Maitland Regional Art Gallery 2024 Program

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We acknowledge the Wonnarua People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land upon which MRAG stands.

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VincentFielding Robert Namatjira Studio, and Ben photo: Quilty MeginHansen the studio in 2022, photo: Heath Aarons

In 2024 we welcome our community and all visitors to explore Maitland Regional Art Gallery in new ways. We have extended our exhibition program for longer periods creating the time and space for artists to make new work, reach out to our audience and take part in more workshops and education programs.

Our collection will be presented in almost every exhibition onsite this year sitting alongside the work of leading artists from the region and beyond. We begin the year celebrating the art of collecting through the work of Simone Rosenbauer’s Small Museum, a tender salute to all those who care for and continue to collect, the significant and curious things we memorialise and cherish. This exhibition is also presented alongside a Dobell exhibition grant from Museums and Galleries NSW with three artists, Rosie Deacon, Billy Bain and Kara Wood commissioned to make work in response to some of Maitland’s local cultural collections.

Without doubt, one of the major highlights for the Gallery this year is the long-term loan and display of Ron Mueck’s Pregnant woman, 2002.

This significant work of art is on loan from the National Gallery of Australia through the Sharing the National Collection program. Over the year, this monumental sculpture will engage with our own collection with exhibitions designed to allow for different conversations and

ideas related to family (in all its diverse forms), motherhood, birth and the marvel of humanity.

There are so many highlights for 2024 including Old Stories New Magic, an exhibition that will enchant us all as we bring together artists who draw from the deep and ancient well of the real and the mythic.

Lineage pays honour to the exceptional artists across generations with an exhibition curated by Euan Macleod.

In November, we host a major exhibition of Robert Fielding, artist, storyteller and a keeper of culture and knowledge.

Descendant to the first Afghan cameleers, and the Yankunytjatjara and Western Arrenda people of the central desert, Fielding lives and works in Mimili Community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Over the past decade, he has built an eclectic and vast catalogue of works spanning and expanding the fields of paint, print, photography, poetry, drawing, film and sculpture, much of which is now housed in national and international institutions and collections. This exhibition will be one of the major highlights of 2024 and not to be missed.

GERRY BOBSIEN GALLERY DIRECTOR

EXHIBITIONS 18 Nov 2023 — 18 Feb 2024

02 Mar — 20 Jun 2024

OPERATION ART

THE COLLECTORS

18 Nov 2023 — 25 Feb 2024

Small Museum Commissions BILLY BAIN, ROSIE DEACON & KARA WOOD

SLEEP MY HORSE ….5 AUGUST 1956

09 Mar — 09 Jun 2024

NOEL MCKENNA

SETTLED/UNSETTLED

25 Nov 2023 — 25 Feb 2024

PENNY BYRNE, MEHWISH IQBAL, KATHRIN LONGHURST & ANGUS MCDONALD

THE BETWEEN DEIDRE BUT-HUSAIM

02 Dec 2023 — 03 Mar 2024

MYTH MAKING KATE ROHDE & TROY EMERY

25 Nov 2023 — 31 Mar 2024

TOUCHING AND TURNING CHERINE FAHD

02 Mar — 30 Jun 2024

SMALL MUSEUM SIMONE ROSENBAUER

02 Mar — 09 Jun 2024

FIND ME IN THE FLOWERS PRUDENCE DE MARCHI

16 Mar — 16 Jun 2024

VISUAL WEIGHT ROBERT KLIPPEL

13 Apr 2024 — 23 Jun 2025

RON MUECK PREGNANT WOMAN COMMISSIONED ARTISTS* The Emerald Ruby, Jess Taylor & Nicole Monks with Jenine Boeree *Please see our website for installation dates

