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The exhibition was conceived by artists/curators Eric and Robyn Werkhoven in response to the present hostile world events.Twenty seven professional visual artists have been invited to express, interpret and explore their belief for world peace. The exhibition will include all genres of the visual arts – painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, ceramics, Video installation. We all want a peaceful world, is it possible? Is humanity spiralling into insanity? “The war mongers thrive Led by great greed and lethal Gods Since…

This scholarship was established to support a young achiever in visual arts (30 years or under) who is a student or recent graduate at a tertiary education institution in the Lower Hunter (including Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Muswellbrook and Singleton) to undertake a program of professional development in an international context. In 2016 an additional runner-up prize of $3,000 was donated by Maitland Regional Art Gallery and Vicki and Bruce Woods, the founders and Principal Sponsors, increased…

The exhibition will feature 77 framed photographs culled from Getty Images, noted photojournalist archives and Kennedy Presidential Library collections of over 36,000 images along with a selection of ephemera. The most exhaustively researched group of Kennedy photos ever assembled, the exhibition celebrates the life, political career, and extraordinary vision of one of the country’s most admired and most charismatic presidents. Gift of the United States Government.

Mixing Numbers is an exhibition which investigates light, colour and the role of chance in this artist’s creative process. Within this recent body of work Tim Maguire explores the myriad possibilities of colour created by the digital print process, where computer-driven numeric colour values combine in unforeseeable ways, sometimes literally dictated by the throw of the dice as in the recent work Dice Abstracts. Imagery for these plays in colour is often based on fragile and impermanent arbitrary events like…

From paper sketches to human scale paintings, Textures of Desire highlights two major series from Valadon's rich and extraordinary 35 year award winning career. Works featured are from her Wicked Women series, and the panoramic still life’s, Four Seasons.

Working between Sydney and Yogyakarta, Indonesian artist Jumaadi explores themes of vulnerability, love and sacrifice, in his distinct visual language. Staging Love speaks of universal stories of life, in large scale drawings, paintings, monumental paper and buffalo hide cut-outs, as well as a painted bridal bed.

Touring from Orange Regional Gallery, The poetry of space: the art of Tim Winters surveys the career of one of Australia’s most respected landscape artists and art teachers. Winters’ abstract work is essentially a poetic or lyrical interpretation of space and the visual articulation of his engagement with the land. This survey, curated by Dr Andrew Flatau, follows not only the artist’s journey but also Winters’ artistic investigations. The Poetry of Space: the Art of Tim Winters is an Orange…

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 projected images. From the accepted prints which are displayed at the Maitland Showground, this exhibition acknowledges 50 prints further selected to be exhibited at MRAG along with projected images.

The stage is a place separated from the everyday that allows us to more fully view life, revealing all the tragedy, comedy, mystery, love and fate that are part of the human experience. When the curtain is raised, we are able to see ourselves as the immortals see us, immersed in our destiny while enacting rituals that ask for blessings and curses to be granted. This world of theatre defies logic and reason in order to reflect who we are…

As a part of Artastique, local artist James Rhodes will be exhibiting his work Tangled Up, from his Fond Illusion series in the Gallery's front window. "This site-specific work explores the changing nature of emotional states due to the amount of information given to us. Through the materiality of the work, and the space it is viewed in, the way in which the image is experienced by an audience change as the light of the day changes. The amount of natural…

Lucas Davidson has created the site specific exhibition Casual Forces for the two levels of the Art Factory exhibition space. Using mirrored surfaces, geometric shapes, repetition and scale Casual Forces aims to challenge viewer perception, questioning the identification and interpretation of the work and the surrounding environment. Casual Forces invites a slower kind of looking that places emphasis on viewer attention and the present moment.

David Griggs explores the darker undercurrents of human existence. His work, predominately portraiture, focuses on the human condition; drawing on political imagery, underground media, local histories and personal experience. Famous for his bold anarchistic approach, Griggs takes the everyday and flips it to expose the cracks, exhuming the raw undercurrent of a society. He documents intimate chance moments and the deliberate actions of his friends, and strangers, within an unidentifiable Manila. His work is often collaborative, engaging directly with communities…