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The Daughter (detail), Del Kathryn Barton, 2011-12. Acrylic, gouache, watercolour and ink on polyester canvas. Courtesy of ARTAND Foundation
Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose
Showcasing the hauntingly beautiful collaboration between acclaimed artist Del Kathryn Barton, celebrated director Brendan Fletcher and award-winning visual effects house Method Studios, this milestone exhibition traces the interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic through a sophisticated artistic lens. A shining example of multidisciplinary partnerships across the creative arts, Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the...
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Lottie Consalvo, I Stirred The Sea To See If It Was Alive (detail), 2019, video still, single-channel video, 5min 36sec
Lottie Consalvo | Somewhere Else
Newcastle based artist Lottie Consalvo's work traverses painting and video, with a strong focus on performance. Her work mines her interest in the psychology of human experience with ideas surrounding longing, desire, the intangible and the ungraspable. This solo exhibition, Somewhere Else brings her disciplines together as she unfolds the enormity of the immeasurable and...
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Marie Ho, Our River - Tranquil, But Can Be a Raging Torrent (detail), 2018, oil on board, 36 x 43cm
A Poem for Maitland – in celebration of the Maitland Region Society of Artists 21st Birthday
This exhibition invites current members of the Maitland Region Society of Artists to create a new work of art which celebrates what Maitland means to them. As part of the process each artist will contribute to a poem which will be written and displayed as their gift to Maitland.
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Nola Tegel, Studio Exhibition (detail), 2015, oil on board, 100 x 80cm
Nola Tegel | In the Light of the Day
Nola comes from a long standing tradition of painting en plein air, artwork created ‘in the moment’, painted and worked on in situ. Nola can often be working in her magnificent home garden or out in the field during her many trips overseas. Nola’s subjects are often domestic or people enjoying themselves in a café...
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Michael Cook, Civilised #11 (detail), 2012, Inkjet print on archival Hahnemuhle cotton paper, 99 x 86.5cm, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, Donated under the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Penelope Seidler, 2019 © the artist
Unfolding Time – Penelope Seidler’s Gift to Maitland
Penelope Seidler AM has an intrinsic and layered connection to Maitland. This exhibition unfolds those layers to reveal Penelope Seidler's love of art, her support of artists, her generosity and her ties to Maitland - a personal connection that began more than a century ago in East Maitland where her father, Clive Raleigh Evatt QC...
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Suzanne Archer, Centrepiece, Afterlife, 2017, oil on canvas, 240 x 240cm. Photo: Bernie Fischer
Suzanne Archer | Time Traveller
For Suzanne Archer, travel has been one of the most powerful challenges and enriching source of artistic expansion. From travelling with camera, sketchbook and notebook in hand, Archer has amassed a collection of travel journals that have recently begun transforming into artist books. Her journeys have taken her to Europe, Africa, Thailand, China, Bali, USA,...
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Frank Oakes, The Wizard of St Mary’s (detail), 2019, mixed media (recycled materials), dimensions variable
Frank Oakes | The Myth of the Angry wizards of Maitland
Local legend Frank Oakes invites you into a world of wizardry, wonder and fairy tales created through the ancient art of puppetry.
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Brett Piva, Remnants before the Tasman (detail), 2019, acrylic, approximately 5m x 17m.
Brett Piva | Remnants before the Tasman
If you stroll along High Street in an easterly direction you cannot miss Brett Piva’s immense mural on the side of the Gallery building. Commissioned to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Gallery’s redevelopment the Artist was asked to take inspiration from this milestone. Piva believes the beauty of abstract art is that it...
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