ART CONNECTIONS: Educator's Evening at GRG

Thursday 27 February 2025

4.30pm - 6pm | Grafton Regional Gallery
Entry by donation

Join us for an evening at Grafton Regional Gallery, designed especially for teachers and educators. Discover the many opportunities the Gallery offers to educators, teachers, and students in our region, including our Curriculum Connections resource. Enjoy an exclusive preview of True North: From the Forest Floor and Clarence Impressions exhibitions, and take the chance to network with fellow educators from the Clarence Valley.

During the evening, The Gallery Foundation will also launch the Emerging Artist Scholarship. The Gallery Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship has been created to support young creatives in the Clarence Valley local government area. The annual scholarship aims to highlight the talents of young people, enhance connections of young emerging artists with the Grafton Regional Gallery, and advance culture in the region – a major aim of The Gallery Foundation.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS:

TRUE NORTH: From the Forest Floor

Conceived as an ongoing iterative exhibition, True North showcases the dynamic and diverse practices of artists living and working in the Northern Rivers.

In True North: From the Forest Floor, guest curator Christine Willcocks draws on her deep connection to the region’s rich biodiversity, selecting artists who respond intrinsically to the landscapes around them. Subtropical rainforests, Big Scrub, and coastal littoral forest provide a common thread for artists working across painting, installation, sculpture, film, sound, and performance.

True North recognises the importance of the Northern Rivers creative communities, and its significance as home to 112,000 arts and cultural creators (36% of population) and 2,109 creative businesses*.

A GRG exhibition. Guest Curator: Christine Willcocks

*(ABS Census, 2021)

CLARENCE IMPRESSIONS

Taking inspiration from the famed ‘9 by 5 Impression Exhibition’ held in Melbourne in 1889, Clarence Impressions brings artists from the Northern Rivers together with their depictions and interpretations of the Clarence Valley.

Through public call-out, artists were invited to respond to this theme, and the result is a vibrant and expressive exhibition that reflects the region’s stunning landscapes, people, and places.

A GRG community exhibition

Grafton Regional Gallery is wheelchair & mobility aid accessible

Proudly hosted on Bundjalung Country

Image: Gallery visitors in Alun Rhys Jones, Narcissus, 2023. Photograph by Simon Hughes Media.