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Look — Past Exhibitions

NorthSite is the home of contemporary artistic practice in Far North Queensland.

Look back for past exhibitions at KickArts Contemporary Arts.

On Now Look Forward Look Back

2023

Pop art style painting of a man holding a glass and smiling. In the background are references to Far North Queensland.

Jamie Cole

Welcome to Paradise

02 October — 11 November 2023

Two people standing in a room looking at a projection of scuba divers. In the still image of the film, there are several letters 'n, g, f, p, r' that the divers are moving around the ocean floor.

Group Exhibition

Off site: Planetary Gestures

26 September — 03 November 2023

A grey background with shapes in white and dark greens/grey outlined in black.

Claudine Marzik

Undara Paintings

01 September — 28 October 2023

A collage of the Australian bush (paperbark trees), plants and furniture (torn couch, table).

Charlotte Haywood

Future Nostalgia

01 September — 14 October 2023

A large artwork on a white wall. The artwork is a detailed cyanotype on paper. A woman is blurred in the foreground walking towards the artwork and looking at it.

Claire Grant

Milk Run

28 August — 07 October 2023

Ten watercolour artworks on paper hanging on a white gallery wall.

Heather Koowootha

The Bush people’s walking path ways of Country site’s and story place

13 July — 16 July 2023

A man standing in a landscape of shrubs with larger trees visible in the background. The man is wearing back pants and has a white silhouette of two boomerangs superimposed over his face.

Keemon Williams

KAIKAI

01 July — 26 August 2023

An illustrated scene of a woman stilling in a tree looking up at gulls flying in the sky.

Group Exhibition

SOVEREIGNTY

26 June — 21 August 2023

Group Exhibition

Moa Arts — Malu Bardthar Dapar | Sea Land Sky

24 June — 19 August 2023

Kim Ah Sam

Woven Identity “it’s not only me”

24 June — 12 August 2023

abstract digital artwork by Geoffrey Schmidt

Geoffrey Schmidt

MANdala

12 May — 24 June 2023

Acrylic paint on canvas

Jack Wilkie-Jans

Waanji Away

08 May — 17 June 2023

Thin threads strung in the corner of a gallery creating orange and yellow lines.

Sandra Selig

Exploring Giant Molecules

28 April — 17 June 2023

Acrylic, sand, spray paint, oil pastel on calico

John Pagnozzi

scattered massive

24 April — 24 June 2023

Two clear perspex panels with blue paint hang from the ceiling.

Emma Gardner

Ethereal Selves

25 March — 06 May 2023

Watercolour painting of a melaleuca tree with green leaves and orange flowers. The branch and leave drape down in the center of the paper with a white background.

Julie McEnerny

Melaleucas and Mangroves

20 March — 06 May 2023

village house surrounded by palm tree. Two people are looking out a window.

Daniela Vavrova

I is Another

13 March — 22 April 2023

Raqs Media Collective, Deep Breath (2019) Film. Courtesy the artist and Frith St Gallery London, Project 88 Mumbai and Experimenter Kolkata.

Group Exhibition

Planetary Gestures

04 February — 15 April 2023

Installation view of the exhibition e VULVA lution by India Collins. Gallery walls are painted pink and woven artworks are lit with LED lights behind.

INDIA COLLINS

e VULVA lution

03 February — 18 March 2023

Bubble O'Bill ice cream wrapper embroidery on cotton and framed in a timber box frame

Regi Cherini

Sweet Nostalgia

23 January — 11 March 2023

painting of yellow, red and white abstract shapes on a black background

Group Exhibition

NorthSite Selects

23 January — 18 March 2023

Digital LED screen covering the facade at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre. The artwork is of 3 dugongs in white with black outlines and blue water.

Group Exhibition

Gab Titui | Bulmba-ja Facade

16 December — 31 January 2023

A silhouette of an iron and ironing board is in the foreground. A projection lighting up the background sheet with a vibrant pink backdrop shows the shadow of a woman ironing whilst flames and smoke are projected from the real iron in the foreground.

The Ironing Maidens: Melania Jack & Patty Preece

Pressing Topics

12 December — 14 January 2023

Sixfold Project

Meanwhile

18 November — 28 January 2023

Group Exhibition

NorthSite Art Market | Christmas Cubes

18 November — 28 January 2023

2022

Realistic painting of two hands with the right hand over the top of the left. They wear three rights on the top hand and two rings on the bottom. There are 4 bees on the top hand and two bees on their arm. Three bee are flying the the black background.

