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🎨 What does colour make you feel?In Michael Muir’s work, colour is both a visual and emotional force. Through bold, intu...
08/10/2026

🎨 What does colour make you feel?

In Michael Muir’s work, colour is both a visual and emotional force. Through bold, intuitive palettes shapes, Muir creates immersive landscapes and dream-like states that invite us to slow down and look closely. ✨

Visit MAG&M and discover how colour transforms the way you see and feel landscape.

🟢 On display until 29 November 2026 🟡Free entry





Image: Michael Muir, The break of dawn, 2020, oil on linen, 137 x 167cm (detail)

08/10/2026

W**e, vinyl, community.

Join Sam Sutherland of for a guided tasting of her vibrant small-batch wines as part of 'Girly in Manly' - our current exhibition.

Learn about Sam’s process and winemaking journey in the Central West high country, then taste Riesling, Chardonnay, and Nebbiolo. Enjoy plenty of bright fruit, slinky acid, spice, minerality, and elegance.

Then, join and in a hands-on vinyl DJing workshop.

Bring your vinyl, learn how to mix, connect, dance, and get creative.

Be quick, tickets are limited.

🎟️ Booking link in bio
📍 Manly Art Gallery & Museum
🗓️ Thursday, 22 October, 6 - 8.30 pm

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Book now for a second and final opportunity to join Michael Muir for a one-day painting masterclass. By popular demand w...
03/10/2026

Book now for a second and final opportunity to join Michael Muir for a one-day painting masterclass. By popular demand we've added another date: Mon 16 Nov, 10am - 3pm.

Bring inspiration from your own travels as Michael shares his unique insights, skills and distinctive approach to painting vibrant landscapes.

✨ All levels of experience welcome
🍽️ Includes a light lunch
🗓 Mon 16 Nov, 10am - 3pm at Manly Art Gallery & Museum
⏳ Book Now. Limited spots available
📍Link in bio



📸image: Michael Muir, Other places, 2019, oil on linen, 122 x 107cm. Courtesy the artist & Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane

‘Girly in Manly’ – Artist in Focus: Anne Ferran.Anne Ferran’s photographic works reveal a body shaped by time, movement ...
02/10/2026

‘Girly in Manly’ – Artist in Focus: Anne Ferran.

Anne Ferran’s photographic works reveal a body shaped by time, movement and memory, but never passive or depleted. In a culture that frequently marginalises older women and privileges youth, Ferran positions age as a source of depth, authority and resilience.

In ‘White Against Red’, Ferran explores the mature female body as carrier of history and experience. Developed during her residency on Suomenlinna, a fortified island in Helsinki Harbour with histories of conflict and imprisonment, the work was created capturing Finnish dancer and choreographer Ervi Sirén.

Reflecting on Siren, Ferran says: “I saw in Ervi’s use of her mature body – at that time she was a dancer in her 60s – a capacity to support conflicting and competing interpretations in a way that I had not encountered before.”

The work reflects Ferran’s longstanding interest in women’s lives, memory and the gaps within recorded history. Working across photography and video since the 1980s, Ferran is known for drawing upon museum collections and archives to examine Australia’s colonial past and the experiences of women and children.

See Ferran’s work in ‘Girly in Manly’ and how Ferran challenges ideas about age, femininity and whose experiences are valued.

‘Girly in Manly’ on display at MAG&M until 29 November.
🎫Free entry

Images: Anne Ferran, 'White Against Red', at Manly Art Gallery & Museum; Anne Ferran. Photograph by Frances Mocnik.


Ever wondered how ceramic artist Ebony Russell makes her dreamy ceramic sculptures? Join Ebony in this 3-part workshop s...
30/09/2026

Ever wondered how ceramic artist Ebony Russell makes her dreamy ceramic sculptures? Join Ebony in this 3-part workshop series focusing on ornate object decoration at Avalon Creative Space.

Experiment with Ebony's signature techniques: icing-inspired piping, intricate layering and ornate, sculpted flourishes, and create your own piped clay ornament, decorative plaque, or ring dish.

This studio series is presented alongside the exhibition Girly in Manly, now showing at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.

