Mixed media landscapes, pioneering digital art and reinterpretations of media and technology on show this May
This May the Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG) presents four exhibitions that explore the consumption and appropriation of media imagery, mixed media responses to the Australian landscape and multimedia work from a digital art pioneer.
NRCG is an arts and cultural initiative of Ballina Shire Council, that fosters the presentation of a diverse range of contemporary art from across the Northern Rivers region and beyond. This group of exhibitions showcases the high calibre of artists making work in the region, and NRCG is proud to work with and support regional artists.
My Mind is an Advertisement | Nic Palmer
Responding to media, celebrity culture, and childhood influences through painting and technology, Nic Palmer's work reflects on the role of communication and emotion in forms of expression. She edits digital collages and photographs of her paintings, allowing fast game-like digital processes to exist alongside the slow, tactile nature of oil painting.
Debris | James Bourbon
Debris presents a new series of large-scale black and white hand painted banners installed as a disruptive presence within the gallery. Using scale and visual force to command attention, the works echo how advertising occupies space and shapes perception in everyday life. Through collage and painting, each banner is composed from fragments of discarded and outdated print material including posters, comics, newspaper clippings and ephemera. These materials collapse past and present, turning tools of persuasion into critique, reflecting the saturation of commercial imagery.
Line of Expression | Dianne Ingram
Dianne Ingram's work investigates the tension between memory and actuality with regards to rural landscapes and is embodied with her personal experiences that dissolve and re-form within the image. Her mixed media abstracted works convey the textures, rhythms and nuances of her environment, layered with traces of her travels throughout Australia, combined with her sense of self.
Colonies: The Geometric Sublime – Art That Makes Itself | Paul Brown
Paul Brown's artworks are created by digital colonies of artificial agents—small computer programs that use artificial intelligence and artificial life (A-Life) to interact with each other. Each agent observes its neighbours and adjusts its behaviour based on the overall state of the group. From these simple rules, something larger emerges: patterns, movements, and forms that no single agent could produce alone. It's art that makes itself—where the final image is not directly designed, but grows from within the system
All exhibitions open Thursday 30 April and continue until Sunday 21 June. The official exhibition launch will be held 5.30 – 7.30pm, Thursday 30 April.
The Northern Rivers Community Gallery is located at 44 Cherry Street Ballina and is open Wednesday to Friday from 9am to 3pm and weekends from 9.30am to 1pm. For further information contact the Gallery on 02 6681 0530 or visit the website www.nrcgballina.com.au
