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September 2020
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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Free Art Sundays for All Ages
BOOKINGS REQUIRED. Every Sunday families are invited to drop into the art gallery for 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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Journeys | Creative Connections
A great way to connect in a safe environment, the workshop welcomes people with a lived mental health experience to connect with art and community. The third Friday of the month. Lunch included Materials supplied For all enquiries and bookings contact Debra Bollinger, Aftercare, phone: 0408 563 361
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Conversations: Art and Dementia Community Day
Conversations, artmaking and morning tea, for people living with memory loss and support people.
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Michael Eyes & Gordon Elliot in their home - Photograph by Christopher Pearce
A Passion Shared – exhibition tour
Join collectors Gordon Elliott & Michael Eyes for a personal exhibition tour of 'A Passion Shared'.
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Artist Talk with Georgia Hill
If you want to know more about how to create large scale murals or the local and international art festival scene this is talk is for you.
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June 2020
Tiger Palpatja (c1920-2012) Untitled (detail), 2010 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 117 x 200 cm. On loan from private collection © Tiger Palpatja/Copyright Agency, 2020
Tiger Palpatja
On loan to MRAG from a private collector, this generous selection of eleven major works includes three collaborative paintings and three canvases by Palpatja’s granddaughters Sandra and Shirley Adamson. This shared custodianship delivers a visually splendid gift for present and future generations within and beyond the intimacies of desert life.
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2020 Brenda Clouten Memorial Travelling Scholarships for Young Achievers in Visual Arts
Are you an artist, 30 years or younger, who lives or works in the Lower Hunter? Would you like to travel to participate in an artist residency, investigate an art form or extend your artistic practice?
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Alex Seton, Someone Else’s Problem, 2015, marble dust, resin, Tasmanian oak, stainless steel, dimensions variable
Safe Space Contemporary Sculpture
Safe Space Contemporary Sculpture brings together three-dimensional art works by twelve Australian artists that explore psychological aspects of physical space. It features a range of figurative elements and narrative themes with social, and sometimes political, resonances. Many of the works in this exhibition take as their point of departure: the human body, its dimensions, the spaces it occupies, the narratives that contain it and the theatre or spectacle that unfolds around it. Artists include: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Alex Seton, Claire Healy…
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Helen Hopcroft, Birds and Fishes, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm
Helen Hopcroft: The Re-Enchantment
If this exhibition has a theme, it’s the idea of falling in love again, whether this is with someone, something, an animal, your body, an activity you love doing or just your own life. The Re-Enchantment exhibition spans two floors of MRAG’s Art Factory exhibition space. Downstairs is a giant cardboard box city, which people can move around to build into the city of their dreams. Upstairs is a rather exotic reading room, complete with a painted piano, bookcase and…
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Waiting for Equality
UNI: Waiting for Equality | Telling LGBTQI Stories about Marriage Equality in Newcastle and the Hunter, 2004-2019
The Current histories of LGBTQI people in Australia focus on Melbourne and Sydney. This project will be the first to focus on a regional LGBTQI community and how it connected with the wider Hunter Newcastle region to produce the largest percentage vote (75%) for marriage equality in the 2017 postal ballot outside the capital cities. The LGBTQI community is directly affected by shifts in thinking and the law in ways that have not yet been fully explored. Given the vulnerability…
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Anna Warren, The Beard Album, 2017, handmade book, pencil, 6.5 x 5 x 1cm
Intimate Universe | from the Australian Society of Miniature Art
The universe our world moves in is unfathomably vast, limitless and unknowable. But we each live in our own universe, our own small world, an intimate universe of personal experience. In this exhibition the artists will be contemplating the universe in all its interpretations, in the form of miniature art - paintings, drawings, sculpture and more - and through their artwork inviting the viewers to understand their idea of what it means to exist in an Intimate Universe.
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