Maitland Regional Art Gallery 2023 Program

We acknowledge the Wonnarua People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land upon which MRAG stands.

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Vincent Namatjira and Ben Quilty in the studio in 2022, photo: Heath Aarons

The Gallery's 2023 program brings us closer than ever to our community and the creative talent in our region. And while the world spins for another year, we will marvel, season to season, at the power of storytelling that lies at the heart of great art. In 2023 we also hope to make you laugh, for humour is a consistent thread throughout this program.

An early highlight in 2023 is a powerful celebration of story and culture drawn from the Art Gallery of South Australia's collection. Kungka Ku ṉ pu (Strong Women), showcases major contemporary works by celebrated women artists from the A ṉ angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands –cultural custodians of an oral tradition that epitomises the art of storytelling. In June we hand over our entire gallery to artists of the Hunter region as we explore the lengths of the mighty Hunter River from the Upper Hunter through to the Port of Newcastle and along its tributaries.

In August we crank things up with a project led by artists Ben Quilty and Karla Dickens. Look forward to gutsy paintings, royal inquisitions and kind hearted community generosity.

The humour continues in the beautifully wry observations of Noel McKenna in a major solo exhibition of this treasured artist. There is so much in this program for educators and this year we aim to create a space for teachers and students to get the most they can from this bumper program. In 2023 we open our doors every Monday to students only and will provide a special workshop space each week for senior art students to hang out, study and share ideas for major works.

Our Collection will continue to be viewed and highlighted in new ways and this year we are delighted to be collaborating with community through the Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles and the Maitland Society of Artists. We hope to see you all throughout the year in Maitland. There is much to enjoy throughout our 2023 program.

GERRY BOBSIEN GALLERY DIRECTOR

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR ARTS HEALTH

Monthly: ART & DEMENTIA

Art & Dementia is a 90 minute social tour of exhibitions created specifically for people living with dementia and their carers. The tours are guided by a trained facilitator who uses art as a gateway for conversation and self-expression, enabling visitors to express their thoughts and emotions in a friendly and supportive environment.

COMMUNITY DAY

Tailored tours of exhibitions and art making for people living with dementia and their carers.

GROUP TOURS

Group tours available for people living in care facilities

See our website for our program scheduleBookings essential via phone, 02 4934 9859 or email: artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Monthly (Feb — Nov): 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. Third Friday of the month.

Lunch included. Materials supplied. Bookings essential and for all enquiries contact Flourish Australia, phone: 02 9393 9700 or email: juan.du@flourishaustralia.org.au

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR KIDS & FAMILIES

Daily SELF-DIRECTED ART TRAILS

Are you good at solving puzzles? Do you think that you can locate some hidden treasures in the art gallery? Then grab a Code Breaker from the front desk and use the clues to break the code!

Weekly FREE ART SUNDAY

SPONSORED BY OUR MEMBERS & CLEVERPATCH

Free Art Sunday 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.

January 2024

FREE ART JANUARY

SPONSORED BY OUR MEMBERS & CLEVERPATCH

Every year we have a festival of art and artmaking for young people with a bumper program realeased each Summer.

Monthly THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS

SPONSORED BY EJE ARCHITECTURE

Many young people are curious about art, buildings, design and engineering. Our Young Architects program is a new initiative aimed at nurturing creative design thinking with fun workshops led by a team of architects and artists.

School terms SCHOOL VISITS & WORKSHOPS

MRAG is a valuable local resource for educators, not only for its exhibitions and art collection, but for its public spaces, big backyard and workshop spaces. We enjoy working with educators to create a gallery experience that meets the needs and interests of their students.

