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March 2020
Imaginary Portraits Activity Sheet
Not able to make it to the Gallery in person? We have designed a creative activity, inspired by the Masters & Apprentices exhibition, for you to enjoy at home. Click here to download MRAG's new activity sheet We'd love to see your completed masterpiece, don't forget to share it with us by tagging us on Facebook or Instagram!!!
Find out more »Open Collection Store
This weekend we invite you to peek through the Collection Room doors, wander through the Collection Store, talk to the MRAG staff and discover the treasures stored inside.
Find out more »IF Maitland Festival
The inaugural IF Maitland Festival is a celebration of independent writing and publishing in all its forms. In this age of digital disruption, if you’ve got a book you want to write, a poem to share, or a song to sing, it’s now easier than ever to have work published. IF Maitland wants to help you to tell your story.
Find out more »Expressions of interest are open to be a part of Gabfest: A Youth Week Event
Are you 12 -25 and want to get involved? You could hold a stall, sing, dance, read poetry or showcase your talents.
Find out more »February 2020

Lucas Grogan, The Shroud (detail), 2016, cotton on italian wool, venetian lace, chux and cotton, 259×239cm.
Autumn Season Celebration
Roses are red, violets are blue,
7 new exhibitions are ready for you…
Guns to Roses | from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection
Guns to Roses brings together artworks from the MRAG Collection, and selected works on loan, that illustrate how artists respond to the precariousness of our times; the fragility of life as impacted by war, political unrest and climate change, and the consciousness of our own mortality. Within this exhibition we find symbols of weaponry transformed into visually seductive motifs, the daily news transformed into a ten metre long scroll and the beauty of our native flora used as a disguise…
Find out more »Free Guided tours
Explore the Gallery at your own pace using the Art and Heritage Audio Tour available at reception desk, and as a free app. Or get in touch to organise a guided tour with one of the Gallery team members.
Find out more »Free Art Sunday: Grandparents and Grandchildren
MRAG invites families to drop into the art gallery for free art activities inspired by the exhibitions on display. Activities are tailored for grandparents and grandchildren during seniors week. Drop in anytime between 11.00am — 12.30pm No bookings are required, all materials provided.
Find out more »Lucas Grogan | Long Story Short
Lucas Grogan’s work spans multiple disciplines including quilts, murals and painting. As the title suggests, Grogan’s sense of humour has permeated his bold, fastidiously patterned, highly graphic, pun-filled signature blue artworks that reflect his personal experiences in a range of media. This exhibition will include painting, embroidery, quilts and a large immersive wall installation including a mural to be created by the artist during the installation of the exhibition. Other artworks in the exhibition will be borrowed from a number…
Find out more »Maitland International Salon of Photography
For the past 63 years the Maitland International Salon of Photography (MISoP), which operates via various Camera Clubs in the Hunter Region, has invited entries from photographers around the world. From an average of 5,000 images received from 40 countries for the annual competition, they are then judged across 6 salon categories; Colour, Monochrome and Nature prints as well as Open, Nature and Travel projected images. All the 2019 MISoP acceptances and award winners are shown at the Maitland Showground…
Find out more »Journeys Creative Connections
Welcomes people with a lived mental health experience to connect with art and community on a series of free workshops from 10 am - 12 noon on the third from of each month from February to November. 2020 dates Feb 21st March 20th April 17th May 15th June 19th July 17th, NAIDOC August 21st September 18th October 16th November 20th For all enquiries and bookings contact Debra Bollinger Aftercare phone: 0408 563 361
Find out more »Jaime Pritchard | Unravelling to Recognition
Maitland based artist Jaime Pritchard creates work that reflects the spirit of wabi-sabi, the view cantered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Pritchard’s work traverses painting, drawing, multimedia installation and sculpture in response to emotion, memory and experiences. Unravelling To Recognition is an immersive installation revealing a journey of recollection, moments of deep reflection and acknowledgement leading to understanding.
Find out more »Masters & Apprentices | featuring the Lakeview Collection of Old Masters with responses from local school students
The MASTERS part of the exhibition comprises 21 artworks from the Lakeview Collection of Old Masters. These are works on paper by artists Francisco Goya, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro and Destino (a collaboration by Salvador Dali and Walt and Roy Disney) and include lithographs, etchings, etchings with aquatint and serigraphs. To complement these works and to provide creative input from budding APPRENTICES, students from local primary and high schools were invited to make…
Find out more »Kei Takemura | How Can It Be Recovered?
Kei Takemura‘s artworks are characterised by overlapping a layer of embroidered cloth on to a photograph, drawing or broken objects. In her Renovated series, Takemura repairs broken objects using silk thread, transforming these 'wounds' into objects of beauty. For the artist, the act of embroidery creates a state of being tentative; it transforms objects and places which no longer exist, and brings fragments of memory towards a tangible existence. Kei Takemura is represented by Dominik Mersch Gallery BE INSPIRED…
Find out more »Let all the birds fly: the hybrid print | Curated by Patricia Wilson-Adams and Therese Kenyon
The nature of printmaking has changed substantially over the past 30 years and we now have artists who are willing to push the parameters of what was once considered to be a “perfect print”. They have done this by experimenting freely with various print media, melding their practice with other fields and investing in a new materiality. Any notion of privileging technical perfection has now given way to research, and an investment in questioning old paradigms but not at the…
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