Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie (MAC)

Overlooking the shores of Lake Macquarie, the Museum of Art and Culture (MAC), is the premier art destination for the region. This award-winning contemporary arts space hosts a comprehensive collection featuring distinguished pieces by Janet Laurence and Judy Watson. Alongside the collection, are regularly changing exhibitions as well as a diverse visitor program including workshops, installations, performances, and other activities to engage the audience.

MAC is home to a dedicated Aboriginal program, yapang (meaning journey or pathway in Awabakal) featuring contemporary Aboriginal art and related programming year-round. Visit the recently expanded facility to explore all MAC has to offer.

Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie (MAC)

First Street Booragul NSW 2284

02 4921 0382

artgallery.lakemac.com.au

Tue to Sun 9am – 3pm

Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie (MAC)

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The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

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The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

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Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

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Trevor Vickers and the abstraction of light

Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.

Steve Dow

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AI-Generated Art? Bring it on!

Artists need not fear the spectre of AI-generated art. Instead, Oslo Davis suggests, we need to start reaping the rewards.

Oslo Davis

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Helen Mueller tells stories of the forest

Helen Mueller has been printmaking for 25 years, but moving to Hobart four years ago shifted her focus to the local natural environment. Now her delicate prints, made with materials foraged from the forest floor, are showing at Handmark Gallery.

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Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie (MAC)