Past Exhibitions

2012 EXHIBITIONS

2012 EXPRESS YOURSELF: HSC Visual Arts students from Sydney's Northern Beaches

Exhibition dates: 16 March - 22 April 2012

Express Yourself is a vibrant exhibition that showcased the talent and creativity of the 2011 crop of HSC Visual Arts students from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The diversity of media - from painting to printmaking, installation to photo media - and the high technical and artistic calibre of the works in Express Yourself reflect the effervescent creativity being fostered in Sydney’s Northern Beaches region. The exhibition featured over 30 students’ artworks from sixteen secondary schools.

Youth Art Awards

In conjunction with Express Yourself, two awards are granted annually to students featured in the exhibition. Manly Art Gallery & Museum Society presents a $2,000 award and the Theo Batten Youth Art Award of $5,000 is awarded to a student continuing tertiary study in the arts.

pdf format 2012 Express Yourself - invitation (984.84 KB)

pdf format Media Release - Express Yourself 2012 (140.23 KB)

BEACHCOMBER: Jennifer Marshall - Works on Paper and Paintings

(1981 - 2011)

Exhibition dates: 3 February - 11 March 2012

A survey exhibition of works by prominent Australian printmaker Jennifer Marshall, who explores the sea as her theme. Marshall works across diverse media including woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, drawing, watercolour, gouache and painting. Curated by Akky van Ogtrop.

pdf format Jennifer Marshall - invitation (492.70 KB)

pdf format Jennifer Marshall - Media Release (177.46 KB)

pdf format Jennifer Marshall - catalogue (9.11 MB)

ELEMENTS: John Reid

Exhibition dates: 3 February - 11 March 2012

Local artist John Reid's new body of work continues to look at the notion of paint as a language and the painted canvas as a live and reactive surface. Fuelled by years of study as a biochemist, Reid's focus is on the forces of nature and the honesty of the natural world.

pdf format John Reid - invitation (1.27 MB)

pdf format John Reid - Media Release (72.31 KB)

2011 EXHIBITIONS

2011 Manly Art Gallery exhibition calendars

THE NARRATIVE KNOT: Stories in Ceramics

Exhibition dates: 2 December 2011 - 22 January 2012

The Australian Ceramics Association’s Biennial Exhibition 2011 Curated by Gerry Wedd The idea of ‘the narrative knot’ implies interlocking or interweaving stories of, and about, making ceramics. Artists will explore the idea of objects with stories to tell, whether it be writing and drawing of stories on the ceramic surface or the effects of flame and glaze on a fired surface telling the story of making, firing and the maker.

pdf format The Narrative Knot - invitation (3.53 MB)

pdf format The Narrative Knot - Media Release (70.88 KB)

pdf format The Narrative Knot catalogue (2.61 MB)

PROmotion

Exhibition dates: 2 December 2011 - 22 January 2012

This exhibition will mark the 50th anniversary of The Journal of Australian Ceramics with both newly created ceramic work from selected practitioners and work from the collection of MAG&M. In the months leading up to this exhibition, artists will be blogging about their making process, their work and The Journal as a source of research material. The collaborative blog will continue alongside the works encouraging visitors to be part of the process. Curated by Dee Taylor-Graham.

BROOKVALE TAFE: Graduating students

Exhibition dates: 11 - 27 November 2011

Graduating students from the School of Fine Arts, Digital Arts & Design at Northern Beaches College, Northern Sydney Institute, TAFE present their best work in a wide range of subject matter and technical skills.

pdf format Invitation - rrggbb Northern Sydney Insitute TAFE 2011 (257.33 KB)

pdf format Media Release - Northern Beaches College of TAFE 2011 (482.95 KB)

pdf format 2011 TAFE catalogue (762.81 KB)

FRED MAGRO: New Work

Exhibition dates: 11 - 27 November 2011

Fred Magro presents a new body of work inspired by the sea and landscapes of the northern beaches. His dimensional constructions using oil paints and collage with plastic film and mixed media are experiments in composition and colour saturation. The storytelling in the pieces is an enactment of past techniques, marks imperfectly recovered from past habitats.

pdf format Fred Magro - Invitation (429.93 KB)

pdf format Media Release - Fred Magro (571.07 KB)

