Shows & Reviews
Art award winner is out of sight
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...
Group Exchange: 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial
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...
Penny Evans. The Ab-Sorption Method
How I See Myself − The Nobody, Nobody Knows1 William Blake: What is your name? Nobody: My name is Nobody.2 In the ‘absorption method’ of cooking rice the rice grains and water are brought to a boil before being covered with a lid and taken off the heat and the rice...
Goonellabah tale told on TV
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...
Releasing Walka
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...
Souvenir – solo show, December 2009
‘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...
Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Professional Development Award, COFA 2009
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...
Penny Evans wins prestigious art award, COFA 2009
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...
Winner, NPWS Bundjalung Art Award 2009
‘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...
A Special Kind of Vision
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’ – solo show at Barratt Galleries, 2008
‘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...