Join artist Jayanto Tan as he takes us on an adventure celebrating food and its rich cultural history, including the Pai Ti Kong Festival Lunar New Year.

Come with your favourite recipes to share and your picnic blanket; watch Jayanto perform the Pandan Lamington story, make your own Pai Ti Kong food in air-dried clay and enjoy food snacks from different cultures and music in the Gallery garden.

Bookings essential | All ages

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

02 4934 9859 | artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Join this practical drawing workshop just for teens led by artist Jane Lander.

You will have the opportunity to practice, improve and expand your skill base by experimenting with a variety of media, trying processes that encourage taking small risks and accepting change as part of the art-making process.

Bookings essential | Ages 14 – 16 years

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

Be part of red-carpet stardom at the world premiere of just-made short films by our Free Art January aspiring filmmakers, screening alongside a curated selection of LOVEDAVID’S best moments in film!

Bookings essential | All ages

This program is part of the Holiday Break Program supported by the Office for Regional Youth in partnership with Create NSW.

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

02 4934 9859 | artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Join us after hours at Maitland Regional Art Gallery to hear Kate Rohde discuss her art practice and busy year of exhibitions, and current work on display in Monster Mash.

Kate takes inspiration from decorative arts, science and mythological creatures to create intensely colourful jewellery and sculptures.

Kate Rohde has exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art and in 2015 was a finalist in the Rigg Design Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria. Her work is held in the collections of several institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery and Bendigo Art Gallery.

Friday 13 January, 6.30pm | Gallery open until 8.00pm

Bookings essential for talk | All ages

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

A unique opportunity to work with Melbourne-based artist Kate Rohde where you will learn the essential skills for designing your own small wearable or sculptural object and simple techniques for making a mould to cast designs, using low odour, easy-to-handle and fast-setting materials for a quick and colourful result.

You may get messy in this workshop so wear old clothes and BYO apron.

Bookings essential | Ages 14 – 18 years

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

Learn how to make your own monster using wire armature and plaster bandages with artist Kate Rohde.

You may get messy in this workshop so wear old clothes and bring along an apron or art smock.

Bookings essential | Ages 8 – 12 years

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

A fun workshop for families to enjoy using simple techniques to create your own moving monsters.

This workshop is designed for children 4 -8 years but can be enjoyed by older children too.

Bookings essential | Children & carers

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

This workshop will focus on clay’s capacity to capture the way our bodies interact with the world around us.

Artist Holly Macdonald will guide workshop participants through the process of making clay tiles working with hands and body to produce tiles that uniquely reflect each participant.

Bookings essential | All ages & skill levels

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | (+61 2) 4934 9859

Squelch, splat, thud, ping, clink… have you ever thought about what clay sounds like?

Artist Holly Macdonald will work with participants to uncover the range of sounds made by clay and how these sounds offer information about the material and our relationship to it.

Bring a smart phone along so that you can take some sounds home with you!

Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.

Bookings essential | All ages & skill levels

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

Join a workshop especially for teens with professional choreographer Cadi McCarthy.

Participants will learn contemporary dance and choreographic process discovery based on the kinetic sculptures of Hannah Gartside.

The workshops will focus on developing choreography that stems from the kinetic movement and aesthetic qualities of the sculptures in the exhibition, Harbingers: Loie, Artemisia, Pixie, Sarah And Lilith.

Cadi McCarthy is the Director and Founder of Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub. Cadi has been actively engaged in dance as a professional dancer, choreographer, educator and director.

For more information, contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

OPENING NIGHT: 5.30PM SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2022
EXHIBITION DATES: 7 DECEMBER 2022 - 5 FEBRUARY 2023

Join us for the opening of EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT: ALEX SETON and DOUBLE RAINBOW: MICHELLE GEARIN from 5.30PM Saturday 10 December to celebrate the launch of these two exciting exhibitions.

Alex Seton will be presenting a series of blown glass chandeliers throughout The Lock-Up's historic cells in tribute to those made by Newcastle’s discontinued Leonora Glassworks and commonly seen within entranceways of clubs and RSLs of post-World War II Australia.

Hunter-based artist Michelle Gearin will be presenting a new body of work exploring her personal experience as an Autistic artist responding to the power of the human eye and the science of optics.

Both exhibitions feature site-specific commissions that push each of the artist's practices through the use of new and exciting mediums.

Bookings not required.

For more information, contact The Lock-Up:

info@thelockup.org.au | (02) 4925 2265

Come together for an intimate morning tea in celebration of the year that's been and what's to come featuring a talk from special guest Tim Olsen.

Enjoy delicious food, refreshments, great company and exclusive access to the exhibition, A Rare Sensibility, featuring the work of artist Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen.

Hear from her son, Tim Olsen as he shares insights into his Mother's practice and place in Australia's cultural landscape.

There's also door prizes to be won and 20% off* in the Gallery Shop just for Members' until 1.00pm.

Capacity limited.

For more information, contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859

Maitland Regional Art Gallery warmly invites you to join us for the official launch of the Summer program, including eight exhibitions:

- A Rare Sensibility | Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen

- Many Hands Make Life Work - Deborah Kelly and the Moving Image 2011-2021

- Harbingers: Loie, Artemisia, Pixie, Sarah and Lilith | Hannah Gartside

- Monster Mash | Kate Rohde

- Yellow Sun, Blue Gum | Ileigh Hellier

- Protection | Jane Lander

- Escapade | Tinky

- A Little Potluck Party Pai Ti Kong with the Ghosts (Double Happiness) | Jayanto Tan

For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:

artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859