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  • 20:20


    20:20 is the culmination of a year of endeavour by twenty contemporary Australian artists, commissioned to produce a full museum of new work.

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  • Gindaymanha: Play, to have Fun


    An exhibition of local students' work created in conjunction with the Home program.

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  • Bethany Thornber: Thylaseen


    Have you seen a Thylacine? Bethany Thornber's large scale installation on MAMA's Roller Door extends the artists investigation into the sacredness of natural places.

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  • COLLECTION

    Two visitors examine a landscape painting in a gold frame, in a white room full of gold frame landscapes


    COLLECTION celebrates the vital cultural resource during this period of instability and uncertainty, with a selection of works from the MAMA Collection.

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  • Brian Fuata: Phrase Signatures - A Rehearsal


    Brian Fuata unveils his new text based performance over the next three issues of Art Monthly, in a takeover of our usual advertising space.

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  • Andrew Liversidge: Those So-Called Infinite Horizons


    A new site-specific installation by Andrew Liversidge, repurposing MAMA's advertising billboards as a canvas for an artwork that questions our current economic system.

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  • National Photography Prize 2020


    A showcase of the finalists in this year's National Photography Prize, highlighting the most innovate photo-based practices from across Australia.

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  • Glenda Mackay: Detritus


    An exploration of grief, loss and memory through collage, sculpture & installation.

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  • James Tylor: Economics of Water


    Economics of Water maps the damage that has occurred to the Murray Darling river system in a series of photographs taken in Menindee and Tallangatta.

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  • Year 12 Art Show


    A showcase of the year's top graduating HSC and VCE students from the region.

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  • Bethany Thornber: parks and wreck


    Wiradjuri artist Bethany Thornber explores ideas of boundaries and the setting apart of National Parks in her colourful, symbolic works.

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  • Pets


    A celebration of the colourful, weird, cute, sometimes troubling, but ultimately loving relationships between pets and the humans that care for them.

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  • Nginhagu: Belonging to this Place

    Bark, sticks, wire and twine make up this representation of the Murray Cod by primary school children from Albury


    Enjoy the creations of local primary school students that have been inspired by Wiradjuri language and culture.

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  • Beth Peters: REST


    Woven lines create the detailed drawings of Chiltern-based artist Beth Peters.

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  • Certain realities


    An exhibition of sculpture, painting and performance that recognises the role of artists as agents of social investigation.

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  • Chris Ellis: Moments on the Murray

    Painterly impression of leaves reflecting off the surface of the river in vibrant blues, greens and yellow tones


    A new collection of oil paintings celebrating the tranquility of the Murray River.

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  • Kevin Gilbert: A Message to be Heard

    Image of white swan eating a black swan with a broken neck


    A collection of linoprints and poetry by Kevin Gilbert, a late 20th Century Wiradjuri artist.

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  • Elizabeth Rankin: Pyjama Girl

    Oil painting of detective holding up yellow collared top, the silk pyjamas the murder victim had been wearing


    Explore the intrigue and mystery of the Pyjama Girl case through the eyes of a young child attending the police exhibit at the Royal Easter Show

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  • Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness

    three works in the Zzzzz installation at Gertrude Contemporary


    Zzzzz presents work by Australian and international artists exploring the realm of sleep, subconscious, dreaming, delirium, and altered states in a world too busy to rest

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  • Susie Losch: New Old Stock

    Small colourful sculptures


    A new collection of joyful, weird, and unexpected sculptures by Kiewa Valley artist Susie Losch.

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  • Linda Lees: Curves and Crisp Edges

    Several small round ceramic sculptures on a shelf by Linda Lees


    Linda Lees plays with form, scale and sharp finishes in her new collection of ceramic sculptures.

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  • John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new

    Detailed bark painting of a female rainbow serpent by John Mawurndjul


    A comprehensive survey of the work of one of Australia's greatest living artists.

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  • CATPC - the artists from the plantation. A portrait by Baloji, 2018.

    Mother and two children sit on woven mat, mother pregnant, wearing futuristic vision mask around her head


    A portrait in film of a Congolese artist cooperative that are buying back and transforming former plantations through the making and selling of art to the global art market.

