Straitjacket
Straitjacket is a contemporary art gallery and art-partnership based in Broadmeadow, Newcastle, run by artists Dino Consalvo and Ahn Wells. Established in July 2022, it offers curated solo, group and represented-artist exhibitions, aiming to provide a professional space in which artists can exhibit and sell their work, while also presenting shows that challenge, explore and investigate contemporary ideas and concepts. The gallery is located at 222 Denison Street, Broadmeadow, NSW 2292, and operates Thursday to Friday from 11am to 6pm, and Saturday to Sunday from 11am to 5pm.
Straitjacket
222 Denison St Broadmeadow NSW 2292
0434 886 450
Thursday–Friday 11am–6pm; Saturday–Sunday 11am–5pm
Current Exhibitions
The Surrounds Around
Liz Payne
September-26-2026 – October-18-2026
Sydney artist Liz Payne presents her first exhibition in Newcastle with The Surrounds Around, a multidisciplinary body of work spanning painting, textiles and design. Payne works across art,… Read more
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Previous Exhibitions
Memories and Masks
Ron Royes
August-29-2026 – September-20-2026
In Memories and Masks, Newcastle artist Ron Royes draws on memories, identities, observations and experiences accumulated over a lifetime. Working primarily through figurative sculpture and ceramics, Royes approaches… Read more
Life is Beautiful
Raphe Coombes
August-29-2026 – September-20-2026
Raphe Coombes latest work 'Life is Beautiful' Opens at Straight jacket Saturday 29th August, 11-5pm come meet the Artist Coombes’ paintings balance lightness with underlying existential weight. Symbols… Read more
Drama in the Sky
Hide Kobayashi
August-1-2026 – August-23-2026
Hide Kobayashi has worked as a plein air painter for more than 15 years, responding to changing light, colour and atmosphere in the landscape. In Drama in the… Read more
Scripted Landscapes
Felicity O’Connor
August-1-2026 – August-23-2026
Originally from Melbourne and now based on the Central Coast, Felicity O’Connor is an abstract painter whose practice is informed by close observation, intuitive mark-making and a sustained… Read more
Chasing Mountains
Patrick Mavety
August-1-2026 – August-23-2026
Patrick Mavety is a Newcastle-based painter whose work explores everyday surroundings through urban and rural landscapes, interiors and portraiture. Beginning with plein air studies, he brings together observation,… Read more
Horizon Abstraction
Virginia Cuppaidge
July-4-2026 – July-26-2026
Horizon Abstraction presents new work by Virginia Cuppaidge, whose long career has moved between Australia and New York, with abstraction shaped by colour, space, light and landscape. Born… Read more
When Glass Moves
Liam Power
July-4-2026 – July-26-2026
When Glass Moves explores painting as a distorted lens, a surface through which subjects can blur, bend and shift. The exhibition takes its title from the myth that… Read more
Fun and Games
Gillian Bencke
July-4-2026 – July-26-2026
These small textile works are made as answers to personal feelings about a world that is difficult to live in during ecological distress, economic imbalance and global unrest.… Read more
The Botancial Draughtsmans wife
Vera Zulumovski
June-6-2026 – June-28-2026
The exhibition The Botanical Draughtsmans Wife takes its title from an earlier work about her husband, an intelligent, highly measured man with a deep attention to detail. Following… Read more
COMMON UNHAPPINESS
Jill Orr
May-9-2026 – May-31-2026
Jill Orr presents a new body of watercolours at Straitjacket, drawing on the flowers grown in her garden as both subject and point of return. Responding to a… Read more
Lydia Miller
Lydia Miller
May-9-2026 – May-31-2026
Straitjacket’s represented painter Lydia Miller returns with richly coloured still life paintings that orchestrate pattern, textiles and domestic objects into balanced arrangements. Her confident brushwork and sense of… Read more
The Year of the Horse
Olivia Parsonage
April-11-2026 – May-3-2026
Created in the Year of the Horse, 2026, this body of work continues the artist’s exploration of storytelling through fabric and found materials. These textile works carry a… Read more
CHRONOP: Pathographic Studies
Clare Weeks
April-11-2026 – May-3-2026
CHRONOP: Pathographic Studies draws on the artist’s lived experience of chronic illness, exploring the tension between the body as medically observed and the body as internally felt. Through… Read more
Wednesday Sutherland
Wednesday Sutherland
April-11-2026 – May-3-2026
Wednesday Sutherland presents new photomedia work shaped by analogue processes, digital translation and the shifting textures of memory. The exhibition offers a quietly resonant meditation on grief, time… Read more
Kara Wood – Nice to Meet You
March-7-2026 – March-29-2026
Kara Wood is a Newcastle-based mixed-media, multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the narratives of women, challenging the negative while celebrating the stories that define their strength and resilience.… Read more
Jan Downes
Jan Downes
March-7-2026 – March-29-2026
Sydney ceramic artist Jan Downes presents translucent porcelain forms that play with light, shadow and surface. Working primarily in Southern Ice porcelain, Downes carves and etches the clay… Read more