Telling A Story

Changeable Art 

Saturday February 12

10am - 3pm

Four artists explore story telling with watercolours, drawing and paint.

'The need to tell a story', to make people feel something, remember something, to touch someone in a way that makes them think and appreciate things in a new light.  Lesley

Artists have the ability to tell a story through creating characters and impressions of moments in time.

Siani captures the movement of waves. The waves threaten to demolish, yet they break into a beautiful cascade of light, colour & movement.

Jai’s bright colourful works explore his Indian heritage, representing deities and subconscious thought patterns reached through meditation. 

Leanne’s realistic depictions use a pastel palette to create soft atmospheric works. She is influenced by her extensive studies of the Japanese traditional art forms Nihonga and Suiboku.

Lesley’s works use animation to tell a story though naïve images that appeal to all ages.

Come and enjoy these artist stories without needing to turn a page.

Held on Saturday, February 12, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere! 

The Melting Pot 

Saturday, December 11
10 - 3pm
220 Miller Street North Sydney

‘The Melting Pot’ is a display of the richness of culture and artistic flare.

The exhibition includes the works of five Turkish artists, a tribal jewellery designer, a wood sculptor and three abstract artists.

Award winning Turkish miniature artist Gulay Pelin is recognised as one of Australia’s distinct miniature artists. Her unique and contemporary art charmingly bridges Turkish miniature from past to present. She is sharing her space with four Turkish artists capturing a rich cultural essence in their paintings. Their display includes Turkish food and music providing an authentic experience.


The Jeweller - Tribal beads, semi precious stones, rare ancient faenza Mummy Beads, antique trade beads and hand crafted pieces. All sourced from Europe, the Middle East and India, from Afghani and West African traders in black Harlem and Soho New York, they find their way into the necklaces of local artist Ellie Picone.

The Sculptor –In two years, Italian Maurizio Nannetti, has gone from a high-powered career running his IT company to a full-time, exhibiting artist, crafting wood into exquisite art pieces.

The Painters - Sandy, Toni and Daphne are three friends, their art is inspired by the landscapes they visit.  Turkey and Greece influenced Sandy this year and next year it will be India. All three artists express the form of urban and country landscapes in colour, taking the object beyond illustration to an expression of abstraction.



December exhibition The Melting Pot is an extravaganza of colour and culture. The perfect place to find an original Christmas gift.

Held on Saturday, 11th December, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere!

Brushstrokes Exhibition

 Brushstrokes Exhibition

Saturday 13 November 

10am - 3pm

 From impressionism to contemporary expressions,  4 women communicate their artistic talent with their paintbrushes.

Colour plays an important role in this exhibition. Colour is used to change the mood and perspective of the paintings appealing to our deepest emotions

 “Strong colour scheme and texture are as important as the actual composition of the painting" exhibiting artist Yuliya Yakovenko

Kobie Bosch  - paints to music, from classical Baroque right through to African drums. Music helps her focus on her work.

Yuliya Yakovenko - is inspired by the great masters around the world.  She experiments with colours, textures and styles in order to bring her painting alive.

 Pamela Morrison  - Seeks to immerse herself in each painting to capture her emotional response – the spiritual dimension. 

Samantha Van Stralendorff  -paintings are distinguished by their physicality, vibrant colours and often storybook-like imagery.

Artist foundations come from Ukraine, South Africa to the rich Australia countryside.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see the talent of these four women all with very different artistic and cultural backgrounds but all with a common artistic flare for painting.

Held on Saturday, 13th November, 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere !

Open Day  - Express Yourself Student Exhibition

Saturday 9 October

10am - 3pm

The North Sydney Community Centre is opening its doors once again for our biannual Open Day & Student Exhibition.

 Express Yourself, displays a collection of over 60 student works featuring photography, life drawing, acrylics, pastels and pottery.

A huge selection of free activities are on offer:  learn to draw with our outdoor sketching teacher, paint a canvas or be part of creating a ceramic city, learn the Ukulele, have a go at Furoshiki  – Japanese paper wrapping, or sit in the park and play a game of Mahjong.

Held on Saturday, 9th of October 10am - 3pm along with the well-loved North Sydney Markets and live music at 220 Miller St. North Sydney, Civic Park.

Come and enjoy free live entertainment, gourmet food and a wonderful vibrant atmosphere !

Call 9922 2299 to book a place in our free activities or drop in on the day. 

Art as Memory

Art is used to freeze moments in time so we can appreciate them forever. This may be through a realistic image or an interpretation capturing the ambience of the moment.

