Australian Watercolour Institute
Gallery One and Two 8 December - 3 February 2008
An exhibition by the members of the Australian Watercolour Institute (AWI). The AWI is one of the most prestigious groups of artists in the country and its members include some of Australia’s most respected artists.

Madeline Anderson
Foyer Gallery 8 December - 9 January 2008
Madeline Anderson was dispossessed form her Aboriginal homeland retaining her childhood memories through her art. Anderson has an educated knowledge of her homeland painting tradition and also the Western painting tradition. Incorporating motifs and methods from both traditions in her passionate goal to achieve a wider understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal heritage.

Would anyone tell us if we were getting stupider?
Foyer Gallery 12 January - 6 February 2008
Illustrator, Gibson brings his dark sense of humour to observe a world of political correctness gone mad. He describes his comical paintings as his "oblique and usually cynical response to the everyday". His insight into the contemporary human condition is uncomfortably truthful. Watch out if he starts making hand pistol gestures especially to those carefully choosing their words

George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine Landscapes
Gallery 1 9 February - 30 March 2008
The exhibition will trace Lambert’s work through his first journey to Palestine and the Sinai in 1918 and include those paintings he completed during the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli in 1919. Utilising small panel paintings, drawings and watercolours the exhibition will take as its main theme Lambert’s representation of significant landscapes and how these connect to individual and national memories of war.
An Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition

New Deities: Art and the Cult of Celebrity
Gallery 2 : 9 February - 30 March
New Deities includes work by 8 artists exploring the cult of celebrity. The exhibition will examine the ways in which contemporary artists explore society's obsession with fame, using the images sourced from mass media and the internet, to highlight issues surrounding this cultural phenomenon.

A Central Vision
Foyer Gallery 14 February - 12 March 2008
This annual exhibition showcases the best quality works being produced by high school students across the Central Coast. The exhibition features a diverse range of media and subject matter.

Live from the dance floor - Di Human
Foyer 15 March - 4 May 2008
This body of work is painted live at various nightclubs and music performances held recently on the Central Coast. The paintings are bestowed with an incredible energy harnessed from the audience.
Through exploring the subject of humanity and dance, particularly modern dance culture, Di Human has found an endless source of inspiration and an endless supply of challenges. The strength of this particular body of work is in its freshness and vitality. Each piece was started and finished on site in the space of around eight hours.

The Primitive Mandala - Di Wu
GALLERY ONE 5 April - 4 May 2008
Chinese artist Di Wu drawing on inspiration from Tibetan Buddhism will create a series of Mandalas inside and outside the Gallery. These Mandalas serve as a bridge between the traditional Buddhist way of life and the Australian community which he has been a part of for the past twenty years. They remind us that through diversity there is an essential unity. The installation includes five small mandalas representing the five elements, rejecting the complexity of modern life and recalling the root of nature and human existence.
The exhibition is complemented by several series of paintings based on meditation and enlightenment.

Collection
Gallery Two 7 April - 4 May 2008
This exhibition is the first exhibition of artworks owned by Gosford City Council to be held in recent memory. The Exhibition includes highlights of the collection by some well know artists, including Immants Tillers, Suzanne Archer, Elizabeth Cummings and John Caldwell and some wonderful surprises by lesser known artists.

Junket - Sculpture by the Bay
Outside 2 May - 18 May 2008

Families - Sharron Aldrick
Foyer 24 May - 18 June 2008
Central Coast photographer Sharron Aldrick has documented the diversity of Family life within Australia. The families included in this exhibition come from different environments and extremes, from same sex couples to wealthy `North Shore' families to Byron Bay Hippies. The exhibition gives a great insight in to other peoples lives and how they choose to be presented. It includes a number of familiar local faces.

Reconciliation
GALLERY ONE 31 May - 13 July 2008
This annual exhibition organised in conjunction with the Department of Fair Trading celebrates Reconciliation week. Prizes are offered to Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists working under the National theme of Reconciliation It's all our Story.

NAISDA
GALLERY TWO 31 May - 13 July 2008
Celebrating the move of NAISDA to the Central Coast this exhibition looks at the 25 + year history of one of Australia's premiere Indigenous cultural institutions. This exhibition includes early footage of performances, costumes and photographs of well known Indigenous performances.

School NAIDOC
Foyer 21 June - 15 July 2008
Murals completed by Indigenous students from across the Central Coast,

Rooms of Engagement
Gallery One 19 July - 14 September 2008
Anne Graham, Nigel Helyer and Sam Small each investigate their relationship to domestic spaces and our emotional responses to inhabiting these spaces. Anne Graham recreates a formal dwelling, with her installation In Between Space. These everyday spaces are more than functional, they become a social sculpture. Nigel Helyer's installation The Naughty Apartment takes its inspiration from Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov's “The Master and Margarita” and much of the action unfolds within the writer’s own apartment (the infamous apartment No.50 of 302-bis Sadovaya Street). “The Naughty Apartment” is an exploration of architectural space in the realm of fiction and fiction within architectural space! Samantha Small recreates domestic spaces in cardboard and then presents photographs of these spaces. The rooms are formal and stark in their presentations, perhaps resembling a Vermeer interior. They are hopelessly devoid of human habitation leaving the viewer wondering about what happens in this space.

Sense of Place
GALLERY TWO 19 July - 14 September 2008
The Central Coast was recently acknowledged by the State Government as a region, yet historically it has been made up from a number of discreet communities. Well known local artists from all art forms have been invited to express their Sense of Place of the Central Coast. This exhibition is part of a strategy to identify and celebrate a regional identity.

Donna Hartwig
Foyer 19 July - 13 August 2008
Influenced by her connections to the land Donna Hartwig has created a series of abstract paintings that explore the layers of the earth. These heavily textured paintings are from a distance easily accepted as landscapes, yet on closer inspection there is a lot more happening.

Outside In
Foyer 16 August - 9 September 2008
Outside in is an exhibition of work by emerging Jewelers from throughout regional Australia. These artists are all bound together by their regional locations.

Interweave - Loretta Devjak
Foyer 16 August - 9 September 2008
On the surface Loretta Devjak's paintings weave layers of subtle contradictions between colour, texture and illusionary space. Her sensibilities as a storyteller supply her with the intricate connections that are the deeper fabric. Partly informed by life experiences and metaphoric uncoverings her painting language is bound by the intangible. The paintings are finely crafted as are the indigenous Tiwi Island weavings that inspire this body of work.
In essence her abstractions are an invitation to the viewer to be engaged and entangled by the emotional responses the paintings evoke.

Gosford Art Prize
GALLERY ONE & 2 & FOY 27 September - 23 November 2008

Potters Society
Foyer 29 November - 7 January 2009
The Central Coast Potters Society was originally founded in 1968, making it one of the first arts groups on the Central Coast. This exhibition marks the 40th anniversary of the society with a selection on current and past members work.

David Rose
Gallery One 29 November - 1 February 2009
David Rose is well know as one of the finest printmakers in Australia. In the 1960’s he was one of the Pioneers of early printmaking in Australia. This exhibition celebrates his lifetime of achievements, including some of the fantastic images of the Central Coast.

Secret History of Blue and White
GALLERY TWO 29 November - 1 February 2009
A Secret History of Blue and White highlights the diversity and strength of Australian ceramics and positions it within European and Asian ceramic histories. While the reputation of Australian craft has grown steadily in Europe and North America, Asialink acknowledges the importance of sharing these developments within our region