EXHIBITIONS

Jan — 05 Mar 2023

A RARE SENSIBILITY

VALERIE MARSHALL STRONG OLSEN

Jan — 19 Feb 2023

MANY HANDS MAKE LIFE WORK

DEBORAH KELLY AND THE MOVING IMAGE 2011-2021

Jan — 31 Mar 2023

ESCAPADE

TINKY

Jan — 26 Feb 2023

YELLOW SUN, BLUE GUM

ILEIGH HELLIER

Jan — 19 Feb 2023

HARBINGERS: LOIE, ARTEMESIA, PIXIE, SARAH AND LILITH

HANNAH GARTSIDE

Jan — 12 Mar 2023

MONSTER MASH

KATE ROHDE

Jan — 12 Mar 2023

PROTECTION

JANE LANDER

Jan — 12 Mar 2023

A LITTLE POTLUCK PARTY PAI

TI KONG WITH THE GHOSTS (DOUBLE-HAPPINESS)

JAYANTO TAN

04 Mar — 21 May 2023

KUNGKA KUṈPU

(STRONG WOMEN)

04 Mar — 28 May 2023

TJUKURPA

(STORIES): NINUKU ARTS

18 Mar — 28 May 2023

MIR GIZ KEMERKEMER

OPGED LAM ZENADH KES

Stories from Eastern Islands Torres Strait TOBY CEDAR

18 Mar — 04 Jun 2023

INTRODUCTIONS

PORTRAITS FROM THE MRAG COLLECTION

18 Mar — 04 Jun 2023

WATCH YOUR STEP

LAURA BAKER

25 May — 04 Jun 2023

MAITLAND PORTRAIT PRIZE

10 Jun — 20 Aug 2023

UPRIVER DOWNRIVER

HANNA KAY DAVID DARCY ZOE LONERGAN UNA REY

LISS FINNEY NICOLE CHAFFEY LOTTIE CONSALVO

SALLY BOURKE WANJUN CARPENTER SCOTT BEVAN

GRAHAM WILSON CLARE WEEKS BRETT MCMAHON

FAYE NEILSON SHAN TURNER-CARROLL TODD FULLER

DANI MARTI JAMIE PRITCHARD RICHARD TIPPING

PENNY DUNSTAN SHONAH TRESCOTT NICOLE CHAFFEY

OSVALDO BUDET SARETTA FIELDING PETER GARDINER

HOLLY MACDONALD GAVIN VITULLO JOHN MORRIS

TOBY CEDAR TRAVIS DE VRIES KEN O’REGAN NELL

JAMES DRINKWATER RYAN LEE ALESSIA SAKOFF

VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE BRONTE NAYLOR GEORGIA HILL

LUCAS GROGAN BRADDON SNAPE NICOLE MONKS

CHRIS LANGLOIS LESLEY SALEM VERA ZULUMOVSKI

MICHAEL BELL NIGEL MILSOM NICOLA HENSEL

JOHN TURIER CLAIRE MARTIN REBECCA RATH

26 Aug — 05 Nov 2023

CROWNLAND

KARLA DICKENS VINCENT NAMATJIRA

BEN QUILTY ANDREW QUILTY JAKE CHAPMAN

26 Aug — 29 Oct 2023

COLLECTING IN COLOUR

STORIES OF FASHION AND ART

02 Sep — 19 Nov 2023

SUSPENDED MOMENT

FRANCES BARRETT SALLY REES

GISELLE STANBOROUGH KATTHY CAVALIERE

09 Sep — 19 Nov 2023

WHERE THE SEEDS GROW

HELEN FENNER

09 Sep — 12 Nov 2023

FRESH EYES

09 Sep — 12 Nov 2023

ECO ZINE

BASTIAN FOX PHELAN

04 — 19 Nov 2023

MRAGM ART SALE

18 Nov 2023 — 18 Feb 2024

OPERATION ART

18 Nov 2023 — 25 Feb 2024

SLEEP MY HORSE

….5 AUGUST 1956

NOEL MCKENNA

25 Nov 2023 — 18 Feb 2024

TOUCHING AND TURNING

CHERINE FAHD 25 Nov 2023 — 25 Feb 2024

THE BETWEEN

DEIDRE BUT-HUSAIM

02 Dec 2023 — 03 Mar 2024

MYTH MAKING

KATE ROHDE AND TROY EMERY

2023 EXHIBITIONS

Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen, Banksias, 1989, mixed media on board, Collection of Tim and Louise Olsen

A RARE SENSIBILITY

VALERIE MARSHALL STRONG OLSEN

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to discover the work of artist Valerie Strong (1933-2011), who was a practicing artist and teacher for most of her life but seldom showed her work in public.

The 70 works in this exhibition, are chiefly from the collection of Valerie’s son and daughter, Sydney gallerist Tim Olsen and Louise Olsen, co-founder of Dinosaur Designs. Dating from 1959 to 2004, the works cross many mediums including oil and acrylic on board and canvas, watercolours, prints and drawings, including several life drawings from the NAS Collection.

JANUARY — 05 MARCH 2023

“ As long as I can remember I’ve always been drawing and painting. I always remember my mother getting very annoyed with me for using up all her writing pads as a child.”

– VALERIE STRONG, 1965

Deborah Kelly, For Creation [still, detail], 2021, animation from paper collage, Animator: Melody Pei Li, Original score: Stereogamous, Text: SJ Norman, Featuring SJ Norman reading from Liturgy of the Saprophyte, vocal composition by Lupa J.

MANY HANDS MAKE LIFE WORK

DEBORAH KELLY AND THE MOVING IMAGE 2011-2021

This exhibition brings together several of Deborah Kelly’s recent video works including The gods of tiny things and LYING WOMEN.

These immersive video works think poetically and urgently about all things from colonialism and climate change to the teaming, prancing hectic and kaleidoscopic joy and clamour of life itself.

Deborah Kelly is represented by Wagner Gallery, Sydney and Finkelstein Gallery, Melbourne

Tinky, Tom slipped up and wasn't peeling great after his trip away. He knew he'd really hit the skids, 2022

ESCAPADE TINKY

Miniature installation artist Tinky has created a puntastic summer art trail especially for MRAG

Countering the tradition for public art to be overt and highly visible, the summer art trail encourages intimate art experiences in unexpected places throughout the Gallery.

Throughout her practice Tinky works with miniature figurines and vintage objects to create humorous and playful scenes of mismatched proportions.

JANUARY — 31 MARCH 2023

Ileigh Hellier, Sun & Hill, 2021, oil on board

YELLOW SUN, BLUE GUM

Yellow sun, blue gum is a meditation on the landscape and a close inspection of place. In this exhibition, the artist's immersion in Glenrock Reserve, reveals the paradox of plein air painting, the tension between painterly activity and sharp attention to surroundings and the peace and quietude of mindfulness. Both can be simple and complex, effortless and arduous. Yellow sun, blue gum provides a sanctuary and a yearning for quiet contemplation.

ILEIGH HELLIER

Hannah Gartside, installation view, Harbingers: Loie, Artemisia, Pixie, Lilith and Sarah, Image courtesy the artist, Tolarno Galleries, and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photo: Jacquie Manning, 2021

HARBINGERS LOIE, ARTEMESIA,PIXIE, SARAH AND LILITH

GARTSIDE

Hannah Gartside repurposes vintage garments and fabric into installations that celebrate femininity, sensuality and subjectivity. This ambitious series consists of five kinetic textile sculptures that represent an iconic female figure of the past, including dancer Loïe Fuller (1862–1928), painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656), illustrator Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith (1878–1951), Biblical ur-woman Lilith, and actor Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923).

Kate Rodhe, Mutant Kitten Vase, 2015, polyurethane resin, photo: Graham Baring

MONSTER MASH

KATE ROHDE

Fun for all ages, Monster Mash is an interactive exhibition that draws on the fantastical interiors and mutant creatures created by artist Kate Rohde. The Project Space is transformed into a hyper-colourful world, incorporating activities that draw on the techniques and processes Kate uses to make her artworks.

JANUARY — 12 MARCH 2023

Jane Lander, Protection 1, 2019/2020, charcoal, pencil, pastel on paper, photo: Lee Illfield

PROTECTION

JANE LANDER

Jane Lander’s Protection is a captivating showcase of the skill and poetic ideas of this accomplished Hunter based artist exploring the symbiotic relationship between people and place.

