Develop your creativity and hone your drawing skills at our relaxed and friendly fortnightly life drawing sessions.

Get creative at our fortnightly life drawing sessions in the inspiring surrounds of the Gallery.

7 February – 31 August 2025. MAG&M proudly presents ESP (Earth, Stone, Porcelain), an exhibition celebrating the timeless artistry and versatility of ceramics.

This exhibition presents the finalists of the Northern Beaches Underwater Photography Competition 2024, showcasing amateur, professional and young photographic works documenting the Aquatic reserves of the Northern Beaches.

21 February – 6 April 2025. A curated selection of artworks by HSC Visual Arts students from secondary schools across the Northern Beaches

21 February – 6 April 2025. Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial is a celebration of 50 years of the National Textile Collection

Join us for the preview tour of our new exhibitions, Out Front 2025: HSC Visual Arts and Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial.

Join us for the opening event of our new exhibitions, Out Front 2025: HSC Visual Arts and Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial.

Celebrate Mardi Gras and express your pride with a free workshop on rainbow macramé key rings.

Join us for a vibrant celebration of queer joy, community, and connection as we honour every version of you - past, present, and future.

Celebrate Mardi Gras and express your pride with a free workshop on rainbow macramé key rings.

The Program aims to support students in their transition to becoming emerging creative practitioners.

Celebrate Mardi Gras and express your pride with a free workshop on rainbow macramé key rings.

Join this fun workshop to explore your creativity through poetry

From Goethe’s masterpiece “FAUST”comes this original, multimedia community production !

Come along to the Library's workshop celebrating female writers as part of NSW Women's Week (2 - 8 March 2025).

Hear the powerful impact donations and bequests have had on the Manly Art Gallery & Museum for over a century.

Visit Manly Cove and Manly Art Gallery & Museum to experience Anna Madeleine Raupach’s augmented reality (AR) exhibition.

A lively community coming together for live music and friendly conversations about creativity.

A diverse collection of artworks with a touch of humour and quirkiness.

Join us and learn the art of Chinese Calligraphy.

Join Sydney-based singer/songwriter Will Baker to learn the craft of songwriting and work on your own unique lyrics and melody. Ages 16 - 25 years.

Expand your imagination, creative writing and understanding of poetry in this six-week workshop.

Enjoy morning tea in the gallery and a special exhibition tour by MAG&M’s curator.

A diverse collection of artworks with a touch of humour and quirkiness.

A three-day festival for readers, writers, and thinkers featuring authors who are household names, as well as local and emerging writers, across a range of genres.

Join us for the preview tour of our new exhibition, TEN‐FOLD: A Decade of Emerging Art Incubator Artists.

11 April 2025 – 1 June 2025. Over the past decade, Art Incubator has supported innovative art practices and assisted in launching the careers of some of Sydney’s top emerging artists.

11 April 2025 – 1 June 2025. An exhibition by Samantha Jade, recipient of the 2025 Art Incubator Grant.

Join us for the opening event of our new exhibitions, TEN‐FOLD: A Decade of Emerging Art Incubator Artists.

Join the first session in our 2025 Masterclass Series, En Plein Air Drawing with Noel Thurgate.

Join us for a meet the artist event with Samantha Jade

Join Teresa Biet, founder of Art Incubator; Cassandra Bird, Director of Cassandra Bird Gallery; Orson Heinrich, Art Incubator grant recipient and exhibiting artist for this panel discussion on how the creative sector can better support emerging artists.

Join contemporary watercolour artist, Tanya Baily for a 2-day workshop learning to record your travel memories in watercolour.

6 June – 27 July 2025. This exhibition foregrounds the work of artists who enfold time and space, positioning us in relationship to an “environment” that is shaped by cultural, spiritual, political, social, and intellectual forces.

1 Aug - 14 Sept 2025. The annual Environmental Art & Design Prize showcases innovative and thought-provoking works that explore the theme of the environment.

19 September 2025 – 30 November 2025. This exhibition draws on MAG&M’s rich collection, along with loaned works from National Art School Australia and private collections, to explore Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo’s (1870-1955).

19 September 2025 – 30 November 2025. Corrugated cardboard, as an art-making material, only began appearing around the time of Pablo Picasso’s influential sculpture Still Life with Guitar (1913).

5 December 2025 – 15 February 2026. This exhibition presents the work of five contemporary Australian artists exploring the garden as a theme.

Primary aged weekly Musical theatre classes.