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8 July – 4 August 2026

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8 July – 1 August 2026

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‘Sunburn’ by Gerwyn Davies – now open at Tweed Regional Gallery

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‘Sunburn’ by Gerwyn Davies – now open at Tweed Regional Gallery

A vibrant new exhibition of Gerwyn Davies’ work, Sunburn, is now open at Tweed Regional Art Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre. Developed in 2025 during the artist’s Nancy Fairfax Residency at Tweed Regional Gallery, the resulting series consists of vibrant, new textile-based and photographic works that reimagine the low-brow...

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NOW SHOWING - Guido Maestri, ‘Arrangements’

‘Arrangements’ is currently showing in the gallery and online from 8 July - 1 August.

Please click the link in bio to view the exhibition.

Video by Stephen Mylonas

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‘Sunburn’ by Gerwyn Davies is now open at Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre.

In late 2025 Gerwyn was invited to undertake the Nancy Fairfax Residency at Tweed Regional Gallery. The result of this residency, ‘Sunburn’ brings together a series of vibrant new textile and photographic works that reimagine the ephemera, icons, and images of the nation’s glittering Sunrise Strip.

Please email the gallery (enquiries@janmurphygallery.com.au) for more information or to receive a catalogue of available works.

Gerwyn Davies
Sunburn
Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre
3 July - 22 November 2026

Image details:
(i) Gerwyn Davies, Meter Maid, 2026, archival pigment print, edition of 5 + 1AP, 125.0 x 105.0 cm
(ii) Gerwyn Davies, Tropicana, 2026, archival pigment print, edition of 5 + 1AP, 120.0 x 105.0 cm
(iii) Gerwyn Davies, Croc, 2026, archival pigment print, edition of 5 + 1AP, 120.0 x 105.0 cm

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COMING SOON - Guido Maestri ‘Arrangements’

This exhibition presents a compelling body of sculptural work, offering an opportunity to engage with Maestri’s exploration of portraiture through bronze. Across these intricately constructed heads, forms appear to shift, open and evolve, reflecting on memory, time and the ways identity is continually shaped through lived experience.

Developed over several years, these sculptures balance remarkable technical precision with a profound sense of humanity, inviting us to consider the face not as something fixed, but as a record of change.

‘Arrangements’ will be showing in the gallery from 8 July – 1 August.

Please contact the gallery to preview the exhibition.

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Artwork details:
Guido Maestri, Neptune, 2026, bronze with aluminium base, Edition of 3 + 1 AP, 64.0 x 20.0 x 20.0 cm. Photography by Mim Stirling.

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COMING SOON - James Guppy, ’Sculptures and birds’

James Guppy started his artistic practice as a sculptor before discovering his visual instincts and technique drew him to painting but the pull of sculpture has never quite left. ‘Sculptures and birds’ sees Guppy return to an early love of sculpture that first emerged in his teens as he revisits the forms that shaped his early thinking.

Each painting becomes a kind of homage to sculptors long admired, translating their weight and presence into a painted language. Native birds move through these works as both companions and disruptors. Living on the land, his days are filled with their rhythms.
Jabirus and spoonbills gather at the dam, swallows pass through the studio, and small encounters accumulate over time.

“There is a quiet irreverence to birds, too. Just as pigeons mark public sculpture, swallows leave their traces on my paintings. I became interested in pairing particular birds with particular forms, allowing unexpected relationships to emerge. In the end, the birds do not simply inhabit the works, they complete them.” - James Guppy 2026

’Sculpture and birds’ will be showing in the gallery from 8 July - 1 August.

Please contact the gallery to preview the exhibition.

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Works by Lucy Culliton, Richard Lewer and Ben Quilty are currently on display in ‘Where do I belong?’ at Logan Art Gallery.

Bringing together newly commissioned and loaned artworks, the exhibition explores the fragile beauty and vulnerability of native birds while considering broader questions of connection, place and belonging. Head to Logan Art Gallery’s website for information about the associated public program, which includes mono-printing and photography workshops.

