A few days ago, Newcastle City Council (NCC) signed off on committing fund for the long awaited expansion of Newcastle Art Gallery.
The $35.6 million project has been on and off the table for the better part of 16-years.
‘We have had a couple of goes at it previously,’ gallery director Lauretta Morton told ArtsHub. ‘The first proposal was to knock down the existing building, and a design competition was run in 2005/6. Then in 2021/13 a new redevelopment plan didn’t go ahead either.’