Rachel Ayland has been running her business Bangalow Shoemaking for the past 17 years at her peaceful workshop in the Bangalow Industrial Estate. Rachel is an experienced shoemaker and shoe repairer who THE also takes on commissions for a wide range of accessories as well as doing upholstery and saddlery repairs. Her customers include the disabled, elderly and a wide range of other people with specific needs. Much of her equipment came from the closure of the footwear manufacturers Lois Lane who used to be in the Byron Bay industrial estate until they closed 12 years ago owing to the expanded imports of cheap overseas products. In recent years 95% of Australian footwear manufacturers The Potters of Mafeking Road have gone, leaving only a few shoemakers who specialise in niche markets. Upon discovering they lived just metres apart, potters Rachel welcomes visitors to her workshop even if they Suvira McDonald and Anna-Marie Wallace have come don’t want to order, to look at her display and ask together to collaborate on their first Xmas Sale and Open questions. It is advisable to text to make sure she is Studios. With a combined 30 years’ experience, both Suvira around (0403 721 840). and Anna-Marie achieve unique and inexplicable results She also offers classes in shoemaking and bag making. via contemporary applications of ancient processes. Check out her website and Facebook page for more Informed by the local landscape and inspired by the natural information. www.bangalowshoemaking.com world, they produce innovative, functional tableware for restaurants and stores globally. This is an opportunity Lismore Regional Gallery to visit their galleries and see their unconventional kilns marks the end of an era with its last exhibitions after 63 (Suvira’s wood fired Anagama and Anna-Marie’s Saggar years in the ‘temporary’ Trench building in Molesworth St. Firing gas kiln) while stocking up on Xmas gifts. On entering, René Bolten’s masterful and moody Paintings Open from 10am to 4pm Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 & Drawings give way to Nathan Gooley’s pop-culture December. prints in Superheroes and Monsters. Melbourne artists Madeline Kidd and Masato Takasaka’s Playroom is an explosion of colour, while upstairs mesmerising paintings mark the twenty year retrospective Widjabul Dreaming by Bundjalung artist Adrian Cameron. ART PIECE GALLERY MULLUMBIMBY COMMUNITY With a painting workshop, artist talks and the Superhero 70 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby ART GALLERY (DRILL HALL) for a Day! gallery tour and picnic, there’s something to suit p. 6684 3446 2 Jubliee Ave, Mullumbimby artpiecegallery.com.au Tues & Thurs 10am–2pm, every everyone this summer. This diverse and lively programming 3rd Sat 10am–4pm Mullum Market. will be a hallmark of Lismore Regional Gallery when it BILLINUDGEL PICTURE Gallery available for hire. FRAMING & GALLERY reopens at the Lismore Quadrangle in late 2017. mullum.potters@yahoo.com.au 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel 131 Molesworth St, Lismore, 6622 2209. www.lismoregallery.org p. 6680 3444 NOEL HART STUDIO
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JOHN STEWART CERAMICS STUDIO & GALLERY Open by appointment 114 Stewarts Rd, Clunes p. 6629 1327 johnstewartsceramics.com
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Cnr Cherry & Crane St, Ballina. Open Wed–Fri 10am–4pm Sat/Sun 9.30am–2.30pm ballina.nsw.gov.au/nrcg
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224 Stokers Rd, Stokers Siding Fri–Mon 10am–4pm or by appt. p. 0407 417 169 stokerssidingartgallery.com.au
SUVIRA – CERAMICS & SCULPTURE GALLERY
300 Mafeking Rd, Goonengerry p. 6684 9194 suviramcdonald.com
TWEED REGIONAL GALLERY & MARGARET OLLEY ART CENTRE
2 Mistral Rd, South Murwillumbah Open Wed–Sun 10am–5pm p. 6670 2790 artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au
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