This report lists exhibitions, acquisitions, and gifts received by the Manawatu Art Gallery during the financial year of 1985-1986. Also included is the President's report, membership information, and the names of the Art Gallery Trustees, the Art Gallery Council, and staff.

Includes exhibitions: Henry Moore tapestries, Televison NZ Schools art exhibition.

Includes exhibitions: Selections from the permanent collection and Waldegrace ceramic collection, Manawatū Pottery Society, Ralph Hotere - the black Union Jack, Prints of the 70's by 6 British artists.

Includes exhibitions: Acquisitions, Us and our buildings, Carl Sydow Memorial exhibition, Grace Joel, Race meetings in nZ, Still Life is still alive..., 31 American women video artists.

Includes exhibitions: Small tapestries, Edith Collier in retrospect, Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky - the man and the artist, Marion Tylee retrospective, Tsutsumu - the art of the Japanese package, Richard Smith.

Includes exhibitions: Tony Fomison, Canadian quilts, W. T. G. Cody, Scottish tapestries.

Includes exhibitions: The child in the world, Ricahrd Smith - graphics and multiples, Waldegrave Collection of ceramics, Invited Auckland potters, (Benham, McLeod, Taylor), Tony Fomison.

Includes exhibitions: Diane Arbus, Manawatū Pottery Society, 'The Grass is Greener..." by Andrew Drummond, Don Driver, IYC children's art work, The child in the world.

Includes exhibitions: NZ sculptors at Mildura, Flight Fancies.

Includes exhibitions: Manawatū review, Manawatū Pottery Society - 13th annual exhibition, Quantas Press Photographers of the Year, Youth festival, Clive Stone prints / some glass plates from the John Perry Collection by an anonymous photographer, Portraits by Ben Boer, Man Together - today's housing choice.

Includes exhibitions: Brent Wong, Ceramic purchases, Jeffrey Harris, The right to work - posters from the International Institute of Human Rights, David Moore, Bronwynne Cornish, Tibetan carpets.

Includes exhibitions: Weaving, NZ drawing 1976/77, Centrepoint Theatre - a documentary by Colin Parrish, Five sculptors, Passion drawings - School of Poccetti, The printed image - printmaking then and now.

Includes exhibitions: McMahons 'necessary protection' works, Peter Bromhead: Cartoons and drawings, Ian Smail - Small, medium and big pots, Brian Brake - 40 photographs, Manawatū Pottery Society annual exhibition.

Includes exhibitions: A show of hands, Philip Claremont, 100 paintings and drawings of Petrus van der Velden, Palmerston North - 100 years of local government, Permanent collection.

Includes exhibitions: Photographic exhibition, Print Council of NZ - sixth touring exhibition, Art in the mail, Manawatū review, John Panting - sculpture.

Includes exhibitions: Six Australian and four NZ printmakers, NZ Painting 1920-1940, Edward Weston photographs, Contemporary ceramics.

Includes exhibitions: Members annual exhibition, Manawatū Pottery Society, Children's arts festival, Benson & Hedges art award 1975

Includes exhibitions: McMahon religious works, Members annual exhibition with guest exhibitor Barry Cleavin, Contemporary NZ photography, Raymond McIntyre.

Includes exhibitions: Wellington Weavers, Frank Martin

Includes exhibitions: Eskimo prints and Canadian arts and crafts, Pottery summer school ceramics, David Armitage Part 1, Permanent collection, Betty Kent drawings and paintings, McCahon religious works.

Includes exhibitions: Nigerian sculpture - Ron O'Reilly collection, John Coley, Manawatū Pottery Society annual exhibition, Playthings.

Includes exhibitions: Sculptura Italiana, annual exhibition, Balinese folk art, Ray Thorburn - a survey.

Includes exhibitions: Ralph Hotere, Frank Davis - paintings, photographs and silk paintings, Closing down sale, Aboriginal bark paintings, Manawatū review, Michael Eaton - paintings.

Includes exhibitions: A gallery at work, Tamarind - homage to lithography, Engravings by John Buckland Wright, Print council - fourth national tour, View Manawatū.

Includes exhibitions: The watercolours of Alfred Sharpe, Pahiatua festival, Manawatū Pottery Society annual exhibition, Zonta print exhibition, Drawings invitational, Photography of Leith Jennings and Jim Payne, Pots from private collections and pots for auction.

Includes: Exhibitions: Contemporary ceramics 1973, MSA Annual Exhibition, Beatrix H. Russell, M. T. Woollaston works 1933 - 1973, Hunderwasser paintings and prints.

Includes Exhibition: Italian Graphic Art, NZ Painting 1900 - 1920, Acquisitions: Toys by artists, Michael Smither, Batik Painting by Bambang Oetoro

Includes Exhibitions: New Photography USA, Paris Biennale Prints, Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture 1973.

Includes Colin McCahon - a survey exhibition, Manawatū Pottery Society annual exhibition, Manawatū Prize for Contemporary Art 1972 and National Bank Art Workshop.

Exhibition: Sonia Juriss and Nelson Thompson Watercolours, Invited Potters 1972, "18 x 22" Boxed Top Art, Max Oettli, Manawatu Secondary Schools Art Exhibition, John Hutton, Bill Brandt. Activities - kite construction, film evenings, design, painters', and photography workshops.