Petrina Hicks - Snakes and Mirrors

About this event

Petrina Hicks - Snakes and Mirrors is on at Yarrila Arts and Museum (27 Gordon Street, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, 2450) on Sun 8 Nov 2026.

Tickets and details are on the organiser’s website, linked on this page. Prices listed by the organiser: Price Free. They’re indicative, so check the final price when you book.

The organiser lists these accessibility features for the event: employs people with disability and disability awareness training for staff.

From the organiser

Petrina Hicks: Snakes and Mirrors explores animal consciousness and the ways humans seek to understand the experiences of other living beings. Drawing on mythology, fables and art history, Hicks creates large-scale photographs that blur the boundaries between humans and animals, often pairing female figures with animals to explore identity, connection and perception.

Inspired in part by Rainer Maria Rilke's Eighth Elegy, the exhibition considers how animals may experience the world differently from humans. While humans perceive time as a sequence of past, present and future, Rilke suggests animals exist within a unified and immediate experience of the world.

Through striking, dreamlike imagery, Hicks challenges human-centred perspectives and emphasises the interconnectedness of humans and animals. Serpents, birds, monkeys and human figures appear together in carefully composed scenes that evoke stillness, mystery and a sense of shared existence.

Petrina Hicks: Snakes and Mirrors is a Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) touring exhibition. Curator: Anouska Phizacklea, MAPh Director.

The venue’s recorded access

Inclusable’s venue database has an entry for Yarrila Place at this location. It records wheelchair access, step-free entry, accessible toilet and accessible parking. The venue hasn’t confirmed these details. They describe the venue in general, not this particular event.

Not yet recorded for the venue: communication and sensory features such as a hearing loop or quiet hours. We don’t know either way, so it’s worth checking before you go.