EXHIBITION OPENING: The Nature of Us + House & Home

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Glasshouse Regional Gallery

Join us for a very special evening in the gallery:

The Nature of Us + House & Home Exhibition Opening

The Glasshouse Regional Gallery is celebrating local artists across the Mid North Coast with these two wonderful exhibitions.

The Nature of Us is an exhibition by local artists Kim and Dianne Greenwood, each exploring and responding to their natural surroundings. From backyards to beaches each artist collects, and abstracts their observations and inner workings. Using the found and observed to distort and invent new worlds though collage, symbolism, colour and sculpture. Whether it is in the making or the collecting, this mother daughter duo, explore how nature can connect and become a part of the tapestries of daily lives.

House & Home is centred around two homes, one that the artist had lived in for 35 years and one, which is occupied now. This work is a reflection on moving house from a psychological, imagined and remembered experience. “ I think the first works reflect a more wistful feeling and after the move a subtle change takes place. There is a visual connection between some of this work and a previous exhibition titled ’Young at Heart’ shown at Grafton Regional Gallery. Memory was a strong trigger for this work.” SUE BELL 2023 

Our Exhibition Openings provide local and invited artists with an opportunity to network among other creatives and celebrate their achievements.

Free Event - BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

Sue Bell

Lives and works in Port Macquarie

Sue Bell spent her early years practicing the craft of painting, working in the landscape and studying still life with a tutor from the Ashton’s school of painting in Sydney.

Her contemporary work began in1995 while studying with Southern Cross University in NSW. Sue’s practice includes painting, digital photography, assemblage and artist’s books, drawing inspiration from   eastern cultures and their approach to art and philosophy.  Sue has exhibited regionally and in Sydney  and has artworks as part of  Port Macquarie Hastings council collection as well as in private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, UK, France and USA.

Dianne Greenwood

Dianne Greenwood showed an early interest in art, painting lessons in 1961 with Desiderius Orban, shaping her future outlook and ideas on art philosophy. She reintroduced herself to art studies in 1991 completing TAFE coursed in Fine Arts & Ceramics, later Visual Arts with Southern Cross University. Becoming a member of the  Mid North Coast Fibre group extended her practice through an exploration of creating artists books, small sculpture and fibre constructions. Dianne has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and her work has is held in private collections.

Kim Greenwood

Kim Greenwood is a Port Macquarie based artist who has been painting all of her life. “It is what I do, a bit like breathing”. Kim has a Diploma of Graphic design and Digital Media/ game design. Kim explores the natural world through pattern, design, symbolism, collage, gouache and watercolour. Kim freelances as a designer and has exhibited in group exhibitions and competitions.