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August 2020

Margaret Olley, Bedroom still life (detail), 1997, Oil on board 61 x 91cm, Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery with the assistance of the Art Gallery Society, 1998, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection

Margaret Olley, Bedroom still life (detail), 1997, Oil on board 61 x 91cm, Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery with the assistance of the Art Gallery Society, 1998, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection

Hello again – it’s nice to see your face | Portraits from the MRAG Collection

August 15, 2020 — February 14, 2021
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Coming out of isolation, along with the rest of us, are faces of old friends that we haven’t seen for some time - plus new friends that have been waiting to ‘show their face’

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November 2020

Andrew Sullivan, T-REX (Tyrant Lizard King) [detail], 2014, oil on canvas, 153 x 213cm.

Andrew Sullivan | Survey into the Cretaceous

November 20, 2020 — March 7, 2021
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Survey into the Cretaceous is a journey into the painter’s imagination where Andrew Sullivan has imagined himself as an assigned artist with a team of paleontologists, scientists and geographers on a survey expedition into the late Cretaceous period. His brief was to record fauna and express the experience through paint. Boundaries of reality and barriers between disciplines blurred, this is an act of imagination. The work presented being the product of the journey, tangible evidence of an impossible story. Andrew…

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Holly McNamee, The Old Place (detail), 2008, conte and charcoal on arches paper, 57x38cm

Holly McNamee | About Maitland

November 21, 2020 — February 21, 2021
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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After spending many years away from Maitland, McNamee returned to the place of her childhood in the early 2000s and began the task of retracing the artist's earliest memories -from walking to the family home located 233 High Street (now the Shell garage), to primary school at St Johns. What began as a homage to the significant structures McNamee walked past as a child of the 1950s, the exhibition About Maitland has developed into a collection of artwork which provides…

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Ken Done, Violet coral head (detail), 2011-16, oil and acrylic on linen, 152 x 122cm. Courtesy of the artist and Ken Done Gallery, Sydney

Ken Done | Paintings You Probably Haven’t Seen, Selected Works 2000 – 2017

November 21, 2020 — February 21, 2021
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Ken Done is well known for his vibrant paintings that depict the iconic Australian experience. The magnificent selection of artworks in Paintings You Probably Haven’t Seen: Selected Works 2000 – 2017 celebrates the splendour of Australia’s natural beauty. The artist finds wonder in the everyday through glorious colour, spontaneous mark making and brilliant visual expression. This exhibition, as the title suggests, is a joyful collection of Ken’s most important pieces from his private collection, side by side with his latest…

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Hilda Rix Nicholas Through the gum trees (detail), Toongabbie c1920, oil on canvas. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Acquired with the support of the Art Gallery Society of NSW through the Dagmar Halas Bequest 2016 © Estate of Hilda Rix Nicholas

Fieldwork: Landscapes West of Sydney

November 28, 2020 — February 7, 2021
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Fieldwork is an exhibition that will survey plein air painting (painting outdoors) west of Sydney between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The region, which encompasses the Western Suburbs, Blue Mountains, and the Hawkesbury, has been a popular artists destination since European settlement and its portrayal in landscape art of this period has made an important contribution to Australian art. Surprisingly, this history and significance is often overlooked in displays or accounts of Australian art which are inclined toward…

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January 2021

Adaptation by the Goldberg Aberline Studio

Adaptation | Goldberg Aberline Studio

January 12 — January 24
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Adaptation (with the Community of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery, the Grafton Regional Gallery, the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and AlburyCity Cultural Activation) is a large scale inflatable sculpture that invites the viewer to journey around and through the complex organic structure, revealing vibrantly coloured and patterned art textiles, bursting away from the main structure almost as if they grew there. During the process of this project - approximately 100 creatives across NSW joined together in a series of live…

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February 2021

MADE/WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, Liam Benson, Coat of Arms, 2009. Image: Steven Cook

MADE/WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery

February 13 — May 2
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Celebrating diversity and inclusivity, Made / Worn includes the work of 20 contemporary jewellery artists working in Australia now. From intimate pieces to large scale works, the contemporary jewellery in this exhibition explores the act of making is worn on the wearing art.  Spanning a wide range of materials, techniques and meanings, the works on display are playful, intricate, conceptual, personal and political. The artists also engage with themes of place, sustainability in materials and identity. Made/ Worn: Australian Contemporary…