‘Art As Memory’ is an exhibition where 4 artists explore their creativity though painting, drawing and photographs capturing different memories.

The exhibition showcases Chinese brush painting and calligraphy exploring the spiritual through an integration of Eastern forms and  western sensibility.

Photos are inspired by flowers, warm Summer days, water, sand and landscapes capturing these single frame moments, which throw us, back to warm days in the sun.

Energetic paintings capture burlesque dancers, drawing inspiration from the genre of retro pin up art

Moody, captivating, sensual, dreamy this exhibition is not to be missed.

A FREE event held on Saturday, September 11, 10am - 3pm along with live music, free entertainment and the well loved North Sydney Markets

Outside The Window

Outside the Window

Saturday August 14, 10am - 3pm
220 Miller Street, North Sydney

Artists have the ability to capture the beauty that lies beyond our windows. ‘Outside the Window’ is an exhibition of artists who have used photography, painting and mixed media to explore landscape and city living. This exhibition includes works by clients of the Acton Foundation for Mental Health Inc. The action foundation provide suitable psychosocial and skills based programs, promotes awareness and provides information and advocates on behalf of people who suffer or have suffered from a mental health problem. These artworks come out of an art group that is open to people with issues relating to mental health. The works are vibrant and expressive.

The exhibition also includes works from architect Janaki Lele who works with domestic waste paper and newspapers, turning these items into exquisite artworks and lamps. The Photographers explore self discovery, in Charles Lewis’ images he intends to give the audience a key into the locked world of youth and present them with a new form of documentation, and photographer Ann Evans captures the world in her images with a slightly dark edge.

Outside the Window is an exploration of thought and imagination. You are invited to enter another world.


A FREE event held on Saturday, August 14, 10am - 3pm along with live music, free entertainment and the well loved North Sydney Markets

The Artistic Eye
July 10, 10am - 3pm.
220 Miller Street, North Sydney


Daily life, people and places inspire us to create images but it is what we do with those images that forms beauty and balance.

‘The Artistic Eye’ is a bold exhibition exploring the endless possibilities of the imagination and how artists can create beauty using so many different mediums. Four artists use different artistic expressions in print making, photography, drawing and painting to create conspicuously beautiful images.

These explorations capture the visual language of a dancer's movement, the organic flow of nature to simple elongated shapes mixing various designs, textures and colours, creating harmonious pieces with a whimsical naïve feel.


‘The Artistic Eye’ is rich in colours and tones juxtaposed to dramatic black and white photographic imagery.

This exhibition is an experience not to be missed.

A FREE event held on Saturday, 10th July 10am - 3pm along with live music, free entertainment and the well loved North Sydney Markets

Modern Style

Modern Style

Saturday June 12
10 - 3pm
220 Miller Street North Sydney

This month at Changeable Art five artists’ use mixed medium to interpret their surroundings. These bold works have a thoughtful quality that is expressed through the intuitive relationship drawn between the artist and their subject matter.

The exhibition is a balance of portraits and abstract works. Exhibiting artist Michael Gabriel Kagan is a quadriplegic using art as a medium to communicate with people. His courageous art works have a distinctive style that is alluring to the eye. All proceeds will be donated to brain injury research. Other pieces range from intense charcoal drawings, detailed ink expressions and melding tonal paintings. Artists' foundation and inspiration is drawn from people and places. ‘Modern Style’ is a chic, colourful experience not to be missed. A FREE event held on Saturday, 12th June 10am - 3pm along with live music, free entertainment and the well loved North Sydney Markets

Upcoming Exhibition

Creating Moods.

10am - 3pm

Sat May 8

This month Changeable Art creates moods with artistic expressions.

Warmth and light is captured through textured layer artworks using velvet tones. The complexity of each piece is simple – line-by-line, colour-by-colour, layer upon layer develops a story.

This elaborate body of work from 10 artists echoes a diverse range of talents expressing natural environments through abstract depictions and powerful photographic images. Each artist creates alluring atmospheres using rich textures or thoughtful compositions.

The intensity of the works not only encourage the viewer to explore the paintings visually but also entices them to touch the painting in order to further understand them.

Pieces range from a lone boat shadowing the sun hit sea to light refreshing abstracts to bold rich tonal painting.

Artists' foundation and inspiration is drawn from colour, passion and moments. ‘Creating moods’ inspires the senses through loaded artistic expressions.

A FREE event held on Saturday, 8th of May 10am - 3pm along with live music, free entertainment and the well loved North Sydney Markets

@ Civic Park, 220 Miller St. North Sydney. p: 9922 2299,

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