Travelling Through is an exhibition of new and recent works by Coffs Harbour artist Rowena Post and Port Macquarie artist Tony Williams, where both abstract and surrealist visions are bought onto the canvas.

Borne of a chance encounter on a train to Sydney, Travelling Through details a shared vision for the capture of light and moments, of storytelling through the raw beauty of the Australian bush, and glimpses of an inner world within us all. 

Travelling Through embodies dual concepts of travelling in time and physically travelling from place to place. This is what we are all doing in this world, in this life.

Now, more than ever, we have good reason to be acutely aware and appreciative of the beauty and vibrating pulse of the natural world. This exhibition is a distillation of Rowena and Tony’s impressions of that beauty and the effect it has on each of us.

Rowena Post and Tony Williams are both practicing artists, inspired by creatives such as Elizabeth Cummings, John Gleeson, Ross Laurie and Angus Nivison.

Rowena Post:

‘For me this exhibition is all about finding the light and bringing that into people’s lives. It is about rejoicing, relishing and valuing each precious moment. It is about giving. It is about being brave and making our way through the world along unexplored tracks where beauty and unexpected vistas are revealed if you are prepared to seek them out.

The world can be a dark place but to me there seems to always be a flipside.

And yet, underneath all of this, we know we must do this alone. We can describe, we can paint, but the experience of each viewer is a deeply unique and personal one and one that cannot be fully shared or known.’

Tony Williams:

‘I have had a love affair with the Aussie bush all my life since I was a kid growing up in the wild Colo region north-west of Sydney. I’m constantly filled with wonder and amazement at the rocks, trees, scrub, colours, mountains and gullies of the coastal fringe, the Dividing Range, and the vast interior. I call my style ‘abstract landscape’. My current work is a distillation of ideas, colours and images, gleaned over the years of living and travelling across Australia. Currently I am fascinated by the trees, especially the majestic eucalypts. The paintings are my response to this beautiful and fragile land.’

Artist websites:

https://tonywilliamsartist.com/

https://www.rowenapost.com/

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EPk1WaViw/

Tortuga Studios
Opening Friday 19^th September 2025, 6-9pm

Exhibition runs from 19^th September-27^th 2025

Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun, 10am-3pm or view by appointment.

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It’s back! The greatest exhibition idea ever… challenge a group of incredible artists to come up with a completely different practice. Think writers making jewellery, videographers throwing clay, painters writing code – and beyond.

Featuring the work of:
E.A
Elano Baptiste
Kate Brown
Eliza de Collage
Lucy Sky Diamond
Sage Fury
Emma Louise Hayman
Elissa James
Be Jones
Owen Lewis
Nyssa Miller
H Morgan-Harris
Jess Pickford
Willa Pratt
Lois Waters

Opening night: Friday 15 November 6-10pm
Show runs Saturday 15-Saturday 23 November

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A haunted playground with fractured light, warped sound and a distinctly maniacal bent, this glitching kiddie corral is as far from soft fall, plastic swings and the bubblegum scent of fun as you can get. An eerie playfulness hangs suspended in the air, a pall of excitement smeared across dark shadows. You almost feel as if you could climb aboard and go for a whirl, but only the most foolish dare…

GLITCH channels a vaguely occult vibe, as if Satan had lost his income and spent the last twelve months clinging to the wreckage of his industry, too., and is a painfully playful commentary on the impact of COVID, gentrification and the loss of industrial space in the inner city.

Presented by Tortuga Studios in association with EDGE Sydenham, GLITCH is a multidisciplinary outdoor event that features the works of some of Sydney’s leading industrial artists, including Alien Proof Construction, Dillon MacEwan, Paul Francis, Jasmine Poole, Rod Nash, Rudy Grakk, Finton Mahoney, Justin Harvey, Brendan Pierce, H Morgan-Harris, Rhiannon Hopley, Lu Campbell Smith, Circusworks and more to be announced.

[This is a family-friendly show and scary only in terms of the prospects of the creative arts sector. Kids are encouraged to come and meet the sad clown.]

Roll up. We dare you… 

on:

Saturday August 20^th 4-8.30pm

Sydenham Green

Roll on up…..

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