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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 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 ’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 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. Prize three times and was a sitting she wore a costume made finalist on many occasions. Turn left up National Park Street and onto from war-surplus parachute silk 7 CLIMBING SUN OVER THE HUNTER, King Street where you’ll find Newcastle’s Dobell was controversially and an old wedding dress. NEWCASTLE CITY HALL tallest piece of public art towering above awarded the prize in 1943 for Dobell won the for his portrait of fellow artist passers-by on the median strip. a third and final time in 1959 with a Joshua Smith, with the decision Head back down to one of the city’s architectural Standing 14m high, Foundation Seed was portrait of Dr Edward MacMahon. icons to view a stunning creation by another created by Newcastle artist, musician and unsuccessfully challenged in Newcastle Art Gallery’s collection renowned Australian artist born in Cooks Hill. qualified plumber John Turier, inspired the Supreme Court of NSW on includes Portrait of a Strapper, Having travelled widely across Australia, painter John Olsen by the red cedar trees that grew in the the basis the work of art was a 1941 Archibald Prize finalist. interprets its unique landscape in vibrant detail through area during the 18th and 19th centuries. a caricature and not a portrait. The case was dismissed, but the Seen as one of Dobell’s most artworks that showcase his energetic and distinctive style, Did you know? Surfers are known ordeal left Dobell traumatised striking portraits, it is believed to defined by experimentation with line, colour and figuration. to judge the local surfing conditions and in 1945 he moved to be based on a 20-minute sketch The image of the sun is a reoccurring motif in Olsen’s work. In 1980, based on the wind turning the leaf his sister’s house at Wangi Olsen was commissioned to paint a mural for the foyer of the newly on the sculpture’s upper section. of station hand Ronald Leslie Wangi on Lake Macquarie. Davis, who worked on a property refurbished Newcastle City Hall, with Climbing sun over the Hunter Foundation Seed John Turier 2005, steel and aluminium In 1948 Dobell’s winning entry near Hinton in the Hunter Valley. still lighting up the entry at the top of the stairs on level two. 14.0m height 8 JAMES COOK MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN 10 BLACK TOTEM II

Newcastle’s reputation for commissioning bold public art was Head east from the Newcastle formed in part by sculptures like the James Cook Memorial War Memorial Cultural Centre Fountain, prominently located on the southern side of Civic Park. and you’ll see another towering held a competition in 1961 to create an illuminated artistic triumph, Black Totem II. fountain for the park, with sculptor Margel Hinder’s winning design Impossible to miss in the Newcastle commemorating Captain James Cook’s discovery of the East Art Gallery forecourt, the 11m-tall, Coast of Australia in 1770. Hinder aimed to develop a fountain in five tonne steel and fibreglass which the water and sculptural elements became one unit. sculpture was created by celebrated Did you know? The James Cook Memorial Fountain formed Australia artist . the basis for the City of Newcastle’s corporate logo, used for Previously on display at Walsh Bay in more than 25 years from 1993. It was replaced in 2019 with Sydney, it was relocated to Newcastle a stylised ‘N’ with a ripple effect that represents water. in 2013 after being gifted to the city by Whiteley’s wife Wendy. Newcastle Art Gallery has a long association with Whiteley, beginning in 1959 when it was the first public gallery to purchase a work by the then 20-year-old artist. His iconic landscape painting Summer at Carcoar was also one of the first artworks hung in the Black Totem II Brett Whiteley gallery when it opened in 1977. 1993, cast steel, steel rods and fibreglass. Donated by Wendy Did you know? Black Totem II Portrait of Dr Roland Pope Jerrold Nathan 1944, oil on canvas Whiteley in memory of Arkie 90.0 x 69.9cm. Purchased 1946. Newcastle Art Gallery co Whiteley through was posthumously completed by Government’s Cultural Gifts , Matthew Dillon and Program 2013. Franco Belgiorno-Nettis in 1993. Assisted by James & Judy The Pope Collection Hart and John & Valerie Ryan. It is one of only two large outdoor Newcastle Art Gallery collection sculptures created by Brett Whiteley. James Cook Memorial Fountain, Civic Park Have you ever wondered how an and thousands of books and art gallery or library’s collection journals, was made on the 9 FIGURE GROUP, NEWCASTLE REGION LIBRARY actually begins? In Newcastle, condition that the city construct 11 NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY the foundation of these two fine a gallery to house them. cultural institutions can be traced Climb the stairs on either side of the fountain and make your Pope’s gift was held in storage Newcastle Art Gallery was officially opened by Her Majesty way to the entrance foyer of the Newcastle War Memorial back to generous donation of for 12 years before the gallery Queen Elizabeth II on Friday 11 March 1977. one man’s private collection. and library were opened on the Cultural Centre (Regional Library) to take in the powerful Designed by architect Brian Pile, the first purpose-built regional Art second floor of the Newcastle beauty of this towering commemorative sculpture. Dr Roland Pope was a Sydney- Gallery in Australia was applauded as a model for medium-sized War Memorial Cultural Centre Featuring 3.3m-tall bronze statues of a man and a woman depicted based ophthalmologist and galleries, with an innovative floor plan and hanging system. in 1957, however the benefactor with heads upturned and a broken sword at their feet, the sculpture former Australian cricketer, of their collections did not Its collection represents a comprehensive overview of Australian was created by official AIF war artist Lyndon Dadswell. having played three games for live to see them on display, art from colonial times to the present day, including everything from the Australian VI in 1890. The WWll combat veteran was one of five Australian artists invited in having died five years earlier. paintings of early Newcastle by convict artist Joseph Lycett, to the 1954 to produce concepts that would represent “youth emerging from He was also a passionate art works of prominent contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini. Pope’s donation not only the conflict of war and looking with hope and courage to the future”. collector and philanthropist, provided the foundation for two If you’re completing this walk on the weekend, make sure and in 1945 he decided to gift Dadswell’s design attracted some initial controversy, with calls for of Newcastle’s most prominent you time your route to take advantage of the free guided the figures to reflect the normal proportions of the human body. his notable and cultural institutions, it also helped tours available on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am. Did you know? Officially titled Figure Group, the sculpture literature collection to Newcastle. redefine the city beyond the Did you know? Newcastle Art Gallery holds one of the was dubbed ‘Dave and Mable’ by the foundry workers who cast The donation, which included grimy industrial image of its coal most significant public art collections in the country, with them and is known by many Novocastrians as ‘Him and Her’. 137 Australian paintings mining and steelmaking heritage. more than 6,700 works valued at over $95 million.