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March 2020

Imaginary Portraits Activity Sheet

March 20, 2020 — April 30, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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!!!

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Open Collection Store

March 1, 2020 | 10:00 am — 2:00 pm
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One event on February 24, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on May 25, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on May 26, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on August 24, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on August 25, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on November 30, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on December 1, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on February 29, 2020 at 10:00 am

One event on March 1, 2020 at 10:00 am

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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.

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IF Maitland Festival

March 1, 2020 | 9:00 am — March 2, 2020 | 1:00 pm
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One event on March 1, 2020 at 9:00 am

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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.

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Expressions of interest are open to be a part of Gabfest: A Youth Week Event

March 1, 2020 — March 18, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Are you 12 -25 and want to get involved? You could hold a stall, sing, dance, read poetry or showcase your talents.

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February 2020

Lucas Grogan, The Shroud (detail), 2016, cotton on italian wool, venetian lace, chux and cotton, 259×239cm.

Lucas Grogan, The Shroud (detail), 2016, cotton on italian wool, venetian lace, chux and cotton, 259×239cm.

Autumn Season Celebration

February 29, 2020 | 3:00 pm — 5:00 pm
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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Roses are red, violets are blue,
7 new exhibitions are ready for you…

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Guns to Roses | from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection

February 29, 2020 — August 9, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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…

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Free Guided tours

February 28, 2020 | 10:00 am — 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, repeating until February 29, 2020

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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.

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Free Art Sunday: Grandparents and Grandchildren

February 23, 2020 | 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
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One event on February 23, 2020 at 11:00 am

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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.

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Lucas Grogan, The Wrestlers (detail), 2016, ink, acrylic and enamel on archival mount board, 182 x 120.5cm. Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2017

Lucas Grogan | Long Story Short

February 22, 2020 — May 17, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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…

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Roger Lancaster, The Blue Room (detail)

Maitland International Salon of Photography

February 22, 2020 — May 3, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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…

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Journeys Creative Connections

February 21, 2020 | 8:00 am — 5:00 pm
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An event every month that begins at 8:00 am on day Third of the month, repeating indefinitely

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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    

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Jaime Pritchard | Unravelling to Recognition

February 8, 2020 — May 10, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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.

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Lauren Hughes, Distorted (detail), Kotara High School, Year 11, pencil on paper

Masters & Apprentices | featuring the Lakeview Collection of Old Masters with responses from local school students

February 8, 2020 — May 10, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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…

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Kei Takemura, Renovated buildings GUTANNAHME-ESSO (detail), 2014, broken German model buildings, Italian synthetic cloth, Japanese silk thread, 25 x 15 x 19cm

Kei Takemura | How Can It Be Recovered?

February 8, 2020 — May 3, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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…

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Alison Alder, Remember Me (detail), 2019, screen print on paper, aluminium, plastic, steel, 120 x 80 x 50cm

Let all the birds fly: the hybrid print | Curated by Patricia Wilson-Adams and Therese Kenyon

February 8, 2020 — May 3, 2020
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High Street
MAITLAND, New South Wales 2320 Australia
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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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