Northern Beaches Council has announced it will present Arts in August, a month-long showcase of the creativity of the Northern Beaches region from 6 - 22.
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Manly Art Gallery & Museum (MAG&M) is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Australia’s longest-running independent printmaking association, Sydney Printmakers, with a special exhibition, To the Edges.
MAG&M has had a long association with Sydney Printmakers, hosting the Hot off the Press exhibition a decade ago to mark its half century.
Mayor Michael Regan said To the Edges celebrates the artists of Sydney Printmakers, its standing in the printmaking community and the role it has played in the history of Australian art more generally.
“Sydney Printmakers and MAG&M are very much part of the northern region of Sydney’s cultural eco-system, so it makes sense to have this exhibition in partnership to recognise the significant work of its members.”
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Prominent Sydney artist Peter Sharp is well known for his large abstract works of the Australian landscape. But what is less well known are the paintings he based his larger works on.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum (MAG&M), in a new exhibition Peter Sharp: Accidental Tourist (25 June to 1 August), is pleased to present 40 of Sharp’s en plein air paintings (created outdoors) over the past 30 years, especially selected from his practice.
These quick studies painted on boards reflect the artist’s travels around regional and remote Australia and have become part of his ‘toolkit’ for larger abstract works.
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A special exhibition featuring new works by 14 contemporary Australian ceramic artists working in collaboration with fellow artists from other art disciplines will soon open at Manly Art Gallery & Museum (MAG&M).
CERAMIX (14 May – 20 June 2021) paired ceramic and non-ceramic artists to produce works with a focus on experimentation and on the many varied possibilities of clay as a starting point.
Mayor Michael Regan said the end result was a fascinating exhibition that goes beyond traditional ceramics.
“It’s well worth coming along and seeing how artists can playfully and skilfully push the limits of their craft, working together and producing extraordinarily creative results.”
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UNSW Science’s Associate Professor Adriana Vergés explains why she is one of the driving forces behind the Manly Seaweed Forests Festival.
Associate Professor Adriana Vergés and the Operation Crayweed team started restoring Sydney’s underwater forests in 2011. The impetus for the work came from the disappearance of seaweed from much of Sydney’s coastline due to pollution caused by sewerage outfalls on beaches from the seventies through to the 1990s.
The eventual construction of deep ocean outfalls to empty Sydney’s sewerage system gave scientists a chance to start rebuilding the important ecosystems near the shoreline. They have been incredibly successful in their underwater gardening initiatives, restoring habitat in six locations along the Sydney coastline, including Cabbage Tree Bay, Little Bay, Coogee, Newport and Freshwater. In 2018, A/Prof Vergés launched Operation Posidonia to encourage local coastal communities to help restore ecologically and economically