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Create memorable art and learning experience for your students with a visit to Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2024!
In 2024 we are pleased to continue to offer our EDUCATION MONDAYS where our Gallery is exclusively open for school groups and closed to the general public. This allows students to have exclusive Gallery access to see the behind the scenes.
School visits are FREE and can be tailored to age groups and specific needs and can be self-guided or include a tour from one of our curators. Students have the opportunity to see a wide range of exhibitions in our Gallery, and engage in self-directed activities, such as code breakers or exhibition activity sheets.
If you would like to have a hands-on art making experience as part of your visit, our wonderful art educators can design and deliver CREATIVE WORKSHOPS tailored to suit your curriculum outcomes or respond to exhibitions that you might like to bring focus to back in the classroom. Creative Workshop fees include all materials - $150 for 15 students or less. For a class larger than 15, the fee is $10 per additional student.
WHATS ON TERM 1 2024:
MYTH MAKING | KATE ROHDE AND TROY EMERY
2 December 2023 - 3 March 2024
The subjects of mythology have long provided artists with a rich source of inspiration for depiction and reinvention. For Myth Making, artists Kate Rohde and Troy Emery have sought inspiration directly from the land and ecology of the Wimmera and Grampians regions of Victoria. Returning to their studios they embarked on a journey of collaboration to create a new mythology of Western Victoria influenced by the traditions of European myth making and imbued with their own recognisable, whimsical, and at times dark, artistic practices.
SLEEP MY HORSE …… 5 AUGUST 1956 | NOEL MCKENNA
18 November – 25 February 2024
A wonderfully autobiographical exhibition as Noel McKenna takes us on a journey that speculates on his life 'this is a contemplation of things that have come about, or have not come about or what may come about or what may never come about.' - Noel McKenna
OPERATION ART
18 November – 18 February 2024
Every year schools across New South Wales are invited to participate in Operation Art, an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. Operation Art provides a forum for schools and students to demonstrate their visual arts achievements through exhibitions at the Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
TOUCHING AND TURNING | CHERINE FAHD
25 November – 18 February 2024
Burning with the changing realities of the past few years, artist Cherine Fahd explores the nature of touch and intimacy through her participatory performance.
'The camera and a picture, whether moving or still, have the potential to generate intimacy and attachment. I am interested in how making images can motivate us to come together during a crisis.' - Cherine Fahd
THE BETWEEN | DEIDRE BUT-HUSAIM
25 November 2023 – 25 February 2024
In a state of in between is the experience of our recent times. Pre covid, post covid and that place between. In this exhibition Deidre documents life in her home and studio during various stages of lockdown. From her home looking out at the heavy fragranced angel trumpets in various stages of bloom or looking inwards at images from past travels visiting other artists’ studios and remembering brushes for painting, ceramics or calligraphy all standing to attention waiting to be called to duty.
WHATS ON TERM 2 2024
THE SMALL MUSEUM
Simone Rosenbauer
24 February – 30 June 2024
Simone Rosenbauer's Small Museum takes us inside the world of true collectors. This is an exhibition including photographs of pieces from 41 community museums across Australia highlighting the buildings, people and collections within them. Coinciding with this exhibition will be site-specific works created by artists Billy Bain, Rosie Deacon and Kara Woods, all reflecting on historical objects from local collections through contemporary interventions throughout the Gallery. These commission were made possible through the Dobell Exhibition Grant program.
PREGNANT WOMAN
Ron Mueck
14 March – 23 June
Ron Mueck – Pregnant woman is on loan from the National Gallery of Australia through the Sharing the National Collection Program. Over the year the work will be engaged with our own collection with exhibitions designed and curated to allow for different conversations and ideas to emerge related to family (in all its diverse forms), motherhood, birth and the marvel of humanity.
OLD STORIES NEW MAGIC
Naomi Kantjurinyi, Michelle Gearin, Julia Robinson, Sarker Protick
15 June – 13 October
Old Stories New Magic brings together artists who draw from the deep and ancient well of the real and the mythic. For Naomi Kantjurinyi, an artist and Ngankari (traditional healer) in her community of Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, her depictions of ‘mamu’ represent the spirit forces that are both ancient, real and present in Anangu life today. The work of Naomi Kantjurinyi will be shown alongside other artists who work in the realm of old stories. From the surreal conjuring of Michelle Gearin and Sarker Protick to the folkloric but thoroughly contemporary work of Heather B. Swann and Julia Robinson.
