![Lyndon Dadswell. Untitled [Bird] circa 1965, brown gummed paper on metal support and wooden base, height 137 cm width 110 cm depth 95 cm](/cms/cmsimages/banner-images/bequest/PRG-sm-top-bequest7.jpg)
Past Exhibitions
10 September - 13 November
This is an annual, open photographic competition exclusively for teenagers (13yrs - 19yrs). Come along and vote for your favourtie photograph in the People's Choice Award. (more)
Framed 2011
An exhibition of photographs of site specific artworks, created in response to the Gallery’s collection of Australian abstract art, from emerging artists currently studying with Nepean Art and Design Centre. (more)
22 October - 13 November
The late Dr Peter Mark was a highly respected local doctor and accomplished 'amateur' artist. (more)
C - Block: Drawings by Catherine O’Donnell
6 August- 16 October
Exquisite charcoal drawings exploring the ‘institutionalised’ modernism of Nepean High School’s architecture. (more)
25 June – 4 September
An exhibition of recently acquired works by Brook Andrew, Christopher Dean, Destiny Deacon, Jon Plapp and Justene Williams with selected works from the Collection. (more)
Kids’ Modernist Studio
25 June – 4 September
Four rooms of art making activities for kids to explore modernist principles via the art of Gerald Lewers, Frank Hinder, Ralph Balson and Syd Barron. (more)
25 June - 31 July
Liam Benson’s lyrical musings around the complex stereotypical identity of the Australian ‘bogan’ male.
16 April - 19 June
Using a unique form of 3D digital image painting, sculpting and sequencing, the father of Australian psychedelic art takes us with him on a voyage through surreal world circumstances; his ‘electric brushes’ create profound statements in light - projected and on screen, in high definition and viewed with 3D glasses. (more)
The Great Walls - Kurt Schranzer
16 April - 19 June
Inspired by the expert joinery and object making undertaken by his father and grandfather between the 1940s and 1960s, Schranzer’s reconfigured classic patterns in wood and constructed veneers explore authorship, originality, style and tradition in architectural elements such as frames, windows and their views. A perfection of fine and applied arts. (more)
Farr & Little: DO NOT PANDA
16 April - 12 June
Using photography, charcoal, octopus straps, polyester, sticks and stones, Cathy Farr and Mark Little, with compassion and humour, take a wry look at Ancient, Old and New Australia and place modern Penrith at its epicentre. Farr’s ‘Absurdist’ photography and Little’s ‘cultural vandalism’ combine to create their own ‘contemporary ready-mades’. Fluxus for the 22nd Century. An installation. (more)
Alterbeast
16 April - 19 June
Mikala Dwyer, Carla Cescon, Tina Havelock Stevens, Justene Williams, Rolande Souliere, Rachel Scott and Scott Donovan combine to assure us that the world is one big complicated mess. This collaborative adventure, which began with a séance and the metaphysical poetry of a three hour drum solo (and ends who knows where) includes film, photos, sculptural objects, note taking, drawings, paintings and sound. (more)
Gathered Up – The Robin Gurr Collection (more)
Gathered Up – The Farley Gift (more)
November 20 2010 to 27 February 2011
16 November - 15 December 2010
Sizzle 2010 is an inclusive arts festival showcasing the creative expression of people with disability through art, video and performance, as part of the celebrations for International Day for People with Disability. (more)
14 August - 14 November 2010
Disorder Disorder focuses on sub-cultural activity including contemporary street culture, anti-establishment art, outlawism, suburban life and the art created therein. A lot of the artists represented could be considered geeks, weirdos, nerds, criminals and outcasts but they are also our cultural life force, the ones that are beautifying this world, even if it is subversely. (more)
14 August - 7 November 2010
John A. Douglas' Strange Land is a multi channel video installation that relives the histories of a haunted landscape through the retelling of historic narratives. (more)
In late 2010 Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest will present the following exhibitions in Japan:
UNIFORM: Japan Photos by Harold David
Tatami World
Master Works: The Prints of Aoki Tetsuo
Uruwashi Citizen’s Gallery
Hakusan City
12 - 29 October 2010
Fujieda City History Museum
Fujieda City 4 November - 2 December 2010
Snap Shot - Teenagers Photographic Prize
3 July - 8 August 2010
Fun, Freaky, festive or feisty, the gallery's fourth annual photographic prize for photographers under 20. Sponsored by the Friends of Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. (more)
Flora and Fauna - Adrienne Doig
3 July - 8 August 2010
Flora and Fauna is a series of self portraits by Adrienne Doig using appliqué and embroidery on vintage Australiana tea towels. Presenting herself in a variety of stylised poses and lively activities her image is overlaid across our national emblems literally imposing herself on these cultural stereotypes. (more)
3 July - 8 August 2010
An exhibition of photographs of site specific artworks, created in response to the Gallery’s collection of Australian abstract art. Includes nine budding artists currently from Nepean Art and Design Centre. (more)
10 April – 27 June 2010
10 April – 27 June 2010
Sylvie Blocher: What is Missing?
