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FRIENDS OF THE GALLERY RESEARCH PROJECTS: Coordinated by Education Officer Naomi McCarthy and supported by members of The Friends of Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. The Friends of Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest is a volunteer organization that has supported the running of the Gallery since its establishment as a regional gallery in 1980. During 2004, members of The Friends participated in a research project to develop a comprehensive series of FACTS sheets for targeted works in our collection. This culminated in an exhibition of the selected works in 2005. As Friends discover exciting and intriguing facts, stories, anecdotes and relationships about their adopted work, the web site will be updated with the unfolding narratives discovered.
Margo and Gerald Lewers, the original owners of the property at Emu Plains, were instrumental in the development of Modernism in Australia. The Gallery’s holding includes a rich representative survey of Margo and Gerald Lewers’ work, including painting, sculpture, wall hangings, ceramics, mosaics and fountains. The Gallery’s permanent collection is an important survey of the development of Abstraction in Australian art from the early 1930’s to the mid 1980’s. The Gallery also houses a vibrant collection of work from Margo and Gerald’s contemporaries, including work by Robert Klippel, Desiderius Orban, Elwyn Lynn, Frank and Margel Hinder, Judy Cassab, Yvonne Audette, Frank Hodgkinson, Henry Salkauskas and Stanisluas Rapotec and Carl Plate. (For a complete listing of artists in the collection click here>>) |
 CHRISTOPHER DEAN
PROJECT: Nine new works were completed during my eight-week residency at the Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest in 2003. The brief of the residency was to respond to the collection with the aim of producing a series of new works for exhibition. During this time I lived in Ancher House and worked in the Sonia Farley studio. Throughout most days and nights I worked in a solitary way and by the end of my time at the gallery I had also read my way through the library and had studied my favourite works from the collection in detail. Read more>>
ALISTER BRASS FOUNDATION: Alister Brass was an exceptionally gifted man whose many talents included a humanistic approach to his first profession – medicine. He was also a gifted writer, a poet, and an original and uncompromising journalist and editor. During his short, active life, Brass was an avid supporter of the arts – Abstract Expressionist painting in particular – and many of this movement’s most influential artists were counted amongst his friends. The Foundation was established by some of his friends following Brass's early, tragic death. |
