Chrissie Cotter Gallery

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Inner West Council's art deco Chrissie Cotter Gallery is located in Pidcock Street, Camperdown (next to Camperdown Commons) and is available for exhibitions and cultural events by individuals and organisations.

When in use, gallery opening hours are Thursday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm – unless stated – please check below.

Entry is free. Accessibility information: The gallery has an accessible bathroom. There is a set of stairs inside the building and a lift for wheelchair access.

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Sediment Wondrous

Opening Event: 29 August 6pm - 9pm
Exhibition dates: 28 August - 14 September 2025
Opening Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm; Saturday-Sunday 10am-5pm

Public Programs:

Workshop with Sally Mowbray: Sunday 31 August 9am - 11am Bookings are essential, CLICK HERE for tickets
Indoor picnic with live performance: Saturday 13 September 3pm
Artist Talk: Sunday 14 September

Reiko Azuma 1000 x 1000 acrylic on wood

Image Credit: Reiko Azuma, Acrylic on wood

A new exhibition by Reiko Azuma, Sally Mowbray and Samantha Tidbeck, Sediment Wondrous explores the interconnectedness of all life through each artist’s unique language of painting.
Art, in all its forms, is a medium for dialogue — a transformative exchange between the cosmos within us and the natural world around us. This exhibition invites reflection on that dialogue, tracing the unfathomable realm within our being.

Throughout the exhibition, we are hoping to extend this conversation to the broader community, embracing both ancient and emerging ideas about the fabric of the natural world. Our aim is to inspire and celebrate the boundless creativity and expansive heart we all carry within.

In a time marked by uncertainty and change, Sediment Wondrous offers a space to reconnect—with each other, with nature, and with the many-layered wonder of life itself.

Sally Mowbray, oil on canvas

Image Credit: Mineral Flower (detail), Sally Mowbray

Samantha Tidbeck “Magpie over Indus” detail

Image credit: Magpie Over Indus (detail), Samantha Tidbeck

Reiko Azuma painting, mixed blues, acrylic on wood

Coming Up Next

Tender - Acts of resistance and care

Opening Event: Saturday 20 September, 2-4pm
Exhibition dates: 19 September – 5 October 2025
Opening Hours: 11am-5pm Thurs-Sun

Public Programs:

Artist talks – Saturday 27 September, 2-4pm
Reading circle and closing cuppa – Saturday 4 October, 2-4pm

The word Tender is written in green leafy like text
Tender explores acts of resistance and care. Emerging artist and curator Shelley Watters brings together Stephanie Beaupark, Eden Crain, Amani Haydar, Laurence Kimmel, Rochelle Morris, Kath O’Donnell, Emily Simek, Juundaal Strang-Yettica, Shelley Watters, Estelle Yoon and Wendy Qi Zhang - women artists of multiple ages, working across artistic disciplines, ideas, cultures and topographies. Together, these artists explore tenderness at the intersection of earth and people care.

Estelle Yoon, Amani Haydar and Eden Crain work across photo/video, painting and installation respectively, to explore familial tenderness, loss, and dislocation within their art. Rochelle Morris and Shelley Watters, grounded in ecofeminism, examine entanglement, land-trauma and grief through assemblages and installations - often with found or fallen living materials. Juundaal Strang-Yettica, uses her alter-ego Sister Gillternullius to pose new ways of working that are decolonised, relational, and social, to highlight the Anthropogenic environmental crisis. Stephanie Beaupark specialises in facilitating Indigenous-led knowledge exchange through the art and science of eco-dyeing. Emily Simek is interested in collective practices spanning digital art, textiles, installation, writing and gardening. Wendy Qi Zhang and Kath O’Donnell primarily use digital realms, to explore empathy, interconnectedness of creatures, cultures and technologies to create speculative futures. Laurence Kimmel’s oil painting practice expresses architectural visions of threshold and liminal spaces, with her painting installation for Tender depicting speculative habitats for the bilby in response to and in collaboration with O’Donnell’s work.

In The Land in Our Bones: Plancestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese American author Layla K. Feghali says “our feminism of soil and soul, is grounded in ﺃَﻣَﻞ amal “hope” as the abiding force, the core that continuously calls on us to return to it, to invigorate our search for, and action towards liberation…”.

Tender includes an opening event, artist talks, a reading circle, and participatory performances. Events will be held each Saturday during the exhibition between 2-4pm.