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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS opens at gallery

A new exhibition at Newcastle Art Gallery will introduce audiences to the depth and breadth of Chinese art forms which underpin the Middle Kingdom’s long relationship with Australia.

'Hardworking man’s softer, gentler side' wins Kilgour Prize 2019 People's Choice

Joshua McPherson has won the KILGOUR PRIZE 2019 People’s Choice Award for a portrait capturing the death of a beloved pet.

Robert Dickerson exhibition celebrates extraordinary gift of 40 works

Newcastle Art Gallery to hold the largest single collection of Australian artist Robert Dickerson AO.

Blak Douglas wins $50,000 Kilgour Prize

Newcastle Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes announced Sydney-based artist Blak Douglas as the winner of the annual award for figurative and portrait painting. 

From New York to Newcastle - Gallery exhibition celebrates internationally significant artist

Newcastle Art Gallery’s next exhibition VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE: the nature of abstraction is a survey exhibition of work celebrating Cuppaidge’s return to Australia.

Major exhibition SODEISHA: connected to Australia opening 2 March 2019

A nationally significant exhibition will open at Newcastle Art Gallery on Saturday 2 March 2019, drawn from the Gallery’s substantial collection of Japanese Sodeisha ceramics and the result of a collaboration of curators and artists across Australia and Japan. 
 

Art Gallery welcomes most visitors in a decade

Close to 77,000 people walked through the doors of the Gallery in 2018, up 14,000 or 23 per cent on 2017 and five thousand visitors more than in 2008.
 

Gallery lands $40,000 for major exhibition of Japanese ceramics

Newcastle Art Gallery has received a $40,000 grant to support a 2019 major exhibition of its extensive collection of Japanese Sodeisha ceramics.

Olsen Ormandy's creative force hits Newcastle Art Gallery

OLSEN ORMANDY: a creative force, a new exhibition from artists Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, opens at Newcastle Art Gallery on Saturday 17 November.

Gallery has 500,000 reasons to celebrate

Newcastle Art Gallery has added 49 works of art with a combined value of more than half a million dollars to its collection, thanks to the overwhelming generosity of private donors and a challenge from Sydney-based philanthropists James and Jacqui Erskine.