FOR the very first time, indigenous artworks from the gallery’s permanent collection will have their own exclusive exhibition at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
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The exhibition, Finding Country, features artworks by Aboriginal artists from across Australia who each represent their own language groups, dreaming and country.
MRAG’s director Brigette Uren said the exhibition displayed a wide range of unique artworks from 60 artists from 35 language groups.
“I took for granted that the collection had been out before, and didn’t realise that it hadn’t been out in its own right. We have shown some of the work before but in a different context,” Ms Uren said.
“So it is about connecting the collection and gallery to an Australia dialogue through indigenous voice, but also it is about trying to build stronger relationships with Aboriginal people in our own community.
“We have been working very closely with Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council to get the exhibition to this point – there’s no way we could’ve done it without them.”
The exhibition will run from now until February 17, 2019.
It will officially open, along with five other exhibitions, at the High Street regional art gallery at 3pm on Saturday, September 8.
Entry is free.
