Future Exhibitions

Over recent years the Gallery has made a feature of solo shows by New South Wales artists, especially from the north-west region of the State and extending down to the Hunter Valley. The concept developed as a new focus away from group touring exhibitions.

Moree is surprisingly rich in visual art resources in private hands. Thus, each year we have mounted a series of exhibitions called Hidden Treasures for which we have borrowed major works from private collections including Aboriginal art, historic non indigenous art and historic photography. 

 Light Sensitive Material 
Works from the Verghis Collection

28 March – 6 May 2012

Light Sensitive Material is a vibrant selection of photographic, light and digital media works from the collection of Rachel Verghis, one of Australia's youngest art collectors. The exhibition brings together 14 emerging and mid-career contemporary Australian artists whose use of light is integral to their work. The show is curated and toured by Richard Perram, Director of the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition in Moree is generously sponsored by Museums and Galleries NSW.

Artists represented included in the show are: Hayden Fowler, Shaun Gladwell, Newell Harry, Jonathan Jones, David Knight, Rosemary Laing, Vanila Netto, Michael Riley, Julie Rrap and Hossein Valamanesh.

  
 

Red case: myths and rituals
and Yellow case: form, space and design

22 May –  9 July 2012

The National Gallery of Australia is generously sending to Moree two travelling suitcase exhibitions. In 1988 Jim Wolfensohn (the Australian-born former president of the World Bank) donated funds to enable the NGA to buy museum-quality works of art to travel Australia as part of a unique exhibition program.

The Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift comprises art-filled suitcases and the 1888 Melbourne Cup. They have travelled to schools, libraries, community centres, regional galleries and nursing homes since their launch in 1990. In this way, the Gift is enjoyed by children and adults in remote, regional and metropolitan centres across Australia. The valuable works of art have been carefully selected to be both interesting and resilient; so that they can be handled and enjoyed by visitors to the exhibition.

 

Larapinta Trail artists

8 May − 25 June

The Larapinta Trail and the high ridgelines of the West MacDonnell Ranges is one of the most picturesque and distinctive landscapes in Australia. The region was painted by Albert Namatjira and recently a group of well-known contemporary artists visited the region on a painting trip. This exhibition is the result of the excursion.

Artists include Tim Allen, Michael Ambriano, Angeliki Androutsopoulos, Alison Chiam, Carmel Cosgrove, Michelle Hungerford, Steve Lopes, Euan Macleod, Michael Nock, Charmaine Pike, Leo Robba and Judith White.

Some of the paintings depict views from the high ridgeline to narrow canyons where sheltered pockets of delicate
ferns and twisted gum trees grow from the dry rivers of sand.

   

 Photographics Portrait Prize 2012
from Australia's National Portrait Gallery

29 June 2012 - 12 August 2012

Because of the Moree community’s avid interest in portraiture, we have managed to secure the prestigious Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

The standard of this annual photographic competition is always exceptional. The prize money for the winning artist is $25,000. As with the Archibald Prize exhibition, our Gallery privileged to be offered the exhibition.

The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual event intending to promote the very best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. 2012 will be the 5th year that the National Portrait Gallery has held this competition.

  

Remote & Wild:
photography by Richard Green

31 August 2012 – 8 October 2012

For the past 20 years Richard Green, pilot and photographer, has flown his helicopter to explore Australia’s wildest places to capture the untouched beauty of nature. This exhibition features over 20 large-scale photographs that were images in the photographers book, Remote & Wild, which was based on a 2008 exhibition Green stated at the National Library of Australia.

Green uses high resolution digital cameras and combines many images to create single panoramic images of great intensity and detail. Included in the exhibition are 2meter-wide images such as Dawn from Kosciusco, Arafura swamp, Wittenoom sculptures and Yarrunganyi rocks.

 

 

 ARTEXPRESS

 12 October -  16 November

 

Another major exhibition for the Gallery DURING 2012 is the famous ARTEXPRESS exhibition showing works of art by outstanding Higher School Certificate students in New South Wales. The students created the works for their final examination and the Board of Studies NSW is organising the tour of the exhibition after it is shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This time only seven venues from over 30 regional galleries in our State were selected for the tour.

Fortunately we were given the opportunity to select works for our Gallery exhibition from the many hundreds submitted. Gallery Curator Kylie McNamara visited Sydney to make the selection and to ensure that Moree Shire students were included in our show.

 


Outside the box: Pandora artists

1 December - 15 January

In 2006 a group of Hunter Valley abstract artists participated in the exhibition Pandora’s Box at the Newcastle Art Space. The exhibition was well received and thereafter the group continued to gain critical acclaim. The Pandora group agreed to show their recent work at the Moree Plains Gallery. Artists include Sally Bourke, painter; Helen Dunkerly, who works with large-scale ceramic pieces; Annemarie Murland, who will show works on paper; Linda Swinfield, who produces carved and collaged printed imagery; Lezlie Tilley, who will show delicate works of shell grit and small stones in grids on paper; and Patricia Wilson-Adams, who will exhibit a free-standing sculptural piece of cast aluminium and powder coated forms.

 

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