ArtWalk x Luminance Young Artists Exhibition
1 - 7 June 2026, Port Macquarie, NSW.
Close to 3,000 people visited the 2026 ArtWalk x Luminance Young Artists exhibition. This was record-breaking for us.
Indigenous perspectives by Mid North Coast artists Melodie Cicak and Hayley Galea-Elson were a welcome presence in the exhibition, along with imaginative portraits, landscapes, abstracts and still life by young artists from Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Thrumster, Bowraville, Rosewood, Cooperabung, Telegraph Point and Nambucca Heads.
The Port Macquarie ArtWalk X Luminance Young Artists Exhibition was in Shop 50 at Gowings Port Central Shopping Centre from 1 - 7 June 2026. This exhibition period enabled us to join the Hastings Arts Trail.
On the night of ArtWalk, Friday 5 June, we installed the exhibition in a marquee on Town Green in Port Macquarie’s CBD.
Artist Wendy Stokes and Luminance Gallery curator Dominic O’Grady selected the Judges’ Choice awards.
A total of 250 exhibition visitors voted for the People’s Choice.
First place: Jake Durbin, Reflection Between Us, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50cm.
Highly Commended: Melodie Cicak, Beating Heart - My life As I Know It, acrylic paint pens on paper, 65cm x 78cm.
Highly Commended: Luke Baker, Guiding Light, acrylic paint on canvas, 30cm x 30cm.
Highly Commended: Peyton Hardesty, Even when there's darkness, I'll still be there, oil pastels on canvas, 30cm x 30cm.
People’s Choice: Wren McDowell, Blue Feathers, watercolour on paper, 45cm x 33cm.
Jake Durbin, Reflection Between Us, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50cm. SOLD
Wren McDowell, Blue Feathers, watercolour on paper, 45cm x 33cm. NFS
Sha-lohm Jamieson, luminary, gouache and pencil on paper, 30cm x 21cm. $450
Melodie Cicak, Beating Heart - My life As I Know It, acrylic paint pens on paper, 65cm x 78cm. $775
Lana Cooper, Curiosity, watercolour on paper, 90cm x 60cm. NFS
Charlotte Rabie, Hidden Within, chalk and paint pen on paper, 30cm × 25cm. $250
Macky Lambert, Softly falling apart, acrylic and oil on canvas, 40cm x 30cm. $200
Alycia Lipovac, Looking Glass, acrylic on canvas, 51 cm x 40cm. NFS
Charlotte Newman, Worth it All, pens and ink on paper, 30cm x 50cm. $150
Hayley Galea-Elson, Our Country - Oxley Beach, paint pens & acrylic paint on canvas, 40cm x 50cm. NFS
Dhavve Manoharan, RGB, photograph, 84cm x 60cm. NFS
Sophie Burt, Antroths, clip studio paint & procreate on paper, 21cm x 30cm.
Peyton Hardesty, Even when there's darkness, I'll still be there, oil pastels on canvas, 30cm x 30cm. $150
Katie Chambers, Lavender Light, photograph, 85cm x 60cm. Framed. $180
Luke Baker, Guiding Light, acrylic paint on canvas, 30cm x 30cm. $350
