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The Chrissie Cotter Gallery is located in Pidcock Street, Camperdown (click here to view on Google Maps), next to the Camperdown Bowling Club. Since 1996, Marrickville Council has provided the gallery to individuals and organisations for exhibitions and cultural events.
When in use, gallery opening hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 11am-4pm. Entry is free and the gallery is wheelchair accessible.
For further information about the Chrissie Cotter Gallery, please contact the Cultural Development Officer on (02) 9335 2280 or email cdo@marrickville.nsw.gov.au.
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JULIA PANNELL
Portraits in Bloom: The Wildflowers of Muogamarra
2-13 May
The Muogamarra Reserve is among the most exclusive and prestigious areas of bushland in the wider Sydney area. This well protected sanctuary, which suffered a devastating bushfire in 2002, is known for its splendid views as well as its rich and verdant wildlife, including an extraordinary array of wildflowers. Julia Pannell's dreamlike and often surreal portraits of these plants reveal all of nature's perfections, imperfections and dazzling colours. Julia's remarkable close-ups, taken in Spring 2011, truly bring out the intricacies and secrets of the wildflowers of Muogamarra and act as a tribute to the resilience of the Australian wildlife.
- Opening: Wednesday 2 May, 6-8pm
JOHANNA TRAINOR and PAOLA TALBERT
Topography
16-27 May
A Head On Photo Festival exhibition, Topography is the work of two artists visually exploring the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area in diametrically opposite ways.
Through her dark urban landscapes of empty streets and vacant dishevelled building sites, Johanna Trainor's photographic series Australian Manufacturing, captures the surreal singularity and fading vigour of these once dynamic and working inner city industrial suburbs. Her imagery whispers the silent demise of manufacturing in Australia.
Paola Talbert's captivating translucent assemblages of glass fragments, scavenged at low tide, are arranged in painterly constructions defining a topographic edge. Juxtaposed with underwater scenes that reveal and conceal the body in a diaphanous plastic, her photographic series Gyre exposes the fragile ecology of our oceans and foreshores.
- Opening: Friday 18 May, 6-8pm
NIC BEZZINA
Newtown Shopkeepers
30 May - 3 June
A collection of portraits that capture a part of what makes Newtown so unique and diverse through the artist's project Newtown Shopkeepers.
Time is fleeting and the community is always changing. Newtown Shopkeepers will preserve the identities and stories of Sydney's most vibrant suburb for our community in the present moment and for generations to come.
This project is supported by Marrickville Council's Arts and Cultural Grants Program.
- Opening: Wednesday 30 May, 6-8pm
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Applications for the Gallery's annual program are open from August to October each year. Register your interest by emailing acdc@marrickville.nsw.gov.au and you will receive a notification when applications open.