What to expect

• Paintings and prints that trace Anita Rezevska’s long career — portraits and works that reflect her Latvian roots, explorations of identity, motherhood and memory. Her work has been included in public collections and prize lists, and she has been recognised in major portrait and art prize circles. collections.maitland.nsw.gov.au+1

• Sculpture and foundry pieces by Antony Symons spanning bronze public commissions through to more intimate cast and mixed-media works. Symons’ practice combined classical influence, spiritual inquiry and a deep respect for the natural world — his public sculptures, including the well-known Lithgow pieces, anchor his legacy in place. lithgowmercury.com.au+1

• Drawings, photographs, studio ephemera and personal writings selected and arranged by Zenta to create a narrative thread: father, mother, daughter — their processes, their workshops, their shared obsessions and differing techniques. Zenta’s own prints and reflections appear alongside, forming a living bridge between past and present. Instagram

Curator’s note (from Zenta Zenbergs)

“This exhibition is a conversation across time. I started arranging the works as a daughter wanting to keep my parents’ voices present — not to fossilise them but to let their art keep moving through other people’s eyes. Love and Art is an offering: to their making, their teaching and the small rituals of everyday studio life.” — Zenta Zenbergs. Instagram

Highlights and threads to look for

• Family dialogue: Notice how portraiture and the human figure recur in both Anita’s intimate, often autobiographical paintings and Antony’s figurative bronzes; see the emotional grammar that links paint and metal. collections.maitland.nsw.gov.au+1

• Process on view: maquettes, proofs and plaster — traces of Antony’s lost-wax casting and Anita’s printmaking plates — offering a rare look at technical craft alongside finished works. About Regional+1

• Cultural memory: Anita’s Latvian background and lifelong engagement with identity and migration quietly inform several works in the show; the exhibition places those threads next to Antony’s engagement with landscape, myth and public memory.collections.maitland.nsw.gov.au+1