Your Ferry Artists have been busy being present within the local and wider community, with market stalls at St Albans Markets, exhibiting at the Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre in Hornsby as part of Seniors week, planning a Paint and Sip event at the Settlers Arms, St Albans, in April and an exhibition at Merrylands RSL in May. Keep your eye out on our event page for up and coming events as below.

Please join us through 2026 at the St Albans Village Markets, 10am – 2pm in The Barn, St Albans.

While your local artists work tirelessly to find a new home for our gallery, you can still support us throughout the year ahead. So, as a famous Australian once said… “Do yourself a favour….” and get on down to the markets.

A wide variety of art is available inclding paintings, sculpture, ceramics and giftware.

Live Life in Colour – Wallarobba – Hornsby

‘Live Life in Colour’ celebrates our Senior artists 60+ from four local creative groups – Ferry Artists, the Press Gang, Hornsby Art Society and Art from the Grange. This exhibition is organised and supported by Hornsby Shire Council, and coincides with the 2026 Seniors Festival.

Friday, 06 March 2026, 10:00 AM – Sunday, through to 22 March 2026, 04:00 PM

Our Ferry Artists contributed an incredible array of works for this years exhibition. Check it out..!

SIP, PAINT, RELAX

Did someone say… creativity, laughter & good company! A guided step by step painting session with the fabulous Mellissa Read-Devine. All materials are included. 2 hour Drink and Nibble packages are available.

Settlers Arms Inn – $110 per ticket, 11am – 1pm on Sunday, 19th April 2026. RSVP by April 12th, 2026 by calling Settlers Arms (02) 4568 2111

Taste of Wiseman’s Community Artwork

After our successful community artwork collaboration at the Taste of Wisemans event in September 2025 the Ferry Artists are looking forward to presenting the finished artwork to Mayor Dr Michelle Byrne on Thursday 30th April at 2pm at Wisemans Ferry Bowling Club. Please join us for this community event.

Vibrance

Join your Ferry Artists at the Merrylands RSL in May for a vibrant display of Ferry Artists works from 1 June to 29 June 2026. The opening of this exhibition will be Saturday 13 June 2026.

Ferry Artists Studio Visit – Nicola (Nicky) Coady

To keep our artisan community connected, Ferry Artist members enjoy regular member studio visits. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes and learn about our members’ creative practices. Our third studio visit featured Nicky Coady in February 2026. Nicky took us through her ceramics practice and discussed a variety of techniques and processes. Keep an eye out for our next studio visit.

Nicola Coady known as Nicky!

Arriving from Dartmouth, S. Devon, UK in the late 1966, my love of nature followed through from the rolling hills of Devon to the vast veldt of Africa to the weathered shores of Australia and into inspiration of my pottery over many years. I spoke about this to the lovely group who came to my Open Studio day and they saw how my pottery forms progress from slabs, to coils to thrown ware. Then onto glazing where I have all the base materials and formulate and mix my own glazes which are sieved several times and then applied and fired in my electric kiln. Depending on the aesthetics I require I do have access in the winter months to a great wood fired kiln near the Hunter Valley. We then shared some tea on my back veranda and then it was time to end the couple of hours together. Will also add that I graduated from TAFE at Brookvale in 1986 and then taught for 27 years at the Ku ring gai Art Centre in Roseville. Thanks for all that cam along. Nicky the Potter!!

Ferry Artists Studio Visit – REDHERRING

Our second visit featured REDHERRING in January 2026, a multi medium artist who works across ceramics, printmaking, stencilling and painting. Red shared the various processes behind his practice, from his early drawings to his future planned works. Keep an eye out for our next studio visit in February 2026!

Ferry Artists Studio Visit – Rachelle Juter

To keep our artisan community connected, Ferry Artist members enjoy regular member studio visits. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes and learn about our members’ creative practices. Our inaugural visit featured Rachelle Juter in December 2025, a talented jeweler and painter. Rachelle shared the intricate processes behind her jewelry making and reflected on her personal history in the craft. Keep an eye out for our next studio visit at the end of January 2025!

Hawkesbury Now 2025

Hawkesbury Now 2025 – our fabulous artists are represented in this curated exhibition that highlights the incredible talent of our Hawkesbury artists. Exhibition runs from the 24th of October to the 30th of November at the hawkesbury Regional gallery.

Taste of Wisemans 2025

Taste of Wiseman’s was a great success….! Members of the community contributed to a painting that will be exhibited in the Hornsby Shire Council Chambers and our artists had a successful day selling artworks.

Our final exhibition at Wiseman’s Ferry Central was a great success. Work is in progress for future exhibitions so please stay with us while we find a new home and look for new opportunities to bring you the fabulous work of our talented stable of artists.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Time and Tide – June – 2025

Time and Tide is a multi media exhibition featuring the works of Phil Stallard and Lynne Dobinson. The show explores themes of time and the Hawkesbury. Phil Stallard will be showing recent large scale oil paintings completed in his MacDonald River studio – exploring themes of Hawkesbury River. Lynne Dobinson works small, exploring a variety of mediums, materials and methods. She will be showing a selection of clocks and works on paper.