Jo Fernandez is a landscape artist living on the outskirts of the historic village of Millthorpe, in the NSW Central Tablelands. Her work draws deep inspiration from the region’s expansive skies, open land, and the shifting light and colour brought by its distinct seasons. Rooted in a landscape that is personal and close to home, Jo’s paintings begin with an emotional response to her surroundings. She seeks out elements that resonate deeply, using colour, tone, and atmosphere to distil their essence. Her technique of glazing—applying transparent layers of oil paint—brings a luminous depth to her works.

Exhibiting Artists: Pippita Bennett, Lea Durie, Christina McLean and Karlie Simring

Four artists, each rooted in the mediums of ceramics and textiles, unite in an exploration of materiality. This exhibition invites the audience on a sensory journey of earth and fiber. Through their distinct yet interconnected practices, the artists celebrate the tactile essence of these ancient materials, revealing stories of tradition, innovation, and the profound relationship between maker and medium.

Natasha is an award-winning designer and artist based in Molong, NSW, on Wiradjuri Country. Since completing her Bachelor of Arts in Graphic and Web Design in 2004, Natasha has built a diverse career spanning design agencies, state government, higher education, and now local government. Currently, she leads a creative team in Orange, managing major design and communication projects. When she's not fulfilling her role as Chief Snack Officer at home, Natasha is busy developing websites and crafting brand identities at work. In her spare time, she enjoys experimenting with timber and paint in her shed, exploring shape, composition, and colour. Natasha's creative journey was shaped by her studies at university and her time as a Senior Creative at a Sydney design agency. Drawing inspiration from the Bauhaus and Swiss Design movements, she blends design, fine art, and craft. Her evolving process reflects this intersection, as she continually experiments with function, materials, and colour.

Rogue Sculptors are a collective group of diverse  artists located in the Central West of NSW involved in the production of 2 and 3-dimensional artworks. The group currently comprising of around twenty members, produce a wide and dynamic range of art forms producing small to large works in varied media including ceramics, fibre, stone, plastic, wood, glass and metal. The aim of the group is to foster and promote the practice of sculpture within the region principally by exhibition.

Rogue Sculptors Incorporated (the group) brings Altered States to showcase their diversity of thinking, their multiplicity of styles and their individuality in considering altered states of everything.

Passionate about sculpture, Rogues will seek to delight audiences with their newest selection of works which involve all manner of materials.

Exhibiting artists: Aileen Francis, Alison Dent, Chris Cowell, Christine Lanham, Dianne O’Neile, Glenn Hoyle, Jane Tyack, Jaq Davies, Jude Keogh, Karin Smith, Kerry Mahony, Linda Chant, Lanny Mackenzie, Merissa Reid, Michael Priest, Natalie Reid, Ralph Tikerpae, Trish Lovecek.

Exhibiting Artists: Lily Platts, Yani Lenehan, Domenica Russo, Gavin Coote, Liz Wickramasinghe, Sky Jasper Mooney, Jude Keogh, Rina Bernabei, Elizabeth Lewis, Sue Wearne, Sophie Corks, Jaq Davies, Korynn Morrison, Lauren Tausend, Naomi Lawler, Jennifer Rosnell, Ana Anderson, Raphe Coombes, Jason McDonald, Helena Newcombe.

Untitled brings together the work of many artists from across Australia, some Corner Store Gallery alumni and some brand new to our space. These artists work across different, and sometimes unusual mediums and ideas. Each artist has been hand-picked by Curator Madeline Young for their unique and striking work. This exhibition will be a joyous, quirky and amusing celebration of a wonderful group of contemporary artists.

FLORA is a group exhibition curated by Gallery Director Madeline Young to celebrate the arrival of Spring. This collection brings together a fantastic group of unique, colourful botanical artworks of all mediums, shapes and sizes.

These contemporary artists use wonderfully diverse techniques and approach experimentation with mediums and materials and throughout their practices.

Exhibiting Artists: Misha Harrison, Zoe Sernack, Fleur Stevenson, Natasha Townsend, Liz Wickramasinghe and Madeline Young.

In Safe Keeping pays homage to the natural treasures we gather, collect and study. I have long been fascinated with natural history collections, and through my horticultural background, herbarium specimens. There is a reverence to the taking and preservation of a single fragile specimen. When pulled from the crowd and treated with care, these individual beings are elevated to a position of great importance, capturing a moment in time and inviting study and appreciation through a quiet and still voice.

