The Murwillumbah Art Trail 2015: Sustainable Artfluences is an exhibition of contemporary art that showcase over 60 established and emerging artists of the Tweed Valley and surrounds.

From June 11-16, the town and shops become the gallery and visitors are invited to follow the exhibition trail.

The trail includes established galleries, artists’ studios, pop up galleries and public art.

As part of the Murwillumbah Art Trail the Regent Theatre video gallery will exhibit the works of 4 Northern Rivers artists, a deep concern for the environment and experimental video practices unite the four artists exhibiting in The Environmental Scream. This work is part of a series looking at suburban environments, individual displacement and the inevitable influence of place on its inhabitants. Relating sustainability in everyday practice and identifying the role each individual plays within their community. Developing concepts of  home as a fluid and a fixed concept, considering the constancy of change, comfort in stability and the impermanence of things. As part of the natural world we want to reach out and seek connections, to form patterns yet adapt to change, to create order yet be free to improvise, to develop our strengths and ultimately to grow.

New work by Lismore artist Emma Burrows YOU THERE, BEWARE! will be screened at the opening nights event at The Murwillumbah Theatre. 

These performances are looking at the physical connections between people, their bodies and place. Human movement as a direct response to place. Both films are lyrical in their conveyance of visual messaging as they document conscious and sub-conscious gestures, simulations and reactions to the natural environment.

Allowing the body to speak, to describe its experience of place using movement and gesture as narrative.