Prelude - Australian Galleries - March 31 - April 18 2026
It was an incredible honour to be included in the inaugural Prelude Exhibition at Australian Galleries in Melbourne. A favourite gallery, not just for its artists and exhibitions, but also the incredible stockroom upstairs. Both my paintings were accepted into the show and both were purchased before the exhibition opened. And what can I say about the opening night...it was HUGE! Both buildings packed out, and the street resembled a street party.
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HELEN OTWAY / Olley's Corner / Olley's Chair /
Oil on board / Oak frame / 28x28cm / SOLD
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Micro 10x10 - Station Street Co Op - Bangalow NSW
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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Helen Otway Acrylic 10 cm diameter OPENING NIGHT Friday 5th June Station Street Co Op 14 Station Street Bangalow On show till 26 June |
Fifty Squared Art Prize - Brunswick Street Gallery
20 June - 3 July
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STILL, I GAZE Helen Otway Oil on board 30x30cm |
Nimbin Art Fair 4 - 19 April 2026
Quiet Reserve and Soar available at the Nimbin Art Fair
Nimbin Art Fair
4th -19th April 2026
47 Cullen Street, Nimbin
NSW 2480, Australia
The Nimbin Art Fair is on each year celebrating regional art and artists.
I have seven small pieces in the show, each framed in oak and ready to hang.
Email me for a catalogue and price list.
[email protected]
Places to stay:
Mist Retreat Nimbin
https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/9700394
4th -19th April 2026
47 Cullen Street, Nimbin
NSW 2480, Australia
The Nimbin Art Fair is on each year celebrating regional art and artists.
I have seven small pieces in the show, each framed in oak and ready to hang.
Email me for a catalogue and price list.
[email protected]
Places to stay:
Mist Retreat Nimbin
https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/9700394
Places We Inhabit - Empire Revival, Murwillumbah
5 March 2026
Places We Inhabit - Empire Revival, Murwillumbah
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We move through landscapes every day — forests, rivers, shorelines, streets — often without noticing how deeply they are noticing us.
The places we inhabit shape the way we breathe, the way we pause, the way we hold ourselves in the world. Over time, they become part of our inner weather: a remembered light, a familiar horizon, the hush of water at the edge of thought. This body of work moves between forest glow, tidal shift, sacred stone and rivered land. These are not depictions of place as scenery, but quiet encounters with presence — moments where land and water become mirrors for feeling, memory, and states of being. Each painting holds a question rather than an answer: What does this place ask of you? What does it offer? You are invited to wander slowly through these works, to linger, to let the surfaces and rhythms speak to something beneath language. Perhaps you will recognise a landscape you’ve known. Perhaps you will feel the echo of a place you carry but cannot name. “We do not only inhabit places; places inhabit us.” — (adapted from Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space) Places We Inhabit is an invitation to step inside these painted environments, and to notice — gently, without urgency — the subtle ways place shapes who we are, and who we are becoming. |
Portraits Group Exhibition - Station Street Co-Op
Feb 6 - Mar 6 2026
Still, I Gaze - A self-portrait, a quiet act of contemplation. A moment where the self is neither performing nor retreating, but simply being. The face, not an idealized image, but a site of lived experience — vulnerable, thoughtful and unguarded. This small painting sits within my wider practice, where stillness, memory and emotional interiority are used to soften the noise of the world.
