Newcastle Art Gallery reveals 2025 reopening date following ambitious expansion

Newcastle Art Gallery will reopen in time for the city's flagship festival with new space for exhibitions and a sculptural solution for accessibility.
Newcastle Art Gallery staff preparing the collection for offsite storage, prior to commencement of the major building expansion project, 2022.

Newcastle Art Gallery will be ready to welcome visitors once again in late September this year, just in time for City of Newcastle’s flagship arts and culture festival, New Annual (27 September to 6 October).

The final stages of construction are now underway for the gallery’s major redevelopment, which combines a new building with the existing 47-year-old structure and creates an additional 1600 square metres of exhibition space. It has been supported by over $22 million in funding through the Australian Government, the NSW Government and the Newcastle Art Gallery Foundation.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_