Photo Archive Gloucester Gallery
Gloucester Arts and Cultural Council Inc., better known as GACCI, is a not-for-profit volunteer-run arts organisation that was established in 1999 by a group of art-minded community members to promote an inclusive arts and cultural community in the regional New South Wales town of Gloucester, in the hinterland of the Barrington Coast.
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2025

Yarning, Weaving and Dyeing with Local Native Plants
Yarning, Weaving and Dyeing with Local Native Plants
The weaving workshop led by Renee Molineaux will provide participants with an opportunity to be part of a yarning circle, while engaging in traditional weaving techniques and learn about dyeing with Australian botanicals. The morning tea will…
2025

Returning to the Mountains
Steven Jankovic Biography
Steven Jankovic lives and works in Maitland NSW.
He is an Australian Landscape artist who creates paintings in acrylics and oils, sculptures, oil pastel drawings and photography. He studied Art at Newcastle Art School Tafe and also studied under renowned Australian Landscape…
2025

Metaphysical Space
SUSANA ENRIQUEZ
Dr. Enríquez is an interdisciplinary artist with a vast culture and solid technical knowledge in painting. She also works in printmaking, photography, and digital art; she has participated in art and music performances and has been a volunteer curator at the Newcastle Community…
2025

Colourful Language
CATHERINE GARROD:
ARTIST BIO:
Catherine lives in Smiths Lake on the Mid North Coast, NSW.
Described as vibrant and compositionally bold, Catherine’s artwork is a testament to her creativity and unique perspective. Through a powerful colour palette, she brings to life natural themes, abstracted in…
2024

Australia Through My Paint Brush
Born in Hungary in 1943 emigrated to Australia 1957
I attended Art School at East Sydney Technical College.
I began painting as a traditional painter in oils and water-colour and in recent times, explored new styles and methods in painting such as contemporary and abstract. …
2024

PIX From The STIX 2024
Pix from the Stix is Gloucester's annual photography exhibition that celebrates the talents of budding and experienced photographers. PIX has a range of categories for entrants 18 years and older, as well as an open section for juniors 17 years and under.The PIX 2024 photography…

2024

Pigment & Clay
Karen McPhee
Bachelor Visual Arts, Sydney University
Fine Arts Diploma, TAFE NSW
I approach my practice of drawing and painting by employing a ‘no right or wrong’ viewpoint and embrace the adventure and unknown when developing a visual artwork.
Taking inspiration from the world around…
2024

Beyond Horizons
Beyond Horizons invites you to discover the unique collection of recent illustrations and oil paintings by the Novocastrian artist Carmen Delprat. Specialising in the captivating realms of breezy beach landscapes and female portraits adorned with exotic shells, Carmen's artistic journey is marked by a rich…
2024

Hanging Together
Hanging Together is an exhibition of works from an eclectic mix of Wallamba artists, providing an engaging visual experience using a diverse range of techniques and mediums.
The exhibiting artists are:
Ariane Bell, Susie Oldfield, Beate Brooks Tracy, Carmel Spark, Vicki Mullins, Dianne Smith, Phillipa…
2024

The Park
Luke is an architect and artist who grew up in Gloucester, currently living and working in Newcastle, NSW. In 2022 with Curious Practice, he completed the installation ‘Undertow' at the Barrington reservoir as part of MidCoast Council’s Barrington Coast Art Trail—The Tanks initiative. Exploring mediums,…
2024

VOCATION
A Display of art from professionals working in visual art and media industries to demonstrate possibilities and inspire creative careers.
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
DECORATIVE ART
GRAPHIC DESIGN
GENERATIVE ART
STORYBOARDING
CUSTOM TATTOO DESIGN
The exhibtion will include a behind the scenes look at the design process…
2024

Taree Artists
Artists of Taree
About the Artists
The Artists of Taree are all skilled in different mediums, oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolour. Each has a distinctive personal style that both captures and expresses, spirit and atmosphere.
Much of there inspiration is derived from the region of…
2023

Pix From The Stix 2023
2023 Pix Competition is open! Photography enthusiasts, it's time to get snapping with Gloucester’s annual photography competition and exhibition now taking entries. To enter the competition check out the details and critera Pix from the Stix is Gloucester's annual photography exhibition that celebrates the talents of…

2023

Spectrums of Colour and Country
ARTIST STATEMENT – John Andrews It gives me great pleasure to share this exhibition with the refreshing and vibrant paintings of our friend and neighbour in beautiful Waukivory – Meg Tulk. This time I have tried to capture the transience of daily weather changes in…
2023

