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Community-focused exhibits launched at Maitland Regional Art Gallery

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Four new exhibitions were recently launched at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery, featuring significant artists, young creatives and local residents.

Female Drivers, by Newcastle fine arts teacher and curator Madeleine K. Snow, will be on show until 28 August.

The exhibit explores the representation of women in art and culture.

It focuses on the work of 10 female artists, including 2012 Brenda Clouten Memorial Art Scholarship winner and contemporary lacemaker Maggie Hensel-Brown, the Iwantja Young Women’s Film Project from South Australia, and art and advocacy project The Countess Report.

One of the gallery staff’s favourite exhibitions is Connected to Nature, a project by local Mai-Wel creative arts participants, which is on display until 4 September.

It celebrates and explores our local and natural world.

Audiences will also be able to experience Sleepwalking, featuring works from the Gallery Collection, until 4 September.

That exhibit centres around art that traverses dreams, memory, twilight and the subconscious.

It also appears alongside Shallow Pond Deepest at Night by young emerging Hunter artist David Lobb and musician e4444e.

Another must-see highlight sure to delight children and adults alike is See You in the Soup by Soft Stories.

A whimsical collaboration between Cat Rabbit and Isobel Knowles, it includes stop motion animation alongside miniature scenes and large-scale soft sculpture.

Maitland Regional Art Gallery director Gerry Bobsien said the exhibitions explored diverse topics in ways that audiences would love.

“This year has brought so many amazing exhibits to our space here in Maitland, and the line-up for winter builds on what’s been an incredible 2022 so far,” she explained.

“We have a bumper season to share, from Female Drivers delivering a powerful message of women in art and culture to Sleepwalking bringing out works from our collection to reveal dreamy experiences of the night.

“All of this is alongside Connected to Nature, which gives voice and agency to our diverse community, and delightful soft sculptural works from See You in the Soup to bring joy to our younger audiences.”

All exhibitions are free, while the gallery is wheelchair accessible.

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