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Unique Australian objects 1830-1910
Silver and gold: unique Australian objects 1830–1910 showcases exceptional 19th and early-20th century Australian silver and gold objects drawn from the National Gallery of Australia’s significant collection of colonial decorative arts and design. The theme of this exhibition is celebration, with objects marking significant personal, community, and professional achievements and milestones, or displays of prosperity and artistic accomplishment. Silver and gold reveals the exceptional skills of Australia’s earliest professional craft practitioners and their compelling narratives of Australian social and commercial history and includes presentation, ceremonial and testimonial pieces, jewellery, and functional tableware, displayed within themes of Sport, Agriculture, Goldfields, Defining moments, Dining, and Achievement.
Venues
2017
- Kalgoorlie-Boulder Museum WA
4 February – 30 April 2017 - Geraldton Regional Gallery WA
13 May – 9 July 2017 - Murray Bridge SA
21 July – 27 August 2017 - Hamilton Art Gallery Hamilton VIC
7 October – 26 November 2017
2018
- Castlemaine Art Museum VIC
10 December 2017 – 25 February 2018 - Tamworth Art Gallery Tamworth NSW
20 April – 10 June 2018 - Ipswich Art Gallery Ipswich QLD
16 June – Sunday 26 August 2018 - Bundaberg Art Galley Bundaberg QLD
11 October – 9 December 2018
Celebrating Australian women abstract artists
This visually exhilarating exhibition reveals the astounding contribution Australian women artists have made to abstract art. The exhibition shows a breathtaking passion for colour, shape and rhythm and a dedication to experimentation and conceptual innovation. The works in this exhibition use a remarkable range of media moving through painting, sculpture and applied arts and take audiences on a journey from the early 20th century through to the present day.
Venues
2017
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Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Vic
25 February –7 May 2017 - Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW
21 May – 23 July 2017 - Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns QLD
15 September – 24 November 2017
2018
- Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
NSW, Friday 2 March – Sunday 27 May 2018 - QUT Art Gallery, Brisbane QLD
Friday 1 June – Sunday 26 August 2018
New Indigenous photomedia
Resolution: New Indigenous photomedia brings together works from some of Australia's leading and emerging Indigenous artists made over the last three years. Featuring still photographs made using modern and historical processes, video and multimedia installation, the exhibition provides an experience of contemporary photomedia and indigeneity that is physical, embodied and thought-provoking.
Venues
2016/2017
- Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW
16 Sept – 4 December 2016 - Perc Tucker Art Gallery, Townsville QLD
24 March – 28 May 2017 Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
9 June – 13 August 2017 - Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton Vic
26 August – 29 October 2017
Tony Albert Brothers (New York Dreaming) 2015 pigment inkjet print with hand embellishment National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 2016. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.
The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain
This is the first exhibition to look at the work of photographers Olive Cotton and Max Dupain, as they shared their lives, studio and professional practice. It looks at their work made between 1934 and 1945, the period of their professional association; this was an exciting period of experimentation and growth in Australian photography, and Cotton and Dupain were at the centre of these developments.
Venues
2016/2017
December 2016 - January 2017
Max Dupain Sunbaker 1937, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 1982
Contemporary Australian video art
Bodies of all kinds moving in space. This phenomenon has been explored in a myriad of ways by artists ever since video art took off as an exciting new development in the 1960s. The select group of works displayed in Light moves: contemporary Australian video art continues to further the possibilities of the medium in poetic works that speak to their own personal interests and histories.
Venues
2016/2017
- Geraldton Art Gallery, WA
16 Dec 2016 – 11 Feb 2017 - Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA
18 Feb – 16 Apr 2017 - Nautilus Art Centre, Port Lincoln, SA
30 Apr – 4 Jun 2017 - Mildura Art Gallery, VIC
18 Jun – 27 Aug 2017
Daniel Crooks Pan No. 9 (dopplegänger) 2012 (detail), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2012
The Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift
The Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift enables people from all around Australia to discover and handle treasured objects. Made possible by Jim Wolfensohn, the Australian-born former president of the World Bank, the gift comprises three art-filled suitcases and the 1888 Melbourne Cup. The NGA has been touring Wolfensohn gifts to schools, libraries, community centres, regional galleries and nursing homes across Australia since 1990.View more
Venues
2016
- Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth NSW
23 November 2016 – 23 December 2016
Red Case: Myths and Rituals
Yellow Case: Form, Space and Design
2016
- Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, NSW
22 November – 22 December 2016
Karl Millard Lizard Grinder 2000 brass, bronze, copper, sterling silver, money metal, Peugeot mechanism, stainless steel screws, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra