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hether you’re an aging rocker, a history buff or fascinated by the legal world, Maitland Regional Art Gallery’s autumn program will have something for you. The program features six new exhibitions, including an exclusive exhibition of photographs by Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, which take an interesting and sometimes funny look at the lives of his colleagues. MRAG’s Deputy Director, Brigette Uren, said the exhibition, ‘Shooting Around Corners’ is highlight of the program. “He’s had amazing access to these people, it’s basically a career in a photo,” Ms Uren said. Away from the candid and into the careful is Tallulah Cunningham’s ‘The Moving Finger Paints…a Hunter Valley view of the Rubaiya of Omar Khayyam’, which sees a 13th century Persian poem translated into English and painted onto a scroll, matched with hand-painted images of the Hunter Valley. “It’s extraordinary workmanship,” Ms Uren said. “To say it’s delicate is an understatement. “It’s really a celebration of human life, and the narrative of the poem is accessible to everyone.” A highlight for the young and young at heart will be a mixed media exhibition that chronicles the Groovin’ the Moo festival, this year celebrating its 10th anniversary. It will bring together photographs, news clippings and video footage in what event researcher Wendy Gunthorpe said was a celebration of the event’s growth and variety. Story continues on » p. 7
Groovin’ the Moo Researcher Wendy Gunthorpe and MRAG Cultural Director Joe Eisenberg celebrate the launch of the program
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