MORNINGTON PENINSULA REGIONAL GALLERY

Propaganda: MPRG and Australian War Memorial exhibition
20 April – 8 July 2018         

This unique exhibition exclusively presented at MPRG will delve into the Australian War Memorial’s amazing collection of historical propaganda posters, which is one of the largest collections in the world. This exhibition will present posters from across all of the major 20^th Century conflicts and give a remarkable insight into the power of information graphics and the use of advertising and communication strategies in eliciting fear, loathing and calls to action.  Propaganda is curated by Danny Lacy Senior Curator MPRG and Alex Torrens, Curator Australian War Memorial.

Andrew Hazewinkel: What the sea never told
5 May – 8 July 2018

On the 21st May 1892 a disaster unfolded on the waters of Port Philip Bay that shaped the early social history of Mornington. The event, which occurred in an unspecified location somewhere between Mordialloc and Mornington, is still considered one of the worst sailing disasters in Victoria’s history and it remains the greatest tragedy in Australia’s footballing history.

Hazewinkel, who grew up in Mornington, has since boyhood known the story well, for a number of years he has been researching little known aspects of the tragedy and what happened immediately following it. His exhibition What The Sea Never Told presents a series of new artworks including an epic moving image work that takes the 1892 disaster as its starting point.  As he describes it “the exhibition is a deeply personal meditation on the loss of the young men’s lives and more broadly the complex, nuanced relationships between the sea and the communities whose lives are woven into it.”