SETTLED/UNSETTLED
Kathrin Longhurst,
Mehwish Iqbal, Angus McDonald and Penny Byrne
9 March – 9 June 2024
Settled/Unsettled explores issues around war and cultural displacement through the lens of asylum-seeker, refugee, and migrant experiences. By investigating the themes of conflict and exile, home and belonging, the exhibition contributes to the movement of empowerment and acceptance.
VISUAL WEIGHT
Robert Klippel
9 March – 16 June
Step inside the story of a creative friendship as we showcase important works by Robert Klippel drawn from the collection of Geoffrey Hassall. The Hassall Collection contains dozens of Klippel artworks covering decades of the artist’s work.
LINEAGE: A Visual Continuum
Ann Thompson, Guy Warren, Elizabeth Cummings, Euan Macleod, Kevin Connor, Shonah Trescott, Sophie Cape, Steven Lopez
22 June – 27 October
Lineage: A Visual Continuum is an exhibition celebrating the dynamic interplay of tradition and innovation through eight diverse but related artistic practices. Lineage invites us on a journey through the captivating dialogue of eight distinct creative voices, each individually contributing to a shared narrative of artistic heritage. As we traverse the generational spectrum, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the influences, transformations, and enduring themes that help shape the ongoing evolution of contemporary art.
WHAT'S ON TERM 3 2024
POWER – The Future is Here I Dennis Golding
6 July – 13 October
POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who is an artist in residence at the school through Solid Ground. Students from Kindergarten to Year 12 designed their capes with iconography informed by their lived experiences and cultural identity.
As superheroes, Golding and his young collaborators are empowered and reminded of the strength of their culture in forming their identity and connection to Country. Individually and together, the capes critique social, political and cultural representations of contemporary First Nations experience.
Twitcher - A Flocktastic Celebration of Birds in Art
26 October 2024 – 2 March 2025
Join us as we celebrate the natural world with an exhibition dedicated to art and birds. We’ve brought together contemporary artists from across Australia who feature birds in many forms across their work, and includes works from the MRAG collection. Scheduled to coincide with the great Aussie Bird Count 2024, Twitcher will delight everyone as we pop on the binoculars and go all in for a Summer season of creative birdwatching.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery's educational programs are proudly supported by Cleverpatch. Suppliers of high quality art and craft materials to schools and education providers and programs.
Images:
1 Billy Bain, Blak Excellence, 2022 ceramic with underglaze, glaze and enamel, 5 parts, dimensions variable
2 Troy Emery, imagining a point in time , 2023, polyester, polyurethane, epoxy, adhesive, screws, pins, steel rods, timber base
85 x 90 x 40 cm, image Simon Strong
3 Kevin Cunningham, Nigel Cunningham & Fatima El-Ibrahim, Cockatoos on the Floodplain | Year 5, Chullora Public School, South Western Sydney
4 Cherine Fahd, Touch on Repeat 2023, HD Video in three parts, Duration 11:23
5 Deidre But-Husaim, The Between, 2022, oil on hardboard, 40 x 30 cm
6 Simone Rosenbauer, SM37 The Australian Golf Museum, Bothwell TAS
7 Penny Byrne, #EuropaEuropa 2017, vintage porcelain blue and white figurines, gravy boats, cups, bowls, dishes, plates, epoxy
8 Ron Mueck. Pregnant woman 2002. fibreglass, resin, silicone. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
putty, bright orange enamel paint and epoxy resin, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
9 Robert Klippel, Opus 363, 1980. Ninety-three cardboard paper constructions on wooden table, variable 18 x 98.6 x 83cm
10 Michelle Gearin, Prism, 2022. 1 of 49 individual paintings, oil and watercolour paintings on Italian cotton paper mounted on archival foam, 32cm diameter,
11 Euan Mcloed, Climber With Twin Shadows, 2023, oil on poly, 53.5x67cm
12 Artist Dennis Golding with The Future is Here, 2021, Carriageworks. Image courtesy and © the artist. Photograph Zan Wimberley
13 Victoria Lobregat, Swamphens at Warners Bay, 2010, pencil, ink and gouache on paper, 56.5 x 411.1cm, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection. Gift of the artist, 2021
