exhibition Dates: 4 - 27 July 2024
As a visual interpreter of captivating imaginative spaces, Aksara finds herself inexorably drawn to the raw power and transformative beauty of the inner geological landscapes. These landscapes are shaped by time and elemental forces demonstrating the interplay between humanity’s sense of memory and the natural state of the world. She offers up a colourful palette filled with striking resemblances to childhood wonderment displayed in these floating suburbs.
Gosford Art Prize 2025 (opening event and award announcement)
Exhibition dates: 6 September - 9 November 2025
The Gosford Art Prize is an annual award that attracts entries from across Australia. The finalist exhibition and opening night is the biggest event held at the Gallery each year. The Prize is open to all Australian artists working in any medium and attracts submissions that show a breadth of artistic excellence and display a diverse array of contemporary techniques and conceptual concerns.The Prize has been a feature of the Gallery’s exhibition program since opening in 2000 and is a cultural highlight of the region. This year the prize pool has increased to over $55,000 and presents the selected winner with a prize of $25,000 in recognition of the 25th anniversary of Gosford Regional Gallery. $10,000 will be awarded to a First Nations artist and $10,000 to a Ceramic based artwork. The inaugural Moving Image Art Award, also valued at $10,000, will be presented to an artist working in any moving digital film/screen-based artwork.
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