Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) invites the community to experience a rich and immersive winter exhibition season, bringing together leading contemporary artists, new commissions, and interactive experiences for all ages.
Opening Saturday 20 June, the exhibition program features Helen Britton: The Story So Far, an Australian Design Centre's Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft touring exhibition, Natalia Miłosz-Piekarska: Sifted Light, In the Company of Animals from the MPRG Collection, Synthetic Memories, and a dedicated children's activation space designed to spark curiosity and creativity.
Internationally acclaimed artist Helen Britton presents The Story So Far, a deeply personal exhibition exploring memory, inheritance, and creative legacy. The exhibition is grounded in Britton's photographic documentation of her great aunt's home on Yaegl Country, a place filled with handmade objects, natural materials, and quiet histories. Expanding from this body of work, Britton presents new jewellery, installation, painting and object-based works that reflect on the ingenuity and resilience of women's creative lives, alongside the complexities of Australia's colonial past and present. The exhibition includes the first showing of the photographic series My Godmother's House and is accompanied by a major publication.
In Sifted Light, contemporary jeweller and artist Natalia Miłosz-Piekarska translates the textures and atmosphere of the Mornington Peninsula into sculptural and wearable works. Drawing on her connection to the local landscape, Miłosz-Piekarska's pieces capture fleeting moments of light, form and stillness. Her practice invites audiences to slow down and engage with the subtle beauty of place through material, memory and sensation.
Expanding the winter exhibition program into new territory, MPRG is presenting Synthetic Memories — an initiative by Barcelona-based art, design and research organisation Domestic Data Streamers — in an Australian first. Through intimate, facilitated sessions, community members are guided through a process of transforming personal stories into dreamlike, AI-generated visual reconstructions — exploring the intersection of technology, storytelling and remembrance.
The MPRG Collection exhibition, In the Company of Animals, brings together works that reflect our relationship with the natural world, while a vibrant children's activation space offers hands-on opportunities for exploration and play. Inspired by themes of home and what we hold dear, the space features interactive cubby structures and an ever-growing giant lucky charm necklace adorned with personalised charms designed by our young explorers. Creative activities complete the experience, inviting visitors to explore, connect, and imagine.
A dynamic public program will accompany the exhibitions, including artist talks, workshops and special events.
The winter exhibitions will be on display at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from Saturday 20 June until Sunday 23 August. Admission is free.
