Join us for the opening 12.30 on July 19

Artist statements 

Jennifer Catt

This exhibition invites you to slow down, to take your time in front of each art work. Look closer. At everything in it. What do you see? What do you remember? What do you imagine? What the art work means is what it means for you.

Greg Salter

Greg Salter grew up in Largs in the Hunter Valley and now lives in Telarah. Born in 1974, he has been fascinated by animals for as long as he can remember. Growing up, he was constantly drawing them, and if there was an animal documentary on TV, he would be watching it.

It was while studying at TAFE in Newcastle that Greg was introduced to sculpture. Having always worked with tools, the hands-on nature of sculpture came far more naturally to him than the books he struggled with in high school. Creating animals from whatever materials he can get his hands on became both a passion and a process of discovery.

When I started sculpting animals, I loved studying their shape and form. I’ll begin with an idea and a few reference images, but it’s really the existing shapes in the materials that guide me. I manipulate and assemble them until the sculpture seems to come to life. Often it feels like the piece forms in front of me as I work — sometimes even surprising me as I build.

Jennifer Catt

Lives and works in Old Bar, New South Wales, Australia.

Selected Exhibitions

2019 A Paradise of Waters – Manning Regional Art Gallery – Solo Show

2018 Buzz Art: For the love of bees – A Little to the Left Gallery and Studio, Taree – Two-person show

2017 Melting Into The Sun – Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery - Solo Show

2017 Salon des Refuses Still Life Award – Sawtell Art Gallery

2017 “Dam near Cundletown” (Oil on linen, 2016) selected as cover artwork for Caring for Country...Poetic Responses, edited by Margaret Bradstock

2015 Finalist – Naked and Nude, Manning Art Prize, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree

2014 Dead Beautiful, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree - Solo Show

2014 Finalist - Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2014 EMSLA (Eutick Memorial Still Life Award ) Touring exhibition of selected works, Parliament House, Sydney

2013 Finalist - EMSLA Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour

2013 Finalist - Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Galley, Sydney

2012 Wildcard Exhibition, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree - Group Show

2012 Finalist - EMSLA Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour

2011 Finalist - EMSLA Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour

2009 Finalist - EMSLA Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour

2009 Finalist - Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Museum of South Australia

1999 Contours and Detours – Glebe Uniting Church Studio, Sydney - Group Show

1999 Yard, Corelli’s Café Newtown – Solo Show

1998 Recent Works Cornucopia Gallery, Newtown, Sydney

1995 Finalist - Charles Sturt University Student Art Prize Exhibition

1994 Finalist - Charles Sturt University Student Art Prize Exhibition

1993 Finalist - Bathurst Regional Gallery Art Purchase Prize Exhibition