Avital Sheffer

Avital Sheffer Continuum August 22 – September 4 Although inspired by the forms and patterns of the archaic, Avital Sheffer's art resonates a thoroughly contemporary aesthetic and relevance. The ‘Continuum’ vessels encompass a universal principle that transcends cultural dichotomies.

Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson incorporates installation and plant life to create wonderful, quirky, small urban dwellings. This is his first exhibition and experimentation with using plaster rather than the artist's hands.

Steve Davies

Steve Davies, Enter the Goldilocks Zone, 05 May - 10 June 2010. Mossgreen Gallery

Myfanwy Gullifer

Clash: contemporary sculptural ceramics. 13 February - 18 April 2010. Clash explores contemporary Australian ceramic sculpture. Beautiful and whimsical on the surface, the works of art selected for this exhibition also contain provocations regarding identity, sexuality and violence.

ORLAN

ORLAN is perhaps most well known in Australia as being the first artist to use surgery for artistic ends with her surgery performances. In 1998 she launched an international exploration into different standards of beauty, beginning in Mexico with Pre-Columbian civilisation. Having refigured her face through a series of plastic surgeries she hybridizes her new image to the aesthetic values from this other cultures. Working with a digital technician to mingle the real with the virtual, taking the ‘other’ inside under her own skin, she creates digital melds of her face with the stone of the Pre-Columbian sculptures, making self-hybridizations in which the grotesque becomes inseparable from the beautiful. Works in this exhibition are for sale.

Lex Dickson

Tall Stories "The original inspiration for the totems came from Nepalese prayer wheels and the interaction the worshippers had with these tactile objects. The eclectic nature of my totems is a metaphor for the diversity that exists in communities and the importance of the interaction of people of different ethnic, religious and social groups. The variety of textures, shapes and surfaces also evoke images of geological and biological diversity..." Lex Dickson. Exhibition of works showing until 19 June 2007 at Cudgegong Gallery, 102 Herbert St, Gulgong, NSW. www.cudgegonggallery.com.au

Alistair Whyte

"Working in porcelain as I do, the material is inherently translucent and white which is one of the qualities that first attracted me to it. When you pick up a small blue and white bowl from the kiln, and the light shines through between your fingers... This quality is perfect for the material to be used with light and I have long been attracted to these potentials. In this current work, I have begun to explore further the ways that light can be incorporated in with porcelain to enhance the material." Alistair Whyte. From 'And There Was Light' exhibition on until 26 March 2007 at Cudgegong Gallery (downstairs).