The photos that launched a gallery
Art enthusiasts, friends & neighbours gathered to launch Luminance Art Gallery, on Birpai Country, Mid North Coast.
Luminance Art Gallery was launched in Port Macquarie on 6 March with great support from local artists, business people, neighbours, friends. Your smiling faces, support and goodwill are deeply appeciated.
THANK YOU
Alana Cabrera. Andrew Duck. Angela Marr-Grogan. Angela Marr-Grogan. Anna Featherstone. Anne from Studio Frannie. Bandwagon Cafe. Bill. Brad Collins. Broken Hearts. Bron Lane. Bruce & Eric. Carly Marchment. Caroline & Peter. Dr Caroline Hong and the Hon. Andrew Stoner AM.
Dr Clare Allen, Port Macquarie Hastings Council. Cherie and Scott, Sunset Framing & Gallery. Christine Wright. Christine at Miss Lucy. Chris Proctor & Brodie. Chris & Debbie Waals. Claire and the BookFace team. Coral from Bill’s Fish House. Cristian Campano.
Dominique Winn & Chris Meehan. Falvey Kay Lawyers. Fam Bams. Fay and Chris Blight. Graham & Wendy, Japan. Guy Mansfield. Ian Mobbs, Bago Maze and Wines. Imelda Brewster & Tony Butler. Janan, Natalie, Dallas and Amber at Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance.
Jan & David, Galerie. Jane Whitfield. Janice and Graham McGilchrist. Janette Hyde and the Greater Port Macquarie Tourism Association team. Joanna Flack. Jodie Kennedy. Julie & Dom La Rosa…
Kai and Michelle. Kiata. Lisa & Siri, San Francisco. Lucy Juhnke. Lynette & Ian. Malcolm Harding. Malcolm, Kylie and Business Port Macquarie team. Mardi Borg, Port News. Mani & Nick, Galerie. Mary Anne & Neil Kennan.
Matilda, Lauren, Jess, Sonia and all the team at Lord Street Podiatry. Mayor Adam Roberts, Port Macquarie Hastings Council. Meredith Heyward. Mina Shipillai. Never Late Electrical. O’Grady/Wheelahan/McClean/Riordan clan. Olivia Parker and Jasmine Avery, Arts Mid North Coast.
Penny & Rod Kraemer. Raine & Horne Commercial, Port Macquarie. Rachel Cross & Sue. Rosie B from fusedbyrosie. Sam Follows, ArtWalk. Silvia Kantor. Skye Petho, Art Mid North Coast. Stewart James. Stewart and Ada Hambrett. Stu Doherty. Sue Jogever from Belle Property.
Suzannah Jones. Suzanne & Bronwyn, Florence Jones. Todd and Katrina Bates from McGrath Real Estate. Tony Williams. Vivien Mitchell, Port Macquarie Hastings Council. Victoria Mascord. Vivianne Hazenveld. Wendy Stokes. Yvette Hugill. Yvonne Kiely.
Photos: Dominic O’Grady and Cherie Rayner from Reimagined Images.
This World and Another
The joyfulness embedded in This World and Another is on show at Luminance Gallery until 3 April.
We’re two weeks into This World and Another and a good number of people have commented on the vibrancy of the works and their astonishing detail.
The artist is Port Macquarie resident Malcolm Harding.
Malcolm talks about This World and Another as abstract representations of cells, amoeba, planets or stars. These organisms appear to float on the canvas; they allude to life under a glass slide or the infinity of outer space.
“Many microscopic images have an uncanny similarity to their macroscopic counterparts. Often these images look more like art than science. This observation has captured my interest for many years and is expressed in my paintings through the use of shapes, marks, colours and textures that suggest things that exist in microscopic and macroscopic worlds.
“Some of the works use a finely-etched grid to give an impression of scientific credibility and to suggest a governing principle that holds everything together.
“The grid operates as a visible representation of order. It articulates an organising theory for natural phenomena.”
If you’d like to see Malcolm’s work and haven’t yet, Luminance Gallery is open from 11am to 3pm, Thursday to Saturday.
This World and Another runs until 3 April 2025.
Private viewings are welcome.
Chris Proctor up next
Chris Proctor’s new collection of paintings explores the profound tension between ambition, struggle, and revelation.
If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing.
Paintings by Chris Proctor.
5 - 26 April 2025
Chris Proctor’s work is highly engaging, skilfully executed, intentionally naive. He’s also the artist who created the Luminance Gallery logos.
This new collection of paintings explores the profound tension between ambition, struggle, and revelation.
If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing speaks to the human condition — the ever-present push to ascend, to reach, to transcend ... desperate for whatever peace or fulfilment awaits on the other side of our toil.
Each piece in this exhibition reflects a journey, some personal, some universal. The mountains act as obstacles, challenges, and aspirations; they represent the highs and lows of life’s pursuits. The "eternal sunshine" that lies beyond is not just a destination, but an awareness: the moment of clarity, peace, or understanding that comes when we are able to step back and see the bigger picture, or perhaps when we finally pause long enough to notice that we were already there.
Chris Proctor’s solo exhibiton at Luminance Gallery challenges the viewer to question their own relationships with ambition and stillness. The works ask us to reflect on the tension between the relentless pursuit of success and the quiet contentment of simply being.