22 Jun — 06 Oct 2024

12 Oct 2024 — 23 Feb 2025

OLD STORIES NEW MAGIC

TWITCHER

MICHELLE GEARIN, LINDE IVIMEY NAOMI KANTJURINYI, ADAM LEE, SARKER PROTICK & JULIA ROBINSON

A flocktastic celebration of birds in art MICHELLE CAWTHORN, TRACEY DEEP, PHILIP DRUMMOND, MANDY FRANCIS, TODD FULLER, ANNA-WILI HIGHFIELD, LEILA JEFFREYS, MARTIN KING, SAM LEACH, NIGEL MILSOM, KATIE NALGOOD, JULIAN OPIE, HERMANNSBURG POTTERS, BEN QUILTY, PETER SPEIGHT, BRIDIE WATT, TREVOR WEEKES, LOUISE WEAVER & TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS

15 Jun — 22 Sep 2024

HOLD BRITTANY FERNS & MEGAN MCGEE

29 Jun — 27 Oct 2024

LINEAGE A Visual Continuum SOPHIE CAPE, KEVIN CONNOR, ELISABETH CUMMINGS, STEVEN LOPES, EUAN MACLEOD, ANN THOMSON, SHONAH TRESCOTT & GUY WARREN

09 Nov 2024 — 02 Mar 2025

06 Jul — 13 Oct 2024

TJURKURPA HANDLE IT

POWER The Future is Here DENNIS GOLDING

BODY WORK From the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection

09 Nov 2024 — 09 Mar 2025 ROBERT FIELDING

28 Sep 2024 — 02 Feb 2025

THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHIFTING BENEATH ANNA HORNE

2024 EXHIBITIONS

2024 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR ARTS HEALTH ART & DEMENTIA

MONTHLY

Art & Dementia is a free 90 minute social tour of exhibitions created specifically for people living with dementia and their carers. The tours are guided by a trained facilitator who uses art as a gateway for conversation and self-expression, enabling visitors to express their thoughts and emotions in a friendly and supportive environment.

JOURNEYS

CREATIVE CONNECTIONS FEBRUARY — NOVEMBER, MONTHLY A great way to connect in a safe environment, the workshop welcomes people with a lived mental health experience to connect with art and community. Third Friday of the month.

Free event. Lunch included. Materials supplied Bookings essential and for all enquiries contact Flourish Australia, phone: 02 9393 9700 or email: juan.du@flourishaustralia.org.au

COMMUNITY DAY Tailored tours of exhibitions and artmaking for people living with dementia and their carers.

GROUP TOURS Group tours available for people living in care facilities See our website for our program schedule.

Bookings essential via phone, 02 4934 9859 or email: artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au

CULTURE DOSE FOR KIDS

10 FEBRUARY — 6 APRIL

Culture Dose for Kids is a new arts engagement program providing a space for young people to engage with and respond creatively to artworks in a small group setting. It is designed for young people (aged 9 to 12) with mild anxiety and their parent or caregiver.

This program is a collaboration between the Art Gallery of NSW and the Black Dog Institute

Check mrag.org.au for event updates and booking information.

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR KIDS & FAMILIES Daily

SELF-DIRECTED ART TRAILS Are you good at solving puzzles?

Do you think that you can locate some hidden treasures in the art gallery?

Then grab a Code Breaker from the front desk and use the clues to crack the code!

Weekly

Monthly

THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS

SPONSORED BY EJE ARCHITECTURE

Many young people are curious about art, buildings, design and engineering.

Our Young Architects program is aimed at nurturing creative design thinking with fun workshops led by a team of architects and artists.

FREE ART SUNDAY

10.00AM—12.00 NOON EVERY SUNDAY SPONSORED BY OUR MEMBERS & CLEVERPATCH Free Art Sunday is designed to encourage parents and children to add to their experience of the gallery by accessing hands-on activities in a family-friendly environment.

No bookings required.

School terms

ART EXPLORERS

AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASS FOR KIDS 8-12 YEARS Art Explorers is a unique opportunity for kids to learn about art in a professional gallery setting over an 8 week term.

January 2024

SCHOOL VISITS & WORKSHOPS

FREE ART JANUARY

MRAG is a significant local resource valued by educators, not only for its exhibitions and art collection, but for its public spaces, big backyard and workshop facilities. We enjoy working with educators to create a gallery experience that meets the needs and interests of their students.