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  • Sarah Goffman: Bridge to Asia

    13 meter bamboo bridge spans the foyer at Murray Art museum in Albury


    Hundreds of small plastic sculptures create a fantasy world beneath a 13m suspended bamboo bridge

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  • Andrew Tenison: Let Me Imagine You

    Hand holding photograph of serviceman - black and white


    Inspired by a photograph of a WWII soldier found in an op shop, Andrew Tenison imagines the life and experience of the serviceman through a series of staged scenes captured in hand printed silver gelatin photographs.

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  • Plastic Palace: Raffaello Rosselli


    An experimental architecture project exploring Australia’s hard plastic waste crisis.

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  • Year 12 Art Show 2018

    Sketched girl in painted background of a room with pot plant and other objects


    Celebrate the creative achievements of graduating Year 12 Art Students from the Murray Region.

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  • Mark Eliott: Tales from the sky and land, day and night, sea and sand

    Glass underwater scene with submarine and aquatic life with sand on base in small rectangular museum installation space


    Individual stories told through glass sculptures in each of the five Wonder Cupboards.

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  • Margaret Sprouster: Up ahead

    Shadow of bird reflecting on silver water surface


    Serene paintings of landscapes and birds in flight from Albury based artist Margaret Sprouster.

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  • Sidney Nolan: Ned Kelly Series

    depiction of ned kelly in court before a judge by australian painter sidney nolan


    The iconic series that captured Australia's most infamous outlaw, a masterclass in Australian art history.

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  • Sentient

    Picture of wetland in Murray region with design elements overlain titled Sentient


    Explore the history and culture of the Murray River with artist James Nguyen and curator Abigail Moncrieff.

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  • Nghadi Ngurang: My Home

    Bark huts from the 2017 Home Program Exhibition


    Nghadi Ngurang is an exhibition of work created by school students that participated in the Nghadi Ngurang arts & language education program.

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  • Leon deMontignie: The Life and Death of an Unknown Artist

    Arial view painting of the Eastern Circuit


    Scenes of suburbia, country towns, parks, loneliness, alcoholism, homelessness, and despair are depicted with realism, humour and compassion.

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  • Immortality

    interior of church in polynesian setting with floor to ceiling glass cross with light streaming through


    After we are gone from the earth, how will we be remembered? Immortality examines the role artists play in forming these artefacts for the future.

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  • Cornélia Selover: I Wish You Were There

    Cornelia Selover's painting


    Intricate patterns, repeating numbers, and blocks of colour map the universe of artist Cornélia Selover.

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  • Mechelle Bounpraseuth: Westside Story

    VHS tape with the Sound of Music


    Peek inside the kitchen cupboards of suburban Australia with ceramic scenes by artist Mechelle Bounpraseuth.

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  • Ash Laing: Flagging Opinion

    Detail of Ash Laing's Installation at MAMA, Flagging Opinion


    Flagging Opinion examines the role of the Australian Flag in contemporary Australian life, and investigates the schisms of esteem, novelty and identity.

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  • Michael Riley

    Three works from Michael Riley's untitled series depicting christian crosses on cloudy coloured backgrounds hung on a plain white wall in murray art museum


    Michael Riley's groundbreaking photographic work and visionary films have made a profound impact on Australian art.

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  • National Photography Prize 2018

    Installation view of Tully Arnot's photographic series 'surfaces'


    The MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize is Australia's oldest photography celebration. Each of the 12 finalists presents a series of contemporary works in the pursuit of a $30,000 first prize.

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  • The Watched

    View of a naked man's back through a black peephole


    The Watched considers the impact of surveillance on daily life.

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  • Ngurrambaa

    Print by Laurel Nannup entitled Number 28


    An exhibition of prints from artists that have worked with Cicada Press, an indigenous print workshop in Sydney.

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  • Nat Ord: Rise!

    Eliza Ault-Connell portrait by Nat Ord


    Rise! captures women of power from the Murray region in their environment, by photographic artist Nat Ord.

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  • Material Sound


    Experience sound within a series of installations designed by six contemporary Australian artists.

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  • 2017 Archibald Prize

    Archibald Prize 2017


    Australia's most prestigious portrait prize presents a who's who of Australian culture, from politicians to celebrities and from sporting heroes to artists.

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  • Year 12 Art Show 2017

    Collage of boy in washing pan in front of manor house


    Celebrate the creative achievements of graduating Year 12 Art Students from Albury, Wodonga & Corowa.

