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SUMMARY:Wonders of HINTON
DESCRIPTION:Experience one of the greatest collections of art in regional Australia with the new semi-permanent display\, Wonders of Hinton. \nThe Howard Hinton Collection is the result of one of the greatest acts of artistic philanthropy and benefaction in Australian history. Between 1929 and 1948 a collection of over 1000 artworks were donated to the newly constructed Armidale Teachers’ College by the retired shipping agent\, Howard Hinton OBE (1866-1948). The collection provides a snapshot into Australian artistic practice in the early twentieth century as well as some insights into this ‘modest and self-effacing’ gentleman who lived in a boarding house in the north shore suburb of Cremorne and is one of the most significant collections of Australian art in regional New South Wales. \nOpening Night Event: Friday 3 February\, 6pm \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/wonders-of-hinton/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:NYMPHAEA NYMPHAEA : Anna Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Anna Johnson is a writer of forty years experience that came late to painting. Her art writing has been featured in Vogue\, Vanity Fair\, The Sydney Morning Herald and as a senior writer for Artist Profile. The third generation daughter of a large family of artists began her earliest work with watercolours\, expanding to increasingly large scale paintings from 2018 to the present. Johnson has held three Sydney solo shows and presents her first New York exhibition with Kutlesa Gallery\, Chelsea in March 2026. A finalist in this year’s Paddington Art prize\, Johnson describes the many Australian artists she had written about as : “My collective art school.” All works presented in “Nymphaea Nymphaea” were made exclusively for NERAM as a site specific creative project\n\n\n\nNYMPHAEA NYMPHAEA\n\nFew associate the master of Post Impressionism with minimal abstraction. In history\, Claude Monet in particular is lodged inside the most lyrical branch of landscape. His vast studies of trees\, clouds and waterlilies reflected in fathomless bodies of water present a romantic\, hyper-decorative idyll far removed from the industrial world beyond his garden walls in Giverny.\n\nYet a key fact\, perhaps forgotten\, is that Monet’s large scale Nymphaea murals were donated to France as a symbol of peace\, celebrating the Armistice after world war one. In them\, the regenerative power of ecology pushes up and out of dark pools and shadows. Gestural and abstracted\, these were not sentimental works that grieved the 19th century. I think instead that they subtly (and boldly) faced their time. The ambiguity of surface ornament and pockets of darkness in his late works serve as both evocative and ambiguous.  A century after the final Nymphaea was painted\, I feel the dynamic contradiction embedded in Monet’s turbulent and explorative beauty remains vital.  If these works were simply relaxing and re-assuring they would not be quite so magnetic. Violet\, after all\, is the fusion of red and blue\, flame and sky.\n\nMany feel that abstract painting is a genre without a subject. But when I work I do not press mute. Recently and globally\, wide spread censorship has forced many artists to resort to euphemisms. My paintings are openly about war and peace\, vulnerability and sanctuary. When I painted “Blood Cloud” there was nothing metaphoric about my palette. This work is about blood. The blue “Mythology & Muse”3 series is a quartet with an aqueous nocturnal palette. It is my homage to the water lilies\, but perhaps also a subliminal response the nebulous atmosphere of fear that permeates the news cycle like a pending cloud. In the process of completing this show for NERAM\, I found both release and respite. Compositionally many of my paintings are hollowed out like caves. In the depths of my raw linen voids\,  I seek hiding places\, coves and shelter. The project of “Nymphaea Nymphaea” is ongoing. Bridging the meeting point between Post Impressionism and Colour Field painting I found an unbroken thread: the power of colour to heal.