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OVERVIEW

The Spotlight Room celebrates creativity on the Central Coast. This special little exhibition space is accessible and open to everyone, allowing local artists with a diverse range of backgrounds and skillsets to present their work to the community.

If you would like to exhibit your work in the Spotlight Room, please fill in our application form to get started.

If you’ve read through all of the information but still have questions, feel free to get in touch

EXHIBITING IN THE SPOTLIGHT ROOM - by the numbers!

Fee

$150

Exhibition Duration

3 weeks

Gallery Commission

20%

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How It Works

  • Click on the link below to fill out an expression of interest form and let us know about you and your work.

  • We’ll get in touch to get the ball rolling, have a chat, and let you know which months are available to you.

  • You’ll pay the $150 booking fee, sign an exhibition contract with us that outlines important things like terms and conditions and gallery commission, and we’ll book you in for your spot.

  • You can start promoting your exhibition, and planning an opening event, and maybe an artist talk! We’ll help with promotion through our website, newsletter and social channels. You’ll be responsible for creating and funding all other promotional materials or campaigns. Where possible, we’ll make the space available for any events you’d like to hold, but planning and funding them will be up to you.

  • You’re responsible for hanging and breaking down your exhibition. We’ll help where we can, and will make our hanging system available to you.

  • You may want to hold an opening event, and invite friends, family, and the wider community. We’ll work with you to make the space available to you for this. Planning, promoting and funding the event is up to you. Each exhibition will run for three weeks.

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Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

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past Exhibitions

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Something Else Is There
Jan 14
Something Else Is There

Something else is there - and it’s quietly powerful.

Our Spotlight Room is now home to a solo exhibition by guest artist Yuley Buist. These works are deeply considered, the kind of art that rewards slow looking and leaves you feeling changed. If you love work that sits somewhere between the seen and the felt, this exhibition is for you. Come meet the work, bring a friend, and let yourself feel!

Aunty Lila Kirby: Journeys
Sept 20
Aunty Lila Kirby: Journeys

Aunty Lila Kirby is a Central Coast Aboriginal elder. Her people are Wiradjuri (Central NSW) and Yutta Yutta (Murray and Goulburn River regions). She is a powerful storyteller, artist and songwriter, telling the old stories of her people as they are given to her by her forefathers. She seeks to send a message of peace, love and joy, and to show people how to connect to their own stories, and to the land

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