NorthSite Contemporary Arts

NorthSite Contemporary Arts resides within the Bulmba-ja Arts Centre (formerly Centre of Contemporary Arts) in Cairns.

A key company (one of few independent contemporary visual arts institutions north of Brisbane), this organisation has advocated, demonstrated resilience and excellence over decades, championing artists of the North and presenting boundary-pushing programs through an experimental ethos relevant to a wide region.

NorthSite collaborates with individual artists, Indigenous-led art centres, other galleries, touring bodies and partnering companies to realise 30+ exhibitions and 150 programs each year; often presenting a diversity of work unseen elsewhere in Australia.

Wheelchair access ramp located at the main entrance.

NorthSite Contemporary Arts

Bulmba-ja arts centre, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns City QLD, Australia

+61 07 4050 9494

NorthSite.org.au

Mon to Fri 10am-5pm
Sat 9am-5pm

Closed Sundays & Public Holidays

Exhibitions

other

The Five5

8 Dec - 27 Jan

NorthSite Art Market

13 Nov - 20 Jan

Facing Time: 50 Years

Euan Macleod and Geoff Dixon

3 Feb - 28 Mar

Ngurruwarra/Derndernyin (stone fish trap)

Group Exhibition

3 Feb - 28 Mar

Conversations with my barista (Real or imagined)

Selina Kudo

3 Feb - 28 Mar

The Ascended

Chantal Fraser

11 Nov - 20 Jan

Feature

10 regional shows to see this summer

From an intriguing exhibition on baroque masters to a show ostensibly all about dogs, here’s our curated list of regional offerings to see throughout the country this summer.

Barnaby Smith

Feature

It’s a Horror Show

Horror is where the marginalised can see themselves—as a horror-themed exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art reveals.

Sally Gearon

Preview

Unboxing the cultural impact of sneakers

Sneakers are a cultural phenomenon made up of paradoxes. Some see them as an accessible and inclusive force in fashion that serve as an outlet of self-expression for many; yet to others they are a symbol of out-of-control consumerism. Two Queensland exhibitions are embracing these dualities, though from contrasting angles: Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at HOTA on the Gold Coast, and Torsion at Brisbane’s Metro Arts.

Barnaby Smith

Opinion

On Second Thoughts

Making art vs making ends meet, especially during a cost of living crisis, means making tough decisions, Oslo Davis discovers.

Oslo Davis

Preview

Doing it the Womanifesto way

The grassroots women’s art collective Womanifesto, which formed in Thailand in 1995, did not shut down with the rest of the world in 2020. Instead, it adapted, and now the works made by the Sydney contingent during that time are showing at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Feature

Women In Still Life

As representations of contemporary life, especially the domestic and intimate, continue to be meaningful, the still life genre endures—as 16 women artists attest in a new show at Bett Gallery.

NorthSite Contemporary Arts

NorthSite Contemporary Arts

Exhibitions