\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nImage credit: Anna Johnson\, Persephone (detail)\, 2025\, Acrylic on linen. \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/nymphaea-nymphaea-anna-johnson/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Packsaddle Exhibition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Packsaddle is an annual art exhibition that has been raising funds for NERAM since 1985. Each year the Packsaddle Exhibition presents a diverse range of paintings\, original prints and sculpture by leading Australian artists\, providing local collectors and art lovers the opportunity to purchase great artworks to start or build their own collections\, while also supporting NERAM. \nOpening Night Event: Friday 24 October >>>>> Book your free ticket \nViewing from 5.00pm | Selling from 6.00pm | Opening remarks by Christopher Hodges\, Gallery Director\, artist and owner of Utopia Art Sydney \nPacksaddle 2025 Program of Events \n\nSaturday 25 October 10.30am: Packsaddle floor talk with Christopher Hodges\nSaturday 1 November 10.30am: Packsaddle floor talk\nSunday 9 November 1.00 – 4.00pm: Pick up Party for customers to collect their works\n\n  \n \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/packsaddle-exhibition-2025/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Black Gully Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:The always highly-anticipated Black Gully Festival is set to kick off on Saturday\, November 8th\, 2025\, in the scenic Black Gully Reserve (behind NERAM on the south side of the creek). This free\, family-friendly event celebrates the vibrant spirit of Armidale as the weather warms up\, offering a day filled with music\, art\, environmental and community engagement. The festival promises an entertaining experience for attendees of all ages. \nFestival Program\n\n9.00am – 7.30pm – Festival Livestream and broadcast 2ARMFM Community Radio\n10.00am – 4.00pm – NERAM Art Gallery & feature exhibition How to Weather Together\n10.00am – 2.00pm – Aboriginal Cultural Centre & Keeping Place – Music jam w/ Des Ahoy\, Peter Georkas & Bob Blair (10-12)\n10.00am – 2.00pm – Museum of Printing\n10.00am – 4.00pm – Makers\, Community and Environment Markets\n\n\nCaring for Koala Country\, Clothes Swap and Slow Living\, Community Garden tours\, Community Weathering Station\, Electrify Armidale\, Growing Sustainable Landscapes\, Healthy Headwaters and Creek bug collecting\, Highlands End of Life Project\, NERAM Family Art Making\, Platypus Play and Clay\, River Weaving and Rising Tide\, Save our Styx\, Talking Soil\, The Highlands Poet\, Weeding for Weaving w/ Andrew Parker\, Face painting and more….. \n\n\n\n10.00am – 7.30pm – Food Vans\n12.00pm – Official Opening – Welcome to Country + Thanks to Sponsors + announcements\n7.00pm – 8.45pm – Astronomy night with the Stars & UNE & NT Astronomical Society@NERAM cafe\n\n\nMusic\, Dance & Theatre Program\n\nMain Stages\n10.00am to 7.30pm                             \n\n10.30am  The Holy Horns\n11.15am  Alejandro & Armidale Salsa\n11.30am  JazzLab\n12.00pm  Welcome to Country + Thanks to Sponsors + announcements\n12.30pm  Tandav School of Dance\n12.50pm  Blakk Dynasty\n1.20pm  The Rocky Bottom Girls\n2.10pm  OhMaSoul\n3.00pm  MC & The Squares\n3.50pm  Dusky Buzz\n4.40pm  The Cham Cham\n5.30pm  PartyLine\n6.30pm  The Chads\n\n \nAcoustic Stage (NERAM Café)\n9.00am to 4.00pm                 \n\n\n9.00am  Judith Betts\n9.45am  Bruce’s Country\n10.30am  Pete Stanley\n11.15am  Barney St Band\n12.00pm  The Miggy Man\n12.45pm  Dallas Muirhead\n1.30pm  Ian Russell\n2.15pm  Khaleel Jundi\n3.00pm  Firebirds Choir\n3.30pm  Saturday Magic Theatre Troupe presents Pandora and the Dragon\n\n\n \nTalks\, Activities & Workshops Program\n\nClothes Swap@ Slow Living Tent\n\n10.00 to 11.00am Clothes drop\n12.00 to 2.00pm Clothes swap\n\n\n  \nThe Community Weathering Station (CoWS) at Black Gully Festival (North Village) \nThe Community Weathering Station is a market stall about climate change. This Black Gully Festival we have a program of visiting artist-researcher facilitated workshops that link up with the themes of weathering: a concept that explores climate change from a grounded\, localised and embodied perspective. \nThroughout the day we will also offer Tea/Tarot readings when the readers are not off enjoying the festival\, and there will be other little things in the stall to look at and discuss. \nFor the workshops: We will endeavour to have all the materials you need on hand\, but please go to the link below form more details\, any specific instructions and to register (FREE REGISTRATION). \nCoWS workshops are for people aged 16+ \n\n10.00 -11.00am: Mixed Weathering Workshops – w/ Tessa Zettel\, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton.\n11.00am – 12.00pm: Rest your identity – w/ Ju Bavyka\n12.00 – 12.30pm : Welcome to Country (MainStage)\n12.30 – 1.30pm: Day for it! why we love good weather – w/ Blanche Verlie\n1.30 – 2.30pm : Lunch Break\n2.30 – 3.30pm : Learn to Scry with the Sky: how to prophesize through gazing – w/ Nina Vroeman\n\nAll Day: \n\nBy sign-up sheet on the day: Tea & Tarot by Donation (with Piers Kelly & Ju Bavyka)\nHow to weather together exhibition (Mazda Gallery inside NERAM)\n\n\nFull program and registration details available at: https://communityweatheringstation.net/2025/10/13/2025-black-gully-festival-stall/\n\n\nCommunity Garden\n\n\n10.30/12.30/2.30 – Composting with Joi (@ the Community Garden\nCommunity Garden Tours – Come for a visit! Tours running from 10.00am to 4.00pm -as needed\n\n  \nSustainable Living Armidale (SLA) and Friends @ North Gully Village (NERAM Side) \n\n10.30/3.30 – Rhizomatic Somatic Meditation (1-hour sessions) for 16+ – w/Pip Ryan @ Rhizomatic Chorus tent\n11.00 to 1:30 – Magpie print making @ Museum of Printing\n10.30/1.00 – How healthy is my soil? – why not soil some undies! @Talking Soil tent\n11:00/1:30 – Digging Together: Where Soil Science Meets Community @Talking Soil\n\nSLA and Friends @ the Packsaddle room (Below NERAM) \n\n11.00am – SPECIAL Presentation – Healthy Headwaters of New England and what our creek invertebrates tell us (30mins) – with Dr. Sara Mika\, UNE Aquatic Ecology Lab\n12.30pm – SPECIAL Presentation – The Bell’s Turtle: A Turtle of Our Own – with Dr. Lou Streeting\, UNE Lazer Lab\n\nSLA and Friends @ South Gully Village (Stage Side) \n• 10.30/11.30/12.30/1.30/2.30/3.30– The Magic of Science Show @UNE Discovery\n• 10.30/1.30 – Cozy Story Time – The Platypus – w/Sue Eliot @SLA and NE Rakali and Platypus tent\n• 10.30/11.15/2.45- Native Rodents – who are they anyway and why should we care? @Threatened Species Tent\n• 10.45/2.00 – Chatting about Energy-Efficiency – for beginners 101@Electrify Armidale tent\n• 11.00 to 12.00 – Weeding for Weaving w/Andrew Parker @the Big Weave\n• 11.00 to 12.00 – Making Seedballs @Armidale Tree Group\n• 11.30 – Cozy Story Time- Where are all the baby Turtles? – w/Lou Streeting – @SLA and NE Rakali and Platypus tent\n• 11.30 & 1.30 – Creek Bug Collecting – meet @UNE Aquatic Ecology Lab\n• 12.30/2.00- Bat’s in the Backyard and Insect-eating bats @Threatened Species Tent\n• 1.00 – Black Gully Walk and Talk with Funky Dave and Friends of BG – meet@the Black Gully Central Tent\n• 2.00 – Chatting about Energy-Efficiency –bring your really tricky questions @Electrify Armidale tent \n  \n\n\nThe Black Gully Festival program is subject to changes at any time. Please refer to website for any updates or amendments.\n\n  \n              \n  \n     \n       \n  \nThe Black Gully Festival – Partners and Sponsors\nThe Black Gully Festival would not be possible and nor would it be able to provide a free community event without the contribution of over 70 volunteers and our Partners and Sponsors. The Black Gully Festival organisers would like to extend a huge thank you to our volunteers and to the following: \nPartners \nMusicians of Armidale (MOA)/Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA)/New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)/2ARMFM Community Radio/Southern New England Landcare (SNEL)/Armidale Tree Group (ATG)/Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place (ACCKP) \nSupermega sponsors\, Very special sponsors\, and Festival friends \nSustainable Living Armidale (SLA)/Origin Energy (Renewable energy and the New England Community Investment Program)/Armidale Regional Council (ARC)/BlackDot/Gallery 126/The Welders Dog/StringyBark Ecological/Back Track/Creative Streets Festival \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/black-gully-festival-2025/
CATEGORIES:Event,Music
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SUMMARY:How to Weather Together