Group Exhibition

Oceans Five

04 November — 10 December 2022

Bulmba-ja LED Facade at night featuring the work of Fiona Elisala-Mosby

Group Exhibition

MOA Arts | Bulmba-ja Facade

27 September — 14 November 2022

Rhonda Duncan

Vision of Dreams

16 September — 29 October 2022

Elizabeth Hunter

il cranio carta

09 September — 05 November 2022

Group Exhibition

APT10 Kids On Tour

03 September — 29 October 2022

Grace Lillian Lee and Dr Ken Thaiday Snr

Grace Lillian Lee and Dr. Ken Thaiday Snr

Suggoo Pennise

05 July — 10 July 2022

Jaymen Leigh Drahm

EVENT: 'One Man's Trash' an ephemeral performance

05 July — 05 July 2022

Black and white image of 9 artists from IndigeDesignLabs

TARQUIN SINGLETON | JAMAYLYA BALLANGARRY-KEARINS | JANICE GHEE | SHEREE JACOBS | SEROMA GESA | JAMAHL YAMI | KAYDEN BOSUN | NATHANIAL MURRAY | RAYMOND CLARK

CONFLUENCE: Design, Technology and Culture

04 July — 15 July 2022

Anne Nunn | Faron Nunn | Alexander Baird Murphy | Betty Sykes | Josie Olbar | Sonya Creek | Lila Creek | Junibel Doughboy

Nyungu Bubu: Stories from our Country

29 June — 10 September 2022

Francoise Lane

Tropical Punk Backpacks

24 June — 30 August 2022

Amy Loogatha | Elsie Gabori | Dolly Loogatha | Ethel Thomas | Dorothy Gabori | Agnes Kohler | Joelene Roughsey | Amanda Gabori | Betty Williams | Roxanne Thomas | Renee Wilson | John Williams

Mornington Island Art: Legacies Living On

24 June — 30 October 2022

Teho Ropeyarn

TRAVERSING THREE REALMS: The physical, natural and spiritual

24 June — 03 September 2022

Dylan MOONEY | Dylan SARRA | Darren BLACKMAN | Kyra MANCKTELOW | Dion BEASLEY | Bernard SINGLETON Jr.

REPATRIATE

24 June — 03 September 2022

Heather Koowoortha painting

Keith Wikmunea and Heather Koowootha

Yuk Wuy Min Ngantamp

24 June — 30 August 2022

Arone Meeks

Mono Figures | Bulmba-ja Facade

23 May — 26 September 2022

Elverina Johnson and Francoise Lane, Gathering (detail)

Elverina Johnson & Francoise Lane

Gathering

13 May — 18 June 2022

Jean Walmbeng, Jean’s Mother’s Country (Series 6/7)

Group Exhibition

WOW Cairns Women's Show

09 May — 25 June 2022

Material Sound exhibition at NorthSite

Vicky Browne | Pia van Gelder | Caitlin Franzmann | Peter Blamey | Vincent & Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor | Ross Manning

Material Sound

29 April — 18 June 2022

Kellie O'Dempsey

Wish You Were Here

23 April — 11 June 2022

Group Exhibition

Vie Du Pacifique iii

15 March — 28 April 2022

Nerelle Nicole's photograph ‘Burie’ II

Nerelle Nicol

See What I See

08 March — 30 April 2022

Matthew Stanton

Deep North

18 February — 14 April 2022

Back and white photo of a woman standing side on looking back at the camera

Aishah Kenton | Ovidiu Gordan | Sancintya Mohini Simpson | Spiro Miralis | Soham Gupta | Zhu Mo

Never So Visible

12 February — 14 April 2022

International collaborative printmaking exhibition

Thinking of Place iii

04 February — 12 March 2022

Group Exhibition

NorthSite Art Market | Print Edition

17 December — 12 February 2022

Hoda Afshar Just Not Australian

Group Exhibition

Just Not Australian

05 November — 05 February 2022

Kassandra Savage Into the Deep

Bianca Foster | Brooke Foster | Kassandra Savage | Kay Williams | Sheryl Burchill | Ruth Saveka | Heather Tait

Upside-Up

02 November — 22 January 2022

Wendy Mocke_Nana

Wendy Mocke

The 'm e r i' project

01 January — 12 November 2021

Group Exhibition

Mornington Island | Bulmba-ja Facade

30 August — 23 May 2022

2021

Lenore Howard

Beyond the Sight of Land

11 September — 30 October 2021

Group Exhibition

long water: fibre stories

03 September — 23 October 2021

Robert Tommy Pau

Torres Strait Enlightenment: 150th Anniversary of Coming of the Light

01 July — 28 August 2021

Djabugay Art Centre

Bulurru Dagil-ndu “The people are strong, the spirit is strong, the creator is strong”

