Exhibitions 2017

EVERYTHING CHANGES: Tim Maguire 2002 - 2017

18 November 2017 - 18 February 2018
Tim Maguire's paintings are frozen moments in time, cinematic in scale and romantic by nature. Exploring time and space the artist condenses four dimensions into two.
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PAINTING MEMORY: From the collection

28 October 2017 - 28 January 2018
Featuring 36 key paintings from the Newcastle Art Gallery holdings that evoke stories about their origins, artists and how they came into the collection.
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MAZIE KAREN TURNER: Between dream and earth

2 September - 5 November 2017
This exhibition from her extensive archive has been developed in partnership with Mazie Turner's three children and their father Richard Tipping. It explores the rich and broad reach of Turner's...
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MONTAGES: The Full Cut 1999 - 2015 - Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg

2 September - 5 November 2017
This exhibition presents eight montage films by artist Tracey Moffatt and her long-time collaborator Gary Hillberg exhibited together for the first time.
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KILGOUR PRIZE 2017

5 August - 15 October 2017
The KILGOUR PRIZE 2017 is the 7th iteration of Newcastle's annual $50,000 art prize for figurative and portrait painting. Each year the Gallery receives hundreds of applications from across...
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THE FIGURE FEMININE

5 August - 15 October 2017
In conjunction with the KILGOUR PRIZE 2017, the Newcastle Art Gallery presents THE FIGURE FEMININE an exhibition featuring a selection of female figurative and portrait works from the collection.
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THE PHANTOM SHOW

10 June - 20 August 2017
In 1977, the exhibition 'Ghost who walks never can die' was held; a celebration of pop art inspired by the long running Phantom comics. In 2017 the Gallery's 40th anniversary of the Ghost who walks...
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Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists

20 May - 23 July 2017
A National Gallery of Australia exhibition, showcasing works of art from the National Gallery of Australia and revealing the remarkable contribution Australian women artists have made to abstract...
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MAGIC MIKE: Michael Zavros

4 March - 28 May 2017
Newcastle Art Gallery has collaborated with Michael Zavros as exhibition artist and co-curator to re-contextualize his earlier art practice alongside more recent and new works developed...
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ALEX SETON: The Island

18 February - 7 May 2017
This compelling and salient exhibition contemplates and questions Australia’s role in the asylum debate. Seton expertly transforms and manipulates his marble sculptures into emphatic motifs and...
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