Exhibitions + Events

Featured in Garland Magazine, this Q&A article explores the technique of sgraffito as a significant feature in Penny’s handmade ceramic forms, which links to the carving traditions of her ancestral Country.

Featured in Art Almanac Magazine, this article explores discusses Grafton Regional Gallery exhibition ‘YiiY – A Method to Decolonise’.

Feature in 2017 Art Collector Magazine Issue 80

Feature in 2017 The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 56

I'm excited to be heading over to Fremantle next week to participate in Revealed Aboriginal Arts Festival which is being held this year at the Fremantle Arts Centre. I'll be giving a presentation about my own practice and the business of being an artist too.

Curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones, the Black Arts Market will showcase the cultural heritage of South-Eastern Aboriginal Australia. The market place provides a unique opportunity to engage with artists and acquire new works. 12 - 13 November 2016 Open from...

This photograph of mine called Women's Business is being displayed as a large billboard on the Pacific Highway heading south out of Woodburn to promote the Grafton Regional Gallery. The photograph was taken in the Yuraygir National Park in beautiful Yaegl country...

Take a look at the catalogue for the Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award 2016. My piece Seven Sisters Morning Bowl has been acquired for the permanent collection. https://issuu.com/theartscentregc/docs/ceramicartaward_2016_11_single

Penny was featured in the Spectrum section of the Sydney Morning Herald on 22 May 2016.

Ngarakbal Githabal Dialect Exhibition Ngarakbal Githabal Dialect Exhibition opens this Friday 13 May at Lismore City Hall to celebrate the diversity and creativity of Aboriginal artists from all dialects across the Northern Rivers. The exhibition is the culmination of...

A story of encounters between traditional aboriginal peoples of this area and Mary Bundock, and early white settlers at Back Road Station, Wiangaree NSW told through the art of natural fibre basket making. This exhibition has been supported by the Gulibal Living...

This work is made up of 226 components representing 226 years since the beginning of colonization. The individual pieces - made of printed images of various diamond designs sgraffitoed onto ceramic tiles, which are stuck onto tags (resembling the shape of headstones)...

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Penny Evans is an artist and studio potter based out of Lismore, NSW in Australia. She works in mixed media art and contemporary ceramics and the pieces that come from her kiln reference her Kamilaroi/Gomeroi heritage. Evans received her Bachelor of Visual Arts in...

PENNY Evans' entry Out of Sight, Out of Mind was the "obvious winner" of the 2015 Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award. The comment was made by Art Gallery of New South Wales assistant curator of Australian Art, Emily McDaniel, when she announced the winners at the...

The 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial includes the work for 22 amazing textile artists from around Australia. It's been curated by the Senior Lecturer of Fashion Textiles at UTS, Cecelia Heffer. The theme is collaboration and the cross pollination of ideas. Penny Evans...

THE Girls of Goonellabah, a documentary about an Aboriginal women's healing group, will be screened nationally on NITV (Channel 34) tonight at 6.30. (View at SBS On Demand) The documentary was produced and directed by Penny Evans and filmed with the help of some of...

                Solo Exhibition of ceramics and etchings produced during a 2 week Residency at CoFA - College of Fine Arts - Paddington Sydney Each year the college of Fine arts awards a residency and a solo exhibition to an...

‘Reclamation of a Trophy’ mixed media 2009 Souvenir 1. something given or kept for remembrance; a memento 2. a memory 3. colloquial to pilfer (Macquarie Dictionary) Colonial forces in Australia use various means to control, disperse & exterminate Aboriginal...

I am the recipient this year of the 2009 COFA Professional Development Award. The College of Fine Arts (COFA) is one of Australia’s leading art and design schools and is located at the Paddington campus of the University of NSW. The Award includes an Artist in...

Lismore artist Penny Evans has won the College of Fine Arts (COFA) Professional Development Award of the 2009 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize. Member for Lismore, Thomas George, was on hand to congratulate Ms Evans at a ceremony in Parliament House...

‘Sisters Dreaming’  2009 coil built raku clay, slip, glaze Winner 2009 NPWS Bundjalung Art Award This set explore the theme  of the competition ‘Connections’ through the relationship between form and carving on the pieces. The works reference my relationship with my...

ARTISTS celebrated in the book ‘A Special Kind Of Vision’ Arts Northern Rivers recently launched the book ‘A Special Kind Of Vision’ celebrating contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northern Rivers region, at Retrospect Galleries in Byron Bay. A Special Kind of Vision...

‘Site’ is an exhibition of work from 2008. (barrattgalleries.wordpress.com/past-exhibitions-2) “The circle is a universal sign of site(s) and its’ appearance and presence is widespread across Australia…concentric circles are sacred creative sites…” 1 Professor Judy...