JANUARY — 12 MARCH 2023

Jayanto Tan, Pai Ti Kong Feast (detail), 2022, ceramic

A LITTLE POTLUCK PARTY PAI TI KONG WITH THE GHOSTS (DOUBLE-HAPPINESS)

In Potluck Party Pai Ti Kong with the Ghosts, Jayanto draws inspiration from a family tradition experienced in everyday life – the ritual of offering food made by his mother. These ceramic food offerings were created whilst in conversation with family and

friends. Navigating personal racial attacks, gender identity, migration and familial narratives, these charged conversations are rendered as a moving still-life ceramic ‘soul foods’ and offered as everyday ritual.

Ken Family Collaborative, Tjungkara Ken, Sandra Ken, Freda Brady, Maringka Tunkin, Yaritji Tingila Young and Paniny Mick, with their work Kangkura-KangkuraKu Tjukurpa - A Sister's Story, 2017, image courtesy Ken Family Collaborative/ and Tjala Arts.

Kaylene Whiskey, Yankunytjatjara people, South Australia, in the studio at Indulkana, South Australia, photo: Meg Hansen

KUNGKA KUṈPU (STRONG WOMEN)

Drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Kungka Ku ṉ pu (Strong Women), showcases major contemporary works by celebrated women artists from the A ṉ angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands – cultural custodians of an oral tradition that epitomises the art of storytelling. Working individually and collaboratively, these women leaders share an irrepressible desire to create ground-breaking works, deeply embedded with cultural knowledge and rich in ceremonial song and

performance. Presented as part of AGSA’s acclaimed Tarnanthi program, this exhibition reflects the adaptive genius, energy and dynamism of A ṉ angu culture and the inspiring tale of women supporting each other across generations.

Key artists include Angkuna Baker, Kunmanara Wawiriya Burton, Nyunmiti Burton, Sylvia Ken, Kunmanara Militjari Pumani, Rhoda Tjitayi, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Kaylene Whiskey and Yaritji Young – to name a few.

Samuel Miller, Ngayuku Ngura, 2019, photo credit: JamFactory

TJUKURPA (STORIES)

NINUKU ARTS

Located in Kalka within the A ṉ angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY)

Lands, Ninuku Arts is a community of First Nations Artists pushing boundaries and experimenting with mediums old and new. Embracing a different mode for storytelling these glass vessels are a contemporary translation of the Swedish Graal technique. Intensely coloured balls

of ‘starter bubble’ glass were sent to Ninuku where artists then painted their Tjukurpa (ancestral stories) onto the forms. From here, they were fired in a kiln on site then returned to JamFactory where glass artists completed the process of coating in clear glass and blowing into bold vases of high gloss perfection.

Toby Cedar, Nete Ka Nali (Who am I), 2021

MIR GIZ KEMERKEMER

OPGED LAM ZENADH KES

Stories from Eastern Islands Torres Strait

TOBY CEDAR

As a Torres Strait Islander and now Maitland local, artist Toby Cedar finds deep connection between art, community and culture. This exhibition will present new works celebrating Eastern Islands culture by way of traditional and contemporary art forms. As well as surveying traditional

histories of masks, headdresses, myths and legends, Toby will bring to life these stories with sculpture, carvings, dance and new technologies.

Jonathan Dalton, Ramesh and the artist Ramesh, 2021, oil on linen, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2022

INTRODUCTIONS

PORTRAITS FROM THE MRAG COLLECTION

There is a long history of portraits in the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection and this exhibition presents some of the Gallery’s most loved portraits alongside recent acquisitions. This exhibition sits as inspiration for the many artists from the Maitland Society of Artists who will be immersing themselves in the Gallery spaces for their annual portrait prize.

Laura Baker, Paper leaves, hand cut paper, resin

WATCH YOUR STEP

LAURA BAKER

Through a reflective and laborious practice, fragile paper leaves and delicate lace-like representations explore the harsh qualities of the Australian landscape. This very seasonal work will be installed in the Gallery’s High Street project space.

Libby Cusick, Helen McLaren – a Local Legend, 2022, oil on canvas

MAITLAND PORTRAIT PRIZE

The Maitland Portrait Prize (MPP) is an annual competition, now in its sixth year, organised by the Maitland Region Society of Artists Inc. The MPP is a unique event whereby only one sitter is portrayed by numerous artists. Each year a respected Maitland identity is chosen to be the sitter. This year’s sitter is Dr Cameron Archer.

