FITZROY STREET FERN STREET YOUNG STREET COWPER STREET COAL ST WILSON STREET DENISON STREET MAITLAND ROAD HUDSON STREET E ALBERT STREET US HO T DONALD STREET H IG L & GREENWAY STREET 1 Margaret Olley, 7 Climbing sun over the Hunter, 10 Black Totem II S Y Moderate B B views from Obelisk Park Newcastle City Hall O WALKING Trail 2hrs 30mins / 5.1km N 11 Newcastle Art Gallery O CLEARY STREET Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm Monday to Friday 9.30am – 8pm, T CHURCH STREET 2 The Lock-Up Cultural Centre Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 4pm, Saturday 9.30am – 2pm Sunday 11am – 3pm 8 James Cook Memorial Fountain LINDSAY STREET THROSBY STREET 9 Figure Group, Newcastle Region 3 Evolution 1 RAILWAY STREET Library SAMDON STREET LINDUS STREET 4 The Adaptable Migrant Monday to Friday 9.30am–8pm, THE BREAKWALL JAMES STREET CAMERON STREET Saturday 9.30am–2pm 5 Foundation Seed TUDOR STREET BISHOPGATE STREET 6 William Dobell’s Birth Place, WHARF ROAD DIXON STREET ARTIST’SELCHO STREET CITY 84 Bull Street Newcastle/Stockton BRIDGE STREET Ferry MILTON STREET WILLIAM STREET EXPLORE NEWCASTLE’S ART AND MURRAY STREET DENISON STREET HONEYSUCKLE DRIVE WORKSHOP PARRY STREET WAY STEEL STREET ARTISTS THROUGH A SELF-GUIDED CENTENARY RD WHARF ROAD ARGYLE ST 3 NOBBYS ROAD WALKING TOUR OF THE CITY. 4 SCOTT STREET FORT DR MEREWETHER ST SHEPERDS PL WOOD ST BOND ST STEVENSON PLACE VEDA STREET HUNTER STREET HUNTER STREET 2 ALFRED ST 5 HUNTER STREET BEACH ST SKELTON ST AUCKLAND STREET SHORTLAND ESP CHAUCER STREET KING STREET 7 KING STREET KING STREET STEEL ST EVERTON STREET WARRAH STREET BROWN STREET PARNELL PL DARBY STREET TELFORD STREET PERKINS STREET AVE KING STREET MURRAY HEBBURN STREET OCEAN ST SILSOE STREET UNION STREET 8 CHURCH STREET ZAARA ST DUMARESQ STREET PACIFIC STREET GIBSON STREET AVE BROWN STREET STEEL STREET MORONEY TYRRELL STREET CORONA STREET 9 11 BOLTON STREET LAMAN STREET 10 KEMP STREET HALL ST DICK ST RAVENSHAW STREET QUEEN ST BULL STREET GLOVERS LN 6 COUNCIL STREET ALEXANDER STREET S W WATT STREET ARNOTT STREET PITT STREET NATIONAL PARK STREET A WOLFE STREET N PARK STREET PARRY STREETUNION STREET ST PARKWAY AVENUE R BARKER ST EE ORDNANCE STREET T M NEWCOMEN STREET O S B DARBY STREET R I C CORLETTE STREET R 1 E JENNER STREET S DAWSON STREET RAILWAY STREET LAWSON STREET KICHENER PARADE BROOKS STREET RESERVE ROAD TURNBULL STREET HIBBERD STREET BEAUMONT STREET YORK DRIVE ANZAC PARADE HILLVIEW CRES GORDON AVENUE NESCA PARADE KEMP STREET N L E DARLING STREET M JENNER STREET N BINGLE STREET (PACIFIC HWY) STEWART AVENUE RAILWAY STREET O CLAPHAM STREET S THE TERRACE HIGH STREET GREENSLOPE STREET P King Edward Park A R KENRICK STREET A D PULVER STREET E CHURCHILL CCT TOOKE STREET STANLEY STREET FOWLER STREET NATIONAL PARK STREET BRUCE STREET HARLE STREET TURNBULL STREET YOUNG STREET CLIFF ST CRAM STREET Accessible Car Park PARKWAY AVENUE FENTON AVENUE THOMAS STREET E IV R SMITH STREET D L Strzelecki A RI Scenic Lookout RAVENSHAW STREET MO ME HENRY STREET FARQUHAR STREET HUGH STREET BROOKS STREET alk Newcastle Art Gallery al W CITY ROAD RAILWAY STREET GLEBE ROAD ori LIGHT STREET Mem LLEWELLYN STREET Shepherds Hill Electric Bike Stations RAILWAY STREET Reservoir WILTON STREET WRIGHTSON AVENUE HOPKINS STREET MACQUARIE STREET BAR BEACH AVENUE LINGARD STREET MEMORIAL DRIVE WALKABILITY ALICE STREET ROSE STREET Moderate-steep gradient EDWARD STREET SELWYN STREET MORGAN STREET WINSOR STREET PATRICK STREET < Continue to Bathers Way < Great North Walk DENT STREET BUCHANAN STREET KILGOUR AVENUE THE ARTIST’S CITY Newcastle has nurtured, supported and inspired generations of artists. One of Margaret Olley’s artworks depicting Newcastle Explore the city through their eyes. Visit the galleries that have displayed and celebrated their 1 MARGARET OLLEY, VIEWS FROM OBELISK PARK work. View examples of the extraordinary public art that populates the Newcastle landscape. Sitting high on the hill on the corner of Ordnance and Street Art in Newcastle Mall Newcomen streets, Obelisk Park offers a panoramic outlook This walking tour starts at Obelisk Park, one over the city and coastline that is without parallel. 