River Readings to feature Mark Tredinnick

The next River Readings will be held at 6pm on Friday, 10 September and will feature Mark Tredinnick. Mark’s latest book, The Blue Plateau, is shortlisted for the Non Fiction category of the $100,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Support for the readings comes from Arts NSW.
River Readings is a regular poetry reading series in the [...]

International poets read in Nowra

Three of China’s most promising emerging poets and two award-winning Australian poets will present an afternoon of public poetry readings in Nowra.
This free literary event will be held from 2pm until 4pm on 24 July at the Manse on Kinghorn Street Nowra, (opposite Aldi). The readings from Debby Sou Vai Keng, Iris Fan Xing [...]

Matthew Hill – south coast photographer

Matthew Hill’s interest in photography first began as a teenager in the 1970s with the purchase of his first SLR camera. Working in black and white film, he started out taking street scenes throughout Sydney. He then undertook a photographic course at the Ultimo Tech as it was called then. Apart from this formal training Matthew is self [...]

Ranamok Glass Prize comes to the South Coast

Award winner Lisa Walsh will showcase her work, Across the Lines, at the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre’s exhibition, Ranamok.
Lisa won the 2009 Ranamok Glass Prize for her work, which will be on display at the arts centre from
12 February to 31 March 2010.
2009 marked the 15th year of The Ranamok Glass Prize, an annual acquisitive [...]

Personal Journeys – 40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art

Margaret Dredge, Untitled, 1980
A collection of artworks by Australian artists from the Dingle and Hughes collection will be on display at the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre from Friday 6 February to 1 April this year.
All works in this exhibition are centred on the theme “Personal Journeys – 40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art”. Each [...]

The All Poetry Competition for 2009

Closing Date June  30, 2009
Open Now for all genres of poetry. Length between 14 and 40 lines.
Open theme. First Prize: $150. Second Prize: $80. Third prize: $50
Each winner to receive a copy of Tangents by The Kitchen Table Poets
Entry postmarked no later than June 30 2009.
No entry form required. Include a cover sheet showing name [...]

‘Out There’ - latest show for Painting Group

The latest exhibition from Shoalhaven artists known as ‘The Painting Group’, will open at Café Bella in Kangaroo Valley at 5.30pm on 23 January.
The Painting Group has been painting en plein air weekly since 2006, all over the Shoalhaven area as well as Kiama in all weathers. The group consists of seven members: Kaye Johnston, Andrea Lofthouse [...]

Bundanon’s Paperwork at Shoalhaven Arts Centre

Shoalhaven City Arts Centre will be host to one of the Shoalhaven’s great Bundanon Trust Collection exhibitions, Paperwork.
Paperwork is an exhibition of works by various artists who have been in residence at Bundanon.
The exhibition includes two and three dimensional works in paper by artists Ruark Lewis, Judy Barrass, Liz Coates, Susan Buret, Geraldine Berkemeier and [...]

Magical Journeys – exhibition by South Coast artists

Aurora and Lazuli
(Lazuli is an azure kingfisher who
flies with Aurora)
Exhibition by Chere & Ric Le Page, Shoalhaven Arts Centre, Nowra,
14 November – 10 December. Launch 5 to 7pm, 14 November.
This exhibition is based on two of Chere’s whimsical poems “Aurora and Lazuli” and “The Pirate and the Fish Spitting Whale”.
The centrepiece of the [...]

Mark Galton Hot Glass Studio - Burrill Lake

“There are significant moments in everyone’s life that deserve to be captured, and I am passionate about capturing those moments through the ancient art form of hot glass. I create with passion, influenced by the love of my surroundings and connection to the environment through the mountains and oceans.”

Mark Galton of Mark Galton Hot Glass [...]