Maitland Region Society of Artists Inc.

Nicola Hensel (pictured) producing the large-scale en plein air drawing Mangrove, Kooragang, NSW, 2014. Ash Island.

Image courtesy of Belinda Howden

UPRIVER DOWNRIVER

HANNA KAY DAVID DARCY ZOE LONERGAN UNA REY

LISS FINNEY NICOLE CHAFFEY LOTTIE CONSALVO

SALLY BOURKE WANJUN CARPENTER

GRAHAM WILSON CLARE WEEKS BRETT MCMAHON

FAYE NEILSON SHAN TURNER-CARROLL TODD FULLER

DANI MARTI JAMIE PRITCHARD RICHARD TIPPING

PENNY DUNSTAN NELL SHONAH TRESCOTT

OSVALDO BUDET SARETTA FIELDING SCOTT BEVAN

PETER GARDINER HOLLY MACDONALD

GAVIN VITULLO JOHN MORRIS TOBY CEDAR

TRAVIS DE VRIES KEN O’REGAN JAMES DRINKWATER

RYAN LEE ALESSIA SAKOFF VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE

BRONTE NAYLOR GEORGIA HILL LUCAS GROGAN

BRADDON SNAPE NICOLE MONKS CHRIS LANGLOIS

LESLEY SALEM VERA ZULUMOVSKI MICHAEL BELL

NIGEL MILSOM NICOLA HENSEL JOHN TURIER

CLAIRE MARTIN REBECCA RATH NICOLE CHAFFEY

The Hunter River has shaped one of the most important regions in Australia and along its mighty length we have a community of artists connected geographically and creatively.

This major exhibition will energise all our Gallery spaces to celebrate

the expansive range of art and ideas resonating throughout our region.

Join us on a journey through the eyes of artists as we wind our way from the Upper Hunter down through to Maitland, across many tributaries and into the Port of Newcastle.

Vincent Namatjira and Ben Quilty, The Crown, 2022

Karla Dickens, Soldiering On, 2022, mixed media, photo: Aaron Anderson

CROWNLAND

KARLA DICKENS

Humour and discomfort are not unusual companions often teaming up with a disarming tension that raises our antenna and messes with our expectations. This exhibition embraces this space of unease, bringing together artists as friends, curators and collaborators. In 2023, we invite you to Maitland to pat the royal dingo, look closely at the ugly and in a spirit of hope move towards each other with big hearted kindness.

Euan Macleod, Large floating figure, 1998-1999, oil on polyester, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, 1970s jumpsuit, Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles Collection

COLLECTING IN COLOUR

STORIES OF FASHION AND ART

What happens when two collections meet for a chat? An explosion of colour, threads of stories revealed, and connections stitched together. A collaboration between Maitland Regional Art Gallery and the Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles where art meets design and colour connects.

Frances Barrett, A Song for Katthy (detail), 2022, single channel HD video. Image series by Samuel Hodge. Courtesy of the artists.

SUSPENDED MOMENT

FRANCES BARRETT SALLY REES GISELLE STANBOROUGH KATTHY CAVALIERE

Suspended Moment brings together new works by artists Frances Barrett, Sally Rees and Giselle Stanborough–the three recipients of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship.

Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Suspended Moment contextualises key works by Cavaliere alongside the fellowship artists who benefited from her enduring legacy.

A Carriageworks and Museums & Galleries of NSW touring exhibition, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, developed in partnership with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Hobart. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. This project is assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.

Visions of Australia

Helen Fenner, Garden of Eden, 2021, linoprint and synthetic thread, 1/1

WHERE THE SEEDS GROW HELEN

FENNER

Where the seeds grow is an exhibition of new work from emerging Maitland based artist Helen Fenner. For many, art helps people navigate challenging and difficult times. Helen Fenner is a strong advocate for the role of creativity in nurturing mental health. This exhibition explores the idea that we are never far from our ancestral past.