Where do I belong?
Logan Art Gallery
Current until 29 August, 2026

Image credit: Lucy Culliton, Spring Pigeon VIII, 2016, oil on board, 40.0 x 40.0 cm

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Congratulations to Keith Burt, winner of the Most Outstanding 3D Artwork category at the Stanthorpe Art Prize 2026.

Established in 1972, the Stanthorpe Art Prize is a biennial award that attracts entries from artists across Australia. This year’s judging panel included renowned Australian artists Wendy Sharpe and Julie Fragar.

Keith’s award-winning work is currently on display alongside the other finalists at Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery until 23 August.

Stanthorpe Art Prize 2026
12 June – 23 August
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery

Image credit: Keith Burt, Inquiet, 2026, plaster, synthetic polymer paint, 32.0 x 20.0 x 20.0 cm

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NOW SHOWING - ‘I will remember you’ by Linde Ivimey & ’Trick of the light’ by Heidi Yardley.

Across two very different practices, both exhibitions explore the ways memory is carried, collected and transformed over time.

Drawing upon nearly four decades of studio practice, Linde Ivimey’s sculptures emerge from an ongoing process of gathering and making. Objects, materials and fragments accumulate, reappear and evolve, forming works that connect past and present through cycles of remembrance and renewal.

Heidi Yardley mines found imagery from vintage magazines, film stills and printed ephemera, unsettling familiar images of glamour and femininity. Through painting, these fragments of the past become sites of ambiguity, where memory, desire and identity remain in constant flux.

Both exhibitions can be viewed in the gallery until 4 July.

Please click the link in bio to view the exhibitions online.

Image details:
(i) Linde Ivimey, Cavallo, 2026, steel armature, acrylic resin, dyed fabric, cast and natural bone, 55.0 x 52.0 x 30.0 cm
(ii) Heidi Yardley, Bitter summer in decline, 2024, oil on linen, 65.0 x 50.0 cm
(iii) Linde Ivimey, Brown baby, 2024, acrylic resin, wood, dyed fabric, Czechoslovakian crystal, knitted copper, bird bones, sternocera aequisignata (jewel beetle wings) carnelians, 25.0 x 25.0 x 23.0 cm
(iv) Heidi Yardley, Untitled (George’s tree), 2016, oil on board, 38.0 x 35.0 cm

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CLOSING SOON - Ben Quilty ’The River’

Ben Quilty’s paintings have long moved between portraiture and landscape, holding space for questions of identity, place, and the weight of experience. In this new body of work, the landscape comes into sharper focus, not as a backdrop, but as something active, shifting and charged.

There is a particular kind of quiet that can be found in descent, in heading down to some place. Not up to a lookout or out toward a horizon, but down into the base of a valley, where the walls rise steeply on all sides and the world is made to recede. In this body of work, Quilty turns downward to such a place: a river set deep within the landscape, where the scale and weight of the terrain is both oppressive and assuring. Here, one has the sensation of being underneath everything, as though the weight of history, geological and otherwise, hangs just above and all around.

These works emerge from a desire to withdraw from the noise of the world, but they are not acts of denial. The river does not offer escape so much as opportunities for processing. In the absence of phone reception and other forms of contact, in the isolation of the valley is room to sit with difficult topics.

In the case of this series: a quiet grief for the natural world. If Quilty’s earlier paintings grappled with the immediacy of political and social violence, here that violence is slower, more diffuse, but no less pervasive. The environmental degradation that underpins these paintings is not always directly visible, and perhaps that is precisely the point. What is out of sight is easily displaced, deferred, or forgotten.

’The River’ by Ben Quilty can be viewed in the gallery and online until Saturday 6 June.

Please contact the gallery for more information.

Image details:
Ben Quilty, Taralga, 2026, oil on linen, 180.0 x 202.0 cm
Ben Quilty, Bed no. 1, 2026, oil on linen, 51.0 x 61.0 cm
Ben Quilty, River no. 2, oil on linen, 51.0 x 61.0 cm

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