This body of work comprises ornithology, entomology, mycology and herbarium specimens and collections - a gathering of works in paper, as fragile as those they represent and intended to be observed closely and cherished in safe keeping.

SURFACE is a group exhibition curated by Gallery Director Madeline Young-Holborow featuring the work of 5 female artists from across Australia. Each artist explores unique and uncommon artistic mediums within their contemporary practice. Working across many different materials such as paper, metal, fibre and wood, these artists share their common curiosity of form, tactility and SURFACE.

Christine Appleby is a recent first-class honour graduate from the ANU school of Art and Design. Her practice evokes the colour, line, shape and texture found in natural settings. She is captivated by the inventive process and infinite possibilities of weaving. She uses her chosen media, weaving, to demonstrate the rhythms and transience of nature.

While there is predictability to the natural environment, her work reveals a randomness, an unsophisticated organisation and a degree of ambiguity. The memory and essence of her experience captured in her imagination and her responses evokes those experiences in visual form. She focuses on ideas of inconsistency, imperfection and irregularity, capturing the ephemeral qualities of the natural world.

Yan, Tan, Tethera is a joint exhibition from Hannah Orrock and Maria Shaw which explores the symbolism of animals in dreams. In this exhibition we look to develop a playful dialog between the observed (the animals captured within the dream) and the observer (audience).

BLUE is the 2nd Group Exhibition at The Corner Store Gallery for 2018.  Artists are invited to submit work of any medium, subject matter or size that predominantly features the colour blue.  The idea for this exhibition came to gallery director Madeline Holborow in 2017 while hanging the annual 8x10 exhibition.  Many of the artworks were primarily blue in colour and looked spectacular all displayed together.  Let's wash the gallery in blue just to celebrate colour for the sake of colour.  The exhibition will include the most exciting and original artworks submitted for selection from artists and designers from all over Australia.

Margie Hedley is a passionate artist and art educator who has worked in and around art her entire life when not flying aeroplanes. She established and ran the Giddy Goanna Gallery in Mudgee, before training as a silversmith, designing and exhibiting her works in NSW and WA. She then entered the world of teaching where she spent the next 30 years.

An exhibition of three-dimensional nature inspired artworks in paper and steel by Orange artists Colleen Southwell and Peter Worsley.

Twist, distort, warp, morph, meld, isolate, melt, solidify, vapourise…………..  Aileen and Chris use these expressive forces together with the characteristics of ‘particular’ materials to find sculptural form investigating states of matter and states that matter – the enduring and the fragile.

The wonderful folk at Small Acres Cyder have decided to team up with The Corner Store Gallery again in 2017 for the annual Orange Wine Festival to bring you the very best art from around the region.  This time we are holding a sculpture prize – including all artworks with a 3-dimensional element.  The smaller “indoor” sculptures will be displayed at The Corner Store Gallery and the larger “outdoor” or “garden” sculptures will be displayed at the Small Acres Cyder Cellar Door in the outside area.

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

Christine Atkins is a Canberra based visual artist who explores moments in time experienced within the natural world.

Kate is an artist based in the coastal town of Wollongong. Her works are predominantly three-dimensional, with each of her practices informing the others.

Tonya Graham and Nina Machielse Hunt have collaborated on many art ventures including establishing and co-curating a commercial gallery in Millthorpe, NSW. They have exhibited together in Orange and Sydney and have been active members of the Central West of NSW art scene for the past 10 years.

Tango is an exploration of our relationship with the landscape from the perspective of both Tonya and Nina.

My artwork starts with the process of collection. I have been collecting for as long as I can remember. Throughout my childhood I had a large cardboard box that I filled with my treasures: feathers, pressed flowers, smooth pebbles, and skeleton leaves. My work is inspired by this collection and the sense of wonder experienced in childhood.

My work as a ceramic artist often draws upon the beauty I find in the imaginary and the sense of wonder, adventure and limitless belief found in children’s tales.  Much of my work has been developed through the research of porcelain clay, both in its liquid and plastic state. - Amy Hick

Jaq Davies works across many different artistic mediums such as painting, drawing and sculpture often combining mixed media materials and found objects in the artworks.  Jaq’s subject matter references the landscape and her place within it.

Lily works intuitively, letting the mediums and materials take over the artwork. Her work ranges from 2D and 3D art through to installation pieces. She draws her inspiration from people’s interactions with one another, sentences, phrases and gestures shape her ideas. “I like to take on the role of the observer in temporary communities of strangers.”