Ambrose Patterson
Bathing boxes, Mornington 1914
oil on canvas
Private Collection, United Kingdom

9 December 2009 – 8 March 2010

Master landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula: 1800 to the present
An MPRG exhibition

For over 200 years, the Mornington Peninsula has attracted a roll-call of Australia’s finest landscape artists.  This unique concentration of artists to a single region has created a rare opportunity to survey some of the finest landscape works produced in the last two centuries, and in many respects, to trace the development of landscape painting in Australia. Bringing together 50 exemplary paintings, watercolours and drawings by 28 artists, from Australian and international collections and includes masterpieces such as Eugene von Guerard’s Castle Rock, Cape Schanck 1875. this landmark exhibition is the culmination of ten years of research by the MPRG into the region.

Artists profiled in the exhibition include: Louis August de Sainson, Georgiana McCrae, Eugene von Guérard, Nicholas Chevalier, Louis Buvelot, H. J. Johnstone, Girolamo Nerli, Ambrose Patterson, Arthur Streeton, Penleigh Boyd, Bernard Hall, Emma Minnie Boyd, Violet Teague, Eric Thake, Clarice Beckett, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, John Perceval, Charles Blackman, Fred Williams, William Delafield Cook, Stewart MacFarlane, Lynne Boyd, Ken Smith and Rick Amor.

Katrina Tyler
Fragile Resilience: Symbiosis

20 January 2010 – 8 March 2010

Contemporary Australian Silver & Metalwork Exhibition 2009
A Buda Historic Home & Garden exhibition (toured by NETS Victoria)

This biennial exhibition was established in 1988 to commemorate the work of colonial gold and silversmith, Ernest Leviny, who lived at Buda. This fascinating display endeavours to celebrate and continue the traditions of the metalsmith craft, by placing the works in a contemporary context.