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National Art (part one)
(867kb)
- Friday 13 November 2020 to Sunday 3 January 2021
How Soon Is Now?
Bruce Reynolds (46kb)
- Friday 18 September 2020 to Sunday 8 November 2020
Just Not Australian
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- Friday 18 September 2020 to Sunday 8 November 2020
Brunswick Sky
Cedar Jeffs (86kb)
- Friday 18 September 2020 to Sunday 8 November 2020
Fragmented Cohesion - Annie Long (157kb)
- Friday 10 July 2020 to Saturday 5 September 2020
Gauge - Rae Saheli (157kb)
- Friday 10 July 2020 to Saturday 5 September 2020
LIFE, DEATH, Innocence AND GUILT - Shannon Doyle (52kb)
- Friday 10 July 2020 to Sunday 13 September 2020
Surreal Nature - Dave Groom (65kb)
- Friday 10 July 2020 to Sunday 13 September 2020
John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new (139kb)
- Friday 10 July 2020 to Sunday 13 September 2020
Arm of the Sea and the Fertile Tree
Sally Anderson (68kb)
- Friday 3 July 2020 to Sunday 29 November 2020
You are here: art of the region
(62kb)
- Friday 26 June 2020 to Sunday 17 January 2021
Border Art Prize 2020 (221kb)
- Friday 8 May 2020 to Sunday 5 July 2020
Double Vision
Euan Macleod and Ron McBurnie (989kb)
- Friday 20 March 2020 to Sunday 15 November 2020
JamFactory ICON Clare Belfrage: A Measure of Time (83kb)
- Friday 21 February 2020 to Sunday 5 July 2020
Captive Companions - Anne Smerdon and Corinne Lewis (89kb)
- Friday 21 February 2020 to Sunday 5 July 2020
Floral Appreciation - Judy Oakenfull (95kb)
- Friday 21 February 2020 to Sunday 5 July 2020
Fibro Façade - Catherine O’Donnell (90kb)
- Friday 31 January 2020 to Sunday 28 June 2020
Hiromi Tango - Healing Circle - Home (743kb)
- Friday 6 December 2019 to Sunday 15 March 2020
Margaret Olley: Inspired
(372kb)
- Friday 29 November 2019 to Sunday 18 October 2020
For Country, for Nation - An Australian War Memorial Touring Exhibition (162kb)
- Friday 29 November 2019 to Sunday 9 February 2020
Coastal Muse - Vicki Stavrou (87kb)
- Friday 22 November 2019 to Sunday 16 February 2020
Salient - Contemporary Artists at the Western Front (163kb)
- Friday 22 November 2019 to Sunday 16 February 2020
Olley Land - Christine Druitt-Preston (147kb)
- Friday 27 September 2019 to Sunday 17 November 2019
Myself – At My Favourite Place - Les Peterkin Portrait Prize for Children (143kb)
- Friday 27 September 2019 to Sunday 17 November 2019
Fresh: your collection (88kb)
- Friday 27 September 2019 to Sunday 14 June 2020
Love (603kb)
- Friday 6 September 2019 to Sunday 17 November 2019
Borrowed Landscapes - Marian Drew (110kb)
- Friday 23 August 2019 to Sunday 26 January 2020
Portal - Leora Sibony (84kb)
- Friday 26 July 2019 to Sunday 22 September 2019
These Little Things. Drawing my everyday - Tamsin Ainslie (46kb)
- Friday 26 July 2019 to Sunday 22 September 2019
Eternally Ephemeral: Kate Rohde (129kb)
- Friday 19 July 2019 to Sunday 1 December 2019
Olive Cotton Award 2019 (64kb)
- Friday 12 July 2019 to Sunday 22 September 2019
A Shared Obsession: Margaret Olley & Fred Jessup (404kb)
- Friday 28 June 2019 to Sunday 17 November 2019
Art Deco from the National Collection: The world turns modern - A National Gallery of Australia Exhibition (599kb)
- Friday 31 May 2019 to Sunday 25 August 2019
Dwell - Robyn Sweaney (432kb)
- Friday 24 May 2019 to Sunday 21 July 2019
Digby Moran: Painting Place (502kb)
- Friday 24 May 2019 to Sunday 21 July 2019
On a walk in the poet’s garden - Dean Home (363kb)
- Friday 22 March 2019 to Sunday 18 August 2019
Use (303kb)
- Friday 15 March 2019 to Sunday 19 May 2019
Maria Kontis: Oh life is mad and frenetic... but do look after yourself (126kb)
- Friday 8 March 2019 to Sunday 14 July 2019
Self-made: zines and artist books (603kb)
- Friday 1 March 2019 to Sunday 19 May 2019