SPONSORED BY OUR MEMBERS & CLEVERPATCH Every year we have a festival of art and artmaking for young people with a bumper program released each Summer.

Emma Purdie, Working Dog, 2022, Hunter Valley Grammar School

OPERATION ART Every year schools across New South Wales are invited to participate in Operation Art, an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. The Operation Art program provides a forum for schools and students to demonstrate their visual arts achievements through exhibitions at the Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Operation Art is an annual exhibition celebrating its 28th Anniversary this year. These 50 artworks created by students across New South Wales will tour the state before finding their home at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, where they will help make sick children feel better through the power of art.

Operation Art is an in initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in partnership with The NSW Department of Education.

For information on how your school can get involved in the exhibition program, student visual arts workshops and teacher professional learning, please visit The Arts Unit website.

JANUARY — 18 FEBRUARY 2024

Noel McKenna, Child's chair, 2022, wood, acrylic paint, dimensions variable Installation view at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2023

SLEEP MY HORSE ….5 AUGUST 1956 NOEL MCKENNA Join us for this wonderfully autobiographical exhibition as Noel McKenna takes us on a journey that speculates on his life.

“ This is a contemplation of things that have come about, or have not come about or what may come about or what may never come about.”

– NOEL MCKENNA, 2022

JANUARY — 25 FEBRUARY 2024

Deidre But-Husaim, Swarm, 2023, oil on hardboard

THE BETWEEN DEIDRE BUT-HUSAIM The state of 'in between' seems to be a common shared experience of our recent times. Pre-covid, post-covid and that place between. In this exhibition, Diedre But-Husaim documents life in her studio during various stages over the past few years: from the studio looking out at the heavily fragranced Angel's trumpets in various stages of bloom or looking inwards with images of her studio paint brushes standing to attention waiting to be called to duty.

JANUARY — 25 FEBRUARY 2024

Troy Emery, Volcano lover, 2023, polyester, polyurethane, epoxy, adhesive, screws, pins, wire, timber, 112 × 130 × 70 cm

MYTH MAKING KATE ROHDE TROY EMERY The subjects of mythology have long provided artists with a rich source of inspiration for depiction and reinvention. For Myth Making, artists Kate Rohde and Troy Emery have sought inspiration directly from the land and ecology of the Wimmera and Grampians regions of Victoria.

Returning to their studios they embarked on a journey of collaboration to create a new mythology of Western Victoria influenced by the traditions of European myth making and imbued with their own recognisable, whimsical, and at times dark, artistic practices.

JANUARY — 03 MARCH 2024

Cherine Fahd, Touching and turning, installation view at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2023, Photo: Leighsa Cox

TOUCHING AND TURNING CHERINE FAHD Burning with the changing realities of the past few years, artist Cherine Fahd explores the nature of touch and intimacy through her participatory performance.

“ The camera and a picture, whether moving or still, have the potential to generate intimacy and attachment.

I am interested in how making images can motivate us to come together during a crisis” – CHERINE FAHD

JANUARY — 31 MARCH 2024

Simone Rosenbauer, SM05.02.067

SMALL MUSEUM SIMONE ROSENBAUER Simone Rosenbauer's Small Museum takes us inside the world of true collectors. This is an exhibition of photographs taken of 41 community museums across Australia.

These images highlight the buildings, people, and collections within them.

Small Museum fosters an appreciation and understanding for the lesser known cultural treasures that are embedded within these community collections.

By shining a spotlight on these often overlooked institutions, the project celebrates their role in preserving local heritage, history, and identity through contemporary art.

02 MARCH — 30 JUNE 2024

Simone Rosenbauer, SM37 The Australian Golf Museum

SMALL MUSEUM SIMONE ROSENBAUER

02 MARCH — 30 JUNE 2024

Rosie Deacon, SPAGHETTI-STACK-SNUFFLE-SHUFFLE, Bunjil Place, 2022, Photo: Bri Hammond

THE COLLECTORS Small Museum Commissions

BILLY BAIN ROSIE DEACON KARA WOOD

Taking its cue from Simone Rosenbauer’s Small Museums, we commissioned three artists to develop artistic interventions in response to items within local historic collections.

