Afterlight is a curated program of short digital artworks that illuminate the lakeside facade of Belco Arts throughout non-daylight savings months (April–September). For the month of July, Afterlight will feature three works by First Nations artists to align with NAIDOC celebrations.

Helen Shields gazes towards a world beyond ordinary appearances, where the physical and structural are realised by shifts in perspective via a Neo
Brutalist aesthetic.

Using botanicals gathered along Ginninderra Creek, Josie Cosgrove imprints their pigments, textures, and forms onto fabric and paper. Each piece becomes a direct translation of place, shaped by season, weather, and chance.

Working primarily with hard, unfigured stone, Senden Blackwood investigates how light travels across curves and edges — how illumination transforms weight into movement and solidity into quiet radiance.

Roslyn Kean showcases a unique body of distinctive complex woodblock prints, built on the foundation of an ancient tradition, achieving a sense of ritual, lyricism, and contemplation.

Katrina Barter explores the dynamic nature of memory through grid-based abstract paintings, inspired by moments of intense appreciation of being alive.

Thirteen artists have chosen to work in the traditional Japanese woodblock printing tradition of Mokuhanga to create an image in response to a selected poem by renowned tanka poet Saeko Ogi.

Five Canberra artists present MORE and LESS of their work across 3 SLA Display Homes in an exhibition about scale, quantity and awe in the home.

A special collaboration with artist Celia Cramer, who will be creating a series of ceramic works, “Capturing the rare”, inspired by the theme of threatened species for National Threatened Species Day.

National Threatened Species Family Day & Open Photographic Exhibition

A special collaboration with artist Celia Cramer, who will be creating a series of ceramic works, “Capturing the rare”, inspired by the theme of threatened species for National Threatened Species Day.

A series of quilt and collage works by Helen Heslop, created from photographs taken of landscapes in the South Coast of NSW.

Christine Upton’s latest work involves the depiction of memories and their association with blossoms that fade and disappear over time.

Members of the University of Canberra Faculty of Arts and Design and their collaborators explore the meaning or the experience of ‘phase’, and aim to interrogate, illustrate, elucidate or illuminate something fresh about the term.

This exhibition expresses the beauty and colour Lien To sees in the world in spite of vision impairment, revealing a love of bright colour and detail, with a mix of Copic marker and collage.

Fenja T. Ringl’s hand-printed works on paper and ceramics explore the intricate forms of Australia’s flora and fauna, the landscapes they inhabit, and the environmental ‘archives’ — layers of memory and material — that shape our understanding of past and present.

These anthropomorphic images by Brenda Runnegar are derived from photographs taken of animals, majestically matched with appropriate historical early American Folk Painting.

Learn more about the permanent sculptural public art on-site at Belconnen Arts Centre.