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Locality: Murwillumbah, New South Wales

Phone: +61 455 320 920

Address: Cnr Proudfoots Lane & Brisbane St 2484 Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia

Website: http://m-arts.com.au

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25.01.2022 Meet one of our resident Artists Amelia Reid @ameliaalicereid who manages a fantastic space @thefield.mbah . . . The Field had a space between exhibitions so Amelia thought she’d do a little studio sale to move a few of her pieces, clearing some room to work on a new show for next year.... . Do visit Amelia and check out her great paintings! . . . #ameliareid #originalabstractpaintings #murwillumbahartist #martsprecinct #artistssupportingartists #artexhibition See more

23.01.2022 Satisha is our fabulous seamstress @theshireseamstress in M|Arts. Talented and stylish, Satisha creates beautiful garments & also upcycles and mends. . . . #fashiondesigninmartsprecinct #theshireseamstress #patternmaking #sewingupastorm #satishatheshireseamstress #theshireseamstress #fashion #upcyclingfashion #murwillumbahseamstress #dressmakermurwillumbah #designermurwillumbah

21.01.2022 Collaborations are literally next door in our precinct... . Kath Egan @katheganartist has written a story about her new work in progress and how she, together with @two_seas_creative chose the perfect frame... Thank you Kathy for sharing your ideas! ... . I’m currently making work for a show @keith_murwillumbah. Collaborating with the other studio artists is one of the many things I really love about having a studio here at M|Arts. Our conversations often find their way into the work we are making. A clear example of this is the thrill of walking into @twoseascreative. I presented this unfinished work with a frame I had found and inquired about turning it into a box to house these knives and spoons. After seeing the wall of beautiful frames to choose from it soon became clear to me that this work could be elevated to a whole new level. With the help of Corinne and Cameron’s expertise I managed to narrow it down. I have included my top 3 choices. ~Kath Egan . . . #kathegan #katheganart #collaborationsinmartsprecinct #loveworkingwithartists #beautifulhandscreating #artistsworkingwithartists #martsprecinct #ideas #murwillumbahpictureframing #artistatwork #uniquesculpture #upcomingexhibitionatkeith See more

21.01.2022 ‘ART KNOWS NO BORDERS’ Join us for the last in the series of ‘In Conversations’ at M|Arts Long Gallery this Saturday November 21, 11am AEDST with Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery @lorrainepilgrimgallery and Deb Mostert @debmostertartist. Deb Mostert’s 30-year practice ranges across drawing, painting and sculpture with an ongoing interest in still life, thanks in part to her Dutch heritage. In recent years, and through weekly visits to the Qld Museum, she has been looking at our rel...ationship with the natural world and seeing wonder, gratitude, and stewardship as the way forward rather than our tendencies towards objectification and exploitation. Mostert has found her interests in objects, collections, museums and natural history all colliding to bring about salient conversations we need to have as we seek for the flourishing of all. Please be sure to book as numbers are limited due to restrictions. Bookings: Lorraine Pilgrim - 0418 767 495 M|Arts Precinct - 0455 320 920 See you soon. Image: Deb Mostert ‘Single Use Soy Shark’ oil on canvas 72 x 138cm @lorrainepilgrimgallery @debmostertartist #artisttalk #inconversation #debmostert #art #savetheplanet #environmentalart #painting #oiloncanvas #arte #thetweed #murwillumbah #martsprecinct #artgallery

21.01.2022 Repost @tweedregionalgallery Gallery DownTown is pleased to present 'Suburban Entrapment' by artists Natasha Castelijn and Karen Boshoff. Natasha and Karen share their visual reflections on ordinary suburbia during the restrictions of COVID.... 'Bin Day' by Natasha explores the repetitive ritual of ‘putting the bin out’. She shines a light on this task bringing our attention to its undiscovered covered beauty. 'Red Tape Riots' by Karen is a 2yr photographic project capturing suburban elements in a graphic manner, photographing the overlooked directional oddities of the suburban Gold Coast. Exhibition is on display at Gallery DownTown, 4 December - 7 February 2021. @natasha.castelijn.art @redtaperiots

19.01.2022 Meet Lisa Tiffen and Tina Wilson, two of the resident artists showcased alongside Katherine Castle in ‘The Painted Word-Books and Art. The cute little boutique book store and gallery has a focus on picture books, original artworks, limited edition prints and giftware. Find the @m.arts.precinct near @bacaromurwillumbah. @thepaintedwordbooksandart @tinawilsonartist @lisa_tiffen ... @katherinecastleart #murwillumbah @murwillumbahchamber #murwillumbahtwilightshopping #murwillumbaharts #martsprecinct