OFF SHORE: Artists of Scotland Island and Pittwater's Western Foreshore

Exhibition dates: 2 September - 6 November 2011

The Pittwater region of Sydney continues to attract and inspire artists, drawn by its natural beauty, relative isolation and creative community. This exhibition of the work of twenty-four artists reflects the strengths of their collective consciousness as well as the diversity of media and techniques, and ideas and themes in their individual works. Part of the 2011 Manly Arts Festival.

pdf format 2011 Manly Arts Festival & Off Shore - invitation (1.06 MB)

pdf format 2011 Manly Arts Festival & Off Shore - Media Release (84.36 KB)

pdf format Off Shore catalogue (5.71 MB)

HOT OFF THE PRESS: New Directions for The Sydney Printmakers

Exhibition dates: 15 July - 28 August 2011

Sydney Printmakers celebrates its 50th Anniversary still following the tradition of artist printmaker - making marks and producing images on surfaces that can be transferred onto paper or some other two-dimentional material.

pdf format Sydney Printmakers invitation (441.82 KB)

pdf format Media release - Hot Off the Press - Sydney Printmakers (29.21 KB)

pdf format Sydney Printmakers Catalogue (3.39 MB)

KURU ALALA: eyes open

Exhibition dates: 3 June - 10 July 2011

A fascinating collaborative exhibition by Tjanpi Desert Weavers and contemporary installation artists Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Alison Clouston. Developed by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery and curated by Virginia Rigney. Proudly supported by the Balnaves Foundation and toured by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland. Part of the 2011 Guringai Festival.

pdf format Invitation - Kuru Alala (483.41 KB)

pdf format Media Release - Kuru Alala (225.20 KB)

Mark Rhodes: Union

Exhibition dates: 3 June - 10 July 2011

Through his paintings, northern beaches artist Mark Rhodes uses a unique combination of float techniques and traditional oil glazes to capture fluid movements of energy, where creation and destruction shape our environment. ‘Nature has no rules only an infinite and overwhelming capacity for change'.

pdf format Invitation - Mark Rhodes (305.02 KB)

pdf format Media Release - Mark Rhodes (130.01 KB)

PERSONAL SPACE: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints

Exhibition dates: 22 April - 29 May 2011

An international exhibition of prints by fifty Australian and Chinese artists working in the tradition of the fine art print The theme ‘personal space’ offers a variety of interpretations on the concept of 'space' in ways that are literal, symbolic, external and internal. Supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and curated by Michael Kempson, Senior Lecturer and Director of Cicada Press, at the College of Fine Arts at the University of NSW. Touring exhibition throughout 2012.

pdf format Invitation - Personal Space (628.01 KB)

pdf format Media Release - Personal Space (60.71 KB)

EXPRESS YOURSELF: HSC Visual Arts students from the Northern Beaches

Exhibition dates: 18 March - 17 April 2011

Artworks by 2010 HSC Visual Arts students from schools across Sydney’s Northern Beaches region, representing their diverse bodies of work including multi-media, digital, sculpture, graphics and drawing.

Youth Art Awards

pdf format 2011 Express Yourself invitation (1.60 MB)

pdf format 2011 Express Yourself - Media Release (40.45 KB)

KEEPING COMPANY: 2011 Members exhibition

Exhibition dates: 11 February - 13 March 2011

Selected works by members of the Manly Art Gallery & Museum Society. This biannual exhibition showcases the diverse skills and media by artists within the region. This exhibition is selected by Robert Linnegar, Director of King Street Gallery on William.

pdf format Keeping Company - invitation (1.33 MB)

pdf format 2011 Keeping Company - Media Release (28.20 KB)

CECIL BOSTOCK: Sydney

Exhibition dates: 11 February - 13 March 2011

An exhibition of photographs by Cecil Bostock (1884 - 1939), founder of the Sydney Camera Circle which brought together key photographers of the time. This is the third in a series of focus exhibitions on Sydney photographers connected with the Northern Beaches region, after Harold Cazneaux and Max Dupain.

pdf format Cecil Bostock_invitation (406.75 KB)

pdf format Cecil Bostock - Media Release (27.61 KB)

Claire Geluk - Both the One and the Other