These interventions will become a catalyst for dialogue, understanding and appreciation of the invaluable role that small museums play in shaping identity and collective community memory.

This exhibition is supported by the Dobell Exhibition Grant, funded by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and managed by Museums & Galleries of NSW.

02 MARCH — 20 JUNE 2024

Kathrin Longhurst, Tamil, 2019, oil on linen, 180 × 180 cm, Image courtesy the artist

SETTLED/ UNSETTLED PENNY BYRNE MEHWISH IQBAL KATHRIN LONGHURST ANGUS MCDONALD

09 MARCH — 09 JUNE 2024

Through the work of Kathrin Longhurst, Mehwish Iqbal, Angus McDonald and Penny Byrne, Settled/Unsettled explores issues of war and cultural displacement through the lens of asylum-seeker, refugee, and migrant experiences.

By investigating the themes of conflict and exile, home and belonging, the exhibition contributes to the movement of empowerment and acceptance.

Prudence De Marchi, Charades, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 43 × 43 cm, image courtesy of Mitch Revs Gallery

FIND ME IN THE FLOWERS PRUDENCE DE MARCHI Celebrate the change in season with Prudence De Marchi as she explores the simple beauty of Autumn.

Underpinned by nature and driven by the desire to create work that sparks joy, this exhibition presents a suite of paintings that are all about floral silhouettes and golden hues.

02 MARCH — 09 JUNE 2024

Robert Klippel, No. 72, 1958, brazed and welded steel with copper plates, 62 × 30 × 17 cm

VISUAL WEIGHT ROBERT KLIPPEL

Step inside the story of a creative friendship as we showcase important works by Robert Klippel drawn from the collection of Geoffrey Hassall.

The Hassall Collection contains dozens of Klippel artworks covering decades of the artist’s work. There are so many aspects of Klippel’s life expressed in his artwork and captured in the Hassall Collection: sculptures in all forms - wood, metal, steel, bronze, found material, carboard and paper - as well as numerous examples of paintings, collage and drawing many of which Klippel intended to be seen in partnership.

16 MARCH — 16 JUNE 2024

Ron Mueck, Pregnant woman, 2002 fibreglass, silicone, polyester resin, oil paint, fibres National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased with the assistance of Tony and Carol Berg 2003. © Ron Mueck courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London.

RON MUECK PREGNANT WOMAN, 2002 National Gallery of Australia Ron Mueck – Pregnant woman is on loan from the National Gallery of Australia through the Sharing the National Collection program.

Over the year, the work will sit within our own collection, exhibitions and commissions to allow for conversations and ideas related to family (in all its diverse forms), motherhood, birth and the marvel of humanity.

Pregnant woman is a monumental work of art providing a focus on representations of the body in art.

13 APRIL 2024 — 23 JUNE 2025

Michelle Gearin, Prism (detail), 2022, 49 individual paintings, oil and watercolour paintings on Italian cotton paper mounted on archival foam, 32 cm diameter each. Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2022

OLD STORIES NEW MAGIC MICHELLE GEARIN LINDE IVIMEY NAOMI KANTJURINYI ADAM LEE SARKER PROTICK JULIA ROBINSON HEATHER B. SWANN Old Stories New Magic brings together artists who draw from the deep and ancient well of the real and the mythic.

For Naomi Kantjurinyi, an artist and Ngankari (traditional healer) in her community of Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands,

22 JUNE — 06 OCTOBER 2024

her depictions of ‘mamu’ represent the spirit forces that are both ancient, real and present in Anangu life today.

The work of Naomi Kantjurinyi will be shown alongside other artists who work in the realm of old stories. From the surreal conjuring of Michelle Gearin and Sarker Protick to the folkloric but thoroughly contemporary work of Linde Ivimey, Adam Lee and Julia Robinson.

This is an exhibition that embraces old stories and explores our longing and fascination with other worlds and beings, the dreamy sub-conscious and the long-lasting presence of the ancient.