Dis/closures - Sienna van Rossum (202kb)
- Friday 22 February 2019 to Sunday 19 May 2019
Marion Hall Best: Interiors (81kb)
- Friday 14 December 2018 to Sunday 17 February 2019
attached to the rest of the world
Carolyn Delzoppo (62kb)
- Friday 7 December 2018 to Sunday 17 February 2019
Margaret Olley: from the collection (81kb)
- Friday 19 October 2018 to Sunday 16 June 2019
Australia’s mangroves: living on the edge
Deirdre Bean (53kb)
- Friday 12 October 2018 to Sunday 17 March 2019
Borrowed Time
Laith McGregor (88kb)
- Friday 5 October 2018 to Sunday 2 December 2018
Confessions
Graeme Drendel (57kb)
- Friday 28 September 2018 to Sunday 10 March 2019
Going to a Fancy Dress Party
Les Peterkin Portrait Prize (150kb)
- Friday 28 September 2018 to Sunday 2 December 2018
Three Decades: celebrating the Tweed Regional Gallery collection (65kb)
- Friday 24 August 2018 to Sunday 30 June 2019
Ryan Presley
Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio (59kb)
- Friday 3 August 2018 to Sunday 25 November 2018
Experimenta Make Sense
International Triennial of Media Art (87kb)
- Friday 27 July 2018 to Sunday 23 September 2018
Australian exotica
An MGA travelling exhibition (141kb)
- Friday 20 July 2018 to Sunday 23 September 2018
Exchange
Alison Allcock (84kb)
- Friday 20 July 2018 to Sunday 23 September 2018
Border Art Prize (414kb)
- Friday 25 May 2018 to Sunday 15 July 2018
Subdivision - Georgie Maddox (278kb)
- Friday 25 May 2018 to Sunday 15 July 2018
Curtain Call - Andrew Antoniou (510kb)
- Friday 27 April 2018 to Sunday 7 October 2018
A painter’s house (309kb)
- Saturday 31 March 2018 to Sunday 7 October 2018
Fiona Lowry - Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio (208kb)
- Friday 16 March 2018 to Sunday 29 July 2018
Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists (601kb)
- Friday 2 March 2018 to Sunday 20 May 2018
Zoonoses - Nicola Hooper (692kb)
- Friday 2 March 2018 to Sunday 20 May 2018
Of Rivers and Floods - Rob Olver (179kb)
- Friday 2 March 2018 to Sunday 20 May 2018
Object - Michael Cook (326kb)
- Friday 15 December 2017 to Sunday 11 March 2018
Textaqueen: Between You and Me - A Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery travelling exhibition (97kb)
- Friday 8 December 2017 to Sunday 25 February 2018
The adventures of Aecap - Alasdair Macintyre (63kb)
- Friday 8 December 2017 to Sunday 25 February 2018
public/private - Phil Barron (60kb)
- Friday 8 December 2017 to Sunday 25 February 2018
The Prime Ingredient in a Big Piece of Pi - Frank Murri (69kb)
- Friday 24 November 2017 to Sunday 22 April 2018
Go figure - Works from the collection (60kb)
- Friday 13 October 2017 to Sunday 12 August 2018
Brett Whiteley: other places (somewhere else) (153kb)
- Friday 29 September 2017 to Sunday 3 December 2017
Caldera Art 2017 - Promoting biodiversity values in Australia's Green Cauldron (116kb)
- Friday 22 September 2017 to Sunday 3 December 2017
Surprise! 21st Les Peterkin Portrait Prize (155kb)
- Friday 22 September 2017 to Sunday 3 December 2017
Duxford Street Interiors (67kb)
- Friday 22 September 2017 to Sunday 18 March 2018
Joshua Yeldham - Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio (75kb)
- Friday 4 August 2017 to Sunday 10 December 2017
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture (123kb)
- Friday 21 July 2017 to Sunday 8 October 2017
David Hockney: Words and Pictures (658kb)
- Friday 30 June 2017 to Sunday 17 September 2017
The Tweed Valley Weather Report - Andrew Hmelnitsky (57kb)
- Friday 23 June 2017 to Sunday 17 September 2017
Surrender (502kb)
- Friday 26 May 2017 to Sunday 19 November 2017
Portraits: Margaret Olley (913kb)
- Friday 12 May 2017 to Sunday 10 September 2017
Drawn to Print: David Fairbairn (350kb)
- Friday 21 April 2017 to Sunday 18 June 2017
Slow light… Celestial (318kb)