3 EVOLUTION 1 of the favourite drawing spots of Newcastle’s Climb the 120 steps from street level up to the park’s peak and most celebrated adopted artist, Margaret Olley. you’ll understand why this was one of the favoured drawing As you make your way through the Hunter Street Mall there It concludes at Newcastle Art Gallery, home spots of revered artist Margaret Olley, with breathtaking are plenty of cultural delights to indulge in, from the artisans, to a collection of more than 6,100 works of 360-degree views and a handy circular direction plate installed photographers and other creatives who ply their trade in the art that belong to the people of Newcastle. in 1967 to give you a sense of what you are looking at. retail precinct, to the street art adorning various walls including a Olley fell in love with Newcastle after being invited to visit by local massive humpback whale painted on the side of one building. gallery owner Anne Von Bertouch in the early 1960s, finding herself At the end of the mall sits Sandra Minter-Caldwell’s For more self guided walking tours, visit inspired by the city’s architecture, landscape and industry. evocative Evolution 1 sculpture, consisting of five 1.8m-tall www.visitnewcastle.com.au or visit the Did you know? The obelisk marks the site of Newcastle’s figures depicting Newcastle’s migrant heritage. Newcastle Visitor Information Centre first windmill, erected in 1820 and used as a navigation Four of the figures represent people who have come to located at Museum Park, Honeysuckle. point by ships. It was demolished in 1847 but protests by Newcastle from the four corners of the globe to begin a seafarers saw the obelisk erected in its place in 1850. new life, while the single figure standing by itself represents the indigenous traditional owners of the land. Newcastle Art Gallery Laman Street, Cooks Hill 2 THE LOCK-UP CULTURAL CENTRE Evolution 1 (detail) Sandra Minter-Caldwell 1998, cast bronze Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm, open Monday during school holidays Make your way down the hill near the corner of Watt and Hunter nag.org.au streets and discover a dedicated multidisciplinary contemporary Newcastle Museum arts centre located within the once austere and forbidding Workshop Way, Honeysuckle surroundings of the former Newcastle Courthouse Lock-Up. Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm, open Monday during school holidays This building opened in 1861 for use by the courthouse next door newcastlemuseum.com.au and continued as Newcastle Police Station until its closure in 1982. Newcastle City Library The centre was re-launched in 2014, offering exhibitions, events Ground Floor, 15 Laman Street, Newcastle and artist-in-residence programs that showcase the work of Monday to Friday 9.30am – 8pm local, national and international artists. Don’t forget to check Saturday 9.30am – 2pm out the perforated steel balustrade out the front, which cleverly newcastle.nsw.gov.au/services/newcastle_library melds the building’s new use with the story of its past. Newcastle City Hall Did you know? 290 King Street, Newcastle Timeless Textiles is also located on the Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm, closed public holidays site, with exhibitions and workshops featuring the work of newcastlecityhall.com.au Australian and international fibre and textile artisans. 6 WILLIAM DOBELL’S BIRTHPLACE Zig zag your way through Newcastle’s back streets to find the birthplace of one of Australia’s most celebrated painters. William Dobell grew up and began sketching in his family home on the corner of Bull and Corlette streets in Cooks Hill. After leaving school and becoming apprenticed to a local architecture firm, Dobell made his mark on the Newcastle landscape through the design of several buildings. The Adaptable Migrant (detail) Suzie Bleach & Andrew Townsend 2012, mild steel with epoxy His architectural career was sort-lived however, after choosing paint finish 198.0cm x 210.0cm to pursue art following a move to Sydney in the 1920s. He later studied in Europe, painted in Papua New Guinea and 4 THE ADAPTABLE MIGRANT produced portraits of many famous and influential people. Did you know? The Newcastle Art Gallery holds Located outside Newcastle Museum, The Adaptable several of Dobell’s works in its collection. Migrant by artists Suzie Bleach and Andrew Townsend also explores Newcastle’s migrant history. Inside the camel are sculptures representing the mementos and culture people bring with them when they begin a new life in a new place. Among these items are objects that speak of Newcastle. The thistle is a reference to the city’s Scottish heritage, while the hammer and sewing machine relate to industry, and the canary points to coal mining. Did you know? The sculpture is affectionately called Constance by Newcastle Museum staff. Portrait of a Strapper Sir William Dobell 1941, oil on canvas 88.6 x 63.6cm 5 FOUNDATION SEED Gift of Captain Neil McEacharn 1959. Newcastle Art Gallery collection As you head back up to Hunter Street Dobell and the Archibald and continue westward, watch out for creative additions to some of the One of Australia’s finest portrait was a portrait of Margaret painters, Newcastle-born Olley, who he met at a party and buildings, from the famed David Bowie Climbing sun over the Hunter (detail) John Olsen 1981, acrylic paint on marine mural to the street art down Union Lane William Dobell won the Archibald insisted on painting. For the plywood dimensions variable. Commissioned by Newcastle City Council 1981 on the opposite side of the road.