Chrissie Cotter Gallery

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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Re-Wilding by Annelies Jahn & Jane Burton-Taylor

Opening event: Saturday 28 June, 1:30-3:30pm to be opened by Karen Smith, Aboriginal Heritage Officer
Exhibition dates: Thursday 26 June - Sunday 13 July (open Wed-Sun 11am-4pm)
Closing event: Sunday 13 July, 2-4pm with talk by Michael Hill, Head of Art History & Theory (National Art School)

A black and white image of an adolescent tree growing in a forest, against a backdrop of a white sheet
Image credit: Adolescent Tree by Annelies Jahn & Jane Burton Taylor (2025)

Artists

Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor have worked collaboratively, concurrent with their individual practices, for the past six years. They are both master’s graduates of the National Art School, Sydney, majoring respectively in painting and sculpture. Their joint work focuses on the natural world, responding to specific sites and natural phenomena, and falls into the context of Land or Eco Art. They have undertaken three residencies in bush sites in and around Sydney including a site-specific installation in the old Coal Loader for the North Sydney Art Prize last year. In 2023, they had an exhibition titled Tethered, a body of work exploring human beings layered current and historic relationship to preserved bush sites on Cammeraygal, Gadigal and Gundungurra Lands in New South Wales, Australia.

Exhibition Statement

Rewilding is a nature conservation strategy focused on restoring and protecting nature by allowing it to self-regulate. This exhibition explores rewilding, as a way of relating to the natural world and as an ecological concept. The artists have researched the original plant community of the immediate Camperdown area, now considered critically endangered. The resulting artworks incorporate scent, sound and scale, as well as the visual, to give visitors unique experiences relating to the original habitat. By revisiting the pre-colonial era, they reveal a glimpse of the intrinsic character of the local Wangal and Gadigal Lands. They have also grown local plants from seed and are gifting them to visitors to support local wildlife and biodiversity. Their belief is that rewilding is in part, the growing of an individual appreciation – and by implication a care - of nature, specifically the indigenous natural world of flora and fauna.

For more information on the exhibition, workshops or opening hours, please contact Annelies Jahn on annelies@jahn.com.au or 0412 608 469 or Jane Burton Taylor on janebt@ozemail.com.au or 0412 154 709.

Workshops & Talks

Sunday 29 June 12pm, performance by artists – adolescent wall drawing
Friday 4 July 11am-12:30pm – drawing workshop
Sunday 6 July 12pm, artist talk
Wednesday 9 July 11am-12:30pm - Re-Wilding Native Plant workshop (with Inner West Council staff Adam Ward, Team Leader Ecology Projects & Raychel White, Supervisor Community Nurseries)
Register via Humanitix (free event)

A black and white image of an adolescent tree growing in a forest, against a backdrop of a white sheet

Coming Up Next

Phaëton

Opening Event: 17 July 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition dates: 18 July - 3 August, Thursday - Sunday 10am - 4pm

Phaëton is a fantastical planet, filled with amazing flora and fauna on unearthly landscapes. In this group show we will invite artists who work with diverse mediums and who come from various backgrounds to create the landscapes and lifeforms of the planet.

Ed Stewart - Hairy Creatures

Image credit: Hairy Creatures, Ed Stewart

Artists listed in alphabetical order:

Alana Tracy
Alana Tracey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sydney. A Fine Arts graduate of Art & Design UNSW majoring in Time Based Art; with post-graduate studies in Media Arts and Production at the University of Technology Sydney. Currently she is expanding into Digital Art with studies in 3D Design and Animation. Her recent work investigates Abstract, Colorfield, and Op Art visual and spatial sensibilities through painting and installation using colour gradient interactions and pattern repetition. She has exhibited and screened her works at the Sydney Film Festival, This is Not Art, Electrofringe, Airspace Projects and various artist run initiatives within Sydney. In 2012 she participated in the Ne’na Contemporary Artspace Residency program in partnership with Monfai Cultural Centre, Chiang Mai Northern Thailand. She is currently a resident studio artist at Mothership Studios in Marrickville Sydney.

Alice Adamson
Alice Adamson (she/her), also known as Space Cadet Creative, is a Sydney born mixed media and textile artist with a focus on reused or discarded materials and natural forms. combining industrial elements like trash and insulation foam with the soft forms of corals and fungi, she creates an alien, post-apocalyptic world where nature rules once more.

