Out Front 2025: HSC Visual Arts from Sydney’s Northern Beaches

21 Feb 2025 - 6 Apr 2025

A curated selection of artworks by HSC Visual Arts students from the 21 secondary schools across Sydney’s Northern Beaches supports the creativity of local emerging arts talent.

The exhibition features a broad range of expressive artforms that explore the contemporary themes that are of importance to young people today. The exhibition also includes a mentorship program focused on supporting their transition to emerging professional creative practices.

This exhibition has been a part of MAG&M’s program since 1995, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to connecting with secondary schools across the region and to supporting visual arts education.

Presented in partnership with the Theo Batten Trust and MAG&M Society, the program has provided Youth Art Awards to aspiring artists for 31 years. The Theo Batten Youth Art Award is offered to students pursuing studies in the visual arts or a related area (such as architecture, design, art education, music, performing arts, filmmaking, digital media etc) commencing in the year 2025. Theo Batten (1918-2003) was a well-respected local artist and journalist who studied at the National Art School and won a Walkley Award in 1972. He was a member of the Manly Art Gallery & Museum Society and a member of the former Peninsula Art Society, and wanted to leave behind an opportunity for young creative people to continue their studies in the visual arts.
 

Residue + Response

21 February – 6 April 2025

Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial is a celebration of 50 years of the National Textile Collection promoting and sustaining the unique cultural heritage associated with both the history and technology of contemporary textile practice.

Curated by Dr Carol McGregor, Residue + Response features 25 artworks from across Australia which explore the theme of the connection between our histories and futures.

“Since the Tamworth National Fibre Textile Collection began in 1973, artists have interwoven and shared their lived experiences and negotiated stories through the materiality of textile practice. The 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial builds on this tradition with a future focus on the intangible essence of what it means to be human in the fabric of today’s society. It is an opportunity to celebrate Australian textiles practice, and for artists to create and explore the relationality and residues of change through a multiplicity of materials, methods and meanings.”

Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial has been made possible through funding from the NSW Government, and the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia and Regional Arts Fund programs.

The exhibiting artists are;
Amy Hammond, Anne Graham, Blake Griffiths, Casselle Mountford, Dana Harris, Daphne Banyawarra, Fiona Gavino, Hannah Quinlivan, Joan Ross, Jumaadi, Kait James, Kate Harding, Kate Just, Kyra Mancktelow, Leanne Zilka + Jenny Underwood, Liz Williamson, Lucy Irvine, Maggie Hensel-Brown, Makeda Duong, Mandy Quadrio + Jan Oliver, Norton Fredericks, Paula do Prado + Tamara Burlando, Rachael Wellisch, Sophie Honess, Sybil Orr