A Cultural Exhibition
First Nation Artists come together to celebrate NAIDOC with an Exhibition of Art and Culture. 2023's exhibition includes a variety of works, paintings, metal prints, weavings, digital work and wood carvings by 7 artists Ava Crick, Glenn Jonas, Katreena Jarmin, Michael Scarrott, Paula Standen, Renee Molineaux and…
2023

Blossoms & Oranges
JULIE LYNCH Julie is a multidisciplinary artist working as a designer for performance, teacher and visual artist specialising in bold floral and nature subjects. She has loved drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. Her practice is inspired by the colours, textures and…
2023

Here and There
Chris lives locally having moved from Sydney since his retirement. He still exhibits regularly in Sydney, but welcomes the opportunity to show his work here. For this exhibition he has returned to watercolours, some of particular viewpoints on our spectacular Bucketts Way, others based on…
2023

Bucketts to Beach
Andrea Noice and Marley Colborne, mother and son, come together for the first time to showcase landscapes from the Bucketts to Beach using an array of mediums, textiles and textures. Their selection of artwork charts their journey and connection to Australian natural wonders, care free…
2022

Memoirs Deconstructed
Susana Enriquez returns to Gloucester with a suite of work inspired by her latest travels within Australia. She painstakingly dubs her exhibition,” MEMOIRS DECONSTRUCTED.”
Susana takes in the panoramas of Tasmania and delivers her very own interpretation with abstract sophistication recording snapshots by way of…
2022

Mixed Nuts
Formed in 2018, Artists of Wallamba now has over 70 members from the beautiful Wallamba Region of the Mid North Coast. The group is diverse and includes many disciplines: painting, drawing, textile and fibre art, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, design and photography. With many on rural properties,…
2022

The Biophilia effect
Susie Oldfield Is a practicing multi-media artist from Mid North coast who is developing her approach to 3D works using materials from her small property and inspiration that surrounds her in the natural environment. Also combining ceramics with fibre and found objects and treasures. Susie has…
2022

Pix From The Stix 2022
After two years of COVID disruptions, Pix From The Stix is back with a slight revamp and ready to reboot for 2022.
While all the categories and prizes remain the same, this year will be a hybrid of the past competitions.
In the spirit of…

2022

Brushstrokes
Although my previous work life was finance/number based my artworks are perhaps surprisingly far more organic. Inspired by the natural sub-tropical bush where I live, my semi abstract artworks are a response to the positive and the negative shapes, the textures, lines, shadows and reflections…
2022

Naidoc Week
This years NAIDOC exhibition is proudly brought to you by GACCI and SALTWATER FRESH WATER ARTS ALLIANCE and the talented artists who are exhibiting their works. We have art in many forms, textile, painting, carving, digital and more!
This year we are excited to be…
2022

ENDEMIC
RECONNECTING WITH NATURE DURING TIMES OF HARDSHIP
An intricate and intimate display of the ethereal and profound nature of the Barrington Tops. Jordan Lucky dives deep into a wonderland of diversity and depicts the intricate workings, otherworldly scenes and charismatic local fauna of the Barrington area. Painted…
2022

Choose Your Own Adventure
Gloucester’s own Dimity Bowden debuts at the Gloucester Gallery. Dimity proudly presents a collection of work which embodies her affinity for colour, her adventurous spirit and her need for exploration.
Dimity has been painting for almost 10 years and creating for most of my life.…
2022

Magical Journeys
Old Bar artist Christine Onward creates whimsical artworks inspired by her dreams and past experiences. Her paintings embody her passion for fantasy and story telling, and convey an extraordinary sense of optimism and sensibility.
“I take my childhood memories from Eastern Europe with me every time I paint. To them I add…
2022

Nathan Paddison
Nathan Paddison comes to Gloucester!
Amongst his varied work, Nathan personifies Australian icons on canvas making them his own.
He stamps each work of art intrepidly with words that are meaningful to his psyche, purposely misspelling them to make a statement.
Nathan fittingly expresses the…
2021

A CELEBRATION OF COLOUR
Beryl Moriarty and Christine Long's Celebration of Colour
An eclectic collection of artworks capturing the picturesque landscapes of the Manning Valley’s hinterland and beyond...alongside colourful renditions of your favourite flowers, still lifes as well as some of our feathered friends. Artist Christine Long will be in…
2021

INTERPRETATION OF ATTITUDE
“I developed this exhibition especially using the body as the principal figure, together with fashion, photography and the woman as inspiration. The pose in front of the camera is taken as one’s attitude towards life. The construction of the posture reveals rigidity, fluidity, distraction, sensuality,…
2021

