Exhibition Launch: NEXT 2025
And Awards Announcement
Mon
18
Mon 18 May 11:00 AM
Yellamundie Gallery
General Admission
All Ages
180 Mins May
You are invited to the launch of NEXT, our annual exhibition showcasing artworks by HSC Visual Arts students from schools across the Liverpool LGA.
Places are strictly limited, please RSVP by Friday 8 May, 5 pm.
Join us from 11am for the official launch of NEXT, celebrating the creativity, ambition, and diverse perspectives of emerging artists at a pivotal moment in their artistic journeys. The event will include a short opening address by Monica Rani Rudhar, an artist who has previously exhibited with NEXT and has since gone on to exhibit in major Australian galleries. This address will be followed by the announcement of this year’s NEXT Exhibition Award recipient.
Following the formalities, guests are invited to view the exhibition and celebrate the next generation of artists from our local community.
Guests will be provided with Light refreshments will be available on arrival.
Monica Rani Rudhar - Artist Bio:
Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores the themes of longing and loss related to cultural identity, tracing intergenerational stories within her family to create space for imaginative possibilities. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work is influenced by the forces of cultural conformity, essentialisation, and commodification within a settler colonial context. Rani Rudhar’s practice seeks to restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals that have been dispersed by the migration and displacement of her ancestors. Through her auto-ethnographic approach, she translates her family’s fragmented oral histories to reclaim narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual. These stories intertwine, weaving a personal mythology that manifests their cultural fictions and futures in so-called Australia.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
NEXT brings together outstanding artworks by HSC Visual Arts students from schools across the Liverpool LGA. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience the ideas, stories, and creative approaches of young artists at the beginning of their careers. Set within one of Australia’s most culturally and linguistically diverse communities, NEXT reflects the richness of local voices and provides a glimpse into the future of Australian art.
Under 16s are to be accompanied by an adult.
For any enquiries, please contact:
Arianne Bulanos (Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Administrator)
BulanosA@liverpool.nsw.gov.au 02 8711 7832
Places are strictly limited, please RSVP by Friday 8 May, 5 pm.
Join us from 11am for the official launch of NEXT, celebrating the creativity, ambition, and diverse perspectives of emerging artists at a pivotal moment in their artistic journeys. The event will include a short opening address by Monica Rani Rudhar, an artist who has previously exhibited with NEXT and has since gone on to exhibit in major Australian galleries. This address will be followed by the announcement of this year’s NEXT Exhibition Award recipient.
Following the formalities, guests are invited to view the exhibition and celebrate the next generation of artists from our local community.
Guests will be provided with Light refreshments will be available on arrival.
Monica Rani Rudhar - Artist Bio:
Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores the themes of longing and loss related to cultural identity, tracing intergenerational stories within her family to create space for imaginative possibilities. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work is influenced by the forces of cultural conformity, essentialisation, and commodification within a settler colonial context. Rani Rudhar’s practice seeks to restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals that have been dispersed by the migration and displacement of her ancestors. Through her auto-ethnographic approach, she translates her family’s fragmented oral histories to reclaim narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual. These stories intertwine, weaving a personal mythology that manifests their cultural fictions and futures in so-called Australia.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
NEXT brings together outstanding artworks by HSC Visual Arts students from schools across the Liverpool LGA. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience the ideas, stories, and creative approaches of young artists at the beginning of their careers. Set within one of Australia’s most culturally and linguistically diverse communities, NEXT reflects the richness of local voices and provides a glimpse into the future of Australian art.
Under 16s are to be accompanied by an adult.
For any enquiries, please contact:
Arianne Bulanos (Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Administrator)
BulanosA@liverpool.nsw.gov.au 02 8711 7832
