Collection

Overview
The Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest Collections consist of over 1,000 objects, primarily featuring paintings, sculptures, works on paper and photography. The Collection covers three distinct areas:
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Penrith Regional Gallery Collection
The Penrith Regional Gallery Collection is made up of artworks, cultural objects or ephemera purchased by, donated or gifted specifically to Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest from 1980.
 
Margo and Gerald Lewers were actively involved in, and committed to, the development of Australian visual arts. Both were keenly interested in the development of new and unique thought, artistic practice, debate and visual arts education. Thus many works have been acquired in order to reflect, explore and critique the practices, histories, interests and philosophic commitments of Gerald and Margo Lewers and their contemporaries.
 
The Penrith Regional Gallery Collection honours and builds upon the spirit and intent of the original Lewers Bequest. The Gallery, as practicable, continues to acquire works which demonstrate and/or reflect:
  • The philosophies and practices explored by Gerald and Margo Lewers and their contemporaries;
  • The contrasts and comparative philosophies and practices of Australian Modernism (1930 to 1980);
  • Those philosophies and practice which influenced the practices of Gerald and Margo Lewers and their contemporaries (particularly Abstraction, Constructivism and Minimalism)
  • Analysis, exploration and/or critique of Australian Modernism and Abstraction by contemporary artists (post 1980).
  • Excellence and rigorous commitment to contemporary practice by Western Sydney artists and/or artists working in the region.
  • The people, place and history of Penrith and western Sydney as reflected in contemporary visual culture.

 

Brook Andrew, I split your gaze 1997, duraclear mounted on acrylicArthur McIntyre, Someone Else's Life 1994-96, acrylic, oil and collage on canvasHarold David, Kurt Watts in Heike Forth’s 1972 Sub Jnr Under 15’s track top 2005, matt c type print