MRAG Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Days of Summer is a masterful achievement in Salvatore Zofrea’s oeuvre, and Australian printmaking generally. One of this country’s most accomplished woodcut artists has again managed to create an ambitious and all embracing body of work that marks an important development in his own art, as well as bring us another vision of that great, enduring theme of Australian art – the Australian landscape. Salvatore Zofrea Touring Exhibition Information (PDF) Salvatore Zofrea Education Kit (PDF)

Hanna Kay’s Undertow will be complemented by Maitland Jewish Cemetery: A Monument to Dreams and Deeds a publication and installation on the history of the cemetery and the people buried there, curated by Janis Wilton and Joe Eisenberg, and designed by David Guy.  This exhibition was part of an MRAG project entitled Maitland Jewish Cemetery and was the winner of the 2011 National Trust Heritage Awards, Category I: Interpretation and Presentation 1: Corporate/Government. Click here to find out more about this award winning project. Hanna Kay Touring Information Hanna Kay Education Kit (PDF)

The exhibition In[two]art features an impressive convergence of recent works from sixty significant Australian artists. Thirty pairs of artist couples have been selected for the exhibition, including Alun Leach–Jones and Nola Jones; Clare Healy and Sean Cordeiro; Rick Amor and Meg Williams; Helen Eagar and Christopher Hodges; John Turier and Nicola Hensel; and Deborah Paauwe and Mark Kimber. The diversity of practice, medium and style on display in In[Two]Art, supported by an extensive catalogue for the exhibition, is enough to promise a diverse and fascinating visit to MRAG. But In[Two]Art will be of interest for many visitors because of the… » Read More

Although Afterlife presents a vision of dead and dismembered animals; horses, rats and birds the exhibition is not dark or morbid. Rather Afterlife relates not to what happens to the bodies after death or where the souls may go,  Afterlife is about how Archer reshapes and interprets the skeletal remains in a theoretical, poetic elegiac or fanciful way. Using media such as paint Archer wants to contrive and concoct with her subject matter on canvas and forge and form objects that ultimately find their way into our world as paintings and sculptures. Suzanne Archer: Afterlife an MRAG Touring Exhibition (PDF)… » Read More

In this exhibition Paul Selwood presents the illusion of three dimensions with thin sheets of metal and an apparent sense of painted surfaces. To create the artworks in Perspective Cutouts, Paul left sheets of steel out on the grass of his property so that patterns of damp grass and trails left by insects would be inferred onto the metal’s surface as it rusted. To this, Paul scored the lines of a series of stacked geometric shapes, cut out the exterior overall shape, and then applied matte varnish, gloss varnish, or left other sections plain. The result is the implication of… » Read More