Brittany Ferns, Orchid One, 2023 acrylic, oil, fabric on 450gsm Belgium linen on board, 26 × 33 cm. image courtesy of the artist

HOLD BRITTANY FERNS MEGAN MCGEE Vessels have a long and varied history; they are both decorative and practical and are often signifiers of time and place. In this exhibition, Newcastle based artists Brittany Ferns (paintings) and Megan McGee (ceramics) embrace the notion that the vessel has a presence, and its presence exists to accommodate the presence of something else.

15 JUNE — 22 SEPTEMBER 2024

Euan Macleod, Climber With Twin Shadows, 2023, oil poly, 53.5 × 67 cm

LINEAGE A Visual Continuum

SOPHIE CAPE KEVIN CONNOR ELISABETH CUMMINGS STEVEN LOPES EUAN MACLEOD ANN THOMSON SHONAH TRESCOTT GUY WARREN

29 JUNE — 27 OCTOBER 2024

Lineage celebrates the dynamic interplay of tradition and innovation through eight diverse but related artistic practices. The exhibition invites us on a journey through the captivating conversations of these very distinct creative voices, each individually contributing to a shared narrative of artistic heritage. As we traverse the generational spectrum, Lineage offers a glimpse into the influences, transformations, and enduring themes that help shape the ongoing evolution of art.

Artist Dennis Golding with The Future is Here, 2021, Carriageworks.

Image courtesy and © the artist. Photograph Zan Wimberley

POWER The Future is Here

DENNIS GOLDING POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School and curated by Kyra Kum-Sing. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who was an artist in residence at the school through Solid Ground. Students from Kindergarten to Year 12 designed their capes with iconography informed by their lived experiences and cultural identity.

As superheroes, Golding and his young collaborators are empowered and reminded of the strength of their culture in forming their identity and connection to Country. Individually and together, the capes critique social, political and cultural representations of contemporary First Nations experience.

A Solid Ground project with Dennis Golding and Alexandria Park Community School, curated by Kyra Kum-Sing, presented by Carriageworks and Blacktown Arts, and touring with Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.

06 JULY — 13 OCTOBER 2024

Dennis Golding, The Future is Here, 2021, installation at Carriageworks.

Image courtesy and © the artist. Photograph Zan Wimberley

DENNIS GOLDING

06 JULY — 13 OCTOBER 2024

Anna Horne, Leaning Into It, 2023, concrete, rope, steel frame and paint, 31 × 17 × 23 cm, Photo by Sam Roberts

THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHIFTING BENEATH ANNA HORNE

South Australian artist Anna Horne uses unlikely materials expertly to create curious and tactile sculptural forms. In this intimate exhibition, she explores the very human qualities of strength and vulnerability and our quest for ‘home’ and stability in an environment that seems to be ever-changing.

28 SEPTEMBER 2024 — 02 FEBRUARY 2025

Philip Drummond, Summer Fruits (detail), 2021, oil on canvas, 90 × 120 cm, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Philip Drummond, 2022

TWITCHER

A flocktastic celebration of birds in art

MICHELLE CAWTHORN PETER COOLEY TRACEY DEEP PHILIP DRUMMOND MANDY FRANCIS TODD FULLER ANNA-WILI HIGHFIELD LEILA JEFFREYS MARTIN KING SAM LEACH

NIGEL MILSOM KATIE NALGOOD JULIAN OPIE HERMANNSBURG POTTERS BEN QUILTY PETER SPEIGHT BRIDIE WATT TREVOR WEEKES LOUISE WEAVER TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS

Join us as we celebrate the natural world with an exhibition dedicated to art and birds. We’ve brought together contemporary artists from across Australia who feature birds in many forms across their work.

Scheduled to coincide with the great Aussie Bird Count 2024, Twitcher will delight everyone as we pop on the binoculars and go all in for a Summer season of creative birdwatching.

12 OCTOBER 2024 — 23 FEBRUARY 2025

Julie Rrap, Windage, 2004, pure pigment print on acid-free rag paper, 93.2 × 198.2 cm, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Nell and Kylie Kwong, 2020

BODY WORK

From the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection Body Work is a celebration of flesh, bones and the mechanics that make up the wonder of the human form.

