Featured Events in Denison in July, 2025 (July Updated)

Join us for drinks and refreshments to celebrate the latest exhibition by Waverley Sketchflash: Exposed. Sketchflash is an inclusive, self managed, free weekly event where local community members meet and sketch together. These sessions are facilitated by the group members who use a wide variety of ideas, from different artists, styles, periods and their own histories to inspire the ‘flashers’ to sketch and develop their own artistic styles. This group consists of beginners to more accomplished sketch practitioners. So Sketchflash is people who love to sketch and have fun doing it! All are welcome. Information Source: Waverley Council | eventbrite

Join us for drinks and refreshments to celebrate the latest exhibition by the Waverley Community Collage group: COLLECT. CUT. ASSEMBLE. The beauty of collage is that it connects images and ideas that otherwise would have never met and were never supposed to. A new unseen artwork is created, and a marvellous world is born. Much like the Waverley Collage Makers, the medium brings together diverse ideas with surprising and exciting results. The Waverley Collage Makers, now in their 7th year, invite you to celebrate their varied, quirky, thoughtful, and often outrageous creations. Information Source: Waverley Council | eventbrite

Join us for light drinks and refreshments in the Waverley Library Galleries to celebrate the work of Kurt Koeppl. Kurt Koeppl is an award-winning and celebrated watercolour artist whose work draws on his sense of place. With a soaring imagination and years of creative practice, Kurt produces captivating visuals as he travels vicariously through an imagined land, resulting in remarkably expressive, impressionistic, and abstract works. Throughout this series, we see dramatic and vivid extremes. Striking geological images are juxtaposed by soothing surreal meditations. Fire and tempest are contrasted with tranquil waters and dappled morning light. In Kurt’s work, legendary figures and unusual characters reveal themselves. Please note, this is a COVID safe event social distancing is encouraged. If you feel unwell on the day please refrain from attending. Please direct any enquiries to visualarts@waverley.nsw.gov.au Information Source: Waverley Council | eventbrite

Waverley library invites all art lovers to hear a talk on Australia's premier accolade The Archibald Prize. The Archibald Prize has been called the ‘Melbourne Cup of the art world’. It attracts thousands of visitors each year and bridges the gap between the world of high art and the general public. Art critics and curators like to disparage it, artists make fun of it, but all are keen to win it. Come and learn something about the most controversial episodes of its history. ‘The Archibald Prize has always created controversy and conversation’, the Art Gallery of New South Wales notes. ‘For over a century, artists from Australia and New Zealand have captured the spirit of their times through portraiture, reflecting the personalities and issues that define their communities.’ Yet many features of the prize have changed since its foundation in 1921. It is arguable if J. F. Archibald would recognise it today. This talk will chart some of the lesser known, rocky history of the prize, highlighting controversies about artist eligibility, painting methods, disputes between the awarding trustees and artists and the reception of the prize by the general public. Light refreshments provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You don't need to be a library member to attend our events but we value your membership and would love you to join. Discover everything the library has to offer including free e-books, audiobooks, e-magazines, movie streaming and so much more. Access our e-library 24/7. Join our library here Information Source: Waverley Library | eventbrite