Local, national and international artists consider the elements of life, death, blood, reproduction and mortality in ‘Hunter Red: Corpus’. ...
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EVERYTHING CHANGES: Tim Maguire 2002-2017
'EVERYTHING CHANGES’ is a comprehensive survey of Tim Maguire’s practice featuring works personally selected by the artist from private collections, as well as lightboxes and paintings recently produced in France....
Abstraction: Celebrating Australian women abstract artists
This exhibition honours a key and often obscured aspect of art history; the contribution of women in the development of Australian abstract art from the 1920s to the present. Featuring paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculpture by 38 artists including Dorrit Black, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar and...
Michael Zavros: Magic Mike
Zavros has worked as co-curator with Newcastle Art Gallery to re-contextualise early work, alongside new pieces created for the show which explores male beauty with a tongue in cheek title that refers to both virtuoso painting and ‘magic’ realism as well as a Hollywood blockbuster film...
Black White & Restive
‘Black White & Restive’ is part of an ongoing national conversation that surveys the cross-cultural engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists over the past quarter century. Drawing significantly on Newcastle Art Gallery’s collection as well as loans from public and private collections, ‘Black White & Restive’...
Just Draw
From artists whose work could be described as a contemporary take on a classical methodology, to those who nudge the definition of 'drawing' beyond the realm of 'marks on paper', this survey considers works of art that are so much more than just drawing....
Interior lives: From the collection
Continuing the focus on works from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection, 'Interior lives' brings together works of art that depict domestic spaces - inhabited or vacant....
Patricia Piccinini: LIKE US
Connection and empathy are two resonating themes that empower the practice of internationally respected Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Emotions are playfully and tenderly tugged by Piccinini’s enchanting scenes which immediately transpire an endless supply of curiosities that search for answers....
Peter Maloney: A Focus
Peter Maloney has had a long and influential career as an artist and teacher with the Australian National University School of Art. This focused exhibition explores the evolution of Peter Maloney’s practice and his mastery of the paint medium over thirty years from 1979-2012....