Hurstville Museum & Gallery

Hurstville Museum & Gallery is home to approximately 6,000 objects and artworks from the local area. Run by a dedicated team within Georges River Council, Hurstville Museum & Gallery offers a full schedule of high quality exhibitions throughout the year, a diverse range of public programs for all ages and a suite of education programs for school groups.
Hurstville Museum & Gallery aims to educate, engage and inspire the diverse community of Georges River through innovative exhibitions, programs and services. They aim to foster creativity, celebrate local history and identity, and support lifelong learning.

Hurstville Museum & Gallery

14 Macmahon Street, Hurstville NSW 2220, Australia

02 9330 6444

georgesriver.nsw.gov.au/Community/Art-and-Culture/Hurstville-Museum-Gallery

Tues to Sat 10am–4pm, Sun 2pm–5pm

Feature

Talking pageantry with Scotty So

Endlessly inventive, the work of Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Scotty So spans photography, painting, video work, and drag performance. With a dual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, So talks about pageantry, begonias and queens.

Amelia Wallin

Interview

Interview: Yhonnie Scarce and the mutual mutation of glass

Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce has earned critical acclaim for her research in nuclear testing and its ongoing impact on First Nations communities. With a survey at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Scarce speaks to her blown glass forms.

Diego Ramirez

In Pictures

La Belle Èpoque in Bendigo

A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, drawn from the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, brings the Belle Èpoque era to life through impressionist paintings and antique ephemera. View, in pictures, a slice of Parisian history.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

James Barth on what we reveal to the world, and what we don’t

With the perceived necessity of ‘performing the self’ greater than ever, comes questions of what we share or obscure—as James Barth’s art attests at the just-opened ‘18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum’ at Art Gallery of South Australia.

James Gatt

Preview

Kathrin Longhurst shows the everyday battlefield that is a woman’s world

In her latest exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery, Kathrin Longhurst highlights the resilience of women through paintings that subvert the traditional male gaze, and instead aim to empower.

Sally Gearon

Interview

“I was ready to die for art”: Marina Abramović talks performance, endurance and trust

In our special interview with the one-and-only Marina Abramović, ahead of her curatorial project at Adelaide Festival, she talks on almost 60 years of performance art, wanting a one-way ticket into space, and answers a question about her most famous performance that no-one has asked before.

Hurstville Museum & Gallery

Hurstville Museum & Gallery

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