Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
Connections | NSHS Student Visual Art Exhibition
Nov 2, 2023 - Nov 18, 2023
Come and see a huge and diverse array of visual arts and photography works by our talented local high school students, filling both the main gallery and reception centre. You’ll be amazed!
Loving Our Land
Sep 16, 2023 - Nov 9, 2023
An exhibition by enRICH Scholarship recipient, local artist Ron Meier.
Living and working on the land: a countrywoman’s passion revealed
Sep 6, 2023 - Oct 14, 2023
An exhibition of pastoral landscapes from the Shire of Narrogin’s Carol & Peter Taylor Collection.
The Friday Artists
Jun 10, 2023 - Jul 1, 2023
We are a disparate group of creative souls who come together every Friday to draw, paint, sketch and sometimes just to plan our next masterpiece.
Wild Scenes and Wild Places
May 9, 2023 - Jun 1, 2023
See the fascinating variety of this self taught artist’s subjects and the various mediums used portraying the natural world in all its splendour.
Open Borders: Between Confinement & Liberation
Feb 1, 2023 - Feb 25, 2023
A group exhibition featuring the work of regional artists responding to the theme of ‘Open Borders’,
NSHS Student Exhibition 2022
Nov 4, 2022 - Nov 19, 2022
Narrogin Senior High School’s annual visual arts & photography student exhibition.
Artist Talk with Peter Denton
Oct 9, 2022
Join Peter Denton for an artist talk, to learn more about his artwork in the joint exhibition ‘We Three and Trees’ with fellow local artists Dianne Strahan and Joyce Contos
We Three and Trees
Oct 8, 2022 - Oct 29, 2022
We Three and Trees is an exhibition by Dianne Strahan, Joyce Contos and Peter Denton. Three local artists with a shared passion for trees!
Helen Gordon Retrospective
Aug 3, 2022 - Aug 21, 2022
Helen Gordon lived in Narrogin from 1980 to 1998. She was involved with many aspects of community life, children’s activities, Aboriginal people, recorder group, theatre, and dance. Helen also lived in the Kimberleys, Pilbara, and desert communities.
ECLECTION | Barbara Fletcher
Apr 29, 2022 - May 21, 2022
An exhibition of artworks by local artist Barbara Fletcher
Arts SPACE exhibition: Narrogin Art Group
Mar 29, 2022 - May 5, 2022
Pop in to check out a wonderfully diverse display of art and craft works by members of the Narrogin Art Group, ranging from pottery to paintings and patchwork.
We Must Get Together Some Time
Feb 12, 2022 - Mar 12, 2022
The eleven-member multi-disciplinary artist collective We Must Get Together Some Time will exhibit in a self-titled exhibition in Narrogin and lead related workshops and artist talks from 11 February to 12 March 2022. We Must Get Together Some Time (WMGTST) practices slow making, through active and passionate long-term creative engagements with non-urban places and non-human worlds.
Arts Space: Summer Showcase
Dec 7, 2021 - Jan 31, 2022
A display of works by Southern Wheatbelt visual artists.
Artist Talk – 3 Dec | Sense of Country: Ned Crossley
Dec 3, 2021
Local artist and enRICH Scholarship recipient Ned Crossley will be giving artist talks at NEXIS during his exhibition ‘Sense of Country’. Please pop into the gallery to meet Ned and chat about his art practice.
Artist Talk – 27 Nov | Sense of Country: Ned Crossley
Nov 27, 2021
Local artist and enRICH Scholarship recipient Ned Crossley will be giving artist talks at NEXIS during his exhibition ‘Sense of Country’.
Artist Talk – 20 Nov | Sense of Country: Ned Crossley
Nov 20, 2021
Local artist and enRICH Scholarship recipient Ned Crossley will be giving artist talks at NEXIS during his exhibition ‘Sense of Country’. Please pop into the gallery to meet Ned and chat about his art practice.
