Young and emerging creatives looking to show their work in a professional art gallery are invited to enter the Luminance Young & Emerging Artists Exhibition. It’s free to enter; the deadline for submissions is 30 June 2025.
All art forms are welcome, eligible artworks are those created in the past 12 months by young artists who live or study on the Mid North Coast. For the purpose of this exhibition, young artists are people aged 15-25. Emerging artists are aged 25+.
Up to 16 finalists will have their work exhibited in Luminance Gallery, Port Macquarie from 22 July to 13 August.
Co-judges Wendy Stokes and Stephen Killick will select the exhibition’s winning entry. There’s also a peoples’ choice award.
“The Young Artist Exhibition and Prize is a great opportunity for emerging artists to show their work,” says Luminance director Dominic O’Grady.
“We want to recognise and make room for young artists on the Mid North Coast.”
“To have Wendy Stokes and Stephen Killick as the judges of this exhibition certainly deepens the experience. Both of these artists are generous in their approach to art and other artists, both are well-established in their own art practice.”
Wendy Stokes’ practice is filtered through her experiences of the natural environment; making images which allow for moments of pause and a celebration of spirit. Her work shifts between painting, drawing and printmaking.
Wendy lives on the Mid North Coast and draws from her deep connection to this landscape. Her works purposefully wrestle with ambiguous ground; between the Romantic lineage of landscape representation and Modernist Abstraction. Her works are held by the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Stephen Killick is an abstract painter and sculptor who has exhibited in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Stephen created the enigmatic sculpture ‘A Device for Orienting Oneself at the Centre of the Universe’, installed at Port Macquarie Library. His work is held in the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and National Gallery of Victoria.