Michael Riley, Untitled, [galah] from the series flyblown 1998, 1998, Chromogenic pigment print, 5/20, Donated under the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Penelope Seidler, 2019, © Michael Riley Foundation/Copyright Agency, 2022, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection

FRESH EYES

A curatorial team of First Nations students from high schools across Maitland will choose works from the Gallery’s collection of photography responding with their own ideas, thoughts and re-imaginings.

Bastian Fox Phelan's personal collection of zines, courtesy of the artist

ECO ZINE

BASTIAN FOX PHELAN

How do we deepen relationships with local ecologies in a time of profound change? In this project-based exhibition, writer, zine maker and citizen scientist Bastian Fox Phelan invites participants to engage with the natural world through the creation of ephemeral artworks such as zines, posters, soundscapes, and observational experiments. The Project Space itself will become a zine studio and space for visitors to create and share stories about the local environment through zine making.

Installation view (Braddon Snape, Nick Barlow, Nicole Chaffey, Shannon Cadman) from the MRAGM Art Sale 2018

MRAGM ART SALE

A much-anticipated exhibition presenting paintings, prints and sculptures by artists from our region and across Australia – all available for purchase. Proceeds from the Art Sale support programs across the gallery and strengthen community outreach. Supported by the MRAG Members this exhibition is filled with artworks waiting to be added to your own collection.

Troy Emery Park Creature, 2020 polyester, polyurethane, pins, adhesive

Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection

Theo Hurley, Out of the Galaxy, Central Coast Grammar School

OPERATION ART

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. The Operation Art program 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.

Operation Art is an annual exhibition celebrating its 28th Anniversary this year. These 50 artworks created by students across New South Wales will tour the state before finding their home at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, where they will help make sick children feel better through the power of art.

Operation Art is an in initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in partnership with The NSW Department of Education. For information on how your school can get involved in the exhibition program, student visual arts workshops and teacher professional learning, please visit The Arts Unit website.

Noel McKenna, Audrey + Decimus, 2020 oil on canvas

SLEEP MY HORSE ….5 AUGUST 1956

Join us for this 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, 2022

NOEL MCKENNA

Documentation from the performance A Proxy for a Thousand Eyes (2020) and featured in the video Play Proximus (2020-2021), photo: Pamela Pirovic

TOUCHING AND TURNING

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

– CHERINE FAHD

Deidre But-Husaim, 2022, oil on hardboard, photo: Sam Roberts Photography

THE BETWEEN DEIDRE

BUT-HUSAIM

The state of 'in between' seems to be a common shared experience of our recent times. Pre-covid, post-covid and that place between. In this exhibition, Diedre But-Husaim documents life in her studio during various stages over the past few years. From the studio looking out at the heavy fragranced Angel trumpets in various stages of bloom or looking inwards with images of her studio paint brushes standing to attention waiting to be called to duty.

Troy Emery, Nugget, 2022, on Kate Rohde, Golden grains table #2, 2022 with Kate Rohde, Nature wallpaper, 2022.

photo: A. K. Media

MYTH MAKING

KATE ROHDE AND TROY EMERY

A Horsham Regional Art Gallery exhibition

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.

Photo: Leighsa Cox

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Deborah Kelly, The Gods of Tiny Things [still], 2019, animation from paper collage, Director: Deborah Kelly, Animator: Melody Pei Li, Sound design: Justin Ashworth, Original composition: Lex Lindsay, 5 minutes 25 seconds at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, photo: Leighsa Cox

Nell, Self-nature is subtle and mysterious - the world is both wonderful and fucked, 2013, glass reinforced plastic, resin, plastic blowflies, glass, electrical components, Gift of Abraham James, 2021, © the artist, Maitland Regional Art

Gallery Collection, photo: Leighsa Cox

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK

We thank all the artists who will make this program possible, filling the Gallery with insight, imagination and creative expertise.

We also acknowledge and tip our hats to our partners, funding bodies, members and volunteers.

To our friends and donors, we thank you – you make a vital contribution to the cultural landscape of our City.

Maitland Regional Art Gallery would like to thank Jennings Print Group for their generous support in the production of this program.

This program is printed on 100% recycled paper.

MRAG is a proud service of Maitland City Council and is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

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