Update | Program now available for Scottish Australia Symposium
Thomas WATLING Scottish, b.1762, Australia 1792–1797, d. c.1814 Scarlet and Green Parrot (1792-1797) watercolour on paper 21.7 x 20.1 cm Natural History Museum, London Scottish Australia Symposium |...
View ArticleExhibition | Being Human: The Graphic Work of George Baldessin | Heide Museum...
Being Human: The Graphic Work of George Baldessin Heide Museum of Modern Art until Sunday 19 October 2014 George Baldessin, Seated Figure, 1973, colour etching and aquatint plate 56.2 x 50.5 cm Heide...
View ArticlePublic Lecture | Wreckage and Reclamation: Politics and Art in Brisbane...
Peter Tyndall, Detail of A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/ someone looks at something..., Oil on canvas and enamel on wood with braided nylon cord, Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery...
View ArticleExhibition | From the Home of Mirka Mora | Heide Museum of Modern Art
‘To me, painting and drawing are natural, I’ve done them for as long as I can remember’. Mirka Mora Mirka Mora in her studio Photograph: Fred Kroh (2014) About the Exhibition | Mirka Mora is one of...
View ArticleTalk | Why Being Real Matters: Art and Authenticity in Australia | Robyn...
Why Being Real Matters: Art & Authenticity in Australia Robyn Sloggett In this talk, Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett presents an outline of the history of art and cultural heritage fraud in...
View ArticleExhibition Review | Genius and Ambition. The Royal Academy of Arts, London,...
Genius and Ambition. The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1768–1918 David R. Marshall Henry Fuseli, Thor battering the Midgard Serpent, 1790, Royal Academy of Arts At the Bendigo Art Gallery 2 March–9...
View ArticleExhibition | Gunter Christman: Now and Then | Heide Museum of Modern Art
GUNTER CHRISTMANNSmoke OZKAR (2001)acrylic and mixed media on canvas137 x 122cm© The Estate of Gunter Christmann and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Gunter Christman: Now and Then is on now at Heide...
View ArticleTalk | Jason Smith on the correspondence of John Reed at Heide Museum of...
Detail of the Reed Christmas Card from 1955. Via Heide Website. 2014 marks eighty years since John and Sunday Reed purchased the property and named it Heide, after the nearby town of Heidelberg. As...
View ArticleFree Lunchtime Lecture at Homlesglen | Noël Skrzypczak
Noël Skrzypczak (pronounced Scrip-jack) is a Melbourne artist whose work has consistently addressed the materiality of painting and surface. Her wall paintings, a major one of which was commissioned...
View ArticleOpening Weekend Events for TarraWarra Biennial 2014 – Whisper in My Mask |...
Sandra Hill Home-maker #7 – Cake Making 2012 oil on linen 76 x 91 cm Murdoch University Art Collection Courtesy of the artist and Mossenson Galleries, Perth This weekend (Saturday 16th August) is the...
View ArticleExhibition Review | TarraWarra Biennial 2014: Whisper In My Mask | Denise M....
TarraWarra Biennial 2014 | Whisper In My Mask | AT TWMA until 16th November 2014 Reviewed by Denise M. Taylor Tony Garifalakis, The Hills Have Eyes (detail) 2012, fabric collage, 170 x 130 cm. Courtesy...
View ArticleExhibition | Delinquent Angel: John Perceval’s Ceramic Angels | Shepparton...
John Perceval Listening angel c. 1957 Melbourne glazed ceramic 32.5 x 22.7 x 20.9 cm Australian War Memorial ART90099 Image courtesy the Australian War Memorial © The Estate of John Perceval The...
View ArticleLecture | Kenneth Clark and Australian Art – Simon Pierse
Sir Kenneth Clark and Sir Colin Anderson at the opening of ‘Recent Australian Painting’ at Whitechapel Gallery, June 1961. In this lecture Simon Pierse sheds new light on the role that Sir Kenneth...
View Article2014 Joseph Burke Lecture | Thomas Woolner in Australia -Angus Trumble
Woolner, Thomas,Charles Joseph La Trobe, plaster medallion, 1853. State Library of Victoria. Thomas Woolner (1825-1892), sculptor and poet, born 17 December 1825 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. In 1842...
View ArticleExhibition | Albert Tucker and the Mystery of H. D. | Heide Museum of Modern Art
H. Dearing, Approach to Princes Bridge, c.1925, oil on canvas on cardboard, 46 x 75 cm, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Purchased from John and Sunday Reed 1980 The exhibition Albert Tucker and...
View ArticleLecture | Australian Art and Artists in Post-War London | Simon Pierse
Australian artists’ exhibition poster by Klaus Friedeberger In this lecture Simon Pierse sheds new light on the role that Sir Kenneth Clark (later Baron Clark of Saltwood) played in bringing Australian...
View ArticleLecture | Art, Nature and Living in the Contemporary World | John Wolseley
John Wolseley, The Language of Lizards (detail) 2007-08. Found charcoal, graphite, watercolour on paper, 90.7 x 306cm, Bendigo Art Gallery, The Gift of Grace and Alec Craig of Bendigo, Victoria 2008....
View ArticleDiscussions and Workshops for the opening of Emily Floyd: The Daw at NGV
Emily Floyd, The Dawn (Maquette) 2014, wood, synthetic polymer paint37.5 x 60.0 x 70.0 cm (overall), Collection of the artist, Melbourne. © Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne...
View ArticleNews | A New Museum of Contemporary Art for Melbourne University
A Large House and Garden, 1997Acrylic on canvas Estate of Howard Arkley213 X 305 cm via http://michaelbuxtoncollection.com.au/the-collection/2 News that Melbourne University has received a $26 million...
View ArticleExhibition | Justene Williams: The Curtain Breathed Deeply at MUMA
Yves Klein Eyes2014(film still) courtesy the artist and Sarah CottierGallery, Sydney The Curtain Breathed Deeply at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA from 7th February – 2nd April 2015 Opening...
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