19.01.2022 @katheganartist at work. Kath’s beautiful and intriguing exhibition is now open @keith_murwillumbah ! Kath’s artistic process is unique and captivating. Captured in the process of gold foiling her sculptures. Mesmerising! . . .... #kathegan #katheganartist #katheganart #uniquesculpture #goldleaf #sculpture #australianartist #martsprecinctartist #artistinmurwillumbah #handsatwork #delicate #boldart See more

18.01.2022 New exhibition ‘On Stillness’ is now showing in the Gallery DownTown upstairs within M|Arts Precinct. This exhibition features artworks from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection that embody the idea of stillness. Born out of the stillness imposed by the COVID-19 lockdown, the exhibition was first presented as an evolving online exhibition, initiated by the National Art School and Newcastle Art Gallery with contributions from the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art C...entre, New England Regional Art Museum, Orange Regional Gallery, Wollongong Regional Gallery and Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie. Each gallery selected works from their collection that explored stillness in different ways through time, across generations, through portraiture, still life, landscape and more. The result was an eclectic collection of works unified by a concept that was being experienced, in some way, across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online exhibition encouraged each contributing gallery to examine their collection from a new perspective. This real life version invites audiences to consider the concept of stillness both in relation to these artworks and to their own lived experiences. Open Mon - Fri, 10am - 3pm & Sat, 10am - 2pm. Pictured artwork - Image one, 1st from left: Hui Hai Xie, Johnathan Aatty, 1996, oil mixed synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 165 x 181.5cm. Image one, 3rd from left: Euan Macleod, Figure on yellow road, 1991, oil on canvas, 137 x 183cm. Image two, 3rd from left: Albert Moran, Bundjalung Stone Axe, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 170 x 140cm. @tweedregionalgallery #gallerydowntown @m.arts.precinct #martsprecinct #art #exhibition #onstillness

18.01.2022 While you wander the Precinct today you will see @artablestudios running a fabulous three day workshop with 2002 Archibald winner @cherryhood. We are super excited to have them creating in the space and can’t wait to see the students finished work. . Images by @bendedkneeface .

17.01.2022 The art seats and planters are finished and they look stunning. Artists Jason King, Amelia Batchelor MealieArt, Judy Oakenfull Mitchell Schultz , Cam Scale and Phillip Hay #philliphay have transformed these white @quatrodesign.com.au seats and planters into works of art as part of the Tweed Shire Council, Tweed Green Parklett, Public Art and Activation Project made possible with a grant from NSW Government’s Streets as Shard Spaces initiative and contribution from the cou...ncil. The seats and planters are being installed this week on the streets of Murwillumbah!! Congratulations!! #artseats #planters #murwillumbaharts #martsprecinct #publicart @thetweed_nsw

16.01.2022 What's happening in October in the Precinct - Read our latest newsletter packed with happenings at the Precinct. https://mailchi.mp//whats-happening-in-october-in-the-prec

15.01.2022 It’s the last week to see the current Gallery DownTown exhibitions. We are changing the whole space. Starting with a new collection show from the Tweed Regional Gallery’s collection, installing this Thursday! @tweedregionalgallery Next Tuesday is your final chance to see the exquisite CAEP exhibitions ‘There is a language little known’ by Rose Watson and Caroline Wisler and ‘Portals of the Inanimate’ by Chelle Wallace. @chelleandthefig ... @watson_wisler @rose_watson_artist @carolinewisler And finally this Saturday will be your last chance to see the group show curated by the fabulous Lorraine Pilgrim, ‘Art Knows No Borders’ @lorrainepilgrimgallery Come and visit your local gallery today. #gallerydowntown #martsprecinct #martsprecinctgallery #murwillumbaharts #thetweed #tweedshirecouncil

