Yarrila Arts and Museum

Yaamanga (around here)
2023-09-16 00:00 - 2030-12-31 23:59 (Australia/Sydney)
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Yaamanga (around here) installation view

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22 Jan 20265:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Yaamanga (around here) is an ongoing exhibition exploring the history and identity of the Coffs Coast through themes of place, community and belonging, with Gumbaynggirr culture at its heart. This interactive exhibition features hundreds of objects, photographs, artworks and films from the Yarrila Arts and Museum collection. A key highlight of Yaamanga (around here) is the short film, Daalga Nginundi Wajaarr (Sing Your Country), which is informed by Yuludarla’s (Gumbaynggirr Creator) journey from north to south exploring miirlarl (sacred places), culture and history through song and cinema. The piece is a celebration of language and its revival and is an invitation for all people to learn the story of this place. It explores untold histories of Country; its triumphs and its sorrow and the dialogue Gumbaynggirr people have every day with her.Daalga Nginundi Wajaarr (Sing Your Country) was created by Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak of ZAKPAGE. The score is a reworking of a medley of traditional songs by Gumbaynggirr artist, Birrugan Dunn-Velasco, with the inclusion of post-modern instrumentation and sounds from Country.This artwork is dedicated to the Gumbaynggirr people; it is their ancestral lands upon which we live and work; they who are so generous with their cultural knowledge and lore in the making of this film.

A still image captured from Daalga Nginundi Wajaarr Sing Your Country

Find out more about Daalga Nginundi Wajarr Sing your Country

Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness
2024-08-24 00:00 - 2024-11-10 23:59
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ENESS, Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness, 2024, photo by Te-Fan Wang, image courtesy of the artist.

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22 Jan 20265:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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At the entrance to Modern Guru, visitors navigate the Glitchy Wood, a series of twisted trunks with fractured screen-likeModern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness is an immersive new media installation that uses the intersection of art and technology to explore modern paths to happiness through a warped world of digital technology and AI. patterns. Stick insects hover nearby chanting Modern Guru’s incantations – eyes flickering with ones and zeros as if diseased with the code of their world. Fragile and odd, they guard Modern Guru as he rests against an LED horizon, waiting to dispense reconstituted wisdom generated by AI. What will your experience with the Guru reveal?

Electric Dreams
2024-08-24 00:00 - 2024-11-10 23:59
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Jason Sims, Structural Nature IV (detail), 2023, photo by Pippy Mount, image courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

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22 Jan 20265:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Viewers are invited to stretch their imaginations and visual perceptions of space and form as they move throughout this immersive exhibition and engage with the works. Taree Mackenzie employs a Victorian-era effect used in theatre to create the illusion of moving abstract forms through the merging of coloured light and reflection.Jason Sims plays with shape, light and mirrors to create light structures in which geometric forms appear to continue infinitely.

Brendan Van Hek works with neon lights to create conceptual and mesmerising installations that produce optical illusions for the viewer as their eyes are dazzled by the intensity of the glow and visual hum of the colours.

Serendipia
2024-08-24 00:00 - 2024-11-10 23:59
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Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins, Serendipia, 2024, image courtesy of the artists.

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22 Jan 20265:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Combining animation, sound, sculpture, electronics and ultraviolet light, the artists have created a biofuturistic environment that reflects nature’s ever-changing desire for adaptation and experimentation.Visitors are transported into an otherworld of discovery where chance encounters with speculative propositions for hybrid life provide an invitation to consider the future of nature.

Desert Jungle
2024-09-14 00:00 - 2024-11-10 23:59
Desert Jungle

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Jeannie Baker, Desert Jungle #10 (2023) Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jaime Plaza.

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22 Jan 20265:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Jeannie’s vibrant and visually distinct works present a visual narrative that explores the complex biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert. Over one-third of the Australian landscape is classified as desert, and it’s often thought of as barren space. In this new story, Jeannie explores the Valley of the Cirios in Mexico, through the perspective of a young child and his grandfather.

In parts of the Valley, towering stands of Cardon Cactus – some of the largest cacti on Earth – and Elephant Trees, mix with Cirios and other unique desert plants as a ‘forest’, almost a desert jungle. These cacti and other plants form both subject and material for Jeannie, who incorporates clippings from plants in her intricate and stunning works.During an historic moment, when the global community is grappling with climate change, Desert Jungle offers a moment of reflection and insight, to celebrate that which is unique, and cannot be lost.

An exhibition by Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest coproduced with Jeannie Baker.

Portrait Drawing with Seabastion Toast - 5 week course
2024-09-15 11:30 - 2024-10-13 13:30
Portrait Drawing with Seabastion Toast – 5 week course

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Learn to create contemporary and expressive portraits with award-winning artist Seabastion Toast.

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22 Jan 20265:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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Learn to create contemporary and expressive portraits with award-winning artist Seabastion Toast.

In this five week drawing course participants will use graphite and charcoal to learn the foundational elements of proportion, shadow, shape, angles, facial features and developing a likeness. Suitable for both beginners and advanced students.

All materials supplied.

15 September – 13 October

11:30am – 1:00pm

$170 for 5 weeks

Suitable for adults

Seabastion Toast is a prolific painter whose vibrant canvases capture the essence of light, pattern and the beauty of everyday moments. Blending abstract compositions with astute observations of daily life, Toast creates immersive worlds that beckon viewers to explore and connect with their innermost thoughts and emotions. Toast recently won the 2024 Percival Portrait Painting Prize.