- Friday 21 April 2017 to Sunday 18 June 2017
Guy Maestri (299kb)
- Friday 17 March 2017 to Sunday 30 July 2017
Concrete 2 (1052kb)
- Wednesday 8 March 2017 to Sunday 4 June 2017
Objects of Desire: Contemporary Clay (485kb)
- Friday 3 March 2017 to Sunday 16 April 2017
Slipstitch (471kb)
- Friday 3 March 2017 to Sunday 18 June 2017
the continuity of life - The art of Maki Horanai (311kb)
- Friday 3 March 2017 to Sunday 16 April 2017
Tumbulgum and the Countdown to Midnight at the First Supper Between Now and Forever (496kb)
- Friday 17 February 2017 to Sunday 21 May 2017
1,2,3 Count the Collection (59kb)
- Friday 16 December 2016 to Sunday 12 March 2017
The Phantom Art Show (59kb)
- Friday 9 December 2016 to Sunday 26 February 2017
PERFORMANCE - Abbey McCulloch (40kb)
- Friday 9 December 2016 to Sunday 26 February 2017
Becoming - Susan Kinneally (67kb)
- Friday 9 December 2016 to Sunday 26 February 2017
In Flagrante Delicto - James Guppy (64kb)
- Friday 30 September 2016 to Sunday 12 February 2017
Resolution: new Indigenous photomedia - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition (54kb)
- Friday 16 September 2016 to Sunday 4 December 2016
Me, Myself & I - 20th Les Peterkin Portrait Prize (155kb)
- Friday 16 September 2016 to Sunday 4 December 2016
Michael Cook - Mother (118kb)
- Friday 26 August 2016 to Sunday 11 December 2016
Margaret Olley: from the collection (78kb)
- Wednesday 17 August 2016 to Sunday 30 April 2017
A Creative Spirit - Douglas Annand Watercolours (83kb)
- Friday 15 July 2016 to Sunday 11 September 2016
It is and it is not - Celia Morgan (77kb)
- Friday 15 July 2016 to Sunday 11 September 2016
Local Provenance (50kb)
- Friday 15 July 2016 to Sunday 4 December 2016
A - Z: the alphabet in art - Works from the collection (144kb)
- Friday 10 June 2016 to Sunday 16 July 2017
The Border Art Prize (381kb)
- Friday 6 May 2016 to Sunday 10 July 2016
Object of Affection - Oksana Waterfall (185kb)
- Friday 6 May 2016 to Sunday 10 July 2016
WANDERLUST: work from recent travels - Wendy Sharpe (270kb)
- Friday 22 April 2016 to Sunday 25 September 2016
Kirsten Coelho (90kb)
- Friday 8 April 2016 to Sunday 14 August 2016
Uncommon Australians: The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling (179kb)
- Friday 4 March 2016 to Sunday 1 May 2016
White Noise - Angus McDonald (165kb)
- Friday 4 March 2016 to Sunday 1 May 2016
Peregrination - Rick Shearman (462kb)
- Friday 4 March 2016 to Sunday 1 May 2016
The Mystery of Things: Margaret Olley and David Strachan (351kb)
- Saturday 13 February 2016 to Sunday 7 August 2016
Luscious - Gatya Kelly (248kb)
- Friday 15 January 2016 to Sunday 28 February 2016
Archibald Prize 2015 - An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition (193kb)
- Friday 15 January 2016 to Sunday 28 February 2016
Animal Self (253kb)
- Wednesday 16 December 2015 to Sunday 27 March 2016
Mark Tedeschi: shooting around corners - A Maitland Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition (594kb)
- Friday 27 November 2015 to Sunday 17 April 2016
The Last Supper - Ken Julia Yonetani (274kb)
- Friday 20 November 2015 to Sunday 10 January 2016
Still - Dale Rhodes (579kb)
- Friday 20 November 2015 to Sunday 10 January 2016
Stephen Bird - Bastard Son of Royal Doulton (614kb)
- Friday 20 November 2015 to Sunday 10 January 2016
River Side - Karlee Rawkins (368kb)
- Friday 20 November 2015 to Sunday 10 January 2016
Carving Light and Landscape - Nicholas Harding (540kb)
- Friday 9 October 2015 to Sunday 13 December 2015
The Same and the Other - Michael Cusack (190kb)
- Friday 2 October 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Once Upon a Time - 19th Les Peterkin Portrait Prize (402kb)
- Friday 2 October 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Arcadia: sound of the sea - A National Portrait Gallery exhibition (332kb)