15.01.2022 M|Arts Newsletter out now - November @ M|Arts - https://mailchi.mp/a251e313ffb9/november-marts

15.01.2022 Read our latest newsletter - MAY @ M|Arts - https://mailchi.mp/154554fb5df9/april_at_m-arts

14.01.2022 ‘ART KNOWS NO BORDERS’ Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery @lorrainepilgrimgallery presents the November series of ‘In Conversation with the Artist’ at the M|Arts Precinct Long Gallery. You are invited to join us for this inspiring conversation, tomorrow, Friday November 6 at 11am (AEDST) with Donna Malone. ... For the last 25 years Donna Malone @_donnamalone has concentrated on Drawing as her major activity. Her Drawings are alive, impulsive, and instinctual. She primarily draws from life both in Nature and life drawing. She works in close collaboration with her subject and materials. Since a Venice residency in 2015 she has added the physical manipulating and layering of drawn and marked papers (found and ephemeral) as another of her primary concerns. She will ‘do’, ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ these collages until she finds the ‘sweet spot’, sometimes this mission can take many months, even years to resolve. I believe the qualities of Time, Attention and Trust are the true Essence of my Drawing and Collage practise - Donna Malone. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. Please be sure to book as numbers are limited due to covid restrictions. Contact: Lorraine Pilgrim - 0418 767 495 M|Arts Precinct - 0455 320 920 Image credit: Donna Malone, Florence’s Trike, hand printed woodcut print on washi paper, 40 x 30cm.

13.01.2022 Thank you to the @travellerau for our recent inclusion in their article - The Tweed, NSW, travel guide and things to do: Nine must-do-highlights, written by @craigtansleytravels. We are in great company with a few of our local favourites: @potager_at_carool @_halcyonhouse @cubbybakehouse @redearthbrewery @nationalparksaustralia ... @tumbypub @farm.and.co Thanks @thetweed_nsw #lovethetweed #murwillumbah #murwillumbaharts

12.01.2022 It’s been an eventful few days with Cam Scale’s new street art painting outside M|Arts Precinct. The painting is a dramatic statement about the plight of whistle blowers around the world. We received a lot of great feedback, but also concerns about one interpretation given to the painting which wasn’t intended and which we felt strongly wasn’t acceptable. An immediate decision was made with the artist to paint over one part of the artwork, which will now evolve into something else. Watch this space.

12.01.2022 Congratulations to North Coast Ceramic group @northcoastmudtrail on the opening of their wonderful exhibition ‘Clay: Thick and Thin’. Showing in the M|Arts Long Gallery until January 30, 2021. Gallery opening hours are Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, and Sat 10am-2pm.

12.01.2022 One of the biggest smiles to greet you as you dine @bacaromurwillumbah Luca and his beautiful wife Giorgia will charm you with their Venetian delights! This is as close to Italy as you’ll get right now so do visit the best Italian restaurant in the world right here @m.arts.precinct and @tweedregionalgallery . . . #bacaromurwillumbah #bacaro #tweedregionalgallery #italianrestaurantinmurwillumbah #venetiancharm #martsprecinct #servicewithasmile #delicioso #ristoranteitaliano

11.01.2022 Thank you to those who came along to yesterday’s ‘In Conversation’ by @lorrainepilgrimgallery. What a delightful creative journey down memory lane with gallerist Lorraine Pilgrim, and artist Donna Malone @_donnamalone. Thank you Donna for filling the room with excitement, and sharing with us a detailed and inspirational insight into your drawing, print making and artistic process. . @_donnamalone @lorrainepilgrimgallery... . . #artisttalk #donnamalone #lorrainepilgrimgallery #art #exhibition #arte #inspiration See more

10.01.2022 This time last week was a first for M|Arts with an elopement in the Precinct. Congratulations to the happy couple @lukay_vivasco & @cassreardon, what a magic afternoon. . . Celebrant & Coordinator: @hellojoshwithers @elopementcollective... Photographer: @tessashannonphoto Film: @bulb.creative Blooms & styling: @theperfectpartyco See more

10.01.2022 This beautiful arrangement deserved to be in the limelight! Georgie’s creations will take your breath away! @flowerjunkiesinc fills M|Arts with her Spring wonderland of splendid blooms! . . . #flowerista #floralmagnificence #georgietheflowerista #floristinmurwillumbah #martsprecinct #divineflowers #murwillumbahflorist

10.01.2022 Looking forward to Murwillumbah Arts Trail at the end of the month. The program looks amazing!!!

10.01.2022 A photo opportunity arose when the most beautiful blooms from Georgie the Flowerista @flowerjunkiesinc blended perfectly with Corinne’s skirt! Thank you Jaiya @made_by_day for taking such a pretty and cheerful pic! How lucky we are to have such an amazing florist in our precinct!! . . . #flowerista #murwillumbahflorist #floralsonflorals #femininestyle #floweristaextraordinaire #floraldesign #bouquetofblooms #pink #dahlias

