PUBLIC PROGRAM CURATOR FLOOR TALKJoin Dr Penny Stannard, NSW State Archives Senior Curator, for a walk through the Marriage: Love + Law exhibition. From centuries-old archives, to newly commissioned work, Penny will share how the story of Marriage: Love + Law came together.Image: Joanne Saad

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AUTUMN SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPSBook in for your favourite school holiday workshop at Penrith Regional Gallery this April school holidays! The workshops, which are themed around the colours of autumn will stimulate your imagination and creativity. All skill levels welcome, all art materials supplied.

AUTUMN TOTS CLUBJoin us for our special weekly tot-sized experiences for you and your little one. Each week during Autumn, we will learn about art through stories, exhibition tours and hands-on art making in the studio. Adults don’t pay but must stay.

MARRIAGE: LOVE + LAWA NSW State Archives exhibition that explores the laws, beliefs and social attitudes that have shaped and reshaped marriage in Australia over three centuries. Commissioned works from artists Danie Mellor, Blak Douglas, Raquel Ormella and Freya Jobbins, and writers Tara Moss, Keira Lindsey, Judith MacCallum and baritone Simon Lobelson.Image credit: Images, left to right: Sam Hood collection, Wedding of musical stars Madge Elliott and Cyril Ritchard, St Mary’s Cathedral, 1935, State Library of NSW; Sheridan Nilsson, Marriage of Anette and Kylie, 2018 courtesy of Annette Cairnduff and Kylie Gwynne

ROY DALGARNO – LABOUR DAYAn exhibition with 13 prints out of 92 artworks by Roy Dalgarno recently gifted to the Penrith Regional Gallery collection by the Dalgarno family. The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see Dalgarno’s artworks depicting miners alongside social history objects on loan from the Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park.Image credit: Roy Dalgarno, Three Miners, 1984. Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of the Lewers Bequest Collection. Donation from the Dalgarno Family, 2018

DON’T FENCE ME IN – AMALA GROOM & DALE COLLIERDon’t Fence Me In is an art installation about reciprocity and the environment. As a site-responsive creative action Don’t Fence Me In pulls apart and reconsiders ideas of trust and exchange in relation to three entangled sites on Wiradjuri Country – The Farm, Turon River and Sofala Tip. Image credit: Dale Collier & Amala Groom What A Load Of Rubbish (i), 2018, Epson ultra chrome pigment on Ilford Gallerie Gloss, 150 x 93cm Edition of 9 +2AP. Image courtesy of the artists

MAIN GALLERY ANCHER HOUSE LEWERS HOUSE

30 MARCH – 16 JUNE

14 APRIL 1PM – 2PM

30 MARCH – 16 JUNE

16 – 26 APRIL 10AM

30 MARCH – 16 JUNE

5 APRIL – 17 MAY 10AM – 11AM EVERY FRIDAY EXCEPT GOOD FRIDAY

WHAT’S ON IN APRIL

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GARDENIn April we fall in love with the autumn colours arriving in all their glory in the Gallery’s heritage garden. With the warm, crisp days and longer, cooler nights, leaves begin to turn on the Boston ivy.The superb heritage gardens form an important and integral part of the Lewers Bequest and were designed and planted by artists Margo and Gerald Lewers.Find the beautiful colour contrasts as creamy Angel’s Trumpets continue to flower against the wall of ivy turning flaming red. The triple pointed leaves add show-stopping vibrancy and texture in the garden’s autumn palette, a perfect backdrop for an autumn wedding.Or bring paper and pencils, April is beautiful weather to draw the garden and inspiration is found everywhere in these creative grounds.Always a highlight, and looking especially beautiful against a backdrop of autumn colours, are the beautiful fountains, ponds and sculptural works created by Gerald Lewers – as well as sculptures by important Australian sculptors including Margel Hinder, Lyndon Dadswell and Bert Flugelman.

GALLERY SHOPCome into the Gallery’s shop and fall in love with Blue Mountains glass artist Keith Rowe’s autumn offering. After decades working amongst the heat and drama of a glass blowing studio, Keith looks like a frontiersman with wild curly hair held back by a twisted bandana. And yet he delicately captures transparent layers of colour in molten glass, creating unique, organic pieces that are a delight to encounter and an enduring pleasure to live with.

CAFÉ AT LEWERS Autumn is coming and at Café at Lewers, we are about to launch a new menu bursting with seasonal flavours. As always, we will be sourcing the best produce from regional suppliers, with eggplants and herbs coming straight from the Gallery’s heritage garden. Keep an eye on our chalkboard specials for the occasional love offering to delight your taste buds and warm your hearts – inspired by the autumn exhibition suite Marriage: Love + Law.

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LONG TABLE4 – 24 APRIL

COR Y CWM MALE WELSH CHOIR5 APRIL 7.30PM

CARE OF THE PERFORMING VOICE MASTERCLASS6 APRIL 3.30PM

VOICES IN THE VALLEY6 APRIL 7PM

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS6 APRIL 7.30PM

POSSUM MAGIC9 – 10 APRIL 10AM & 12PM

CONSTANT CRAVING – THE MUSIC OF k.d. lang, LISA CROUCH13 APRIL 2PM & 7.30PM

THE BAND PLAYED ON24 APRIL 11AM

THE EVERLY BROTHERS & THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL LEGENDS OF THE 50s & 60s27 APRIL 8PM

OVER AT THE JOAN!

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