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September 2021
Free Art Sundays for All Ages
BOOKINGS REQUIRED. Every Sunday families are welcome to book in to attend free art activities inspired by the exhibitions on display. Our activities are designed for kids of all ages, and as a family you can all join in and get creative. Each activity takes around half an hour to complete.
Art Sunday is staffed by qualified art teachers. The workshop is designed to encourage parents and children to add to their experience of the gallery by accessing hands-on activities in a family friendly environment.
Please note: children cannot be left unattended during Art Sundays
Art Materials proudly supported by CleverPatch
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Code Breakers
Are you good at solving puzzles? Do you think that you can locate some hidden features in the art gallery? If so, grab yourself a clipboard with Code Breaker from the art gallery Front Desk and use the clues to break the code!
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Art and Heritage Tour
We love sharing information about the Gallery, it's history and the exhibitions on display. Please get in touch if you would like to book a guided tour. (Guided tours subject to staff availability)
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August 2021
Les Darcy (detail), c.1915-1917, Silver gelatin print, Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2004
The Les Darcy Collection, Curator Talk with Cheryl Farrell
Join Collection Curator Cheryl Farrell for an insightful look at MRAG’s Les Darcy collection and hear the stories behind the objects.
Bookings required via Eventbrite
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Just Not Australian Film Screening | TERROR NULLIUS by Soda Jerk
Second screening - back by popular demand!
Part political satire, part eco-horror and part road movie, Terror Nullius is a political revenge fable which offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies.
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Winter School Holiday | Drop-in Art Making
Drop into the Gallery for free family fun these school holidays and enjoy art making activities inspired by works on display in exhibition Shadow Boxer.
Week 1: Tuesday 29 June to Friday 2 June
Week 2: Tuesday 6 - Friday 9 July
10.30am – 1.30pm
Free, all ages
Drop-in, no bookings required
Carol Anderson, Aunty Marge Weastell and Tammy Hunter at the launch of Marge’s Story.
Marge’s Story
Marge's Story is a video telling the story of Aunty Marge Weastell, the oldest living Wonnarua Elder. This video was lovingly put together by her daughters Carol Anderson and Tammy Hunter.
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Postponed – Drawing Workout with Richard Lewer
Artist and boxing coach Richard Lewer will get your heart pumping in a very different kind of drawing workout.
Bookings essential via Eventbrite
14 years+
$20 non-members + booking fee
$15 members + booking fee (contact the gallery on 49349859 or artgallery@maitland.com.au to receive the members discount code)
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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 Panel Discussion
The boxing ring has long been a compelling site for artists, but what is it about the fight that speaks to artists through the ages and why?
Join our Shadow Boxer Discussion Panel facilitated by artist Abdul Abdullah and featuring artists Karla Dickens and Richard Lewer, and former Australian Flyweight Champion boxer Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir.
All ages welcome
Bookings required via Eventbrite
This event is Auslan sign interpreted
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Winter Season Opening Weekend: Launch
Join the excitement as we launch our Winter Season including new exhibitions: Shadow Boxer, Just Not Australian, Barka: The Forgotten River, and Impressions of a Journey: Landscapes Between Walcha and Patterson.
All audiences welcome.
Bookings required via Eventbrite
This event is Auslan sign interpreted
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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
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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Teachers drawing session with artist Luke Thurgate
$20.00 + booking fee for teachers Looking to get more out of your gallery visits for your students? Join artist Luke Thurgate for a sketching tour of Maitland Regional Art Gallery’s current exhibitions. Tailored to art educators, this workshop will introduce a range of drawing exercises designed to deepen engagement with works of art for your students. Bookings Essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/teachers-drawing-session-with-artist-luke-thurgate-tickets-150869959109 Luke Thurgate is an artist and educator based in Sydney. He studied at the University of Newcastle, graduating…
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Ann Cape, The last portrait of my mother (detail), 2014, oil on canvas
Portraiture Workshop with artist Ann Cape
Join artist Ann Cape from exhibition An Unending Shadow: Works Exploring Dementia, in an intimate skills based portraiture workshop. Hone your skills in life drawing with a focus on the face and hands, working in charcoals and oils. All materials provided, bookings essential. Ann Cape is a painter, sculptor, art teacher, and celebrated finalist in the Archibald Prize numerous times. Members receive a $20 discount when booking; look out for your Members' only eNews, or call us to book in. Click here…
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Ryan Andrew Lee, Detail still from Wonnarua 2020
WONNARUA 2020 | Ryan Andrew Lee
“My video diptych juxtaposes living portraits of five Aboriginal people from the Wonnarua Nation with drone shots of the vast Muswellbrook coal mines situated in the heart of the Wonnarua Nation. I want to provoke discussion around themes of Indigenous ways of living in juxtaposition with the Western Settler-state system's unsustainable and damaging ways of using stolen lands. In today's current global state of environmental (and cultural, communal and spiritual) emergency, the need to embrace traditional Indigenous knowledge is more…
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