Animal Portraits
These anthropomorphic images by Brenda Runnegar are derived from photographs taken of animals, majestically matched with appropriate historical early American Folk Painting.
Histories & Habitats
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.
Colour Through My Eyes
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.
Passions, Journeys and Imaginings
Christine Upton’s latest work involves the depiction of memories and their association with blossoms that fade and disappear over time.
Occupying Space
A series of quilt and collage works by Helen Heslop, created from photographs taken of landscapes in the South Coast of NSW.
Rock at the Roadside
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.
IMPULSE – Australian Dance Party: Creative Response Online Gallery
IMPULSE: Creative response featuring illustrated and photographic works, online gallery showcase, creative responses that emerged from IMPULSE collaboration.
Happy Places
Katrina Barter explores the dynamic nature of memory through grid-based abstract paintings, inspired by moments of intense appreciation of being alive.
The Space Between
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.
Stone and Shadow
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.
Where the Light Dances
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.
Contours
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.
More or Less
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.
Afterlight
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.
Ngunna Dhaara
Ngunna Dhaara celebrates Richie Allan’s deep spiritual connection to Ngunnawal Country.
Callout: HABITAT II
Printmakers from throughout Australia are being invited to respond to the theme of what HABITAT means to them.
Nguramban-dhi (from Country) 2025 Country to Couture Collection
This collection brings together slow fashion processes, upcycled textiles and hand-worked surfaces that honour the stories and materials that shape each garment.
Ngiaga (I/I am)
Ngiaga (I/I am) is a collaborative series of mixed media works created by Leilani Dewis and Uncle Thomas Brown (Senior) with other First Nations artists, exploring the interconnected stages of life.
My Country, My Connection – Full Circle
In this series of photographs, Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri woman Alana Harris reflects her connection to her Grandmother, Grandfather, and Mother through traditional connection to their homelands.
Yawarj Mara – Strong Pathways – Young Men’s Group
This exhibition showcases artworks and cultural artifacts created or designed by young Aboriginal men participating in the group, reflecting their individual and collective journeys, identity, and connection to culture.
Home
Dominika Cady, Shawnah Cady, Hannah Langford, Eva-Lee Williams
“Home” explores the varied and deeply personal meanings of the word, through the eyes of four aspiring student artists. Each work in this exhibition reflects an individual interpretation – ranging from physical spaces, kinship, childhood memories and identities.
Footsteps Through Country
Wilay Designs – Jazz & Kristal Matthews
“Footsteps Through Country” is a celebration of connection, growth and the strength found in culture, community and Country.
Celebrate Gungahlin: Young Voices
“Celebrate Gungahlin: Young Voices” features artworks and documentation from the 2024 Celebrate Gungahlin Festival.
Yurwang Bullarn
Strong Women’s Group
‘Yurwang Bullarn’ is the culmination of the Strong Women’s Group investigations exploring and celebrating their cultural identity and heritage.
Respecting Country
William Walker
With a deep, spiritual connection to the land, ‘Respecting Country’ brings a sense of what it was like back in the Dreamtime, of how tribes lived harmoniously with the Land and the Animals.
Murrook
Krystal Hurst
‘Murrook’ explores the state of happiness through bush-dyed fabrics, basketry and adornments in response to the coastal land and seascapes of Worimi and Biripi Country.
Reclamation: Stories of Thrivival
Wallabindi
‘Reclamation: Stories of Thrivival’ is an eclectic, evocative and unique collection of mixed media works by this First Nations artist.
Bloodlines
Jessika Spencer
‘Bloodlines’ explores life as a young blak woman, demonstrating how that is both heavy and light at the same time.
Exhibit at Belco Arts
We are looking for artists working across the rich breadth of visual arts and crafts practices to express their interest in being part of our exhibition program.
The voice of fire shakes me awake, wild flowers bloom under trees that turn to ashes
Emma Rani Hodges
In each textile artwork, I incorporate imagery as well as a written prose. They depict scenes from Thai mythology as well as scenes from everyday life in Belconnen.