Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios November 2025 Exhibitions and Workshops

Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios continues to exhibit a compelling line-up in November 2025.

All exhibitions are free to attend.  You can visit Gallery Lane Cove and then enjoy some of Lane Cove’s eateries.

In November, Gallery Lane Cove is showcasing the works of five artists.  The artists have diverse styles.  When you visit the Gallery, you will see a range of different media, including paintings, ceramics, and photography.

The exhibition runs from 5 November to 29 November 2025.

The opening night is on 12th November 202,5 and you can RSVP here.

Twilight in Arrente Country – Rachel Carroll

​​​​Through mark-making and painting, this exhibition explores Carroll’s reconnection to the vastness of the land, resonant histories and enduring cultural narratives, which emerged following the artist’s first encounters with Arrernte Country.   ​

Carroll has been a practising artist for over 25 years. As a COFA Graduate Carroll explored the Murray Darling River Basin. This culminated in various journeys over 13-years throughout the region. After achieving a master’s in fine art Carroll continued her journey into remote and endangered locations such as the Daintree.

Recently Carroll has returned to familiar family holiday locations such as Hill-End and then, finally making it the RED centre in 2023 she began exploring all that is red in this amazing country. This resulted in a solo exhibition in 2024 at Rex-Livingston Gallery called Arrernte Country.

​An environmentalist at heart she is always trying to connect us with the natural world, via landscape predominantly but also through images of flowers and studies of birds.

“If I can immerse the viewer in the experience of a landscape, to celebrate the landscape, and to gather an understanding and an appreciation of what we have in this vast country and take an interest in the ancient knowledge that exists in this country. Then I feel I have done my job as an artist.”

Tai Shan • Hong Mao: Weight of Air – Pamela Leung

​Tai Shan • Hong Mao: Weight of Air traces the cycles of breath, life, and death — where death may weigh as heavily as Mount Tai or drift as lightly as a goose feather, depending on how it is carried. Through sculptural feathers, sound, performance, and a 3D animation video, the work reflects on impermanence, presence, and the subtle rhythms that shape our lives.

A single feather may seem fragile and fleeting, yet together they form a mountain, a symbol of community, collective memory, and the unseen forces that bind us. The exhibition invites audiences to move through the space, to sense the interplay of life and death, and to experience the quiet power of connection that flows between all things.

Pamela Leung is a Hong Kong-born, Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist working across installation, video, performance, sculpture and participatory art. Her practice explores themes of migration, identity, memory and cultural resilience, often incorporating everyday rituals, repetition and community engagement.

Leung approaches her work with a spirit of experimentation—playing with materials, processes and ideas while taking that play seriously. She embraces trial and error, allowing unpredictability and fluidity to shape her practice. Through immersive installations and performative gestures she transforms personal narratives into shared, participatory experiences; examining the invisible threads that connect people across time, place and displacement. Her use of ephemeral materials and site-responsive processes reflects the fluid nature of belonging, while her engagement with text and mark-making underscores the complexities of language and cultural hybridity.

Recognised for her impactful practice, Leung was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at the 65th Blake Prize (2018). She has undertaken international residencies and exhibited widely across Hong Kong, Sydney, Paris, London, Sheffield, Taiwan, Stockholm and Japan. Her works are held in public and private collections worldwide. Leung graduated from the National Art School with a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) in 2016.

Through her evolving practice Leung continues to push boundaries, taking risks and challenging conventions in the pursuit of new artistic possibilities. Balancing fragility and resilience, she creates spaces for reflection, empathy and dialogue on migration, memory and identity.

Vacancy Matthew Bedford

​Reflecting on isolation, burnout and the quiet intimacy of transient spaces, Vacancy, a photo-documentary project by photographer and filmmaker Matthew Bedford explores vacated motels and hotels that bear traces of a solitary traveller far from home. This exhibition is part of Head On’s Open Program.