Alli Sebastian Wolf
Alli Sebastian Wolf (they/them/she/her) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist based in Eora / Sydney, Australia. They work across visual arts, performance, costume, drag, playwriting, film and theatre. Queer and gender fluid, their work explores environmental, gender, and social themes with a subversive playfulness. With works traveling across Australia and around the world, their career highlights include; multiple appearances on the Opera House mainstage, performing with renowned artists including Brendan McClean and Amanda Palmer, two short films and a performance featured at TEDx Sydney in front of 5000 people, inclusion in Best Australian Stories, features in media around the world including The Guardian and Teen Vogue, the Excellence in New Theatre Award from Sydney Fringe Festival and Spirit of Youth award from Qantas, residencies at the ABC, Phare Ponleu Selpak in Cambodia, HotHouse Theatre, PACT and Queen Street Studios, The CAL NSW Premier’s Western Sydney Writers’ Fellowship, numerous grants, festival appearances and many more. ASW is also the creative director, lead costume maker and playwright of performance troupe Deep Sea Astronauts, a collective of artists, musicians, performers and vagabonds who make performances for events and festivals.

Ed Stewart
Ed is an emerging artist, illustrator and creature-maker working on Gadigal land in the Inner West of Sydney. He primarily works in digital illustration creating comics and wearable designs, but also works in textile-based sculptures. Through his works, Ed aims to explore the intersection of the cute and the creepy, and all things weird and whimsical.

Emma Vine
Emma is a theatre designer and illustrator originally from Dharawal land in South Western Sydney. Working primarily in water-based paints and gold leaf, Emma reflects on character and theatricality, the elusive concept of value, and overlooked beauty. Emma has exhibited at Prop Gallery in Ashfield, and sold art at Tiles gallery in Lewisham.

Lucy Diamond
Lucy Sky Diamond paints works which draw the eye from the dynamic forms of gestural abstraction into intricate details, inviting viewers into landscapes of the mind.

Melanie Errey
Melanie Errey is a mixed media artist based in Eora/Sydney working primarily with colourful, abstract, figurative painting. She creates art to bring more colour and fun to everyday life and to share stories as a way of processing events of our lives that have an impact. Her art draws on themes of shared human connection such as thoughts or experiences we all have but rarely share out loud. Her aim is that the work that she creates through practising art will remind people of their inner child and who they really want to be, as well as inspire and challenge identity, connection and the role of art. She has completed numerous art residencies in Australia including at 'House Conspiracy' in Brisbane and the Education Residency funded through Arts Tasmania where she worked in her studio at the high school in Scottsdale, Tasmania. Errey has presented solo exhibitions in Tasmania and Queensland since 2022 and her work has been included in group exhibitions Australia-wide. Her practice traverses photography, installation, painting, drawing and performance art. Errey trained at RMIT in Melbourne where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Textile Design) and was awarded the Maxwell & Williams + RMIT / Design Project Award in 2018. She has also completed short courses in photography (RMIT) and painting (NAS). Errey’s work is held in various private collections around Australia.

Ru Biini
Ru Biini is an emerging interdisciplinary environmental artist using paint, photography, film, textiles, writing, land art (guerilla gardening and ethical trespassing) and engineering design methodologies. Her Finnish-Anglo Australian lineage is of engineers and artists. Graduating from UNSW with Renewable Energy B.Eng (Honours) in 2012 she brings 15 years of expertise in energy and innovation to embodied practices of collectivism in sustainability and art. Ru is concerned with the arc of industrialisation and eco-feminism, our dwindling connection to nature and self and the powerful role craft plays in holding the secrets to survival. Her work seeks to provide a salve to viewers in the face of climate doom. It gently reminds them to connect to self and country. Ru's art practice draws from self-experiments on her own life;for two year she lived out of a 10kg carry-on backpack and house-sitted around the world for free. She is now experimenting with bringing people together (she installs fairy doors secretly in trees when no one is watching). Ru believes a beautiful space can transform your life, that whimsy is essential and home extends beyond our four walls.

Sam Cheng
Sam Cheng (she/he/they) is an Asian-Australian illustrator and composer. They are a flautist and saxophonist graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and has been involved in composition for Sydney Theatre Company (American Signs), Griffin Theatre (Mother May We), Belvoir 25A (Saturday Girls), and has written for theatre, film, podcasts, animation, concert, and more, working with both acoustic instruments and electronic sound design in all genres. Sam is a digital visual artist that loves vibrant colours, comics, and graphic design, and has experience in creating for local and online collaborative zines. He runs market stalls at the Lunar New Year Market, Project Market Space, Greenhouse Studios, and Otherworlds Zine Fair.