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Many artists have a deeply rooted connection to their environment and draw inspiration from patterns in nature. Nicola Bolton’s The Garden Palette explores the artist’s strong affinity for the gardens surrounding her late Victorian era home in Bolwarra as well as her interaction with gardens whilst traveling in the UK and Europe. Photography is integral to Nicola’s artistic practice, which has its foundations in the detailed interrogation of natural environments and depiction of the Australian landscape. In this series, Nicola uses…

Open House: 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial celebrates the open-ended, porous nature of textiles practice today. It introduces a group of artists who have not previously exhibited in the triennial. All are linked in some way to a sense of broader engagement with things outside of themselves and their studios. Many celebrate the process of belonging that comes from working with other artists, while others take on wide-ranging issues such as the landscape and the environment and the artist’s place in a…

This exhibition features etchings from the MRAG Collection created by Paul Partos, a Czech born, Australian, abstract artist who participated in two of Australia’s landmark exhibitions of Australian abstract art: The Field, 1968 and Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002, 2003. This series of etchings, acquired in 2016 with the assistance of the artist’s estate, demonstrate Partos’ examination of the physical and conceptual limits of the square and rectangle, which was a major characteristic of his painting.

Artworks by 45 Aboriginal artists from 32 language groups across Australia from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection Immerse yourself in this selected exhibition from the MRAG Collection: each artwork with its own story is part of the diversity and richness of Aboriginal art and culture found across Australia today. This dynamic exhibition includes bark paintings by GANALBINGU George Milpurrurru and Curley Bardkadubbu, prints by Ginger Riley Mundawalawala, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Rover Thomas JOOLAMA and Helicopter Joe Tjungarrayi and paintings…

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…

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…