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  • Julia deVille: Theoria

    Mouse with leather saddle and feathered fascinator


    Julia deVille draws upon symbols of death from past eras, in a series of five tiny installations in MAMA's peepboxes.

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  • Land & Title

    Portrait of William Hay by Tom Roberts


    A survey of contemporary Australian art drawn from the MAMA Collection.

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  • Children's Illustrated and Picture Books from Poland

    Book spines of children books from Poland


    This exhibition brings together the best historical and contemporary examples of illustrated children's books from Poland, curated by Kinga Duda and Michał Jachuła

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  • Grant Stevens: Art by Accident

    The Sun - a work by artist Grant Stevens


    Grant Stevens presents digitised representations of natural scenes on MAMA's indoor and outdoor screens in Art by Accident.

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  • Lorraine Connelly-Northey: On Country

    Detail of barbed wire and mussel shells from Lorraine Connelly-Northey's work On Country


    A major new commission by internationally celebrated Waradgerie artist Lorraine Connelly-Northey.

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  • Catherine Pancake: Nature is Hungry

    Screen shot from Nature is Hungry - a short film by Catherine Pancake


    American filmmaker Catherine Pancake presents a video work exploring the ethical dilemma adult children face as land is passed down from one generation to the next.

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  • Landmarks

    Artwork by Christo


    This exhibition celebrates works of art that are inextricably linked with landscape from some of the world’s most significant and influential artists of the 21st century.

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  • Nguram-gang: Home District

    Bark Huts made by school students from Albury region


    Nguram-gang: Home District is an exhibition of work created by school students that participated in the Nguram-gang arts & language education program at MAMA.

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  • 20th Anniversary Windmill Trust Exhibition

    Abstract painting in blue tones


    Windmill Trust awards an annual scholarship to rural and regional artists. This exhibition follows the careers of past scholarship winners.

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  • Albury-Wodonga Artists Society: White Light

    Painting of Cradle Mountain at night


    White Light celebrates the play of light in artworks, by members of Albury Wodonga Artists Society.

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  • Joanna Lamb: The Real Thing


    Joanna Lamb examines domestic, suburban living through a collection of contemporary still life works.

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  • Nick Dorey: The drowning of Hermaphroditus

    Nick Dorey Drowning of Hermaphroditus


    Nick Dorey seeks balance and harmony in the material world.

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  • Yao Jui-Chung + Lost Society Document + Sandy Hsiu-Chih Lo


    Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan

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  • NAIDOC Week Posters 1972 - 2017


    Every year since 1972, a poster has been produced to mark NAIDOC week. Using the posters as a visual history, we see the evolution of NAIDOC week and the change in focus throughout each era.

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  • Catherine Stewart: Habitus


    Vibrant contemporary landscape paintings from 2016 MAMA Art Prize winner Catherine Stewart.

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  • Anne Zahalka: The Landscape Revisited


    Working with iconic images from Australian art, Anne Zahalka explores the construction of our Australian identity.

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  • Kate Mitchell: Art by Accident


    Art by Accident features five artworks by multi-disciplinary artist Kate Mitchell.

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  • Tyler Grace: The Chronic Diaries

    Young man with cloud covering head


    A series of self-portraits by photographer Tyler Grace chronicling the experience of living with long term illness.

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  • Primavera at 25: MCA Collection

    Three visitors view Danie Mellor's installation "Native Gold" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia


    A collection of works by artists who have previously exhibited in Primavera, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's annual exhibition dedicated to showcasing the work of young Australian artists.

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  • Being Tiwi

    One work from the MCA Touring Exhibition - Being Tiwi


    A celebration of the stories and culture of contemporary art from the Tiwi Islands

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  • Rose Wilson: The Disappearing Farmer

    Oil sketch of farm hand by artist Rose Wilson


    Portrait artist Rose Wilson captures the faces of a disappearing generation of Australian farmers from the Victorian highlands.

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  • Feeling of France: John Lamb

    French restaurant doorway surrounded by plants and a chalkboard menu


    Photographer John Lamb captures the spirit of France in these lively streetscapes from Paris and Southern France.

