Nature + Art is a celebration of the natural world – its fragments, elements and living beings, the delicate details and quiet beauty that often goes unnoticed.
Featuring works by Central Queensland artists Peta Lloyd, Sally North, Sharon Kirk, and Kate Lacy, alongside Dalby artist Michelle Black, the exhibition brings together diverse contemporary practices grounded in intimate encounters with the natural environment. Each artist responds to nature in unique ways, allowing its rhythms, textures, and presence to guide creative outcomes.
The exhibition is a quiet exploration of intimacy within nature expressed through printmaking, digital and historical photography techniques, textiles, painting, eco printing and natural dyes, small-scale sculptural pieces and artist books. Through engagement with the natural world in silent collaboration, nature is not simply observed but engaged with. Together, the works form a contemplative exhibition where nature and art merge.
EXHIBITION DATES
30 May – 18 July 2026
Clockwise from top left:
Michelle Black | Springtime blooms (detail) 2025 | Linocut on eucalyptus-dyed paper | 600 x 500mm
Peta Lloyd | Embrace (detail) 2024 | Textile collage with free motion stitching and hand stitching | 1820 x 280mm
Kate Lacy | Australasian Darter (detail) 2025 | Photogravure print on Fabriano paper | 430 x 600mm
Peta Lloyd | Gwendolyn (detail) 2025 | Second life linen shirt, indigo dyed, shibori, pockets hand stitched details | 700 x 650mm
Sally North | Superb Fairywren (detail) 2025 | Digital pigment print on cheesecloth and Fabriano cotton paper | 300 x 300mm
Sally North | A moment captured in time (detail) 2025 | Photopolymer print on Fabriano cotton paper | 400 x 500mm
Sharon Kirk | Psithurism, the rustling of leaves (detail) 2024 | Acrylic Paint on canvas | 380 x 480mm