- Friday 2 October 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture (244kb)
- Friday 7 August 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015
Stroke Your Fur - Lae Oldmeadow (644kb)
- Friday 7 August 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015
48 Duxford Street: Re-creating Margaret Olley’s Home Studio (623kb)
- Wednesday 24 June 2015 to Sunday 7 February 2016
Stars in the river: the prints of Jessie Traill - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition (95kb)
- Friday 19 June 2015 to Sunday 2 August 2015
Two-thirds sky: searching for the sublime in the Northern Rivers - Sandra Guy (95kb)
- Friday 19 June 2015 to Sunday 2 August 2015
Monica Rohan - Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio (105kb)
- Friday 5 June 2015 to Sunday 4 October 2015
David Preston: works from the collection (98kb)
- Friday 29 May 2015 to Sunday 22 November 2015
Land Marks – here and there - Scott McDougall (105kb)
- Friday 29 May 2015 to Sunday 2 August 2015
Director’s Choice: works from the collection (98kb)
- Friday 24 April 2015 to Sunday 5 June 2016
The world is not a foreign land (398kb)
- Friday 17 April 2015 to Sunday 14 June 2015
Glimpse - Christian Halford (397kb)
- Friday 17 April 2015 to Sunday 14 June 2015
Travels with my Art: Moya Dyring and Margaret Olley (72kb)
- Friday 20 March 2015 to Sunday 21 June 2015
Object(s) of War - Christine Willcocks (72kb)
- Friday 13 March 2015 to Sunday 31 May 2015
Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art (87kb)
- Friday 20 February 2015 to Sunday 12 April 2015
Mt Warning, Caldera: The Impacts - Barb Suttie (87kb)
- Friday 20 February 2015 to Sunday 12 April 2015
Rod McNicol: memento mori - A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition (219kb)
- Friday 13 February 2015 to Sunday 24 May 2015
Waves & Water - Australian beach photographs (81kb)
- Friday 19 December 2014 to Sunday 15 February 2015
Highlights from The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings (79kb)
- Friday 19 December 2014 to Sunday 15 February 2015
Stone Samplers - Karyn Fendley and Suvira McDonald (69kb)
- Friday 19 December 2014 to Sunday 15 February 2015
Ex Libris - Corrigan for Kids (66kb)
- Friday 12 December 2014 to Sunday 8 March 2015
The Miracles - Deborah Kelly (62kb)
- Friday 5 December 2014 to Sunday 8 February 2015
In-Habit: Project Another Country (62kb)
- Friday 17 October 2014 to Sunday 14 December 2014
Caldera Art 2014 (80kb)
- Friday 17 October 2014 to Sunday 14 December 2014
Faces from the Future - 18th Les Peterkin Portrait Prize (97kb)
- Friday 17 October 2014 to Sunday 14 December 2014
Illumination: The art of Philip Wolfhagen (180kb)
- Friday 8 August 2014 to Sunday 12 October 2014
Objects and Ornithology (61kb)
- Friday 8 August 2014 to Sunday 12 October 2014
The Mullumbimby Kid (54kb)
- Friday 8 August 2014 to Sunday 12 October 2014
The art of giving: gifts to the collection by Patrick Corrigan AM (79kb)
- Friday 11 July 2014 to Sunday 19 April 2015
The Prince, the Tiger and a Toad (690kb)
- Friday 27 June 2014 to Sunday 30 November 2014
The Border Art Prize 2014 (125kb)
- Friday 13 June 2014 to Sunday 3 August 2014
Yahna Ganga (54kb)
- Friday 13 June 2014 to Sunday 3 August 2014
Hearsay - Euan Macleod, Lloyd Jones and Ron McBurnie (604kb)
- Friday 6 June 2014 to Sunday 7 December 2014
ARTEXPRESS (231kb)
- Friday 4 April 2014 to Sunday 8 June 2014
Gutter Gold: Something from nothing (205kb)
- Friday 4 April 2014 to Sunday 8 June 2014
Replicator (424kb)
- Friday 21 March 2014 to Sunday 1 June 2014
Private Assembly: a contemporary collection (55kb)
- Friday 24 January 2014 to Sunday 30 March 2014
Stories clouds tell (48kb)
- Friday 24 January 2014 to Sunday 30 March 2014
Array (905kb)
- Friday 24 January 2014 to Sunday 8 June 2014
