ArtWalk x Luminance
Young Artists Exhibition
1 - 7 June 2026
Port Macquarie CBD
Shop 50, Gowings Port Central Shopping Centre. Ground floor, opposite Bookface.
For ArtWalk on Friday 5 June, we’re in the marquee on Town Green, 5pm - 9pm.
Proudly supported by:
Wauchope Vets
Alice’s Art, Craft & Paper Supplies
ArtCollective NSW
Indigenous perspectives by Mid North Coast artists Melodie Cicak, Hayley Galea-Elson and Keira Graham are a welcome presence in Port Macquarie’s 2026 ArtWalk X Luminance Young Artists Exhibition.
Melodie, Hayley and Keira’s artwork speaks of family, culture and history. These themes recur in many of the other works by young local artists from Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Thrumster, Bowraville, Rosewood, Cooperabung, Telegraph Point and Nambucca Heads.
The Port Macquarie ArtWalk X Luminance Young Artists Exhibition is in Port Central from 1 - 6 June 2026, in the Arts Mid North Coast MakeSpace venue. On the night of ArtWalk, Friday 5 June, we will be on Town Green in Port Macquarie’s CBD.
Hayley Galea-Elson, Our Country - Oxley Beach, paint pens & acrylic paint on canvas, 40cm x 50cm. NFS
Keira Graham, Stories We Share, Paint, posca on canvas, 100cm x 100cm.
Melodie Cicak, Beating Heart - My life As I Know It, acrylic paint pens on paper, 65cm x 78cm.
Expressive, imaginative and orthinological portraits by Lana Cooper, Sha-lohm Jamieson, Alycia Lipovac, Dhavve Manoharan, Wren McDowell and Charlotte Rabie add lustre to the young artists exhibition, alongside fantastical creatures by Sophie Burt and contemplative still life paintings by Macky Lambert and Jake Durbin.
Landscapes by Luke Baker and Katie Chambers are a beautiful part of the mix, as are abstract works by Charlotte Newman and Peyton Hardesty. Photographer Katie Chambers will be exhibiting Lavender Light, an image which captures “a coastal moment where stillness and motion co-exist”.
Sha-lohm Jamieson’s potrait, luminary, offers the viewer wonder and hopefulness as the subject looks to a light source beyond what we see.
Lana Cooper, Curiosity, watercolour on paper, 90cm x 60cm.
Sha-lohm Jamieson, luminary, gouache and pencil on paper, 30cm x 21cm.
Alycia Lipovac, Looking Glass, acrylic on canvas, 51 cm x 40cm. NFS
Dhavve Manoharan, RGB, photograph, 84cm x 60cm.
Wren McDowell, Blue Feathers, watercolour on paper, 45cm x 33cm.
Charlotte Rabie, Hidden Within, chalk and paint pen on paper, 30cm × 25cm. $250
Landscapes by Luke Baker and Katie Chambers are a beautiful part of the mix, as are abstract works by Charlotte Newman and Peyton Hardesty, and contemplative still life paintings by Macky Lambert and Jake Durbin.
Katie Chambers, Lavender Light, photograph, 85cm x 60cm.
Luke Baker, Guiding Light, acrylic paint on canvas, 30cm x 30cm. $350
Charlotte Newman, Worth it All, pens and ink on paper, 30cm x 50cm.
Peyton Hardesty, Even when there's darkness, I'll still be there, oil pastels on canvas, 30cm x 30cm. $150
Macky Lambert, Softly falling apart, acrylic and oil on canvas, 40cm x 30cm.
Jake Durbin, Reflection Between Us, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50cm.
Sophie Burt, Antroths, clip studio paint & procreate on paper, 21cm x 30cm.