26 June — 04 September 2021

Donna Davis

When a Tree Falls

07 May — 19 June 2021

The World Around Us

Works from the NorthSite Collection

17 April — 29 April 2021

Kate Robertson

Kuna Siuwai Pokong (Medicinal plants from Siwai)

10 April — 26 June 2021

JILL CHISM (CURATOR), ROSEY CUMMINGS, ROSS CUMMINGS, SUSAN DOHERTY, BARBARA DOVER, TIM ELLIS, ASHLEY HOLMES, MOLLIE BOSWORTH, KLARA ROYSTER, SUZANNAH BABICCI, ANDREA COLLISSON, LEANNE EMMIT, VICTORIA PARK, LYNETTE GRIFFITHS AND MARION GAEMERS, ROBYN GLADE-WRIGHT AND TANYA CHAPMAN

Call of the Running Tide

01 January — 04 January 2021

Yandell Walton

Shifting Surrounds

13 February — 10 April 2021

NorthSite

Play Space

23 January — 13 February 2021

Bulmba-ja Arts Centre Facade

IndigeDesign Labs

21 December — 29 March 2021

Patricia Piccinini

Curious Affection On Tour

05 December — 30 January 2021

2020

Lenore Howard, Jenny Valmadre, Rose Rigley, Geoff Dixon, Andrea Huelin, Arone Meeks, Julie Poulsen, Ed Koumans, Robyn Baker, Napolean Oui, Roland Nancarrow, Linda Gordon, Elaine Murray, Akiko Hanazaki, Kim Nolan, Kerrie Miller, Philomena Yeatman, Wayne Connolly, Gabrielle Cooney, Anne Jillett, Cassowary Kilns and Shireen Talibudeen.

NorthSite Art Market - Ceramic Edition

11 December — 24 December 2020

Rose Rigley

Object

02 October — 05 December 2020

Shannon Brett (exhibition curator) + Glennys Briggs, Megan Cope, Nici Cumpston, Karla Dickens, Julie Gough, Lola Greeno, Leah King-Smith, Jenna Lee, Carol McGregor, Mandy Quadrio and Judy Watson

Rite of Passage

24 September — 21 November 2020

Curated by Bereline Loogatha (Mornington Island Art), Junibel Doughboy (Bana Yirriji Art Centre), Florence Gutchen (Erub Arts), Nephi Denham (Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre)

IACA Member Art Centres Group Exhibition

18 September — 19 December 2020

International collaborative printmaking exhibition

Thinking of Place ii

08 September — 12 December 2020

artwork made from squid hooks

Barbara Dover & Robyn Glade-Wright

Disquiet: Ecological Anxieties & Transformations

06 August — 26 September 2020

papua new guinean woman for meri project wendy mocke

Wendy Mocke

m e r i: kirapim skin blo yu (virtual series)

08 May — 09 February 2020

Billy Missi, Sapur Au Kubi, printmaking

Billy Missi

Billy Missi'n Wakain Thamai

13 July — 16 September 2020

Jane Heraghty

Outside and Inside the Universe: Still Lifes

06 July — 01 August 2020

Rhonda Woolla

Kempan Menth (beautiful baskets) & Punth-Paam (Wik feather flowers)

06 July — 06 September 2020

Peter B Morrison

Ilan Lines

07 June — 09 December 2020

NOVEL ANTHROPOCENE-19

Artists of the North

06 January — 07 January 2020

Olivia-Azzopardi-Ceramic-6-NorthSite-Contemporary-Arts

Olivia Azzopardi

Function Paralysis

02 March — 18 April 2020

Montages, Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg

Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg

Montages: The Full Cut 1999-2015

02 March — 11 May 2020

Tim Ellis

Tim Ellis

Folk Stories

02 March — 18 April 2020

Darren_Blackman_portrait

Darren Blackman

Expose the Gap

02 March — 18 April 2020

Bernard Lee Singleton

Dadikal (fishbone design) | Facade Commission

24 January — 30 March 2020

Carl Fourmile_Bulmba-ja

Marun Carl Fourmile

Yidinji Creation | Facade Commission

24 January — 30 March 2020

2017

Teho Ropeyarn

Teho Ropeyarn

Ulada Ikya Ami (Listening to Beforetime Stories)

24 June — 19 August 2017