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  • Two Brains are Better Than One: Isabelle Toland and Jasper Knight

    Blue and Yellow laser cut pieces create this large scale Stegasaurus by artist Jasper Knight and architect Isabelle Toland


    Playful installation of large-scale Stegosaurus sculptures grazing in and around MAMA and QEII Square.

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  • Shop That Museum


    An exhibition of by five commercial artists Christine Battocchio, Faith Colwell-Beaver, Lorraine Connelly Northey, Kerrie Docker and Margaret Wilmot.

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  • Summer - Bondi to Barcelona: Rex Dupain

    Woman with blue lipstick stands against a blue wall at a beach shelter in New York


    Photographer Rex Dupain chased the sun from Bondi, Australia to Brighton in the UK, Bay of Naples, Italy, Harlem and Coney Island in New York City, and Barcelona, Spain, capturing quintessential Summer moments on film.

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  • Yours. 70 years of collecting


    Come inside MAMA’s ever expanding art collection, gathered over 70 years, and curate your own exhibition.

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  • FOUND: Mylyn Nguyen


    Discover a secret world behind MAMA's hidden peep boxes, featuring found objects and busy beetles.

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  • A Continued Conversation: Calista Lyon

    Portrait of a Tallangatta resident taken by artist Calista Lyon as part of her Living Home series in 2013


    Featuring vivid portraits of 157 Tallangatta Valley residents, this exhibition highlights the social and economic pressures shaping the future of rural towns.

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  • A Language of the Vanishing: Claudia Terstappen

    Catalogued bird specimens from the Berlin Natural History Museum, photographed by Claudia Terstappen


    In these two photographic collections, Claudia Terstappen reveals much about life in her depiction of death.

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  • David Taylor: Kati-Thanda 15 Below

    Aerial view of Lake Eyre


    Stunning, vivid aerial photographs of Lake Eyre taken by local photographer David Taylor and his son Rowand.

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  • Silent Tears: Belinda Mason

    Black and white photograph of upset woman with wet hair


    This multidimensional photographic exhibition reveals the lived experience of women with disability who are subjected to violence and women who acquired disability as a result of violence.

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  • MAMA Summer Pop

    Giant plush white puppy and giant figurine riding a toy car feature in these two works by artist Alasdair Macintyre


    Come to MAMA for a POP of colour and fun during the summer holidays. This fun, colourful exhibition includes life-size cartoon characters, giant stuffed animals and teeny tiny scenes for the little ones.

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  • Year 12 Art Show 2016

    Oil painting of a young woman with multiple faces, as if in motion or in two minds, by Year 12 artist Sarah Macleod


    The annual Year 12 Art Show celebrates the achievements of graduating student artists in Albury.

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  • True Colours: Daniel Mudie Cunningham

    Still from Daniel Mudie Cunningham's video work 'True Colours'


    A decade after the Cronulla riots, 'True Colours' remakes Cyndi Lauper’s hit music video of the same name.

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  • Between the Desert and the Moon: Central and Western Desert Artists

    Yinta and Warla - by artist Jeremy Sammy - part of the Moon collection at MAMA


    A collection of Aboriginal art showcasing the cultural and creative diversity in the Western Desert communities of Central Australia.

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  • FACEY: Schools Portrait Exhibition

    Pop Art style portrait by student Seb Summerfield


    This summer MAMA is celebrating creative youth. FACEY features portraits painted by local primary school students under the guidance of Albury High School mentors.

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  • Skill, Discipline, Training: Richard Lewer

    All Blacks and Australian football teams on the field chasing the ball - oil painting


    Sports-mad artist Richard Lewer, who recently won the $100,000 Basil Sellers art prize, explores the camaraderie that comes with winning and losing in Skill, Discipline, Training.

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  • Stephanie Jakovac, Inga Hanover & Bec Bromley Humphries

    Collection of small white ceramic ovals with hole pressed in them


    MAMA brings together three local artists exploring themes of communication, femininity and childhood in this multi-dimensional show.

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  • Domestic Theatrics: Nina O'Brien

    Young girl hangs from tree swing in front yard with sister looking on from verandah


    Moments never destined for the family album; Domestic Theatrics is a photographic series that explores the reality of siblings played out in the suburban backyard every day.

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  • Here & Now: Jo Davenport

    Abstract oil painting by artist Jo davenport


    Jo Davenport's latest exhibition features gestural paintings that speak of her relationship with nature and experiences with her environment.

