Rochelle Summerfield: A Wayfarer on the Nepean
Rochelle Summerfield – A Wayfarer on the Nepean features drawing and animation works resulting from the artist’s recent Summer Studio Residency at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest.
View ArticleAutumn Exhibition Suite 2017
Visions of Utopia, Hill End: Seven Decades and Rochelle Summerfield: A Wayfarer on the Nepean. These three exhibitions give regional audiences an opportunity to view artworks from some of Australia’s...
View ArticleThe Shed Project – An Unexpected Discovery
Modernist artist Margo Lewers stored materials for possible use in future artworks within her beloved garden. The storage space, primarily untouched for nearly four decades, marks the working life of...
View ArticleFive Feisty & Fabulous: Digital Film Project
The Five Feisty and Fabulous Film Project offers filmmakers who identify as living with disability the opportunity to undertake a digital film workshop program. This funded project will provide five...
View ArticleAMERICAN VISIONARY: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times
The most exhaustively researched group of Kennedy photos ever assembled, this exhibition brings together 77 iconic photographs to celebrate the life, political career, and extraordinary vision of one...
View ArticleRICHARD GOODWIN – NAVIGATOR
Extraordinary sculptures, models, maquettes and drawings from Richard Goodwin. Visions of the future and the past, the porous and parasitic, habitable and inhabitable space, machines and the human form.
View ArticleWinter Exhibition Suite
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest | Winter Exhibition Suite Richard Goodwin – Navigator American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times 27 May – 20 August 2017 ‘Art is the great...
View ArticleForum: The Legacy of JFK
The American Political Landscape and Foreign Policy. This forum will feature talks from Professor of History, James Curran, Research Associate, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney and Stephen...
View ArticleCafe at Lewers – Expressions of Interest
Expressions of Interest – Café at Lewers Opens 26 May | Closes 18 June Penrith Performing & Visual Arts is seeking Expressions of Interest from an experienced café operator for Café at Lewers at...
View ArticleEmu Island – Modernism in Place
The Gallery site was an ‘island of modernism’ in the Australian suburbs. The Lewers’ home was founded on the principles of modernism - they lived, worked and entertained like-minded contemporaries set...
View ArticleSpring Exhibition Suite
Celebrating 75 years of Modernist art and living at its Emu Plains site, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest presents a suite of exhibitions and associated programs titled Emu Island –...
View ArticleYoung Moderns
Young Moderns 26 August – 19 November 2017 Lewers House Young contemporary artists continue the investigations of Modernism, including: Emma Beer, Kieran Butler, Terrence Combos, Mason Kimber, Sanne...
View ArticleIan Milliss: Artist in Residence
Ian Milliss: Artist in Residence – Shifting Dirt 26 August – 19 November 2017 Ancher House 2017 artist in residence, a digital and text based exploration of a worker’s history in place.
View ArticleSummer Exhibition Suite: Up in the Sky | Landing Points
Summer Exhibition Suite Up in the Sky | Landing Points Race, place and identity Contemporary artists respond to Tracey Moffatt’s 1997 photographic series Up in the Sky 2 December 2017 – 4 March 2018...
View ArticlePreserving the past for tomorrow
Media Release October 2017 If you’ve been to the Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, you’ll most likely know the site used to be the family home of Modernist artists Margo and Gerald...
View ArticlePenrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest wins for Gravity (and Wonder)...
Museums & Galleries of NSW have announced the winners of the 2017 IMAGinE awards. Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest and Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences won the award for Gravity...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Winner of The Friends of Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers...
The winner of The Friends of Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest’s Raffle Draw is Ticket Number W10 GREEN, winning a Friends’ Gourmet Christmas Hamper! The Raffle was drawn on Monday, 4...
View ArticleSouthlands Emerging Artist Award – BREAKTHROUGH (Applications now open!)
Thanks to the support of Southlands, Penrith Performing & Visual Arts will provide $15,000 to the development of new projects by early career artists. Three breakthrough awards of $5000 each will...
View ArticleAutumn Exhibition Suite: 5 x 5 – the Artist and the Patron
Autumn Exhibition Suite 5 x 5 – the Artist and the Patron 24 March 2018 - 20 May 2018 The artist-collector relationship has existed for millennia, manifesting in multiple forms with varying outcomes....
View ArticleAutumn Exhibition Suite: tactile
Autumn Exhibition Suite tactile 7 April 2018 – 20 May 2018 tactile is looking to both explore the physicality of installations – either by touch or by prevented touch – within the gallery...
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