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Picture Paradise is the first ever comparative survey exhibition of the history of photography in the Asia–Pacific region, from the formative decades of the 1840s to 1860s to the early 1940s and the advent of the Second World War.
November 2008
Richard Larter is widely considered to be one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. Born in 1929 he arrived in Australia from England in 1962 and, over the ensuing four decades, created an impressive, provocative, lively body of work.
September 2008
An exhibition designed especially for children 3-8 years old in conjunction with Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape. Discover art works which are made from trees, are about trees or even things that live in trees. Treescape stimulates an appreciation of trees as a subject for interesting and exciting artworks. Children can trace a tree to…
August 2008
An impressionist painting of a haystack in hazy summer field
Turner to Monet presents an opportunity to experience paintings never before seen in Australia, and only at the National Gallery of Australia. Works by the finest artists of the time – Turner, Constable, Friedrich, Corot, Courbet, Glover, von Guérard, Church, Streeton, Roberts, Cézanne, Van Go…
June 2008
b/w photo of dolls head and goat skull lieing in hay/grass
Surrealism, the great revolutionary movement originating in France in the 1920s, was to change the course of Australian art in the 1940s. A generation of Australian artists including James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Max Dupain encountered Surrealism at a formative time …
May 2008

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