Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios Altered Landscapes Exhibition

In October 2025, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios brings you Altered Landscapes. This exhibition is free to attend.  You can visit Gallery Lane Cove and then enjoy some of Lane Cove’s eateries.

Altered Landscapes

This exhibition presents the work of nine artists and former participants in the 2023 Bushwick South Sunday Salons. Facilitated by Dr. Amber Boardman and Lisa Woolfe, the salon series built upon the impactful Sunday Salons that for over 30 years the influential Louise Bourgeois held every Sunday. Altered Landscapes explores how critique can empower intuition through shared conversations and candid reflections, unlocking new creative directions and reinforcing artistic autonomy.

​This group exhibition offers a rare glimpse into how peer feedback can transform creative practice. You will view the artist’s sketches, experiments, missteps, and the final work.

It is an intimate exploration of process, place, and practice.

As one of the featured artists, Dionisia Salas, notes, the sessions helped her to “develop a firmer footing, trust in [her] work and a deeper understanding that intuition is a honed skill.” Altered Landscapes makes visible the invisible labour of dialogue, support and risk-taking that fuels creative growth. Accompanied by public programs and artist talks, this exhibition invites audiences into a community-led creative journey.

Our Cover Photo: Dionisia Salas, Skin Thinned, 2024, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm

Altered Landscapes Exhibition Details

Exhibition Date:  9 October 2025 to 1 November 2025
Opening Event:  Wednesday 15th October 2025, 6 pm to 8 pm – RSVP here.

This exhibition is co-curated by Lane Cove Local Rhonda Pryor and Kathie Najar.

Artists: Suzanne Davey, Charlotte Fetherston, Ariella Friend, Liron Gilmore, Jane Guthleben, Fiona Macpherson, Kathie Najar, Rhonda Pryor, Dionisia Sala

About the Altered Landscapes Co-Curators

Rhonda Pryor

Rhonda Pryor is a contemporary artist practising across the disciplines of photography, textiles and painting. Her evocative, often highly personal work draws on memory, place and the senses as a means of expressing an understanding of being human. Thoughts and feelings coalesce into works that seek to subtly reflect emotional responses to experience.
Pryor lives and works in Sydney and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Sydney College of the Arts.

She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and been a finalist in several national awards and prizes, most recently the Alice Prize and the Lane Cove Art Award. In 2014, she was the winner of the City of Ryde’s 2014 International Women’s Day Art Prize, and she has received various grants and residencies throughout her career, including an Australia Council grant for a textile dyeing residency in Japan.

Kathie Najar

Kathie is an artist and curator living and working on Cammeraygal Land in Sydney, NSW. She holds a BFA and a Master of Arts Administration from UNSW.

For the past five years, her focus has been on art-making, research, and exhibition. She has won art awards and residencies nationally and internationally for her hand-painted tile, sculptural and watercolour artworks. She was selected to exhibit in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award in Gymea, Glamfest Residency and Laneway Festival in Broken Hill, NSW, Hidden at Rookwood, and Eden Unearthed North Ryde. Most recently, Kathie exhibited at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Currumbin Beach.

Altered Landscapes Public Programs

Open Discussion Circle – Saturday 18 October, 12:30 – 2 pm – free event

Join the co-curators and exhibiting artists for an insightful conversation about their processes and the art of critique. Discover the stories behind the works, ask questions, and see the mystique of a practising artist unravel before your eyes.  Book here.

Mixed Media Workshop with Critique  Saturday 11 October, 1– 3 pm

Create small sculptural or relief objects using a variety of provided materials, and then participate in a guided critiquing session. Explore your creative voice, share your perspective, and receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment.  Book Here.

Request A Catalogue

Contact Gallery Lane Cove for artwork enquiries or to receive an advanced catalogue here.

Now Taking Term 4 Enrolments – Creative After School & Adult Classes

This Term 4, Creative After School Sessions invite primary school–aged children to explore their artistic side and develop skills and techniques through ceramics, textiles, painting, and drawing.

For adults, Gallery Lane Cove offers painting, drawing, ceramics, and mixed media classes, perfect for hobbyists and practising creatives alike. Whether you’re seeking a creative unwind, developing your skills or looking for a fun social activity each week, we have a class to suit you. Book now via our website: www.gallerylanecove.com.au

Gallery Lane Cove Opening Hours

Why not pop into the gallery and immerse yourself in some truly thought-provoking local art? Follow Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios online to stay up to date with upcoming exhibitions, workshops, and community events.

Monday CLOSED
Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 4.30 pm
Saturday 10 am – 2:30 pm
Sunday CLOSED
Public Holidays CLOSED