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  • SPEED: The Fast and The Curious

    Yellow pop art GTO vehicle by artist Jasper Knight


    Buckle up for SPEED – an original exhibition of contemporary art and a fun program of events inspired by our love affair with fast moving machines.

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  • Unsettling Memories

    Boy with hand over face, Untitled image by photographer Bill Henson, 1979


    A new exhibition drawn from the MAMA collection, these works stir up memories that lurk in the shadows, capturing the uncertainty, fear, innocence, and not-quite-knowing of childhood.

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  • Drawn through Space: Ariadne's Thread - Nadia Odlum

    Detail from Nadia Odlum's This Way That Way exhibition at Kudos Gallery 2016


    A mind-bending installation that will thread its way around the MAMA Foyer and provide the backdrop for a collection of hands-on interactive activities utilising thread, string, line art.

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  • Black | White: Sam Juparulla Wickman

    Detail of artwork by Sam Juparulla Wickman from his Black White exhibition at MAMA


    Juparulla Wickman's latest works invite viewers into the creative world and experience of the Western Desert.

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  • Yindyamarra: Respect, go slow, take responsibility

    Image of hawk soaring high in blue sky


    This animated film teaches the importance of Yindyamarra - Respect of country - in Wiradjuri language and culture.

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  • Mumula Giilang: Grandfather Story - Bethany Thornber

    Artist Bethany Thornber at work on her piece entitled Mumula Giilang Grandfather Story


    Emerging artist Bethany Thornber captures the vivid storytelling of her Grandfather in this multidimensional exhibition.

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  • Jo Bertini: Hortus Conclusus - the Enclosed Garden

    Native Dog Creek by Jo Bertini


    Leading Australian contemporary artist Jo Bertini, has drawn inspiration from the Murray region for her stunning exhibition of large scale oil paintings depicting the local landscape.

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  • MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize 2016 Exhibition

    Emily PORTMANN (1982), I can never escape myself #2, 2006, c-type photograph


    More than 100 works by 65 established and emerging photographers will be on show, and available for purchase throughout the duration of the exhibition.

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  • Lament: Nicole Welch

    Image of Chandelier in dark space, a still from a video work entitled 'Lament' by artist Nicole Welch


    This first video work of photographer Nicole Welch extends her signature style into time-lapse film.

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  • Resolved: Journeys in Australian Design

    Objects that form part of the Resolved - Australian Journeys in Design exhibition


    An exhibition of 12 compelling works by designers from the highly acclaimed "Workshopped" exhibitions held in Sydney.

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  • Brush with Border Artists

    Meg Brown's artwork from the Brush with Border Artists exhibition on display at MAMA


    This latest exhibition by members of the Albury Wodonga Artists Society brings together small individual works depicting something personal to each artist. The exhibition showcases the diversity and talent in the region, inviting you to explore their collective and individual identities.

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  • History of the National Photography Prize


    Discover the treasures in the archives of Australia's oldest photographic prize.

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  • Sidney Nolan & Australian Galleries: The Australian drought of the 1950's

    Image of starving horse from Sidney Nolan's photographic exhibition 'The Australian drought of the 1950's'


    A rare opportunity to see Sidney Nolan’s lost drought photographs, which will also be available for sale.

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  • The One on One: Ella Sowinska

    Image taken from Ella Sowinska's project 'The One on One' opening at MAMA in April 2016


    Why are we so fascinated with the private lives of others?Ella Sowinska casts a humorous light on popular and addictive genre of reality TV devoted to dating. The One on One focuses on the first date and the absurd act of filming it, in all its awkward, staged glory.

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  • Soul Journey: Jim van Geet

    Portrait of a ballerina in front of a wall with graffiti reading 'no hip hop' - by artist Jim van Geet


    Acclaimed Australian portrait artist Jim van Geet will bring a selection of stunning oil paintings to MAMA in April and if you like them, you can buy them.

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  • Wanderlust: Dorin Folkerts-Di Novo from the James Brooks Collection

    Watercolour streetscape of Darlinghurst in Sydney by Doreen Folkerts


    A beautiful collection of impressionist watercolour landscapes from avid traveller and artist Dorin Folkerts-Di Novo.