Dots From My Heart
Jenna-Rose Orcher (Tamworth, NSW) is a Gamilaraay woman who paints traditional Aboriginal artworks that reflect her exploration of identity and place within her culture.
Every stroke within these paintings confirms the strength of Indigenous culture’s past, present, and future. They are largely inspired by themes…
2021

Wonnarua 2020
RYAN ANDREW LEE - Artist Statement
'Wonnarua' is a contemplative moving image installation work that aims to provoke discussion around themes of Indigenous ways of living in juxtaposition with Western Settler-state system's unsustainable, damaging ways of using stolen lands. In today's current global state of environmental (and cultural,…
2021

INTROSPECTION
Local artist, Christopher Steele, presents a compilation of abstract artwork which he has constructed using the female archetypes as a basis for this body of work.
Christopher combines drawing, painting and digital media employing ambiguous images in which the viewer is left with freedom…
2021

Country Days, Country Ways
This is a celebration of all the wonderful things that people in country towns like Gloucester believe in and do wholeheartedly. We are so lucky to live here during recent and current difficult times (drought, bushfires and pandemic).
Have a look at local events as…
2021

My Country, My Inspiration
A joint exhibition by Fred Bullen and Roger Speaight whose works are inspired by a common deep love of nature and the vast beauty of our local environment. Fred’s paintings, sculptures and framed prints encompass many different mediums. They feature a great diversity of subjects…
2020

BLACK SUMMER, ONCE UPON A...FIRE
BLACK SUMMER, ONCE UPON A...FIRE
A solo exhibition by Dr Susana Enriquez was inspired by the 2019 bush fires which swept our nation’s bush with dreadful destruction. The evocative and fierce colours of the fires shared daily in our news media at that time had…
2020

GLOUCESTER HIGH SCHOOL HSC
Six students sat for the HSC Visual Arts this year in GHS. All student produced excellent work from their efforts despite the interruption to the continuity of the course thanks to COVID-19.
Emily Dulihanty, Anneka Hooke, Leon Mackintosh, Lilly Ryll, Owen Tomlinson and Holly Willis…
2020

Wild Dimensions
Wild Dimensions
Michael Kolbe and Karen Bloomfield
These two highly successful artists come together in this new exhibition at Gloucester gallery. Michael, having exhibited successfully with us previously in 2017 returns with his work extremely popular and sought after metal work sculptures.
Karen is President…
2020

Spring 2020 Exhibition
A vibrant, and active group, passionate about art, comprised of artists from our local area together with members participating from as far afield as Sydney.
A wide range of subjects and techniques are covered from workshops and regular art sessions throughout the year, which have…
2020

Pix from the Stix 2020
Pix from the Stix Annual Photo Competition 2020 - due to COVID-19
this year will be an online exhibition only! You can view all the entries on our Pix from the Stix page.
Congratulations to Sarah-Jayne Eggins for her exquisite photo 'Serenity', which has taken…

2020

Always was,always will be
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists are invited to submit artworks for the NAIDOC exhibition at Gloucester Gallery.
June 18th - 12th July to coincide with NAIDOC week 5th -12th July 2020.
The exhibition is an opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to…
2020

Gloucester Locals Inaugural Portrait Prize 2020
Faces you may know - This is the inaugural Gloucester Portrait competition exhibition and THE SUBJECTS MUST BE PEOPLE LIVING WITHIN THE 2422 POSTCODE.
It is anticipated that this will be an exciting addition to the artistic and cultural life of Gloucester, the entries will…
2019

Pix from the Stix 2019
Opening night and competition judging Friday 19th July at 7pm, all participants, their families and friends are invited to attend. Don't miss this annual fun night celebrating our regions talented photographers.
See the Pix from the Stix main page for more information.

2019

Paint,Cloth & Clay
Yvette and Peter Hugill are again exhibiting together, this time with Printmaker Ali Haigh. This exhibition 'Paint Cloth & Clay" at Gloucester Gallery from 28th February to 24th March follows on from Peter and Yvette's very successful collaboration at the Manning Regional Gallery late last…
2018

Expressions of Interest
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST - SIX ARTISTS
Kay McFarlane-Smith, Debra Ansell, Peter Erson-Smith,
Clare Felton, Gwendolin Lewis, Judith Hill
Opening on November 9th at 6.30pm with guest speaker Warren Goodrich.
The works in this group exhibition have been influenced by the landscape in and around the…
2018

Dust off the Brushes
Opening celebration 6.30 pm Friday 12th October with special guest speaker Cr Robert Booth chairperson Arts Upper Hunter. Local Gloucester artist Warren is a multi- disciplinary artist. With recent works being predominantly in plein air traditional oil paintings - covering subjects ranging from landscapes, seascapes,…
2018

