The Ku-ring-gai Art Centre Gallery has an exciting program of exhibitions each year, featuring artworks by Art Centre students, tutors and independent artists.
Everyone is welcome. Entry is free of charge.
Exhibitions open on the first Thursday evening from 5.30pm - 7.30pm.
As of 2016, the Art Centre has a new exhibition schedule and layout. After conducting the same exhibition processes for a number of years, we feel that this new, re-vamped structure allows for a more vibrant, exciting and professional exhibition space.
Each show now has a theme and works that are submitted must represent that theme in some sense. Instead of the exhibitions being run in class groups, they will be themed around a central idea and will accept all mediums. This allows any Art Centre Student or Tutor to submit work to each show. Exhibition entries will be accepted via our entry forms (available at reception or online) and artworks will be chosen via pre-selection.
For more information see exhibition forms or talk to Art Centre staff.
Keep an eye on the gallery between exhibitions for exciting showcases and artist profiles.
Ku-ring-gai Art Centre and Gallery
3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville 2069 (Bancroft Park)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 11am to 4.30pm
Telephone: 02 9424 0310
Email: artcentre@kmc.nsw.gov.au
Upcoming exhibitions
Semester 2 2018
Annual tutors show
Highlights works by Art Centre tutors - be inspired and discover a class that suits you.
Special Guest Speaker: Josefia Lemon
Josefia is an award-winning Sydney-based artist whose work has been displayed in Australia, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan and China. She has won over 50 prizes and awards for her watercolour landscapes and paintings inspired by views of Sydney Harbour, portraiture and figurative work in oils. She has also been a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Berkelouw Portrait Prize and the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. Born in Indonesia, Josefia studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and completed a Diploma of Fine Art. She is a well-known teacher of watercolour and is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute and Portrait Artists Australia.
All mediums
Thursday 2 August - Thursday 23 August
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 August, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Our land
Explore the land and our surroundings. How does our environment shape and influence us, and how do we impact it in return?
All mediums
Thursday 30 August - Thursday 20 September
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 30 August, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Download the entry form here (pdf. 201KB)
Warm colours
Colours are closely associated with emotion. Warm colours are the yellows and reds of the colour spectrum- often associated with fire, heat, sun, and warmer temperatures.
All mediums
Thursday 18 October - Thursday 8 November
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 18 October, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Download the entry form here (pdf. 196KB)
What love means
Love is an enthusiastic surge of the senses, a shape-shifting emotion that never sits still. It can be romantic, familial or spiritual. What does love mean to you?
All mediums
Thursday 22 November - Thursday 13 December
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22 November, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Download the entry form here (pdf. 188KB)
Semester 1 2019
Every Day
Observations on the nature of life as lived every day. Understanding of the belief of the every day; the differences between what is familiar, common or ordinary.
All mediums
Thursday 14 February - Thursday 7 March 2019
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 14 February, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Bitter + Sweet
This theme could relate to an emotional feeling that is a mixture of both happy and sad, but it can also be separated and focused on either or. Literally or symbolically, find how these words transmit to your life, or your experiences.
All mediums
Thursday 14 March - Thursday 4 April 2019
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 14 March, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Famous Masters
Create a work based on the style of one of your favourite master artists/practitioners. Represent how they freed themselves from tradition and imagined art and life in new ways.
All mediums
Thursday 9 May - Thursday 30 May 2019
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 9 May, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
Embodiment
To ‘embody’ is to articulate or give a material or evident form to (an idea, quality or emotion). To engage oneself in the world through the experiences we feel in our body, through our body, and perceived through our body.
All mediums
Thursday 6 June - Thursday 27 June
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 6 June, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, 3 Recreation Avenue, Roseville
Cost: Free
