Current exhibitions

Ridge Street Window Gallery

Frances O'RourkeNature as a Vessel | 30 May - 26 June 2024

Nature as a Vessel is an exhibition of new works including paintings and drawings by Primrose Park Artists Studio resident Frances O'Rourke. The works in the exhibition explore the sensations that immersing and surrounding oneself in nature can elicit.

Frances O'Rourke is a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate of the National Art School and has practiced as a visual artist for more than 20 years. Frances has been in a multitude of solo and group exhibitions and was recently a finalist in the 2023 Hawkesbury Art Prize. She has participated in the North Sydney Primrose Park Artist’s Studio Program since 2020. The work exhibited in ‘Nature as a Vessel’ was created at her resident studio and drew particular inspiration from the waterfalls and rock faces seen throughout Primrose Park.

Image: Frances O'Rourke Passage of Time acrylic on canvas

View the Ridge Street Window Gallery from the street until 10pm daily.

Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth

Wong Ching-yee Transience - Cammeray | 19 April to 27 May 2024

earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, nylon lines

“Transience” is a meditation on the states of being: the transformational geomorphic processes from rocks to clay; the maker’s intervention giving forms from clay to vessels; the fleeting traces of heat during the firing captured in the vessels; the ephemerality of the interplay of light and shadows. The work speaks of connections to the land, the place and time. Of permanence and fleeting. Of holding on and letting go.

Wong Ching-yee (Jenny) is a Chinese-Australian working mainly in clay. She is currently based in Sydney, Australia, after a decade of international nomadism. Her arts practice is a conduit through which she learns about the world, connects with people, and better understands herself.

She is particularly drawn to transcultural and multi-layered narratives through explorations in materiality and tactile experiences. Besides exhibiting and giving workshops internationally, Jenny also works in museums using object-based learning pedagogy to encourage participants to connect cross-disciplinary areas and with multiple perspectives.

Jenny holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Australian National University (2018), Master of Laws in Chinese and Comparative Laws (2000) and Bachelor of Business Administration (1996) from universities in Hong Kong. Before her present arts practice, her past working life was in public policies and administration.

Visit the Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth in Ted Mack Civic Park day or night.