| Contact Details | |
Corner of Bridge and William Streets
Muswellbrook, NSW 2333
t 02 6549 3880
w muswellbrookartscentre.com.au |
| Opening Hours | |
Monday by appointment only
Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm
Weekends 10am - 1pm
Closed public holidays |
| Cafe | |
Artiste
Espresso Bar
Coffee, Food Gifts
8.30am - 3.00pm, 7 Days
t 02 6541 2277 |
| Bruce Tindale returns to the Upper Hunter | |
Bruce Tindale former manager of
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and more recently manager of Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery has taken up a new position at the gallery Michael Reid at Murrurundi. We would like to take the opportunity to welcome Bruce on his return to the Upper Hunter. |
| MDCC Call for New Members | |
The Muswellbrook and Districts Camera Club meets at 7.00pm on the fourth Wednesday of every month at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. Membership is open to anyone interested in improving and expressing themselves with their photography. Club activities include discussion forums, competitions, workshops and field trips. For more information contact Roger Skinner 0407 002 777. |
| Art Groups with Max Watters | |
Mondays
2.30pm - 5.00pm
Hunter Park Family Centre,
58 Wollombi Road, Muswellbrook
6.00pm - 8.00pm
Wybong Hall, Post Office Road,
Wybong
Thursdays
2.00pm - 6.30pm
The Pothouse, Lions Park,
Lower Brook Street, Muswellbrook
Saturday
1.30pm - 4.00pm
Aberdeen Community Hall,
Segenhoe Street, Aberdeen
All enquires please contact
Max 02 6543 2875 |
| ADFAS Scone: Lecture topics 2012 | |
13 March
Professor Health Lees BMus MA PhD FTCL NADFAS
"Wagner's Women, in Life & Music"
Scone Arts & Craft Hall, Kingdon St Scone
10 April
Mrs Susannah Fullerton BA MSC (Arts)
"Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know:
The Wicked Poet Lord Byron"
Scone Arts & Craft Hall, Kingdon St Scone
15 May
Ms Chloe Sayer BA (Hons) NADFAS
Peru: The Incas & their predecessors seen through their arts & textiles
St. Luke's Hall Liverpool St Scone.
Note: Change of Venue |
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Exhibitions 3 March - 22 April 2012
23rd Muswellbrook Photographic Award
School of Arts & Centre Court Galleries The biannual national Photographic Award with prize money increased from $6,000 in 2010 to $10,000 for the the 23rd acquisitive award in 2012. The judging panel of Stephen Blanch, Roger Hanley & Doug Spowart will select finalists with the wining work chosen by Dr Martyn Jolly.  Glen Sloggett, Diseased Roses2010 type c print Highly Commended in the 22nd Muswellbrook Photographic Award 2010 Photographs from the Max Watters Collection Max Watters Gallery left: Roger Skinner, Diving into Silence 1990 collage right: Rhonda Thwaite, Door 2006 digital print on canvas |
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Exhibitions 28 April - 10 June 2012
Driven to Abstraction: Carole Corrie & Garry Foye
School of Arts & Wollemi Galleries Carole Corrie and Garry Foye in exhibition and workshop with local artists. Maureen Copland: A Retrospective Centre Court Gallery A tribute to the late Muswellbrook mosaic artist Maureen Copland. Maureen Copland, Checkmate 2011 mosaic Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection The Abstract Mind Max Watters Gallery Abstract works from the Max Watters Collection. Tony Tuckson, Untitled (Red and Black Abstract) c. 1964 oil on hardboard |
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Donating to the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
The Arts Centre receives support from the community in many ways.
The general populatuion support the Arts Centre via Muswellbrook Shire Council who own and operate the Centre as a service of Council provided to not just the Muswellbrook community but to both Singleton and Upper Hunter Shires as well as visitors to our Region.
Our Arts Centre Volunteers give their time freely to assist the Council staff with the many activities that take place; in fact, the Arts Centre couldn't offer the range of services that it does without them.
Local businesses, industry and community groups as well as individuals sponsor a range of prizes which the Arts Centre conducts throughout the yearly program of exhibitions. These include the Bengalla Mining Company Pty. Limited with the Muswellbrook Art Prize; Muswellbrook & Districts Camera Club and Coal & Allied with the Muswellbrook Photographic Award. Our opening nights are currently sponsored by Stone Hill Vineyard at Merriwa and Cruickshank Callatoota Estate at Denman.
Dale Frank, The Angry Tuffets Pallet 1986 oil on canvas
Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection
Direct donations to the Centre can take a number of forms and may include the donation of art works to the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection either as an outright donation or as a donation under the Commonwealth Government's Cultural Gifts Program which allows the donor to claim the value of the gift against their tax. Works being donated to the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection need to fall within the collecting period of the Centre: Australian contemporary art from c.1950 to the present day (including local Upper Hunter Regional artists). The Arts Centre is always happy to consider any work from this period for inclusion in the Collection.
Other direct donations can include art books, catalogues and related ephemera for our Research Library or artist's archives and/or money. Any donation of $2.00 or more is tax deductible for the donor (don't forget to request a receipt). The Arts Centre also accepts bequests either open or targeted. Both the Viola Bromley Bequest and the Estate of Esther Bellis are utilized in the conducting of the Muswellbrook Local Art Awards. In general though, donated funds are used to finance the purchase of further additions to the Collection.
Recently donated to the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection by Ian McNeill is the work The Angry Tuffetts Pallet by Dale Frank. Ian made this donation because of Dale Frank's connections to the Upper Hunter Region and to assist the Arts Centre to consolidate its Dale Frank holdings. The work now joins another painting and a work on paper by Dale Frank at the Arts Centre.
Brad Franks, Arts Centre Manager |
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2011 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize
Closing Ceremony: Friday, 27 January 2012
 
clockwise from top: Leanne Tobin enrapts the crowd; Mike Didge performing at the closing; Cessnock Citizen of the Year and Wanaruah artist Les Elvin with Leanne Tobin and her winning work Defending Country; Finalist in the 2011 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize Brian Irving with his work Multi coloured turtles.
Thank you to our closing night sponsor
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