OFFICIAL OPENING | ANATOMY LESSONS & ARTEXPRESS 2025
Event description
Grafton Regional Gallery invites you to the Official Opening of:
ANATOMY LESSONS: Michele Beevors
&
ARTEXPRESS 2025
Saturday 10 May
2pm | Artist Talk with Michele Beevors
3pm | Official Opening
Complementary refreshments & Friends of the Gallery pay bar
Bookings via GRG Humanitix
ENTRY FREE
ANATOMY LESSONS: Michele Beevors
Featuring meticulously-sculpted, life-size skeletons, Anatomy Lessons is breath-taking and ethereal, making the visitor question their place in the web of the living and the dead. Each creature, a real animal, is painstakingly measured, drawn, sculpted from steel, wire, and foam, and then knitted over, in a fine-art softening of the subject beneath. An exhibition 17-years in the making, the process is exacting, from sketching exhibition pieces to measuring bones in museum basements, Beevors precisely recreates and memorialises the life of the animal, expanding on the wider themes of human culpability, asking us to care. From the towering giraffe stretching 4.4 metres in height, head raised to the ceiling, to the army of 50 plus delicately rendered frogs, the exhibition has received critical success, and enthralled audiences across Australia and New Zealand with its scale and stories.
ARTEXPRESS 2025
Featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the art-making component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts in 2024, ARTEXPRESS 2025 provides insight into students’ creativity and the issues important to them. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of approaches and expressive forms, including ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photomedia, printmaking, textiles and fibre, and time-based forms.
ARTEXPRESS is a joint partnership between the NSW Department of Education, Arts Unit and the NSW Education Standards Authority.
Accessible parking available in Gallery carpark, access via side driveway from 158 Fitzroy St.
Proudly hosted on Bundjalung Country.
Image: Rhianna Garcia, 'Thankyou for the Food!', 2024 (detail).
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
