News for Members

Keep up-to-date with MRAGM events and activities.

Digital Collections

The Gallery is collaborating across Maitland City Council with Maitland Libraries, Maitland Gaol, and the Morpeth Museum on a Digital Collections project, which will see a digital hub established and the complete digitisation of the Council's cultural collections. This multi-year project, supported by a $478,000 Create NSW grant, will make Maitland’s art and history accessible to audiences everywhere.

IMAGES 1 Detail from Long Story Short exhibition catalogue, available for $25 in the Gallery Shop or on the MRAG website. 2 (L to R) Clare Weeks, Jenni Nichols (The Hunter Artisan

Gallery) and Fiona Lee. 3 Lionel Lindsay, Hornbill, 1932, Wood engraving, printed in black ink on paper, 14 x 14cm, The MRAG Collection. 1

MAPDA Winners

At the Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards in June 2021, the Gallery took out the award for best Children’s e-Activities, for the ‘MRAG Home Delivery’ videos created during our closure. We also received an award for best Exhibition Branding Package, for designer Clare Hodgins’ collaboration with artist Lucas Grogan on his 2020 exhibition Long Story Short. The judges commented on the artwork “excellent collaboration between the artist and the designer which amplified the graphic nature of the artwork.”

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MRAGM Bursary Winners

After assessing over 60 applications, the MRAG Members Committee announced the beneficiaries of its Artist Bursary initiative in May 2021. Clare Weeks and Fiona Lee received the $5,000 artist bursary; The Hunter Artisan Gallery, an artist collective in East Maitland, received a $3,000 bursary towards a program of inclusive workshops; and Jakeob Watson was granted $1,000 in project support.

A Month of Free Art Fun

Free Art January returns in 2022 with a month of engaging and educational talks, tours and activities for visitors of all ages. Enjoy drop-in workshops, artist-led labs, curatorial and Collection insights, and oneoff performances – for free! All welcome. Bookings open in December 2021.

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Lionel on Tour!

The MRAG touring exhibition Lionel’s Place consists of more than 130 Lionel Lindsay artworks from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, featuring examples of Lindsay’s finest etchings, wood engravings and watercolours. These works on paper are rich in visual texture, and depict scenes from abroad and closer to home, exotic and domestic animals and birds, the lushness of gardens, floral abundance and portraiture.

Upcoming dates:

Manning Regional Art Gallery Taree, New South Wales 14 October – 28 November 2021

Banana Shire Regional Art Gallery Biloela, Queensland 13 December 2021 – 28 February 2022