09.01.2022 #Repost @thefield.mbah with @make_repost Sneak peek of elements of Fire & Ice exhibition by Heather Matthew @heathermatthewcom, now open. Heather writes in her statement:... "Fire and Ice are two words often used to describe Iceland as a place of extreme contrasts, active volcanos and ice coated glaciers. In October 2019 I undertook a one month artist residency in Iceland to create art about the poetics of water as sea, river, ice and rain. One week before I arrived in the country, a funeral was held for the OK glacier which had lost its ‘glacier’ status due to the effects of climate change. I saw first hand the effects of glacial melt in the south of Iceland and began making work about the lava fields, icebergs ‘calving’ from glaciers and the rising sea. I embedded these elements into handmade paper through immersion, mark-making and simple printmaking techniques. I experimented with paper pulp made from Icelandic seaweed mixed with reactivated dried paper pulp I had brought with me. This pulp was made from cotton sheets donated to families affected by the 2019 floods in Townsville and beach grass washed up in Pottsville from the extreme high seas and beach erosion. I started making paper at the Nes residency in Skagaströnd as a placemaking activity, activating the pulp with melted snow, adding seaweed and and found fishing nets and rope offcuts. I created glacial shapes resembling tectonic plates adrift in the sea, broken apart but still connected by water. I also took field recordings and videos of the surrounding environment and crushed paper into flowers, dying them with watery ink. On my return to Australia, the east coast of New South Wales and Queensland was ablaze with bushfires from the drought. Soot and burnt gum leaves washed up on the beach so I collected them and started embedding them into paper pulp I had made from more of my flood damaged papers from 2017. These two extremes Fire and Ice are my new body of work about climate change. This work integrates my experiences of flood, glacial melt and bushfires as paper offerings to contribute to the discussions about climate change which must take place." Fire & Ice 30 Sept - 13 Oct at

08.01.2022 Friday studio visit with @katheganartist is always fascinating. Check out our story to see more of Kath in action creating. . Kath wrote about her day . ~There is something very appealing about making multiples and replicating objects, I’m sure there is a much quicker way of achieving a copy of this beautiful coffee pot but I chose to do it this way. It took me three times longer than I expected but the enjoyment of sculpting in the negative and carving the clay was well wo...rth it! A shout out to @Katshapirowood @Byronschoolofart for teaching me the intricacies of how to successfully work with plaster and clay. And @corinnelewis_art for the photos and footage, she made my Friday so much more fun! . . . #kathegan #katheganartist #sculpture #uniquesculpture #artistatwork #artiststudio #martsprecinct #impressionsinclay See more

07.01.2022 Congratulations to Vi and Mati on the opening of their gorgeous boutique @knoxandco.murwillumbah. We are super excited you are part of the @m.arts.precinct community!

07.01.2022 REPOST @tweedregionalgallery Yesterday Gallery DownTown hosted a relaxed afternoon tea session at @bacaromurwillumbah with artist @chelleandthefig . Chelle's exhibition 'Portals of the Inanimate' is now open at #GalleryDownTown within @m.arts.precinct. Congratulations Chelle on an absolutely beautiful and engaging exhibition. Gallery opening hours are: Mon - Fri - 10am - 3pm and Sat 10am - 2pm.

06.01.2022 We are delighted to present ‘Clay: Thick and Thin’ by North Coast Ceramic group. Artists were invited to use ‘Thick and Thin’ as a creative proposition that could be responded to literally or metaphorically. Showing in M|Arts Long Gallery from this Friday 4 December - Saturday 30 January 2021. ... Image: Gudrun Klix, Treaturous Journey, patina bronze coated ceramic, 85 x 18 x 14cm. @klix.gudrun @northcoastmudtrail #ceramics #exhibition #northcoastceramics #potters #clay #vessel #resilience #artexhibition

01.01.2022 @flowerjunkiesinc creating magnificence again in our precinct! Showing off the airstream as a groovy backdrop. . . . #flowerista #murwillumbahflowers #airstream #martsprecinct #floralart

01.01.2022 #Repost @rose_watson_artist with @get_repost I hope you are enjoying the secret language of flowers stories I'll be at the gallery today from 11am to 12pm, come along and ask me about your favourite flower ... 'There is a language, little known' is open from 10am to 2pm every Saturday Exhibition at the @tweedregionalgallery Downtown @m.arts.precinct. Open Monday to Saturday till 28th November. Artist’s @watson_wisler @rose_watson_artist @carolinewisler. ... #tweedregionalgallery #gallerydowntown #martsprecinct #murwillumbah #secret #watsonwisler #cyanotype #alternativephotography #botanicalart #flora #naturesgarden #photography #botanical #northernriversartist #natureprint #inspiredbynature #sunprint #rosewatson #carolinewisler #thereisalanguagelittleknown

01.01.2022 See you on Friday 18 December, when the local Murwillumbah businesses open all at once for a Twighlight shopping night. We will be open alongside many great businesses in our little town! See you then!