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  • Aqua Luminous: Chris Ellis

    Aqua Luminous by Chris Ellis


    Aqua luminous refers to the effect of light on water. In his latest collection of work, regional artist Chris Ellis delves deeper into his lifelong fascination with the Riverine Ecosystems, and the play of light on water throughout the seasons.

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  • AgX: Grayson Cooke

    Detail from Grayson Cooke's photograph 'Sulphuric' - part of the AgX exhibition at MAMA


    AgX is an art-science project about material memory and forgetting; it features time-lapse macro-photography of photographic negatives being chemically destroyed. The project asks people to reflect on their own photographic collections, and the possibility of their disappearance.

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  • Marilyn: Celebrating an American Icon

    Black and White photograph of Marilyn Monroe - lying on a couch.


    MAMA's first international blockbuster exhibition celebrating the enduring cultural phenomenon of Marilyn Monroe.

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  • Dance me to the end of night: Mona Ryder

    Pair of brightly coloured dancing shoes with electric plugs attached from Mona Ryder exhibition


    An installation melding the rich, visceral religious iconography with a raw, post-apocalyptic tribal aesthetic. Visitors are invited to enter into an enigmatic ballroom setting that is about to come alive.

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  • Translating Wetlands: Nat Ward

    Reflecting on wetlands - painting by Nat Ward


    The natural environment of the wetlands and Murray River are the inspiration for these large scale paintings by local artist Nat Ward.

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  • Consilience: as the world turns

    Julie Davis, Video Still, Consilience as the world turns, 2013/4. Image of shadowy figure against a starry night sky.


    Time-lapse video work investigating how time and place affects both our sense of embodiment and our perception of ourselves.

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  • Richard Bell: Imagining Victory

    Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008, still from HD video. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane


    Richard Bell: Imagining Victory is a significant exhibition by leading Australian artist Richard Bell, centred on a trilogy of recent video projects.

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  • Sour Crude

    Big Money, 2015, eX de Medici. Tattoo artwork.


    eX de Medici combines swirling, psychedelic colours and delicate brushstrokes – the legacy of the artist’s acclaimed tattooing practice – to expose modern-day forces such as corruption, consumerism and corporate greed.

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  • Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Eldorado: Aristide Bruant  1892 brush and spatter lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Acquired through the National Gallery of Australia Foundation, 2010


    Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier examines the major contribution to French art made by three key figures: Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901).

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  • A Notion of Home - Catherine O'Donnell

    Catherine O'Donnell -  A Notion of Home


    In her grandest works to date, 2012 Albury Art Prize winner, Catherine O'Donnell brings together two major works that will adorn the MAMA Foyer this summer.

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  • The cubic structural evolution project, 2004

    The cubic structural evolution project 2004 - children constructing a large Lego creation


    A hands-on installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Become an architect by using Lego to create endlessly re-forming structures limited only by imagination.

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  • Eastern Interiors

    image from eastern interiors exhibition


    Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury is the first MAMA partnership with external curators and commercial galleries.

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  • CURRENT

    Michael Vorfeld - Light Bulb Music.jpg


    Bringing together a mix of disciplines including sound art, video art and photography to focus on the Kiewa Hydro Scheme CURRENT draws out themes of environmental sustainability, environmental art, sonic and spatial practice, and soundscape ecology.

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  • Contemporising the modern - Photography from the 20th and 21st Century Gift of The Russell Mills Foundation

    Exhibition photograph of side profile of young girl with huskie dog


    A collection of 50 works gifted to MAMA by The Russell Mills Foundation, a collection that celebrates 20th Century Australian photography.

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  • The Little People Project

    Slinkachu. Damn Kids, 2011.


    Scattered throughout MAMA are four 'peepholes' strategically positioned in wall cavities about 50cm from the floor, inviting children to open the door and delight in the mini-exhibitions designed just for them.

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  • MAMA Here MAMA Now

    Tracey Moffatt, Something More photograph


    MAMA Here MAMA Now is a retrospective look at the MAMA journey.

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  • Wiradjuri Ngurambanggu

    Lorraine Connelly-Northey piece titled Vessels


    Wiradjuri Ngurambanggu showcases a stunning body of work from across Wiradjuri Country that challenges the perception of Aboriginal art.

