Glasshouse Port Macquarie

The Glasshouse Regional Gallery presents around 20 to 25 diverse exhibitions each year featuring contemporary, indigenous, historical, traditional, design and sculptural artworks as well as a number of prominent social history exhibitions.

Exhibitions are programmed approximately two to three years in advance and target three distinct focus areas: Glasshouse Regional Gallery Exhibitions featuring the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Art Collection, community access exhibitions featuring local artists and cultural organisations and touring exhibitions presented in partnership with significant Australian arts and cultural organisations.

Mobility Assistance available.

Glasshouse Port Macquarie

Cnr Clarence & Hay Street Port Macquarie NSW 2444

02 6581 8888

glasshouse.org.au

Tue to Fri 10am–4pm,
Sat and Sun 10am–2pm.

Exhibitions

Art in Conflict

An Australian War Memorial touring exhibition

9 Nov - 2 Feb

Regional Creative Showcase 2024

30 Nov - 9 Feb

Dobell Drawing Prize #23

31 Aug - 24 Nov

Feature

Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Jennifer Yang

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Lindy Lee is keeping faith

With a 50-year practice exploring her Chinese heritage, longing and belonging, Zen spiritualism and the endless nature of being, Lindy Lee is now unveiling the pinnacle of her art.

Tiarney Miekus

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Women love the art world, but does the art world love women?

Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?

Neha Kale

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Julie Gough on history’s many afterlives

In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.

Glasshouse Port Macquarie