To provide a visual arts and cultural ecosystem that inspires, enriches and collaborates with community; enhances life experiences through the visual arts; and strives for best practice in our delivery of cultural services to the community.  

Tamworth Regional Gallery offers a distinctive connection to place and a curatorial agenda that creates meaningful art experiences for all. The Gallery’s collection exists for our audiences, to help them comprehend the past, navigate the present and imagine the future. Placing art, artists and audiences at the very heart of who we are guides the Gallery’s artistic and public programs. Tamworth Regional Gallery contributes positively to cultural cohesion, social wellbeing, creativity and engaged citizenship, and to the economic life of Tamworth and the surrounding region. Our purpose focuses on artistic vibrancy, social and cultural impact, cultural tourism and an arts ecosystem.

Artistic Vibrancy: The exhibition program creates a cultural experience that stimulates the creativity and curiosity of our audiences and increases their attendance and engagement.

Cultural Tourism: As a major regional hub with a diverse cultural landscape, Tamworth is a tourist destination that also services the local regional area. The Gallery provides access to visual arts and cultural experiences as part of the tourism offering.

Social and Cultural Impact: The public and education programs increase appreciation of different forms of creative expression, leading to increased empathy and greater understanding of difference, thus celebrating our broad and inclusive community.

Arts Ecosystem: Artists living in regional New South Wales have limited access to opportunities to continue to build their reputation and to have a sustainable practice. The Gallery plays an important role by working with and supporting a curated group of artists to develop their practice and providing them with access to audiences.
 

Our Values
We believe that the arts and culture are for everyone – for visitors of all ages, abilities, genders and cultures.
Our core values are:

• Equity
• Access
• Authenticity
• Collaboration
• Courage

Our Goals
Tamworth Regional Gallery is a cultural and community service managed by Tamworth Regional Council. The Gallery aims to foster, promote and enhance understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts through its collections, temporary exhibitions and other public programs. All the activities of the Gallery underpin the delivery of its purpose, which is to provide access to the arts in a regional centre and to support the following goals.

Our goals are Excellence, Engagement and Sustainability. We strive to:
1. deliver EXCELLENCE in cultural programs through exhibitions and collections.
2. develop audience ENGAGEMENT through partnerships that increase access to events and education.
3. implement SUSTAINABILITY through development of career pathways, the collection and our environment. 

Goal 1 = EXCELLENCE
• To create a complete visitor experience that demonstrates the inclusiveness and calibre of Tamworth Regional Gallery to every visitor.
• To commission new work that advances the Gallery’s visual arts collection and provides opportunities for innovation and creativity to flourish.
• To create powerful exhibitions that generate meaningful audience engagement and create a safe place for unsafe discussions.
• To demonstrate best practice in collection management, including the processes of acquisition and the development of a visual arts
collection plan.
• To develop a diverse exhibitions schedule of both touring and in-house products that ‘get the exhibition mix right’, along with their associated public programs.

Goal 2 = ENGAGEMENT
• To capture new audiences, especially in our broad and inclusive communities, who would not typically seek out the visual arts, and to provide exposure to and engagement with meaningful experiences.
• To work in partnership with the local community, volunteers and identified stakeholders to collaboratively engage our communities.
• To provide a diversity of dynamic educational and public programs throughout the life span of our audiences.
• To provide accessible exhibitions, resources and outreach programs, both online and at the art gallery, to educate audiences and link back to the national curriculum.
• To generate innovative exhibitions, including touring exhibitions of a national calibre, to engage new and diverse audiences.
• To ensure the collection is accessible both physically and virtually, and to extend this accessibility through loans to and from other external cultural institutions.

Goal 3 = SUSTAINABILITY
• To support the arts community and promote the development of creative industries and their ongoing success at both the local and national levels.
• To generate a diversity of income streams for Tamworth Regional Gallery.
• To provide opportunities for career pathways and reduce barriers to sustainable employment in the arts.
• To develop and build the visual arts collection through a combination of cultural gifts, purchases, bequests, donations and commissions.
• To maintain and extend the existing branding and reputation of Tamworth Regional Gallery, including through continuation of the Tamworth Textile Triennial.
• To work sustainably in the delivery of all programs and exhibitions, in gallery management, and in improving our built environment to reduce our environmental impact.

Our Strategic Plan