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Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Terminus 2017-18 (still), virtual reality experience in five parts: colour, sound. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2017

Terminus | Jess Johnson and Simon Ward

February 20 — May 2
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Inspired by Sci-Fi, comics and fantasy movies, Terminus is a virtual reality (VR) installation that transports the viewer into an imaginary landscape of colour and pattern by human clones, moving walkways and gateways to new realms. Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward is a National Gallery of Australia exhibition and is touring Australia as part of the National Gallery of Australia’s travelling exhibitions program. The National Gallery of Australia acknowledges funding support from the Visions of Australia touring and the…

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Ann Cape, Solitude (detail), 2015, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5cm

An Unending Shadow: Works exploring dementia by Ann and Sophie Cape

February 20 — May 23
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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An Unending Shadow is an exhibition of artworks by prominent Australian mother and daughter artists, Ann and Sophie Cape. Together they have made a series of challenging new artworks exploring Dementia and its impact within the community. The exhibition examines the emotional and psychological ‘spaces’ that people with dementia inhabit, as well as those of their family, friends and loved ones. The images include portraits of individuals and their carers as well as large abstract works. Together the artists shine a…

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Wade Buchan (Australia), Last Hurdle, 2019, PSA Gold Medal Best Image

Maitland International Salon of Photography

February 27 — May 30
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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For over 60 years the Maitland International Salon of Photography has attracted entries from photographers around the world. Over 5,000 entries were received this year in salon categories Colour, Monochrome, Nature as well as Open, Nature and Travel images. From the accepted prints displayed at the Maitland Showground, this exhibition showcases a selection of 50 prints and projected images.

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ARTEXPRESS

February 27 — May 30
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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ARTEXPRESS at Maitland Regional Art Gallery is an exhibition of 36 high achieving Visual Arts Bodies of Work from the 2020 Higher School Certificate Examination created by Year 12 students from schools in the Sydney Metropolitan and the Hunter Central Coast regions. A dynamic representation of expressive forms - drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, photomedia, designed objects, textiles and fibre, sculpture, documented forms, ceramics, time-based forms and collection of works – are showcased in the MRAG ARTEXPRESS. This exhibition is…

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March 2021

Saturday: when commercial artists go rogue

March 13 — June 6
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Commercial artists go rogue! Six young creatives respond to a non-commercial brief with each allocated a day of the week to explore and collaborate in their own medium. Andy Gallagher is Saturday. In Andy's Saturday he delves into the world of digital technology and creates immersive worlds with virtual reality. Visitors will experience how the artist uses virtual reality to suspend time and allow them to exist inside a synthetic interactive space. The Monday to Friday artists will be Andy's…

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May 2021

Hoda Afshar, Dog’s Breakfast (detail), 2011, archival inkjet print, 61 x 88.9 cm, courtesy of the Artist

Just Not Australian

May 8 — August 1
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Just Not Australian brings together 20 artists across generations and diverse cultural backgrounds to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood. With works ranging from the late 1990s right through to newly commissioned pieces, they are united by their desire to take Australia’s ‘official’ history to task, making space for people and events that have, often wilfully, been sidelined or omitted. The artists explore the politics of images, their construction and circulation, as well as their…

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June 2021

Paula Jenkins, The Descent I (into the gorge), 2020, Apsley Gorge, 153x153cm, oil on canvas.

Impressions of a Journey: Landscapes between Walcha and Paterson | Paula Jenkins

June 5 — August 29
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Paula Jenkins grew up near Paterson in the NSW Hunter Valley; a place of fond memory for the artist where she grew up swimming in the river and exploring bushland. For the last 13 years she has called Walcha home. During this time Paula has made many journeys between Walcha and Paterson, along the Thunderbolts Way, observing the vast and interesting landscapes between the two places. This exhibition will be a display of these landscapes captured in oil on canvas,…

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Karla Dickens, Pound-for-Pound #3 (detail), 2019, mixed media, 161 x 41 x 41cm, Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2020.

Shadow Boxer | Various artists

June 5 — August 8
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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The boxing ring has long been a compelling site for artists. It has produced many books, songs, paintings and films. What is it about the fight that speaks to artists through the ages and why do some contemporary artists respond so vividly to its grit, history and contest? Shadow Boxer will highlight this cultural fascination and showcase the work of contemporary Australian artists who explore ideas of race, gender and class and the sheer physicality of Boxing in their work.…

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