Sense of Country: Ned Crossley
Nov 19, 2021 - Dec 11, 2021
An exhibition of artworks by local artist Ned Crossley
Collateral
Oct 29, 2021 - Nov 13, 2021
Narrogin Senior High School’s annual visual arts & photography student exhibition.
Print of Place: Dianne Strahan
Sep 16, 2021 - Oct 16, 2021
An exhibition of artworks by local artist Dianne Strahan
Drawing Together: Renewal
Feb 26, 2021 - Mar 27, 2021
An exhibition of works by regional WA artists responding to the theme of ‘renewal’. This may relate to personal renewal, community renewal or renewal in the places and spaces observed around them.
2020 WRAP(t)
Dec 8, 2020 - Dec 20, 2020
Artworks produced in the last 12 months of Arts Narrogin’s Visual Art Classes including different painting mediums, mixed-media works, drawing and pastels will be on show at Arts Space, 80 Federal Street Narrogin, from 8 December to 20 December (open Tues – Thurs, 10am-4pm).
State of Mind
Oct 30, 2020 - Nov 15, 2020
Join us at NEXIS (Narrogin Exhibition Space) for Narrogin Senior High School’s annual Visual Art and Photography student exhibition.
Watercolours by Madge Chadwick
Aug 19, 2020 - Sep 30, 2020
An exhibition of watercolours by local artist Madge Chadwick.
Unsung Heroes
Jul 18, 2020 - Aug 15, 2020
The present pandemic crisis has shown, like nothing else, that our communities are held together by many remarkable people working behind the scenes, mostly unrecognised and unheralded. These portraits are some of our “Unsung Heroes” as nominated by members of our community.
A Dozen Plus Two
Mar 12, 2020 - Apr 2, 2020
A retrospective of artworks by Joyce Contos. 12 paintings and 2 paper quilts are samples of a variety of works and styles completed over 40 years.
Expressive colour and an imaginative, sometimes emotional, response to the environment burst out or loom suggestively from the canvases – at times surprising the painter with unexpected images.
Awakening
Feb 13, 2020 - Mar 6, 2020
An exhibition of works by Mike Beckwith. Please join us for the official opening at 6.30pm Thursday 13th February.
i-WITNESS
Nov 8, 2019 - Nov 24, 2019
Join us at NEXIS (Narrogin Exhibition Space) for Narrogin Senior High School’s annual Visual Art and Photography student exhibition.
Helen Elliot
Nov 1, 2019 - Dec 24, 2019
Helen Elliot Join us at ARtS SPACE this November to view a wonderful selection of artworks by local artist Helen Elliot. Open Tuesday – Friday from 10am – 4pm
Machines & Makers
Jun 21, 2019 - Jul 14, 2019
‘Machines & Makers: displaying a healthy obsession for sewing machines’ captures the extraordinary history of a disruptive technology from the 19th Century that changed the world. The exhibition takes us through the magic of creating stitch, texture and beauty, and reflects on the disposable clothing culture of the 21st Century.
Mungart Yok
May 25, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Noongar artist Nancy Henry showcases her contemporary abstract Aboriginal art.
Quietude
May 2, 2019 - May 26, 2019
Narrogin artist Casey Thornton presents her debut solo exhibition of figurative oil painting reflecting on the notion of quietude as the state of stillness and calm held within a person or place; a freedom from storm or disturbance.
Outside My Square
Apr 11, 2019 - May 10, 2019
View Peter’s creative works from the mind, visions and images laid down in acrylics and other mediums in realistic, impressionist and verging on abstract styles: stepping outside of his comfort zone and pushing the boundaries.
The Alternative Archive: Common Ground
Mar 22, 2019 - Apr 14, 2019
Local artists respond to existing and personal archives from the Narrogin region.
Continuity
Feb 8, 2019 - Mar 3, 2019
The connection between nature and history is the inspiration for the exhibition titled ‘Continuity’ which is on display at NEXIS from 9 February until 3 March, 2019.
Continuity includes drawings, ink paintings, photography, textiles and large scale frottages of tree branches inspired by the Murchison River area of Western Australia.