DESCRIPTION:How to Weather Together is a multi-artform project that explores how we live with and respond to climate change through the intimate\, daily experiences of weather—both ordinary and extreme. Bringing together illustration\, visual art\, writing\, film\, and participatory activities\, the project invites audiences to consider how the shifting climate shapes our emotions\, behaviours\, and communities. Rather than focusing solely on facts or forecasts\, How to Weather Together encourages reflection\, conversation\, and creativity\, prompting visitors to ask unusual questions and to imagine new habits\, practices\, and ways of being as we adapt to a changing ecological future. \nCurated by Jennifer Hamilton \nArtists: \n Clare Britton\, Rae Haynes\, Horizon Factory (Nina Vroemen and Erin Hill)\, Henri van Noordenburg\, Marissa Betts & Mike Terry\, Tessa Zettel & Susie Nelson\, The Weathering Collective (Tessa Zettel\, Astrida Neimanis\, Jennifer Hamilton). \n  \nCredit: Illustration by Tessa Zettel: G Market Stall from How to weather together: Feminist practice for climate change (Bloomsbury: 2026) \n  \nThis exhibition is supported by Arts North West. \n \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/how-to-weather-together/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:New England Friends of NERAM Artisan Trail
DESCRIPTION:Step inside the studios of six talented New England artists and see where creativity comes to life. Across one inspiring weekend\, the New England Friends of NERAM Artisan Trail invites you to visit artists in their working environments\, watch live demonstrations\, and gain unique insights into their craft.\n\nFrom delicate watercolours and expressive landscape paintings to fine ceramics and reclaimed metal sculpture\, this is a rare opportunity to meet the makers shaping our region’s vibrant arts scene.\n\nTickets are available for individual studio visits or as a weekend pass giving access to all six studios. All proceeds support the work of the Friends of NERAM in raising funds for the New England Regional Art Museum.\n\nTickets:\n$40 Friends of NERAM members\n$45 Non-members\n$12 per individual studio\n\nBook now via TryBooking \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/new-england-friends-of-neram-artisan-trail/
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:The Community Weathering Station at Black Gully Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Community Weathering Station is a market stall about climate change. This black gully festival we have a program of visiting artist-researcher facilitated workshops that link up with the themes of weathering: a concept that explores climate change from a grounded\, localised and embodied perspective. \nThroughout the day we will also offer Tea/Tarot readings when the readers are in\, and there will be other little things in the stall to look at and discuss. For the workshops: We will endeavour to have all the materials you need on hand\, but please read below for any specific instructions and to register to help us plan for numbers. \nAll Workshops begin at the CoWS Stall \n  \nStall opens 10am \n  \nMixed Weathering Workshops 10-11am \nDrop into the CoWS Stall and participate in a selection of activities “Lucky Dip”\, “Close Meteorology”\, “Speed Zining” and “Weathering With and Without”. These games are connected to How to weather together exhibition in the gallery and book of the same name. Participants can take home their contributions or they can add it to the exhibition upstairs. These activities are all designed to engage with yourself and each other differently and carefully in relation to everyday weather\, but also as a method for connecting to the large scale catastrophe of climate change. If you miss the early workshop options to participate will be available throughout the day. \nWe believe weathering well requires the proliferation of feminist\, queer and anticolonial environmentalisms and the global redistribution of shelter and vulnerability. To assist in grass-roots revolutionary mobilisation\, we offer up simple practices as part of a larger historical movement: to change the climate of climate change and be ourselves changed in the process. \nFacilitator Bio/s: The weathering workshops are facilated by Tessa Zettel (Sydney)\, Astrida Neimanis (Canada) and Jennifer Hamilton (Armidale). These three have been collaborating for a decade as The Weathering Collective. \nFREE REGISTRATION \n  \nRest your identity: 11-12 \nWith Ju Bavyka \nThis workshop leans on meditation practices to examine our relationships to aspects of our identity\, including habits or social roles\, that get overworked in everyday life. This overwork can be a response to social injustice\, patriarchy\, gendered roles\, being disabled\, or to the self-exploitation of one’s ethnic and cultural background in order to exist and survive. After a short introduction\, participants are invited to follow a guided meditation and to identify parts of themself that require a little rest\, revision\, and kind reintegration on better terms. A space for encounter and possible connection is created during the discussion afterwards. This workshop is included in the CoWS program as a practice that allows for new openings to the weather world. \nCushions provided. \nFacilitator Bio: Ju is a visual artist\, writer and community organiser. They create from a queer\, forager perspective and are interested in practices of hospitality and generosity. Ju lives\, works and rests on unceded Gadigal Wangal lands in so-called Sydney\, Australia\, and sometimes in Berlin. They have ties to Kazakhstan and Germany through their birth\, education\, community connections and family history. \nFREE REGISTRATION (Please RSVP to help with numbers\, but please also show up on the day either way) \n15 Max \n  \n12pm Welcome to Country (Mainstage) \n  \nDAY FOR IT! why we love good weather 12.30-1.30pm \nWith Blanche Verlie \nMost of our efforts to communicate the importance of global heating focus on how scary and bad changing the climate is. But a lot of people find it too scary to think about\, and so they disengage from the topic. What if we celebrated all the benefits that a safe climate affords us? This walkshop riffs on the Australian idiom “Day for It!” that celebrates all the great\, fun things we can do in good weather and who those activities allow us to be\, to help us clarify the cultural and personal value of our Holocene climate. \nWhat you’ll need to participate: a phone with a camera and internet connection OR a pen and paper. We’ll be walking around the Festival and chatting to people about what their favourite weather is\, and why they love it. \nFacilitator Bio: Blanche is a multidisciplinary social scientist whose work focuses on climate change working. Her research investigates how people understand\, experience\, and respond to climate change\, and how we might do this differently and better. Her book Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation is available as a free e-book. At the University of Sydney\, she is a Sydney Horizon Fellow in Gender and Cultural Studies\, and one of the leaders of the Environmental Justice theme at the Sydney Environment Institute.  \nFREE REGISTRATION (Please RSVP to help with numbers\, but please also show up on the day either way) \n  \n1.30-2.30 Lunch break (& Rocky Bottom Girls playing on mainstage!) \n  \nLearn to Scry with the Sky: how to prophesize through gazing\, 2.30-3.30pm \nWith Nina Vroeman \nThis workshop will explore exercises from Horizon Factory’s publication Deep Gazing. \nThe book is a guide\, a tool\, an atlas and a companion for individual and communal attunement to the environment. Opening to the expansiveness of the sky\, learning to read its signs and traces\, and allowing for messages and meanings to arise beyond the art of forecasting. \nFacilitator Bio: Nina makes interdisciplinary work about ecology that is speculative and embodied. They live in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal)\, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka and are a recent MFA graduate from Sculpture and Ceramics at Concordia University. For more information about their work visit ninavroemen.com/ \nFREE REGISTRATION (Please RSVP to help with numbers\, but please also show up on the day either way) \n15 Max \n  \nStall closes 4pm \n
URL:https://www.neram.com.au/event/the-community-weathering-station-at-black-gully-festival/
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshops
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