Two New Exhibitions At Art Gallery

Two new exhibitions have launched at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery and will run until the 16th Novemember, 2025.

Captives to Freedom Fighters: Indonesians in Cowra and Beyond traces the journey of Indonesian political prisoners from Boven-Digoel (formerly Dutch New Guinea) to Cowra, many of whom later became leaders in Indonesia’s fight for independence. It highlights culture and shared history, helping shape enduring ties between Indonesia and Australia.

The Obsession to Create exhibition brings together two Cowra artists Ann Morton and Greg Daly, one a painter the other a ceramicist. For over 30 years a collaboration has taken place between these two artists of different mediums—Greg making ceramic vessels for Ann to include in her still life paintings. Both are drawn to the Cowra landscape and atmospheric light, these elements appearing in Ann’s works and in the surfaces of Greg’s ceramics.

Ann’s still life paintings are rich in composition and alive with details from the lace tabletop on which sits Greg’s work filled with flora that creates a canvas of complexity.

Greg’s work draws upon light and interaction with the atmosphere and environment. He captures impressions of light through mist, rain, clouds, sunrise, sunset, dust, storms, heat and the moment as the sun goes down—that after glow that changes for just a moment the land and sky.

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