Vacancy’ is a documentary project capturing motel/hotel that have been vacated but show evidence of, for the most part, the solo traveller (me) who’s far from home but has left evidence of their partaking of the perfunctory space.  Instead of seeking to capture the glamour of travel, ‘Vacancy’ connotes a sense of isolation, loneliness and making something alien the closest thing to a concept of home when the traveller is so far from it.  This work was collated over many trips I have taken for work since 2022 and started when I had caught Covid and had to spend 7 Days in a small Motel room in Queenstown, Tasmania. The combination of having to isolate within that room and also experiencing burnout led to me finding this angle and interest in something so commonplace yet strangely personal and intimate.  The beginnings of this project were featured in the Capture Magazine Emerging Photographer competition earning a ‘Highly Commended’ in Documentary.

Matt Bedford is a Photographer and Filmmaker. Hailing from Perth, he currently resides in  Sydney. A majority of his work is on the filmsets of Australian Film, Television and TV commercials keeping cinema cameras in focus and being part of the Camera Department.

Matt’s photographic work seeks to capture a sense of narrative that accentuates the domesticity  in everyday life. The exploration of this subject piqued his interest during the 2020 Covid lockdown where he carried his camera with him on ‘essential’ travel.

Matt’s photographic work has earned him Commendations and High Commendations four years running for Documentary in the Capture Magazine’s Emerging Photographers competition.

Unstitched Narrative Panchali Sheth

​​​​​Unstitched Narrative presents Panchali Sheth’s paintings, works on paper, and installations that explore how the past and present meet in contemporary form.

Inspired by the visual language of Indian miniatures and its narrative, Sheth reimagines traditional motifs through abstraction, gesture, and vibrant colours. Her works unravel layered memories, stories, and emotions threads that connect culture, history, and personal experience.

Through this blending of old and new, Unstitched Narrative becomes a space where time overlaps and meanings shift, inviting viewers to reflect on how inherited traditions can find fresh expression in today’s world.

Panchali Sheth is an  Indian-born artist based in Sydney, Australia,  She has a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) (COFA).

Pancahali completed an artist residency in New York with Visual school of art and in France in 2022.

Her paintings often explore interplay between abstract and drawn images and tend to be suggestive of figures from Indian mythology and its narratives. These figures are not literal representations but are rather semi-abstract and gestural, allowing viewers to engage with the artwork on multiple levels.

​Panchali’s creative process is an intuitive and impulsive approach. It evolves organically through a series of layers involving colours and mark-making.

uncivilised by Brett Smout

​A timely and reflective installation by master ceramicist B. Smout, in which divergent forms evoke cultural clashes, isolationism and superiority, while also inviting reflection on empathy, connection and the possibility of redemption.

An installation of ceramics that encourages us to consider our responses to the imposition of bystander status by exposure to news of local and global events. We are confronted with clashes of culture, power imbalances, polarised opinions, echo-chambers, bubbles, hallucinations, algorithmic distortions and deep fakes. We can no longer easily trust what we are told, or even what we are shown.  We have evolved to rely on stereotypes to enable us to make choices in the face of information overload. We have experiences of taking sides, perhaps taking action,  or managing feelings of powerlessness when faced with apparent injustices.

Contrary to traditional exhibitions of functional studio ceramics, the initial staging does not seek to provide a spotlight on each individual piece. Instead, two cultures, represented by vessels, are the immediate focus. They are displayed as two non-aligned collectives. One culture is polished, controlled,  technically advanced, proud, and disciplined. It values uniformity, symmetry, and precision. Size reflects accomplishment. The other culture is rough, sometimes ragged or damaged. It is inconsistent in form.  It values spontaneity and serendipity and allows or even celebrates flaws. Symmetry and precision are avoided.

First impressions will differ. Opinions may be polarised. We may take sides, gravitating towards one culture. Where will our sympathies lie? Will one culture be preferred or seen as dominant? If so, how will we manage our responses?

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