travelling exhibitions

The New England Regional Art Museum has an active and ambitious Travelling Exhibition Program which brings heritage and contemporary art to other regional and city centres throughout Australia.

Catalogues also accompany many of the exhibitions.

HERITAGE EXHIBITIONS are taken from the magnificent Howard Hinton Collection, over 1000 works which were donated to the Armidale Teachers College in New South Wales. The collection covers most oeuvres of art in Australia from the period 1880 to 1948.

ARTIST SURVEYS include exhibitions from early twentieth century to contemporary practising artists.

A highlight for 2000 was James Gleeson: On Starting a Painting, drawn from the artist's personal collection of drawings, most of which have never before been exhibited in public.

Finally we have a program of THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS ranging from the popular The King of the Accordion, exploring themes of migration and multiculturalism, to social history and the whimsical and amusing Toys by Artists, curated by Trevor Weekes.

Current Travelling Exhibitions

• Print and Process
  Printmaking involves reproduction, which means that you can have many (almost) identical copies of an artwork. However, the constraints of reproductive technologies (relief, intaglio, lithography, screen printing) cause the artist to develop a process related language. This exhibition reveals how artists from the collections have used the different print processes to express their creativity in a wonderfully varied panorama.