Front Beach, Back Beach and Collection+ Exhibition launch

Light refreshments and entertainment will be provided. Speeches begin at 4.30pm in the Gallery forecourt.

Join MPRG Director, Danny Lacy and newly appointed Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor, Councillor Steve Holland to launch our Summer exhibitions at MPRG.

The launch will take place outdoors and Gallery doors will be open during the event.

In partnership with the Public Art Commission and Deakin University, Front Beach, Back Beach (at MPRG) brings together remnants, objects, traces and documentation of the ambitious multi-sited public art event that commissioned fifteen leading contemporary Australian artists to respond to fifteen sites and stories that shape the Mornington Peninsula.

The third iteration of the Collection+ exhibition series, pairs the work of internationally renowned British Artist Julian Opie with the work of late Melbourne Artist Judith Alexandrovics. By drawing together this unlikely combination, we can see common threads throughout their work, both artists have observed and thoughtfully documented people in the landscape, particularly groups of people in the urban environment, the main thematic focus for this exhibition.

Image credit: Judith Alexandrovics, People are Individuals 1975 (detail), aquatint on cardboard, gift of the artist 1977.

This is a free event. Please register to let us know you'll be there!