Explore art that brings bodies to life as we present works from the MRAG collection alongside the monumental form of Ron Mueck’s Pregnant woman in all her anatomical glory.

09 NOVEMBER 2024 — 02 MARCH 2025

Robert Fielding, photo: Meg Hansen

TJURKURPA HANDLE IT ROBERT FIELDING Robert Fielding is an artist, a storyteller and a keeper of Tjukurpa (ceremony and culture). Descendant of the first Afghan cameleers, and the Yankunytjatjara and Western Arrenda people of the central desert, Fielding lives and works in Mimili Community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Over the past decade, he has built an eclectic and vast catalogue of works spanning and expanding the fields of paint, print, photography, poetry, drawing, film and sculpture, much of which is now housed in national and international institutions

and collections. In 2022, Fielding drew on the ideas and powerful storytelling in this diverse backstory of work and produced a unique state print portfolio.

This portfolio due for exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2024 is a considered articulation of his practice, bringing together threads of his past and present to create a new conversation between times, places and cultures.

09 NOVEMBER 2024 — 09 MARCH 2025

Robert Fielding, photo: Meg Hansen

ROBERT FIELDING

09 NOVEMBER 2024 — 09 MARCH 2025

2024 ARTS HEALTH | FREE PROGRAM

ART & DEMENTIA Art & Dementia is a free 90 minute social tour of exhibitions created specifically for people living with dementia and their carers. The tours are guided by a trained facilitator who uses art as a gateway for conversation and self-expression, enabling visitors to express their thoughts and emotions in a friendly and supportive environment.

FEBRUARY 08 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 27 TUESDAY, 2:00PM MARCH 14 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 26 TUESDAY, 2:00PM APRIL 11 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 30 TUESDAY, 2:00PM MAY 09 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 28 TUESDAY, 2:00PM JUNE 13 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 25 TUESDAY, 2:00PM JULY 04 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 30 TUESDAY, 2:00PM

AUGUST 08 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 27 TUESDAY, 2:00PM SEPTEMBER 12 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 24 TUESDAY, 2:00PM OCTOBER 17 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 29 TUESDAY, 2:00PM NOVEMBER 14 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 26 TUESDAY, 2:00PM DECEMBER 05 THURSDAY, 10:30AM 10 TUESDAY, 2:00PM

Art & Dementia is a free program. Bookings essential, phone 02 4934 9859 or email artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Photo: Leighsa Cox

2024 ARTS HEALTH | FREE PROGRAM

JOURNEYS Creative Connections

A great way to connect in a safe environment, the workshop welcomes people with a lived mental health experience to connect with art and community. Join us the third Friday of the month.

Free program. Lunch included. Materials supplied.

Bookings essential and for all enquiries contact Flourish Australia, phone: 02 9393 9700 or email: juan.du@flourishaustralia.org.au

2024 KIDS & FAMILIES | FREE PROGRAM

ART TRAILS

Are you good at solving puzzles?

Do you think that you can locate some hidden treasures in the art gallery?

Then grab a Code Breaker from the front desk and use the clues to crack the code!

Photo: Newy Digital

2024 KIDS & FAMILIES | FREE PROGRAM

FREE ART SUNDAY Sponsored by our Members & Cleverpatch

Free Art Sunday is designed to encourage parents and children to add to their experience of the gallery by accessing hands-on activities in a family-friendly environment.

Photo: Newy Digital

2024 KIDS & FAMILIES | FREE PROGRAM

FREE ART JANUARY Sponsored by our Members & Cleverpatch

Every year we have a festival of art and artmaking for young people with a bumper program released each Summer.

Photo: Newy Digital

2024 KIDS | FREE PROGRAM

THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS Sponsored by EJE Architecture

Many young people are curious about art, buildings, design and engineering.

Our Young Architects program is a new initiative aimed at nurturing creative design thinking with fun workshops led by a team of architects and artists.