What garden do I come from? (494kb)
- Friday 17 January 2014 to Sunday 1 June 2014
Travellers Tales (91kb)
- Friday 17 January 2014 to Sunday 22 June 2014
With a pencil in my pocket (120kb)
- Friday 29 November 2013 to Sunday 19 January 2014
Charles Conder: The Lithographs (161kb)
- Friday 29 November 2013 to Sunday 19 January 2014
Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory (229kb)
- Friday 29 November 2013 to Sunday 19 January 2014
An elemental approach: works from the collection (58kb)
- Friday 18 October 2013 to Sunday 6 July 2014
Family and Friends - 17th Les Peterkin Portrait Prize for Children (63kb)
- Friday 18 October 2013 to Sunday 24 November 2013
A Book About Death Australia - Curated by Heather Matthew and Julie Barratt (119kb)
- Friday 18 October 2013 to Sunday 24 November 2013
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing (119kb)
- Friday 18 October 2013 to Sunday 24 November 2013
Artists of the region: a collection focus (58kb)
- Friday 13 September 2013 to Sunday 12 January 2014
Artists of the region: a collection focus (402kb)
- Friday 13 September 2013 to Sunday 12 January 2014
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture (98kb)
- Friday 9 August 2013 to Sunday 29 September 2013
Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan (83kb)
- Friday 21 June 2013 to Sunday 29 September 2013
Kelly Speaking (104kb)
- Friday 7 June 2013 to Sunday 4 August 2013
Creative Power, the art of George Baldessin (123kb)
- Friday 7 June 2013 to Sunday 4 August 2013
The Antipodean Steampunk Show (122kb)
- Friday 7 June 2013 to Sunday 4 August 2013
Drawing Margaret (51kb)
- Friday 31 May 2013 to Sunday 12 January 2014
The Library of Atlas (47kb)
- Friday 19 April 2013 to Sunday 2 June 2013
Wild Interiors (37kb)
- Friday 19 April 2013 to Sunday 2 June 2013
CPM National Print Awards (67kb)
- Friday 19 April 2013 to Sunday 2 June 2013
Chasing the Disappeared (57kb)
- Friday 12 April 2013 to Sunday 8 September 2013
New York, Barcelona, Murwillumbah (59kb)
- Friday 8 March 2013 to Sunday 14 April 2013
Glen Skien (44kb)
- Friday 8 March 2013 to Sunday 14 April 2013
Rubber gloves, sharp teeth and other pointy bits (60kb)
- Friday 18 January 2013 to Sunday 3 March 2013
Ken Done: Sea Gardens (54kb)
- Friday 18 January 2013 to Sunday 3 March 2013
It’s all about the light: works by Margaret Olley from public collections (51kb)
- Friday 18 January 2013 to Sunday 14 April 2013
The Other Half: works from the collection (39kb)
- Tuesday 1 January 2013 to Sunday 16 June 2013
Rolling Stone: The Covers 1972 - 2010 (412kb)
- Friday 7 December 2012 to Sunday 7 April 2013
The Entropy Collection (294kb)
- Friday 30 November 2012 to Sunday 13 January 2013
The Border Art Prize 2012 (376kb)
- Friday 30 November 2012 to Sunday 13 January 2013
Animal Magic - 16th Les Peterkin Portrait Prize for children (501kb)
- Friday 5 October 2012 to Sunday 25 November 2012
GW Bot - Glyphmaker (400kb)
- Friday 5 October 2012 to Sunday 25 November 2012
Spirit in the Land - A McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park & NETS Victoria Touring Exhibition (486kb)
- Friday 5 October 2012 to Sunday 25 November 2012
infrascapes (542kb)
- Friday 17 August 2012 to Sunday 30 September 2012
Los Caprichos (713kb)
- Friday 17 August 2012 to Sunday 30 September 2012
Look! The art of Australian picture books today (355kb)
- Friday 17 August 2012 to Sunday 30 September 2012
Beauty from Nature: art of the Scott sisters (427kb)
- Friday 13 July 2012 to Sunday 16 September 2012
The Glass (310kb)
- Friday 29 June 2012 to Sunday 12 August 2012
UnRavelling (637kb)
- Friday 29 June 2012 to Sunday 12 August 2012
Indigenous prints from the collection and Print folios from the collection (392kb)
- Friday 1 June 2012 to Sunday 26 May 2013
Last Updated:
29 February 2016