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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is a public art gallery on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne, Australia. The gallery opened in 1971, and holds both traditional and contemporary Australian art. In 2013 the gallery hosted an exhibition of Archibald Prize paintings, setting a gallery attendance record of 48,000. The gallery is host to the National Works on Paper acquisitive art competition, established in 1998. Artists whose work is held by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery include Constance Stokes.
The gallery is a member of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria.
2021 Update:Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) is the largest public gallery in the South East region of Melbourne.
Founded by leading art critic and historian Alan McCulloch, the Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, as it was known, acquired its first artwork in 1970 and presented its first exhibitions in 1971*. Initially based in a 1920s weatherboard house in Vancouver Street, Mornington, the Gallery moved to its current location at Civic Reserve in 1990.
MPRG's exhibition program combines a mix of self-generated curatorial projects, local artist focus projects, collection-based and touring exhibitions. They develop a range of ambitious curatorial projects commissioning artists to make new work drawing on contemporary issues and the distinctive natural environment of the Mornington Peninsula. Their biennial National Works on Paper prize is one of the most prestigious awards and exhibitions in the country.
Over the past 50 years the MPRG Collection has grown to include over 1800 objects, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. Renowned for its specialist holdings of contemporary Australian works on paper, they also hold important historical artworks that capture the cultural heritage of the Mornington Peninsula, which has been a haven and source of inspiration for many well-known artists.
MPRG acknowledges and pay respect to the Bunurong / BoonWurrung people, the traditional custodians of these lands and waters.
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