MPRG Winter Exhibitions Launch

6pm - 8pm, formalities from 6.30pm

Refreshments served after formalities. Please register your attendance.
Marion Harper: Restless Encounters
Marion Harper is based in Merricks, Boon Wurrung/Bunurong on the Mornington Peninsula. Her practice explores the boundaries between our bodies and spaces, between individuals and society, bringing into focus our continuous negotiation and adaptation to changes that life throws our way.

News From Nowhere: Lisa Walker and Brendan Huntley
An MPRG Exhibition, curated by Dunja Rmandić
Irreverent but kind, the works of Lisa Walker and Brendan Huntley take themselves as seriously as we should take ourselves. They share a makeshift, DIY aesthetic that allows for a gentle approach and both deliberately tread the line between craft and fine art. Lisa Walker is an internationally renowned jeweller based in New Zealand and Brendan Huntley is a painter and sculptor, and singer in garage-rock band Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
Both Body & Not
An MPRG exhibition, curated by Leah Ferguson
Thinking beyond ourselves to our communities and the universe is a shared human and artistic pursuit. Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s theory of five 'skins'—bodily skin, clothing, community, ecologies, and universe—illustrates how individuals connect to their environment. This exhibition's works, with unique motifs, explore these layers of body, community, and universe.

This exhibition features over 30 MPRG collection works, from artists including Elizabeth Banfield, Julia Powles, Jess Johnson, Riley Payne, Andrew Sibley and Peter Purves-Smith.
Cameron Robbins: Aeolian Beacon
Commissioned by MPRG and funded through a State Government’s Creative Activation Fund grant, Aeolian Beacon is a large permanent kinetic sculpture welcoming visitors to the Gallery. Created in response to the specific topographies and atmospherics of the place it’s situated on, Robbins’ monumental sculpture features three kinetic vanes that move independently in the wind, reaching fourteen meters at its highest point. This beacon is a warning, a signaller and an invitation for contemplation and celebration.

Image: Brendan Huntley, Untitled (butterfly) #41 2020/2021 (detail), White raku, glaze, slip and plinth, 45 x 36 x 8 cm (front), Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 350 Dunns Road, Mornington, Australia