Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Our Collection is Online!



The Grafton Regional Gallery's collection is online. Check our website and let us know what you think of it! It took a year to get the project completed as we had to stocktake, photograph and create new image files for our artworks.


Not all our artworks are up. Where an artist has multiple works we post two or three up and for our beautiful O'Grady Collection we posted a selection from over 2,ooo items. Enjoy!

Who is going to win the 2011 CVIAA?




Danielle Hurford won the 2009 Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award. Who is going to win the $5,000? The exhibition is up for a week before being judged by Bruce McLean, Associate Curator of Indigenous Art, Queensland Art Gallery (pictured). Bruce announces the winner and the highly commended award (worth $1,000) at 10.30am Wednesday 2 November at the gallery.








In the meantime the staff are running a raffle. Guess who the winner is and you could win a Jacaranda Hamper full of goodies to help you celebrate the Jacaranda Festival.








The 2011 CVIAA will be open to the public from 10am Wednesday 26 October so come in and do your selection.








Check out how your selection compares to the judges - we will be blogging the outcome!

Sunday, July 3, 2011


Thanks to everyone who helped make our winter a little more colourful as part of the Clarence Valley Guerrilla Knitting Project a Grafton Regional Gallery community arts project. Here are just a few groovy things that appeared around the gallery courtyard as part of the project.

Sunday, February 20, 2011


Paranormal Activity - The results are in!!!

Queensland Paranormal Research and Analysis Group ( QPRAG ) have reviewed the data collected during the investigation at the Grafton Regional Gallery and have concluded that there is in fact paranormal activity occurring at the gallery.

The group were fortunate to catch what they call Class 1 EVP's (actual unexplained voices) and a few other strange noises.

During a locked -off period equipment was set up upstairs in prentice house, 2 of devices activated at the same time indicating a presence. Also during this locked off period two of the investigators were sitting quietly downstairs and both heard and recorded a voice as well as other unexplained noises. A recording device set up on the stairs captured a voice and unexplained noises.

Footage captured on an infrared camera while focussed on a candle in the dining room shows the camera moving from air current but the candle itself did not flicker

The conclusion is the Gallery is rated a Category 2 (Paranormal Activity captured but no visual evidence).

For a full write up on what happen during the evening check out Dominic Zietsch's article in the Daily Examiner 8th February 2011 http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2011/02/08/who-you-gonna-call-ghost-hunting-cemetery/

Tuesday, February 15, 2011


A new public artwork by Cass Samms has been installed at Yamba at Turners Beach near the old quarry. Cass Samms Furcula 2011 is four stylised bronze wishbone pieces which interconnect with one another creating an interactive space. The sculpture which is approximately 1.6m wide, 2.7m long and 1m high sits on the edge of the rocks overlooking the beach and river crossing.

The Furcula or wish bones are inspired by the old tradition of pulling a wishbone with a friend to make a wish. These wishbones will bring luck for a safe crossing of the river.
I'm sure that a tradition of rubbing the sculpture for luck will be something my children grow up with - in fact I might start that tradition this weekend.
Thanks Cass for another beautiful sculpture.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Lesley Apps meets the Hon Julie Gillard at Grafton Shoppingworld




Lesley Apps, Member of the Grafton Regional Gallery's Advisory Committee, had the pleasure of meeting the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, at Grafton Shoppingworld when the PM was visiting the Clarence Valley to view the impact of the major flood in January 2011.