artonline 69 July 2006

Events and exhibitions

For event bookings email eventbookings@nga.gov.au or call +61 2 6240 6504. Events are in the James O Fairfax Theatre unless otherwise advised.

View the full calendar of events online at nga.gov.au/Calendar.

NAIDOC week
NADIOC week events >>

To celebrate NAIDOC week the National Gallery of Australia is hosting a variety of events for children and adults including: daily film screenings, workshops, performances and artists' talks. To see a full listing of events click here.

Michael Riley 'Gary (Lang)', 1989, silver gelatin photograph, Collection of Mr Anthony Bourke, © Michael Riley, Licensed by The Michael Riley Foundation and VISCOPY, Australia.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Michael Riley
sights unseen
14 July – 22 October
nga.gov.au/Riley
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Michael Riley: sights unseen will reveal the prolific talents of a quiet observer whose photomedia including black-and-white portraiture, colour photography, video and film continues to have a profound effect on Australia’s contemporary representation and comprehension of Indigenous Australia.

Members' opening night
Saturday 15 July 6.00pm
Opening invitation >>
Bookings essential

Screening:
'The Foundation 1963–1975'
Friday 14 July 12.45pm
Chilifilms and Mongreldogs productions. Directed by Troy Russell. VHS, 2002, 26 min. James O Fairfax Theatre

detail: Imants Tillers 'Monaro' 1998 synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 288 canvasboards, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Imants Tillers
one world many visions
14 July – 16 October
nga.gov.au/Tillers
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This survey exhibition will provide the opportunity to trace the high points of Tillers’ artistic development over the last 20 years. Focussing on the artist’s distinctive ‘canvasboard system’, the exhibition will display key paintings included in the Venice Biennale in 1986, through to the remarkable Diaspora series of the 1990s.

Members' opening night
Saturday 15 July 6.00pm
Opening invitation >>
Bookings essential

detail: James Rosenquist 'Time dust' 1992, colour pressed paper pulp with lithographic collage, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia Purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002 © James Rosenquist. Licensed by VAGA & VISCOPY, Australia

Now open

Rosenquist:
Welcome to the water planet
until 10 September
nga.gov.au/Rosenquist
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Over 100 days artist James Rosenquist, with master printer Ken Tyler, produced 720 sheets of handmade, hand-coloured paper, forming the basis of this series, which combines commonplace objects such as pots and flowers with extraterrestrial imagery, while investigating problems consumer culture.

Workshop
Wednesday 12 July 10.30am–12.30pm (repeat 2–4pm) (ages 7–12)
Join Amelia Zaraftis, artist/educator, to make your own paper and create your own works of art using handmade papers. $20; $15 members. Bookings essential.

Michael Riley 'Kristina' taken 1986, printed 2001 Gelatin silver photograph, National Gallery of Australia © Michael Riley, Licensed by The Michael Riley Foundation and VISCOPY, Australia. Part of the upcoming Michael Riley: sights unseen exhibition.

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