Gloucester High School
his exhibition runs from 17th August to Sunday 9th September and showcases the Gloucester High School student's 2018 HSC Visual Art body of work.This work will later be submitted for examination,and we wish them all the very best with their HSC marks.
Everyone is welcome…
2018

Bucketts Way Primary schools
Children's art from the group of schools along the Bucketts Way, these include Stroud, Stroud Road, Stratford,Gloucester Public, St Joseph's, Barrington,Booral and Krambach schools.
Always a delight to see young imaginations expressed in art, this is a special month in the Gallery, eagerly awaited by…
2018

Gallery of Meraki
Thursday 1st to Sunday 25th February
In this exhibition, her first in Gloucester since 2005, Kimberley re-emerges as an artist of great talent and imagination and will showcase a diverse range of work using multiple mediums to represent her wide ranging talent.
Kimberley has a…
2017

A familiar Place
An Exhibition of prints on paper and cloth that explore Light and Shade within the local environment.Dyes from my garden, freestyle machine drawing, hand embroidery,3 dimensional structures.
WANDER IN WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
Come in on a Saturday and have a play with the art.
Truly MAKE…
2017

The Old Oak Tree
80 pieces of the oldest Oak tree planted in Australia c1793 - 1798 painted with scenes of Australia. Each piece numbered and comes with it's own Certificate of Authenticity. Supported by other artworks (querky gourds, painted saws, animal portraits, handicrafts and more) presentations, poetry readings,…
2017

Helen Hindmarsh and artist friends
This is their first exhibition in Gloucester, please come and support these talented artists on their first visit to Gloucester Gallery as exhibitors.
Thurs 27th April – Sun 21st May
Ron Hindmarsh will present a one day traditional drawing and watercolour workshop on June 8th…
2017

'Tainted Paint
A collection of surreal and abstract paintings inspired by the complexity of thoughts, ideas, interpretations and ultimately "personally "tainted views" we as individuals bring to every part of our lives.James Tito Parada has been creating art for over 20 years, originally from the southern beaches…
2016

Gloucester Patchwork Group
"Founded in 1996, the Gloucester Patchwork Group is an active community
group of women who as well as creating individual work, collectively create
community quilts for charities, hospitals or for victims of bushfires,
floods and other disasters. The Group has held a number of Quilt…
2016

'Don't be a sheep be EWENIQUE'
a display of works by Judy Simonson and friends, showcasing a wide array of painted works on canvas,glass and fibre, specialising in super fine merino wool and natural fibres.
All their unique works are for sale and showcase their talent in acrylic & watercolour paintings,glass…
2016

Gloucester High School
An opening event for students,teachers,family & friends will be at 6pm on Friday 12th. ALL WELCOME, PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT THE STUDENTS.
Gloucester High School students attempting the HSC Visual Art course have created their work over 12 months and developed their material and conceptual…
2012

Somewhere Inside
The Gloucester Gallery is thrilled to present the exhibition "SOMEWHERE INSIDE". An installation of painting, video, sound & sculpture by Sydney artists Philip Stallard, Erik Gunzel, Lex Robertson and Lynne Dobinson which will be on show from July 19 - August 12. The Gallery has…
2012

'Divergent Abstractions'
Photography by Wendy Fraser (Gloucester), Paitings by John Andrews (Walcha) and sculpture by Grahame Bray (Walcha).
Wendy's photographs comprise the paint-peeling hulls of old boats, as well as found industrial objects, discarded things, or "treasures in the rough" John Andrews paintings include a delightful series…

Local Primary Schools exhibition
The popular "Local Primary Schools" exhibition, hosted annually by the Gloucester Gallery, is back! Participating schools include: Gloucester, Barrington, Stroud, Stroud Road and St Joseph's with artwork from students in years K to 6.
"This is always one of our most popular exhibitions", said Gallery…

Veiled Odalisque
Local artist Christopher Steele's latest exhibition "Odalisque" opens at the Gloucester Gallery this week. The 'Odalisque' is a traditional classical pose of the female nude, usually both provocative and glamorous. This body of work is an attempt to extend the classical nude pose and expose…

Spring 2011 Exhibition
The very popular Gloucester Art Society Annual show is on again.
The works vary in media including pastel, watercolour, oil, acrylic and in subject matter from the traditional landscape of our lovely Gloucester countryside to creative mixed media abstraction. More than 20 members works are…

Handmade
"Handmade" is an exhibition of needlework past and present, brought together by the members of the CWA and Gloucester Patchwork Group. A broad range of skils are on display including lacemaking, embroidery, knitting, smocking, tapestry, quilting, weaving, applique, tatting.
Some pieces originate from the at…