Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery opened on June 25 2005.
10am -3pm Weekends
Undercover parking is available for 78 cars. On-street parking is available in nearby streets, including Christie Street, Catherine Street and George Street, and at the Council Offices, 366 George Street.
Facilities
As well as 120 running metres of exhibition space, there are also rooms for a variety of community uses, including meetings, lectures, small exhibitions and workshops. For more details about The Stan Stevens Studio, The Tebbutt Room and The Rozzoli Room please phone 4560 4460.
Disability Access
There is a ramp from the Christie Street entrance and a lift to the gallery level from the basement carpark, George Street entrance and from the Ground Floor of the Library. Groups involving more than one wheelchair please contact the gallery on 4560 4441 for access via the service lane and lift.
The Hawkesbury Art Collection comprises approximately 300 works of art, the majority acquired through the Macquarie Towns Acquisitive Art Exhibition, which was conducted throughout the decade 1985 - 1995. The collection contains many works by regional artists, including Greg Hansell, Judy Brownlie, Kathleen Evans, Warwick Fuller, Terry Hayes, Gloria Galvin, Marica Rea, William Wells, Leanne Tobin, Edna Mariong Watson and Bert Moriarty. There are also a number works by Modernist and Postmodernist artists Bim Hilder, Maurice McDonald, Suzanne Archer, David Fairbairn, John Firth-Smith, Barry Gazzard, Peter Laverty, Ursula Laverty Peter Pinson, Tony Tozer and David Voight. Most of the works are two-dimensional, although there is also a small number of three-dimensional works including sculpture in cast bronze, aluminium, and fibre art. In 1999 Mr A E Cleary, formerly of Pitt Town, gifted to the people of Hawkesbury approximately 80 paintings and prints including works by Donald Friend, Lloyd Rees, Arthur Boyd, Clifton Pugh, Norman Lindsay and Lance Solomon.