Free program. Bookings via the MRAG website

Photo: Leighsa Cox

2024 SCHOOL TERM

ART EXPLORERS

After school art class for kids 8-12 years

Art Explorers is an after school art class for kids aged 8 — 12 years who love art and want to learn new techniques while exploring different art materials over an eight week term.

Each week the young artists adventure into the Gallery with an artist educator to explore an exhibition, then in the workshop learn about different materials, practice and skills through activities that respond to the art works they have seen.

The young artists will be encouraged to use their imagination, experiment with different techniques and materials while creating their own art works. $200.00 plus booking fee for 8 weeks 10% discount for members, contact gallery via email artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au or phone 02 4934 9859 for discount code

TERM 01: TUE 06 FEB — TUE 26 MAR 2024 TERM 02: TUE 07 MAY — TUE 25 JUN 2024 TERM 03: TUE 30 JUL — TUE 17 SEP 2024 TERM 04: TUE 22 OCT — TUE 10 DEC 2024

Photo: Newy Digital

2024 SCHOOL TERM

SCHOOL VISITS & WORKSHOPS

MRAG is a significant local resource valued by educators, not only for its exhibitions and art collection, but for its public spaces, big backyard and workshop facilities.

We enjoy working with educators to create a gallery experience that meets the needs and interests of their students.

To book your school or group visit, email artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au or call the Gallery on 02 4934 9859.

Photo: Newy Digital

GALLERY STORE Your one-stop destination for artisan gifts in the Lower Hunter.

Whether you are shopping for a friend, for family or looking to spoil yourself, the Gallery Store has something for everyone, with over 500 unique items including jewellery, cards, books, scarves, bags, and homewares.

Gallery Members enjoy 10% off, always.

Vouchers and complimentary gift-wrapping available.

Photo: Leighsa Cox

SÉRAPHINE CAFÉ Open for breakfast, lunch, coffee and cakes.

Named after the 18th century French artist, Séraphine Café is a popular café at the rear of the Gallery including indoor dining and a stunning alfresco area surrounded by a boutique garden.

OPEN TUESDAY TO SUNDAY, 8.00AM — 2.00PM

Photo: Kat Stanley Photography

Artwork by Ken O'Regan as part of the exhibition Upriver Downriver. Photo: Brydie Paif

VENUE HIRE

Book an event to remember at Maitland Regional Art Gallery!

The Gallery is an exciting, contemporary art and cultural destination and a dynamic venue for your special event. Whether you are planning a meeting, presentation, product launch, cocktail party, ceremony or formal dinner, we have a variety of options to make your event memorable.

For more information, visit mrag.org.au/venue-hire

BECOME A MEMBER of Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Photo: Leighsa Cox

Maitland Regional Art Gallery Members enjoy a range of benefits, including discounted tickets to our exhibitions and programs, and invitations to special Member events.

Become a Gallery Member and your contribution will help us deliver engaging education and Arts Health programs.

Join our community today at mrag.org.au/become-a-member

MEMBERSHIP

1 YEAR

3 YEARS

INDIVIDUAL

$35.00

$85.00

CONCESSION*

$30.00

$70.00

FAMILY

$65.00

$150.00

BUSINESS

$90.00

$200.00

*child/student/pensioner

Shan Turner-Carroll with his Telepathic drawing as part of the artist take over with the exhibition Upriver Downriver.

Photo: Newy Digital

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK We thank all the artists who will make this program possible, filling the Gallery with insight, imagination and creative expertise.

We also acknowledge and tip our hats to our partners, funding bodies, members and volunteers.

Maitland Regional Art Gallery would like to thank Jennings Print Group for their generous support in the production of this program.

To our friends and donors, we thank you – you make a vital contribution to the cultural landscape of our City.

This program is printed on 100% recycled paper.

MRAG is a proud service of Maitland City Council and is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY ART GALLERY & STORE Tuesday – Sunday, 9.00am – 4.00pm Address: 230 High Street, PO Box 220, Maitland, NSW, 2320 Phone: 02 4934 9859 Email: artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au

CAFÉ SERAPHINE Tuesday – Sunday, 8.00am – 2.00pm Phone: 02 4934 7264

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