WOW Cairns 2022 was a huge success providing a strong local program that heard the voices of many women through entertaining and conversation-provoking events. In the lead up to WOW Cairns, held at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre from Friday 13 to Saturday 14 May 2022, NorthSite assisted in the development of 2 spectacular exhibitions which will be running until June 2022.

The WOW Cairns Women’s Show is a celebration of women painters from across Far North Queensland curated especially for WOW Australia by NorthSite. The exhibition features the work of Janet Koongoteema, Jean Walmbeng, Julie Poulsen, Margaret Upton, Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie, Hannah Murray, Anne Nunn, Betty Sykes, Lenore Howard, Agnes Wotton, Claudine Marzik, Netta Loogatha, Nickeema Williams, Kim Marsden, Bernice Burke, Hannah Parker, Philomena Yeatman, Paula Savage, Laurel McKenzie, Fiona Elisala-Mosby, Matilda Aidan, India Collins, Tia Adoberg, Matilda Nona, Caroline Mudge, Tamika Grant-Iramu, DOULA, Margaret Mara, Rhonda Woolla, Melissa Waters, Delissa Walker and Mersene Loban. This exhibition is showing until 25 June 2022.

Gathering is a culture-based community collaboration, led by leading local artists Elverina Johnson of Paperbark Arts and Francoise Lane of Indij Design. During WOW Cairns the artwork was built upon with themes inspired by the waterways weaving through Country; nurturing and sustaining life. The final sculptural form which looks like a paperbark bulmba is currently on display within NorthSite at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre.

WOW Cairns Women’s Show

Gathering

Gathering event

Look Back Lab — 30 Years of Contemporary Art

2022 ​will mark 3 decades of innovative, independent and contemporary practice through KickArts in Cairns.

NorthSite is going back through the archives and working with key writers and artists to collate a major publication and exhibition series to mark the occasion.

We are attempting to contact all 5000+ people who’ve shaped the organisation and been part of this history. That’s right every single artist, board member, staff, volunteer and supporter…

You can update your contact details using the online form below and signup to our mailing list here.

If you have stories and social images that you’d like to contribute, please also get in touch: connect@northsite.org.au

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YOU’RE INVITED! NORTHSITE ARTISTS’ PARTY – OPENING!

Following 18 months of renovation and transformation, we’re home! The Board of Directors, invite you and your friends to join the celebrations. New spaces and fresh faces with an everlasting commitment to creativity and community. The NorthSite Artists’ Party brings the arts community together under this one roof again. In recent years, the Centre of Contemporary Arts has been transformed by the State Government into Bulmba-ja – an inclusive new incubator of contemporary art, theatre, dance and performance. Hear from the NorthSite Director Ashleigh Campbell and meet the current artists as we come together to celebrate the next wave of contemporary artistic practice in the North. Come and enjoy an evening of art and festivities. Season 1 EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Tim Ellis | Tracey Moffatt | Gary Hillberg | Olivia Azzopardi | Darren Blackman When: Saturday 28 March 2020 Doors 6pm. Cash Bar. Dress: Shiny! Free Event – bookings through Eventbrite. Secure your ticket now!