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  • Sonic Splendour

    Image from Before the Rain music video Duran Duran


    Regional artist, Andrew Pearce, delivers a new exhibition of music videos filmed throughout the local region.

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  • Deborah Kelly: No Human Being is Illegal (in all our glory) + Venus Variations

    image from exhibition


    20 life-sized collaborative collage portraits by artist Deborah Kelly, commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney.

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  • MAMA Foyer Screen

    Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Hold Your Breath, 2011. Blue and grey artwork of people falling through a sky.


    Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s three channel video installation Hold Your Breath (2011) recalls, ten years after the event, the horrific image of office workers falling to their deaths from the World Trade Center.

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  • Icons from the Collection

    image of  a Max Ragless watercolour painting


    Icons from the Collection dusted off some of the amazing artworks usually kept in storage in the gallery collection for all to see.

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  • Jacques Callot: Etchings from the Daniel Gift

    image from the Callot Collection


    Jacques Callot was one of the great artists of 17th century Europe and the one most responsible for turning the technique of etching into an art form. The etchings displayed in this exhibition were collected by a leading authority on Jacques Callot, Howard Daniel, who gifted the work to us in the 1990s.

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  • Harvest: Richard Janson

    Richard Janson print


    Harvest was the first solo exhibition of Richard Jason, winner of the 2012 Susan Moorhead Memorial Award. Referencing 17th century Dutch still life painters, Janson used a manual camera and handheld light effects during long exposures to paint.

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  • Attack: Japanese midget submarines in Sydney Harbour

    painting from the exhibition


    In 2012, to mark the 70th anniversary of the event, Mosman Art Gallery commissioned artist Ken Done to interpret and respond to this remarkable story. The result was a compelling and culturally sensitive body of work that dealt with the themes of empire, self-sacrifice, death, destruction and honour.

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  • Ancestral Powers and the Aesthetic: Arnhem Land painting and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection

    detail of an Aboriginal bark painting


    Arnhem Land painting and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection; a Museum Victoria touring exhibition.

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  • Susan Moorhead Memorial Award 2012

    A photograph of a bowl of decaying fruit


    Featuring finalists in the biennial award for emerging visual artists living in the Albury Wodonga region.

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  • Drawing on Drysdale: Russell Drysdale from the AlburyCity Collection

    A watercolour painting by Russell Drysdale of a convoy of soldiers


    Celebrating the centenary of one of the great Australian artists of the 20th Century.

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  • Albury Art Prize 2012

    colourful lines used in branding


    Featuring finalists in one of New South Wales’ oldest municipal art awards

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  • Delightfully Deco Albury

    A 1922 motorcycle


    Delightfully Deco Albury was a blockbuster exhibition which showcased Albury's embrace of Art Deco in the 1920s and 1930s.

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  • Mining the Collection

    A charcoal drawing of a dragon like creature


    Featuring works from AlburyCity's seven cultural collections.

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  • The Wandering by Andrew Pearce

    A photograph of a girl in a white dress standing in a cotton field.


    Solo exhibition by 2009 Susan Moorhead Memorial Award winner Andrew Pearce

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  • Catherine O'Donnell: Venetian Visions

    charcoal on paper drawing


    Large-scale charcoal drawings of Venetian city landscapes by Albury Art Prize winner Catherine O’Donnell

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  • 2010 Archibald Prize

    Image of Sam Leach


    Featuring works from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archibald Prize, one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards.

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  • Los Caprichos - Francisco de Goya

    An etching of a figure covering her ears


    Presenting an early edition of Los Caprichos, a set of 80 etchings by the iconic Spanish artist first published in 1799.

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  • 2010 National Photography Prize

    photographic image


    Featuring finalists in the National Photography Prize run by Albury Regional Art Gallery, which has become established as a centre for excellence and innovation in photography.

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  • Zhongiian: Midway

    image from the exhibition


    A Wollongong City Gallery touring exhibition of works by 14 contemporary Chinese and Australian artists.

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  • Bill Henson: early works from the MGA Collection

    Photo of young girl


    Presenting 29 exquisitely printed photographs from many of Henson’s major series from the 1970s through to the early 1990s.

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  • Intimate Transactions

    image from the exhibition


    Dual-site interactive installation combining projections, sound and furniture.

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