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:
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ArtCollective NSW
Indigenous perspectives by Mid North Coast artists Melodie Cicak and Hayley Galea-Elson are a welcome presence in Port Macquarie’s 2026 ArtWalk X Luminance Young Artists Exhibition.
Melodie and Hayley’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 was in Shop 50 at Gowings Port Central Shopping Centre from 1 - 7 June 2026.
On the night of ArtWalk, Friday 5 June, we installed the exhibition in a marquee on Town Green in Port Macquarie’s CBD.
Close to 3,000 people visited this exhibition. Artist Wendy Stokes and Luminance Gallery curator Dominic O’Grady selected the Judges’ Choice awards; 250 votes were cast 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.
Hayley Galea-Elson, Our Country - Oxley Beach, paint pens & acrylic paint on canvas, 40cm x 50cm. NFS
Melodie Cicak, Beating Heart - My life As I Know It, acrylic paint pens on paper, 65cm x 78cm. $775
Katie Chambers, Lavender Light, photograph, 85cm x 60cm. $180
Luke Baker, Guiding Light, acrylic paint on canvas, 30cm x 30cm. $350
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.
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.
Macky Lambert, Softly falling apart, acrylic and oil on canvas, 40cm x 30cm. $200
Jake Durbin, Reflection Between Us, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50cm. SOLD
Charlotte Newman, Worth it All, pens and ink on paper, 30cm x 50cm. $150
Peyton Hardesty, Even when there's darkness, I'll still be there, oil pastels on canvas, 30cm x 30cm. $150
Lana Cooper, Curiosity, watercolour on paper, 90cm x 60cm. NFS
Sha-lohm Jamieson, luminary, gouache and pencil on paper, 50cm x 46cm. Framed. $450
Alycia Lipovac, Looking Glass, acrylic on canvas, 51 cm x 40cm. NFS
Dhavve Manoharan, RGB, photograph, 84cm x 60cm. NFS
Wren McDowell, Blue Feathers, watercolour on paper, 45cm x 33cm. NFS
Charlotte Rabie, Hidden Within, chalk and paint pen on paper, 30cm × 25cm. $250
Sophie Burt, Antroths, clip studio paint & procreate on paper, 21cm x 30cm.