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Horsham Regional Art Gallery

Address:
80 Wilson Street, Horsham, Victoria
Postal Address:
80 Wilson Street Horsham Vic 3400
Telephone: 03 5382 5575
Facsimile: 03 5382 5407
Email: hrag@netconnect.com.au
Website: http://www.horsham
.net.au/gallery

Admission Charges:
Adults $2, free for students, members, and members of other regional galleries

Opening Hours:
10am-5pm Tuesday-Friday
1-4.30pm Saturday & Sunday

Located between the Grampians and Little Desert National Parks, Horsham boasts a lively arts community, with a major community festival "Art is...", held in March.

The Horsham Regional Art Gallery is housed in an impressive fine art deco building that has been recently refurbished and extended. Four temporary exhibition spaces feature changing exhibitions of contemporary and traditional art photography. The gallery is renowned for its Mack Jost collection of contemporary art.

Mack Jost was born in Horsham in 1918 and became a significant pianist and music teacher. Between 1962 and 1969 he toured extensively through Europe, Russia and central Asia. In 1969 he was invited to the then Soviet Union as a special guest, later making four such tours for the British Council. He presented over three hundred programmes as a soloist and chamber music player for the ABC. Mack Jost was awarded the Order of Australia in 1986 for services to music and the arts.

Mack Jost began collecting artwork in the late 1950s. Artists represented in the collection include John Glover, John Longstaff, Rupert Bunny, Max Meldrum, John Olsen, Charles Blackman, Leonard French, Anne Graham, Jennifer Marshall, Neil Douglas and Sidney Nolan. Each year Mack Jost donates a number of works from his collection to the gallery.

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