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Perspectives

5 ironing boards, 2 in the front row and 3 in the back row, painted in bright pink. White collared shirts are suspended above each ironing board. Projected onto the white dress shirts is the silhouette of a 1950s quintessential housewife ironing.

16 December, 2022

On ‘Pressing Topics’

A multi-media installation of projection, sculpture, digital collage, video and sound to critically examine the unseen labour of women. Written by Melania Jack of The Ironing Maidens The Ironing Maidens […]

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Katrina Iosia portrait in Cairns Dec 2022. Woman with red lipstick wears a teal coloured top with hoop earrings and palmtrees in background

8 December, 2022

NorthSite appoints Katrina Iosia as Programs Coordinator

NorthSite Contemporary Arts is thrilled to announce the appointment of Katrina Iosia in the position of Programs Coordinator. Katrina joins the team from New Zealand, where she was working mostly […]

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Hamish Sawyer standing at a 45 degree angle with arms crossed. He is wearing a blue cardigan with a white collared shirt underneath.

25 November, 2022

Welcoming Hamish Sawyer

On behalf of the NorthSite Board and Artistic Director/CEO Ashleigh Campbell we are pleased to announce that Hamish Sawyer is joining the NorthSite team as Acting Director in November 2022. […]

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Four people around a white rectangle table. The person on the left is standing wearing a navy blue shirt with the text Wik & Kugu Arts Centre, beside him stands a woman wearing a white cardigan, beside her is a man sitting on an office chair with a black shirt and cap and beside him is a man wearing a grey shirt with the text Spinners, a black cap and glasses. All people are smiling and looking at the camera. There is a table infront of them with a detailed black and white print.

21 October, 2022

New creative space

You may have heard the buzz… NorthSite and our friends at InkMasters are excited to have been through a process of transition recently, with the handing over of the baton! […]

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copper wire shaped onto an organic form

7 October, 2022

Upcoming exhibition insights

Andrea Huelin takes us inside the studios of the collective group Sixfold Project to delve into their upcoming exhibition, Meanwhile, showing at NorthSite from 18 November 2022 to 28 January […]

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Bulmba-ja LED Facade at night featuring the work of Solomon Booth

27 September, 2022

Bulmba-ja Facade showcases artworks from Moa Arts

The Bulmba-ja LED facade is featuring artworks by four artists from Moa Arts, Ngalmun Lagau Minaral: David Bosun, Fiona Elisala-Mosby, Paula Savage and Solomon Booth. Moa Arts is located in […]

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30 September, 2022

Careers: Acting Director

DOWNLOAD POSITION DESCRIPTION   Position title: Acting Director Category of employment: 1 year contract, full-time position Reports to: NorthSite Board Chair and Board Closing date: 19 October 2022   NORTHSITE […]

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31 August, 2022

Illuminate FNQ Indigenous Science Festival

NorthSite recently partnered to support an Art Science Talk event for the inaugural illuminate FNQ Indigenous Science Festival. The exhibition, Yuk Wuy Min Nguntamp, by Keith Wikmunea and Heather Koowootha […]

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26 August, 2022

SUPERCUT x Robert Tommy Pau

In July 2022, Robert Tommy Pau’s artwork, titled ‘Time‘, was presented on a billboard along the Bruce Highway as part of NorthSite’s partnership with Outer Space for the SUPERCUT program. […]

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Projection art in the NorthSite Gallery by Yandell Walton. A wave is on the left wall and on the back wall is a juice bottle floating in the water. A countdown time is in the midde illuminating the walls in red.

8 August, 2022

2023 — 2024 Program Call Out

NorthSite is a leading contemporary art gallery working with over 300 artists each year to deliver exhibitions and programs to the Cairns region and beyond. In 2021 NorthSite delivered over […]

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