W E LC OME
Dear Readers
Message from the Gallery Art has a way of connecting us with each other. It shines a light on our times and the world around us and, more than anything else, creates a space for curiosity, education, wonder and joy. As we welcome visitors back into the Gallery after our temporary closure, we hope you’ve enjoyed staying connected with art, and with us, through our ‘MRAG Home Delivery’ program.
Welcome to the wonderful world of MRAG, which continues to share its fabulous artistic program with us as we steer through unchartered waters.
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Over the next two seasons, we aim to bring you joy through an inspiring mix of exhibitions. A Passion Shared, curated from the extraordinary private collection of Gordon Elliott and Michael Eyes, celebrates the joy of art in the home. Fieldwork, a travelling exhibition from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, presents light-filled landscape paintings by prominent artists, including Elioth Gruner’s much loved Spring frost (1919), which is rarely taken off the walls of AGNSW and which we are thrilled to be able to share with you. And, once again, we display works from Maitland’s own Collection, in an exhibition of portraiture with the perfect title, Hello Again.
I MRAG more than ever, for having found new ways to share art with us in these challenging times, and for continuing to make us feel part of a community. Many of us have had to slow down and re-examine our lives in recent times, and art can support us with this. When we take the time to focus and explore artworks deeply, new ideas and perspectives can emerge to help us understand our emotions and the confusing happenings in the world beyond the ‘intimate universe’ of our homes. Please continue to support the arts in our community if you can. MRAG membership is a simple, direct way to do this, from as little as $25 a year!
Gerry Bobsien Gallery Director Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Sui-Linn White Chairperson, MRAGM Committee
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