Year of the Bird Catalogue

Maitland Regional Art Gallery was a big winner this year in the  Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (the MAPDAs)

Maitland picked up the Multimedia and Publication Design Awards in the Corporate, Poster (Paperworks | Nine Exhibitions), Website and Exhibition Branding (Versus 2012 / Blue vs Red, Battle of the Pigments) categories. It also managed to be Highly Commended for Exhibition Branding and Exhibition Catalogue (twice).

The Year of the Bird exhibition was also captured by the award winning team at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, and with particular thanks to designer, Clare Hodgins for her clever fold-out catalogue.

Please feel free to download a copy below.

Download the YOTB Catalogue as a Screen resolution PDF

Year of the Bird flown by...

Year of the Bird has indeed flown by quickly so we just wanted to thank the artists who generously agreed to loan work to the exhibition. Much appreciation extended to Emma van Leest, Pamela See, Kate Foster & Merle Patchett, Trevor Weekes, Helen Wright, Vanessa Barbay, Marian Drew, and David Hampton.

Enormous thanks also to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery team, particularly Jo Eisenberg and Kim Blunt for their faith in the show, and also Lisa Kirkpatrick, Braddon Snape, and the MRAG volunteers for their work in installing the exhibition - Thank you from Caelli and Helen!

Below are some more installation shots from the gallery.

 

 

YOTB Install at MRAG

It felt like painting two giant lounge rooms more than anything (up until today), but work for Year of the Bird has finally made it to the walls at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

So much paint and preparation, just to get back to the gallery's usual white cube, but it is now looking like more of an exhibition.

Lisa Kirkpatrick, Braddon Snape, the installation team and MRAG volunteers have been fantastic in materialising the show so far. Clare Hodgins has designed a fantastic catalogue to accompany the exhibition. Enormous thanks to them!

Please join us for the opening on Saturday 23rd February at 3:00pm if you can...

David Hampton's work in progress at the YOTB install @ MRAG 19/02/2013

Invitation to the opening celebration

Everyone is welcome to the opening celebration for the Year of the Bird exhibition.

Dr Rod Bennison, the Minding Animals International CEO, will be saying a few words at the opening.

Several other shows are also opening at the same time so it should be a good afternoon. for further details see the MRAG site.

www.mrag.org.au

Please click on the invitation for a larger sized option

YOTB welcomes Kahibah Brass

The Year of the Bird exhibition is pleased to announce that Kahiba Brass will be performing at our opening event at Maitland Regional Art Gallery on Saturday February 23 from 3pm.

Kahibah Brass is a 20 piece band with musician ages ranging from 8 to 80. They rehearse and perform regularly, have instruments you can arrange to borrow, and are always keen to take on new members. If you think you have the chops, then get in touch and let them know...

Kahibah Brass Band is proudly sponsored by the Kahibah Bowling Club and you can find out more about the band on their website.

www.kahibahbrass.net

Year of the Bird at MRAG 2013

Year of the Bird
22 February - 7 April 2013
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia

‘Year of the Bird’ (YOTB), is a group exhibition exploring the prevalence of bird imagery in contemporary art and features the work of Marian Drew, Kate Foster (UK), Emma Van Leest, Pamela See, Vanessa Barbay, Trevor Weekes, Helen Wright, David Hampton and the curators, Helen Hopcroft and Caelli Jo Brooker.

Thematically the exhibition explores themes of nature versus culture, wildlife as elegy, representations of non-human animals, and birds as potent signifiers of both human and environmental issues.