Writers Festival returns with over 150 authors announced!
Byron Writers Festival is set to take over Byron Bay from 14–16 August, unfolding across outdoor marquees and iconic venues to create a bustling festival precinct.
Featuring over 150 international and Australian authors, with 110 sessions across three days, the world-class event will present literary heavyweights in the heart of town.
Meg Mason, author of the international bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, appears with her hotly anticipated new novel Sophie, Standing There, while UK-based social philosopher and author Roman Krznaric will speak on History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity.
Headliner Richard Flanagan brings Heresies, a new collection of essays. See him in conversation with Kerry O’Brien on festival Saturday as Kerry delivers the 2026 Thea Astley Address.
Make the most of the festival with a three-day or one-day pass. Passes are selling quickly,
get yours now at www.byronwritersfestival.com.
The Newrybar Art Collective
The Newrybar Art Collective showcases a rotating collection of contemporary works by local and emerging artists in the heart of Newrybar Village. Featuring paintings, ceramics, sculpture and mixed media, the gallery offers something new with every visit. Wander through the gallery and meet the artists as they create and exhibit their work.
Open: Monday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm
12 Old Pacific Highway, Newrybar
@newrybarartcollective
Art in the Heart of Mullumbimby: Exhibition 12
Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre is once again transformed into a gallery as the H’Art Gallery unveils its 12th exhibition. With ten artists and more 30 works across painting, printmaking, and mixed media, this show celebrates both the reach and intimacy of local creativity.
Bessminda Groves brings muscular emotional weight to oil on canvas – her works Hope is a Thing with Claws and Happenstance bristle with tension and surrender. Bill Veale’s sweeping coastal acrylics trace the Broken Head headlands with quiet awe. Blair Ferguson offers tender, small-scale studies of local rivers and beaches in ink and oil. Brendan Kelly returns with bold, conceptually-charged work, including the striking Corellas. Edward Sach contributes a deeply personal piece navigating cancer survival with colour and grace.
Karena Wynn-Moylan’s luminous oils move from coastal light to fallen birds, always with reverence. Marika Bryant fills the room with lyrical mixed media that blur landscape and lived experience. Sally Green brings richly textured abstracts drawing on outback pigments and arctic cool alike. Spero Jones delivers visceral, polymer-varnished works pulsing with elemental force. And curator Solveig anchors the exhibition with signature graphic impressions – from moonlit botanicals to deep neural explorations.
Together they remind us that art doesn’t just decorate a health centre – it heals it.
Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre
60 Stuart St, Mullumbimby
Sunburn – Gerwyn Davies
3 July – 22 November 2026
This exhibition brings together a series of vibrant textile and photographic works that reimagine the ephemera, icons, and images of the nation’s glittering Sunrise Strip.
Drawing in part upon the immense Tweed Regional Museum collection, postcards, souvenirs, and signs are refashioned into sequins and spandex. A party of costumed figures dis/appear beneath elaborate sculptural forms, relaxed in photographic worlds that conjure the distinctive visual landscape of coastal Australiana.
A Tweed Regional Gallery initiative. The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence studio is supported by benefactor Mr Tim Fairfax AC via the Tweed Regional Gallery Foundation Ltd. Gerwyn Davies is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery (Brisbane) and Michael Reid Galleries (Sydney/Berlin).
Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre
Wednesday to Sunday, 10am – 4pm, free entry
2 Mistral Road (cnr Tweed Valley Way)
Murwillumbah South
gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au
ART GALLERIES
ARTIST STUDIO GALLERY
Belongil Beach
Open by appointment
0409 604 405
janrae7.weebly.com
ARTIST’S STUDIO GALLERY
Byron Bay
Landscape inspired works imparting a
‘spirit of place’
Open by appointment
Monthly specials
02 6685 5317
jaypearse.com
BANGALOW FiNE ART
Consultancy / Sales / Valuations
bangalowfineart.com.au
BLACK FIG GALLERY
Exhibiting Northern Rivers artists
Shop 7, Alstonville Plaza
Wednesday to Friday 10am–4pm and
Saturday 10am–2pm
(or by appointment) 0480 676 957
blackfiggallery.com.au
@blackfiggallery
BLUE KNOB
719 Blue Knob Road, Lillian Rock
Open Thursday to Sunday 10am–3pm
02 6689 7449
blueknobgallery.com
BURRINGBAR GALLERY
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am–4pm
(or by appointment)
0408 998 446
6184 Tweed Valley Way, Burringbar
byronclayworkersgallery.com.au
GALLERY COSMOSIS
Visionary Art
22 Brigantine Street, Byron Bay
Open Thursday to Saturday
10.30am–3pm
or by appointment 0431 331 205
gallerycosmosis.com
GARAGE GALLERY
‘Community Arts Hub’
(Byron Community College)
Cnr Gordon & Burringbar Streets, Mullumbimby
02 6684 3374
@mullum.garage.gallery
H’ART GALLERY
Local art in the heart of Mullum at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre
60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby
0401 647 325
HAVEN GALLERY
102 Jonson St, Byron Bay
Open 10am-8pm – seven days a week
KARENA WYNN-MOYLAN, FINE ART
World award-winning contemporary realism art direct from the artist at her Bangalow Studio
Phone or text 0414 822 196
LISMORE REGIONAL GALLERY
11 Rural St, Lismore, Bundjalung Country
Open Wednesday to Sunday
10am–4pm
Thursdays until 6pm
lismoregallery.org
@lismoreregionalgallery
LONE GOAT GALLERY
28 Lawson St, Byron Bay
(located in the Byron Library building)
Open Wednesday to Saturday
10am–4pm
lonegoatgallery.com
M-Arts Precinct
Spend the day, meet the makers,
shop local and handmade
105 Wollumbin St, Murwillumbah
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am
@m.arts.precinct
m-arts.com.au/
MULLUMBIMBY
CLAYWORKERS GALLERY
Drill Hall Complex,
2 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby
Open Thursday to Saturday 11am–3pm
mullumclayworkers.com
MZ GALLERY
Byron Bay Contemporary Artspace
57 Tennyson Street, Byron Bay
0468 718 045
www.byronartspace.com.au
Ninbella Gallery
Open Mon-Sat 10-4pm & Sun 10-2pm
19a Byron Street Bangalow
0429 357 274
ninbella.com
NEWRYBAR ART COLLECTIVE
Gallery and Art Studio showcasing
local artists
12 Old Pacific Highway, Newrybar
Monday to Saturday 10am–4pm,
Wednesday 10am–7pm
0412 264 312
@newrybarartcollective
NORTHERN RIVERS COMMUNITY GALLERY
Cnr Cherry & Crane Streets, Ballina
Open Wed–Fri 9am–3pm,
Sat–Sun 9.30am–1pm
02 6681 0530
nrcgballina.com.au
TWEED REGIONAL GALLERY
& MARGARET OLLEY Art Centre
Gallery hours Wed–Sun 10am–4pm
Café open Wed-Fri 10am–4 pm,
Sat-Sun 9am–4pm
2 Mistral Rd, Murwillumbah
02 6670 2790
gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au
