Eastside’s highly regarded annual exhibition for artists who are new, or nearly new, to exhibiting is back for 2024 with a huge variety of works from 18 local artists in Eastside and another 4 in the Mini Gallery. From oil, watercolour, gouache and acrylic paintings to delicate pencil works, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, photography and works using found materials, the exhibition showcases impressive local talent. Furthermore, there’s nothing over $500.

Artists: Rebecca Low, Sandy Austin-Fraser, Tracey Perrin, Eva Munro, Frances Caldwell, Emma G Potteree, Alice Tulkens, Nicola Habbitts, Zobe Originaru, SamD, Tiffany Parish, Christine Sewell, Val Parris, Diane El-Ammar, Danel van Vliet, Jimmy Philpott, Maree Turner, Jenny Dickinson.

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This exhibition showcases vibrantly colourful works by 15 local women artists. Many are inspired by brilliant women and traverse their joys and pain, quiet strengths and loud resistance. Invoking the domestic there are quilted, woven and embroidered works. There are adventures in earthly delights, playful takes on bright, shiny consumerism and dancing with fire. There are works that explore the connection between women and healing plants and others that examine the experience of synaesthesia and epilepsy. What shines through is a sense of diversity and solidarity.

Opening Event: 5.30-7pm Tuesday 27 February 2024