The Complete Guide To Newcastle Art Galleries Part 2: Merewether, The Junction & Cooks Hill

Newcastle art galleries

Here is the Part 2 in the Urban Insider guide to Newcastle’s art galleries. This week we focus on Merewether, The Junction & Cooks Hill galleries.

You can check out Part 1 for a guide to the CBD’s galleries here.

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Cooks Hill Galleries

67 Bull Street Cooks Hill 2300 Visit Cooks Hill Galleries 49 263899

Opening Hours, Mon, Friday & Saturday: 11am-6pm. Sunday: 2pm-6pm Or by appointment.

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Back to Back Galleries

57 Bull Street Cooks Hill 2300 Visit Back to Back Galleries 49 293677

Opening Hours, Friday-Sunday: 11am-5pm. Back to Back Galleries is a co-operative group open to anyone in the public interested in ceramics. Back to Back also showcases the artworks of local established and emerging artists.

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Earthquirks

Shop 3, 10 Kenrick Street The Junction 2291 (02) 4940 0463

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Forsight Gallery

33 Union St Cooks Hill 2300

Opening Hours. Friday-Sunday: 11am-4pm Or by appointment. The Forsight Gallery has a new exhibition on each month. This month starting on the 9th July will be Charlotte Weight & Patty Solvyns and later on in the month on the 30th Josh White will be on show.

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Wide Horizons Gallery

144 Darby Street Cooks Hill 2300 Visit Wide Horizons Gallery 49 54 5688

Opening Hours, Monday-Friday: 9:30am-5:30pm Saturday: 10:00am-2:00pm Wide Horizons Gallery features a selection of stunning photographs taken across the Newcastle, the Hunter and surrounding areas such as Port Stephens. The photographs are on display in Kerrijon Framing and Gallery.

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Heath Wade Photography

39 Darby Street Cooks Hill

Opening Hours, Tuesday-Friday: 10am-5:30pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Heath Wade has been photographing the Newcastle and Hunter Valley for 8 years as well as portraits and weddings.

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John Earle Studio Gallery

126 Glebe Road Merewether 2291

Opening Hours, Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 12pm-5pm. Or by appointment. John Earle is a Newcastle local and one of Australia's most recognised landscape artists. HIs manin subjects are Newcastle and the Hunter Valley but he also branches into Sydney, Mebourne and Queensland. Art lovers are welcome to pop in and view the changing artworks, fine art prints and reproductions.

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Laura Wilson is a teacher of Art History/ Theory and Professional Practice at the Newcastle Art School, TAFE, Hunter Institute. She is an artist, art enthusiast, and Newbie (20 years) Novocastrian. Originally from high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado USA, this former skier has turned beach lover and triathlete. Her most recent art has been focussed on installations with an interest in modernity — modern society, modern materials, modern communication, and how technology is changing the world we live in. You can follow her on Twitter or drop into the Front Room Gallery, Newcastle Art School.

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