A playful, hands‑on companion to The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits, Seed Pod brings the science of seeds to life through interactive displays. Family‑friendly and ideal for school holidays, it runs alongside the major…

To understand the present, we must confront the past. Truth Tell delves into the learned narratives of early colonisation, and the deep impacts on Aboriginal people during this period. This powerful exhibition draws from the historical accounts of events during a time of dispossession of…

For Hunter Valley artist Rebecca Rath, establishing human connection with the natural world is the premise of her practice and the impetus for this body of work. Found, in both a literal and metaphorical sense, applies to the act of painting en-plein-air, of finding or…

‘Mother’ as a subject, concept or idea has been explored and depicted by artists across time and cultures. In the final weeks before we farewell Ron Mueck’s Pregnant woman, MRAG presents a selection of works from the MRAG Collection that reflect on new life, family…

A dual‑site project foregrounding sculpture in dialogue with site. Works appear both in-gallery and at the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, encouraging audiences to move between cultivated landscape and white‑cube space.

In abstract photography, the artist aims to photograph the unphotographable(1). Featuring work drawn from the permanent collections by past winners and finalists of the Muswellbrook Photographic Awards and Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, ‘Abstract Photography: From the Muswellbrook Collections’ considers abstraction as a method for revealing…

To be or not to be? That is the question in Preschool at Goodstart Muswellbrook in 2025. So many options, so many thoughts and ideas, so much potential! Our little explorers take to the skies and dream about life as a grown up! What will…

A bold, graphic series by Newcastle painter Michael Bell. The exhibition pulls together emblematic motifs and fragments of vernacular language into paintings that are humorous, immediate and deeply rooted in lived experience. It’s Bell’s first…

THE PROCESS OF INTERPRETIVE CONNECTION was conceived by Julia Mcnaught and Janice Hanicar after a discussion where they realised that to continue with their art, they needed a subject that inspired both motivation and purpose. Julia and Janice’s aim was to find a subject that…

Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. The program includes exhibitions, workshops and professional learning opportunities in visual arts for teachers and students from all schools in NSW. Operation Art’s goal…

Furari Flores is a multisensory exhibition celebrating the wonder of plants. Incorporating sight, smell, hearing, and tactility, this project creates an immersive, sensory experience. Furari Flores explores the themes of environmental art, data visualisation, technology, geometry and meditation. Furari Flores grew out of Cara-Ann’s experience…

Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens presents a powerful exhibition that honours the history of non‑violent protest while confronting the entanglements of climate crisis, colonial legacies and patriarchy. Working with found materials, textiles and assemblage, Dickens constructs charged objects and installations that carry both tenderness and fury.…

Working in half light, half story, half-truth and half dream, I just let it happen in front of me almost forgetting I was there. In these dark times be the light your companion. Jane Lander is an established artist, living in Newcastle on Awabakal country-presenting…

Edwardo Milan’s exhibition ‘One Hundred Variations on A Theme & Other Stories’ occupies the Big Space at The Creator Incubator from 4 to 21 September 2025. The project centres on Milan’s long‑standing fascination with repetition,…

Held in Springtime the show celebrates flowers, plants, nature and artists responses to the natural world. Includes a living botanicals arrangement by Sister Sister Flower Gallery.

Captured primarily in a quiet backyard, Transition Blue unfolds in a time of shifting thresholds, where life pressed forward even as something essential was being lost. There is a rhythm here: endings that arrive beside beginnings, beauty shadowed by grief, stillness pierced by quiet dread.…

Transition Blue is a photographic and mixed‑media project by Newcastle‑based artist Megan Farquhar that unfolds across a period of shifting thresholds—where beauty sits beside grief and stillness meets quiet dread. Captured primarily in a backyard…

Synergy continues at Back to Back Galleries, foregrounding collaboration between print and clay communities. Where one wall might hum with linocut pattern, a neighbouring shelf holds vessels that translate those motifs into three dimensions. The…

Susan Ryman presents a focused body of coloured‑pencil drawings that dwell on memory, grief and the fragile drift of time. Working with patient layers and a disciplined touch, Ryman builds images that shimmer between observation…

Newcastle-based artist Tom Kearney presents 'Chevron Island', a body of work that threads painting, sculpture and installation through the lenses of place and identity. Kearney’s imagery often borrows from coastal subcultures, suburban edges and the…

Straitjacket presents *Tippy Toes*, a new exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Kerrie Oliver. The show centres on the act of painting—gesture, colour, rhythm and the physical decision‑making that happens at the edge of a mark. Oliver…

John is an energetic outdoor painter who works almost exclusively in oils and is stimulated by the strong light of the Australian landscape. He is particularly enthusiastic about the districts from the Blue Mountains to Mudgee in The Central West artistically. He enjoys painting the…

Jo Hamilton’s crocheted portraits made her an icon of contemporary fibre art. In The Tide is High she brings that language to ocean‑leaning imagery: ripples, currents and the physical memory of tide lines translated into…