No previous ceramics or art experience required.

Workshop dates:

• Fri 6 Nov
• Fri 13 Nov
• Fri 20 Nov

Join one or all 3.

Booking link in bio. https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/arts-and-culture-events/spring-studio-series-ornamental-clay-ebon

Drop in to the Design Shop and see what’s new this spring.Including .glassware’s 3D-printed bio-plastic vases, .island c...
28/09/2026

Drop in to the Design Shop and see what’s new this spring.

Including .glassware’s 3D-printed bio-plastic vases, .island cards inspired by native Australian flora and fauna, delicate porcelain forms by local ceramicist , and colourful, geometric ceramics by

📍MAG&M Design Shop: Tue – Sun, 10am – 5pm

Femininity, place, power and perspectives - ‘Girly in Manly’ now open at MAG&M. Featuring work by Ebony Russell, Maddiso...
26/09/2026

Femininity, place, power and perspectives - ‘Girly in Manly’ now open at MAG&M.

Featuring work by Ebony Russell, Maddison Gibbs, Anne Ferran and Kate Bohunnis.

🔴🟣🟡

Girly in Manly
25 September – 29 November 2026
MAG&M
Free entry



🖼️ Lose yourself in a world of colour, memory and imagination in this survey exhibition by Michael Muir, now open. “I re...
25/09/2026

🖼️ Lose yourself in a world of colour, memory and imagination in this survey exhibition by Michael Muir, now open.

“I realised over time that my approach to finding subject matter relates back to my personal experience of shifting homes and countries at a young age. There is a mix of excitement and trepidation when you arrive at a new place, and a natural instinct to seek out what is familiar and inviting within a new environment.” – Michael Muir

Through bold colour and form, Muir creates rich works that blur the boundaries between the real, the remembered and the imagined.. 🎨

🟢 Michael Muir: The Shape of Colour - On display until 29 November 2026

📸Images: artworks by Michael Muir in The Shape of Colour at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 2026.



What happens when ‘girly’ meets ‘manly’? At the heart of the exhibition, ‘Girly in Manly’ - now open - lies the tension ...
24/09/2026

What happens when ‘girly’ meets ‘manly’?

At the heart of the exhibition, ‘Girly in Manly’ - now open - lies the tension between two words that carry very different ideas about gender and power.

Bringing together works by Kate Bohunnis, Anne Ferran, Maddison Gibbs and Ebony Russell, the exhibition prompts us to consider why qualities associated with masculinity have historically been celebrated as authority, while qualities associated with femininity have often been diminished or overlooked.

Girly in Manly
25 September – 29 November 2026
MAG&M
Free entry

Kate Bohunnis
STATION
Anne Ferran
Sutton Gallery
Maddie Gibbs
Ebony Russell
Martin Browne Contemporary

🎨New Acquisition: Michael Muir’s painting, ‘Stand alone’, has been purchased with the generous assistance of the and wi...
23/09/2026

🎨New Acquisition: Michael Muir’s painting, ‘Stand alone’, has been purchased with the generous assistance of the and will be on display at MAG&M from Fri 25 Sept – Sun 29 November as part of his survey show, Michael Muir: The Shape of Colour.

Through colour and form, Michael’s paintings return the world to us as something at once known and newly encountered, as he shares: “I hope that when viewers stand in front of a work it resonates with them in a way that the feeling of that place or memory of a place becomes their own.”

Of Filipino and Scottish descent, Michael Muir (b.1975) moved between Australia and Asia as a child, continuing to travel throughout his life while making the Northern Beaches home.

Michael has established a distinctive artistic voice in contemporary Australian art for his sustained exploration of colour, place and perception.

‘Stand alone’ joins MAG&M’s growing collection of contemporary works by artists connected with the Northern Beaches, including Chris Langlois, Kathrin Longhurst, Wendy Sharpe and Joshua Yeldham.

Micheal Muir: The Shape of Colour
25 September – 29 November 2026
MAG&M, Tue – Sun, 10am – 5pm

🎨Image: Michael Muir, 'Stand alone', 2026, oil on linen, 167 x 137cm. Courtesy the artist.

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