13 February – 4 April 2010
Sylvie Blocher is a leading French video artist. Her new work What Is Missing?, is part of Sylvie Blocher’s ongoing and much celebrated Living Pictures series, and features people from Penrith unveiling their unspoken needs, hopes, dreams and desires. It is challenging, provocative and riveting.
What Is Missing? is a collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and was created through the support of the C3West Project and Partners, and Panthers World of Entertainment. (more)
TELE-VISION EYES
6 February – 4 April 2010
A focused group exhibition of contemporary video art exploring the relationship of the individual to the televised image, both as the viewer and the viewed.
Featuring Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn (USA), Matthew Griffin (Aust), Kate Murphy (Aust), David Rozetsky (Aust), John Spiteri (Aust), Ryan Trecartin (USA). (more)
Preserved
Installation by Tom Strachan
6 February - 4 April 2010
Wall mounted porcelain works that present (and preserve) Australian eucalypt trees. (more)
Uniform: Japan Photos by Harold David
14 November 2009 - 31 January 2010
Uniform: Japan Photos by Harold David presented large format photographic portraits of Japanese workers (and their uniforms) by Australian/American fashion photographer Harold David - an intriguing synergy of community engagement, social history and contemporary art.
(more)
Sizzle
1 December - 13 December 2009
An inclusive arts festival that showcased the creative expression of people with disability through art, video and performance. Supported by Penrith City Council.
(more)
12 September - 1 November 2009
Works from the Gallery’s impressive Australian Modernist Collection were juxtaposed with Angus Winneke sketches depicting exquisite costumes and set designs for the renowned Tivoli Theatre. The exhibition was set to generate discussion about the well established tensions between high and low culture, art and design as well as intellectualism and sensuality. Artists from the Collection included Harold Abbott, Ralph Balson, Judy Cassab, Frank Hinder, Margel Hinder, Gerald Lewers, Margo Lewers and John Olsen.
11 April - 28 June 2009
Marella: The Hidden Mission was a multi-faceted exhibition, education and public events project that examined a particular story in the shameful history of the policies and practice of the removal of generations of Aboriginal children – the Marella Aboriginal Mission Farm (operating in Western Sydney from 1953 to 1978).
(more)
Strictly Samoan
23 August - 2 November 2008
A multi-disciplinary suite of four exhibitions that announced the growing presence of Samoan families in Sydney and revealed a little of their history,culture and custom.
(more)
Tracksuits of St Marys
10 February - 8 April 2007
The Tracksuits of St Marys exhibition project was a multidisciplinary blend of photography, sculptural installation, museology and community cultural development practice that explored the tracksuit through portraits, actual garments, a soundtrack and a magazine. The exhibition surveyed the historical, cultural and political significance of tracksuits and their wearers, by focusing on the tracksuit-wearing people of St Marys and other VIPs.
(more)
For Matthew & Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia
1 September - 11 November 2006
For Matthew and Others – journeys with schizophrenia told, through visual, performing and literary arts the difficulties and joys experienced by people living with schizophrenia as well as their families and friends.
(more)
Shimai Toshi
5 March - 1 May 2005
The major focus of Shimai Toshi was an installation-based exhibition featuring four Western Sydney based contemporary artists, offering parallel symbolic 'displays' of filial affection, shared experience and collective critique. (more)
Making Sugar – a photosynthetic artifice
2 October – 3 December 2004
Making Sugar - a photosynthetic artifice was an exhibition created through a collaborative multi-disciplinary process of research, propagation, creative conceptualising and production. This exhibition was an artifice, philosophic in its expression of a life force, scientific in its base rationale and aesthetic in its translation of the vital cosmic situation in which we find ourselves. (more)
Time & Love: The Handcrafted Bedroom
11 December 2003 – 6 February 2004
Time & Love: The Handcrafted Bedroom was an exhibition that showcased handcrafted textile artworks for, and found in the bedroom. It incorporated artworks made by 90 professional artists, hobbyists, guilds and community groups and displayed the range of over 200 textile works through extensive community outreach work. (more)
Vinyl House
3 May – 22 June 2003
A high intensity, low tech, interactive collection installation. Vinyl House gave visitors the opportunity to play over 1,000 records - LPs and singles, all released between 1969 and 1981. A third of the records were labeled and critiqued after the style of acclaimed Australian music writer, Lillian Roxan. The exhibition was installed in the four rooms of Lewers House and the Bath House building, each room contained a genre based collection of records and a record player. (more)
  
|