A playful, hands‑on companion to The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits, Seed Pod brings the science of seeds to life through interactive displays. Family‑friendly and ideal for school holidays, it runs alongside the major…

To understand the present, we must confront the past. Truth Tell delves into the learned narratives of early colonisation, and the deep impacts on Aboriginal people during this period. This powerful exhibition draws from the historical accounts of events during a time of dispossession of…

For Hunter Valley artist Rebecca Rath, establishing human connection with the natural world is the premise of her practice and the impetus for this body of work. Found, in both a literal and metaphorical sense, applies to the act of painting en-plein-air, of finding or…

‘Mother’ as a subject, concept or idea has been explored and depicted by artists across time and cultures. In the final weeks before we farewell Ron Mueck’s Pregnant woman, MRAG presents a selection of works from the MRAG Collection that reflect on new life, family…

A dual‑site project foregrounding sculpture in dialogue with site. Works appear both in-gallery and at the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, encouraging audiences to move between cultivated landscape and white‑cube space.

In abstract photography, the artist aims to photograph the unphotographable(1). Featuring work drawn from the permanent collections by past winners and finalists of the Muswellbrook Photographic Awards and Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, ‘Abstract Photography: From the Muswellbrook Collections’ considers abstraction as a method for revealing…

To be or not to be? That is the question in Preschool at Goodstart Muswellbrook in 2025. So many options, so many thoughts and ideas, so much potential! Our little explorers take to the skies and dream about life as a grown up! What will…

A bold, graphic series by Newcastle painter Michael Bell. The exhibition pulls together emblematic motifs and fragments of vernacular language into paintings that are humorous, immediate and deeply rooted in lived experience. It’s Bell’s first…

THE PROCESS OF INTERPRETIVE CONNECTION was conceived by Julia Mcnaught and Janice Hanicar after a discussion where they realised that to continue with their art, they needed a subject that inspired both motivation and purpose. Julia and Janice’s aim was to find a subject that…

Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. The program includes exhibitions, workshops and professional learning opportunities in visual arts for teachers and students from all schools in NSW. Operation Art’s goal…

Furari Flores is a multisensory exhibition celebrating the wonder of plants. Incorporating sight, smell, hearing, and tactility, this project creates an immersive, sensory experience. Furari Flores explores the themes of environmental art, data visualisation, technology, geometry and meditation. Furari Flores grew out of Cara-Ann’s experience…

Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens presents a powerful exhibition that honours the history of non‑violent protest while confronting the entanglements of climate crisis, colonial legacies and patriarchy. Working with found materials, textiles and assemblage, Dickens constructs charged objects and installations that carry both tenderness and fury.…

Working in half light, half story, half-truth and half dream, I just let it happen in front of me almost forgetting I was there. In these dark times be the light your companion. Jane Lander is an established artist, living in Newcastle on Awabakal country-presenting…

Edwardo Milan’s exhibition ‘One Hundred Variations on A Theme & Other Stories’ occupies the Big Space at The Creator Incubator from 4 to 21 September 2025. The project centres on Milan’s long‑standing fascination with repetition,…

Held in Springtime the show celebrates flowers, plants, nature and artists responses to the natural world. Includes a living botanicals arrangement by Sister Sister Flower Gallery.

Captured primarily in a quiet backyard, Transition Blue unfolds in a time of shifting thresholds, where life pressed forward even as something essential was being lost. There is a rhythm here: endings that arrive beside beginnings, beauty shadowed by grief, stillness pierced by quiet dread.…

Transition Blue is a photographic and mixed‑media project by Newcastle‑based artist Megan Farquhar that unfolds across a period of shifting thresholds—where beauty sits beside grief and stillness meets quiet dread. Captured primarily in a backyard…

Synergy continues at Back to Back Galleries, foregrounding collaboration between print and clay communities. Where one wall might hum with linocut pattern, a neighbouring shelf holds vessels that translate those motifs into three dimensions. The…

Susan Ryman presents a focused body of coloured‑pencil drawings that dwell on memory, grief and the fragile drift of time. Working with patient layers and a disciplined touch, Ryman builds images that shimmer between observation…

Newcastle-based artist Tom Kearney presents 'Chevron Island', a body of work that threads painting, sculpture and installation through the lenses of place and identity. Kearney’s imagery often borrows from coastal subcultures, suburban edges and the…

Straitjacket presents *Tippy Toes*, a new exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Kerrie Oliver. The show centres on the act of painting—gesture, colour, rhythm and the physical decision‑making that happens at the edge of a mark. Oliver…

John is an energetic outdoor painter who works almost exclusively in oils and is stimulated by the strong light of the Australian landscape. He is particularly enthusiastic about the districts from the Blue Mountains to Mudgee in The Central West artistically. He enjoys painting the…

Jo Hamilton’s crocheted portraits made her an icon of contemporary fibre art. In The Tide is High she brings that language to ocean‑leaning imagery: ripples, currents and the physical memory of tide lines translated into…