2024 JADA GALA & Marion Conrow Official Opening | Saturday 28 September

Grafton Regional Gallery & Friends of the Gallery invite you to the:

JADA GALA

5.30pm, Saturday 28 September

To celebrate the Official Opening of:

2024 JADA

MARION CONROW: IMMERSIVE WORKS 2007 - 2024

Featuring

Mistress of Ceremonies Nell Schofield

JADA Announcements

$35,000 FIRST PRIZE

$5,000 EARLY CAREER AWARD

Music by astromaude

Drawing performance by Jan Rae

Canapes & complementary drink on arrival

Friends of the Gallery pay bar

With thanks to the events sponsors:

2024 JACARANDA ACQUISITIVE DRAWING AWARD

The 2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) celebrates contemporary Australian drawing at its finest. The nation’s leading regional drawing prize, with an acquisitive
first prize of $35,000 and early career award of $5,000, this exhibition is the flagship of the Grafton Regional Gallery.

The JADA champions innovation and excellence in drawing and showcases the enduring importance of drawing practice in Australia. This year’s exhibition features works from 65
artists, whose approaches to drawing span the technical and traditional, through to the experimental, conceptual and performative.

A Grafton Regional Gallery Exhibition supported by the Friends of the Gallery.

MARION CONROW: IMMERSIVE WORKS 2007 - 2024

Marion Conrow is an interdisciplinary artist based in Northern NSW. Over her 40 year career, Conrow has developed a multifaceted artistic practice that integrates visual imagery,
projection, sculpture, virtual reality, and cross-media installation. Her work explores themes of memory both real and imagined, particularly through the lens of her acquired
mild traumatic brain injury sustained from an accident in 2007. 

In this exhibition, Conrow presents four immersive projection sculptures that span her practice from the last two decades: Autumn Flower, Unravell Egg, and Museum of My Friends
#1 and #2. These works merge visual, digital, and sculptural media to explore themes of memory and identity, healing processes, creative relationships, and storytelling.

A Grafton Regional Gallery Exhibition

Images:

1) 2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. Image courtesy of Melting Wax Photography.

2) Marion Conrow, Autumn Flower, 2007, engineered aluminium base, metal mesh, and video loop. Image courtesy of the artist.