‘Seven Voices’ are from the Illawarra Region and are all experienced artists across many genres of creative styles.

This is the first time this grouping of artists has exhibited together, and everyone is looking forward to presenting their work.  On show are a variety of styles, mediums and themes.

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Julie Brockenshire’s current body of work is a collection of richly painted abstract paintings and ceramic sculptures.
Her sculptures feature animal heads atop elegantly clothed human shaped bodies.  They are not just animals in clothes; they are personages - Kings, Queens, Advisors, Warriors or Deities.

Katherine Orton has lived in the Illawarra since 1978 and much of her work reflects her observations, understanding and interpretation of the parts of this place that catch her attention. It’s the small details and odd combinations of style that she finds most fascinating. Her works on paper for Seven Voices are of things found, over time, at the sea’s edge, where she swims every day.

For the Seven Voices Exhibition Elizabeth Trujillo’s work, both ceramic and digital photographic collages, have been inspired by a trip to the Murray River in Sept 2025.

Gail Wistow is a painter who works primarily in oil paint. She paints in layers where colour, shape and space weave together into quiet, mysterious terrains that feel both familiar yet strangely enchanted.

Lesley Goldacre whose practice spans photography, instillations, painting and ceramics. Her work is known for its poetic exploration of memory, identity, the human condition and the natural world. Lesley’s Beneath the Surface photographic project, began in 1988 and is made in the theatrical underwater world of the pools of the Illawarra, in collaboration with local creatives.

Janette Loughrey finds that the joy of having colleagues both throw her work and share this exhibition space allows her, with a failing body, to participate in what she loves doing: making new work, sharing it with an audience and being able to continue her ceramic art practice.

Sue Buckton has been exploring fused glass techniques for a number of years. She enjoys the transition of fusible glass as it changes in shape, colour and texture during the firing processes.

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Join the artists for the official opening on Saturday 21st February at 2pm. 

Everyone welcome!