Richard Larter: a retrospective
20 June – 14 September 2008 | nga.gov.au/Larter | Events

This lively and at times provocative exhibition encompasses five decades of the artist's work and demonstrates the influences of pop art and abstraction through a variety of innovative techniques. The exhibition is suitable for students in years 10, 11 and 12.

Teachers' viewing
Saturday 28 June | 9.00 am – 11 am | Free
Light breakfast followed by a tour of the exhibition and related education services and resources and Pop Art in the general collection N.B.The exhibition is suitable for Year 10 - College audience.
Educators only 3 max per school | Please send an email to Joanne.McCarthy@nga.gov.au listing: full name of each teacher attending, school and current role in the school/year level teaching  

Richard Larter Sliding Easy   1970 (detail) synthetic polymer paint on hardboard   National Gallery of Australia, Canberra   top image:   Richard Larter Exercise   1967 (detail) synthetic polymer paint on composition board   National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Gift of Lucy Swanton 1981

 

Picture Paradise
Asia-Pacific photography 1840s -1940s
10 July – 9 November 2008 | nga.gov.au/PictureParadise

This exhibition is suitable for all students of photography, history and Asian studies. Photographers from South and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific, to the west coast of North America reveal the beauty and cultural diversity of their regions. 

Teachers' viewing
Saturday 2 August | 9.00 am – 11 am | Free
Light breakfast followed by a tour of the exhibition and related education services and resources.
Educators only 3 max per school | Please send an email to Joanne.McCarthy@nga.gov.au listing: full name of each teacher attending, school and current role in the school/year level teaching  

André Roosevelt   Legong dancer, Bali  1928   gelatin silver photograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

 

Home at last
Children’s Gallery | 13 September 2008 – 1 February 2009

This exhibition is suitable for preschool and primary students. The exhibition will focus on the centrality of home to the experience of childhood featuring a range of media that explore house and garden and the ‘spaces’ of home, furniture and household objects, toys and play and rituals and relationships. Works of art are drawn from the Australian and Aboriginal Art collections with a focus on the Australian experience across time and place.

Teachers' viewing
Saturday 20 September | 9.00 am – 11 am | Free
Light breakfast followed by a tour of the Children’s Gallery exhibition and works related to the concept of home currently on display in the wider gallery including related education services and resources for the early childhood and primary audience
Educators only 3 max per school | Please send an email to Joanne.McCarthy@nga.gov.au listing: full name of each teacher attending, school and current role in the school/year level teaching  

Howard Arkley   Floral exterior   1996   synthetic polymer paint on canvas 174.5 x 134.5 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra   © The Estate of Howard Arkley

 

Degas
12 December 2008 – 22 March 2009 | nga.gov.au/Degas

An extensive examination of Degas’ painting, sculpture, drawing, monotypes and prints, the exhibition will highlight his role as a key figure in the development towards modern art. Degas traces the evolution of the artist’s style from finely crafted paintings to exuberant canvases with brilliant palettes and loose brushwork.

Teachers' Christmas viewing
Tuesday 12 December 2008 | 4.00 – 6.00 pm | Free
Educators only 3 max per school | Please send an email to Joanne.McCarthy@nga.gov.au listing: full name of each teacher attending, school and current role in the school/year level teaching  

Edgar Degas  Dancers, pink and green   c.1890  (detail)  oil on canvas  82.2 x 75.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  HO Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs HO Havemeyer, 1929

 

Treescape
Children's Gallery | 12 April – 30 August 2008
nga.gov.au/Treescape

An exhibition designed especially for children 3-8 years old. Discover art works which are made from trees, are about trees or even things that live in trees.

Treescape’s aim is to stimulate an appreciation of trees as a subject for interesting and exciting artworks. See paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, sculpture, installations, furniture and more. Children can trace a tree to take home and have fun with a magnetic tree.

Patrick Collins Curtain call   2003 (detail) ceramic, earthenware, tin-glazed   National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

 

Upcoming highlights

The National Gallery of Australia and Sony Foundation
Australia Summer Art Scholarship
11- 17 January 2009 | nga.gov.au/SummerArtScholarship
The scholarship is a unique opportunity for students entering year 12 in 2009 to spend a week in Canberra. Sixteen students from each state and territory are selected. Application forms will be available online from Tuesday 1 July 2008 at nga.gov.au/summerartscholarship or by emailing adriane.boag@nga.gov.au and are also sent to every secondary school in Australia.

Big Draw
19 October | 11am - 2pm
The Big Draw, established in the UK in 2000, is an annual event in October to raise the profile of drawing and encourage its use in a wide range of cultural and community settings
A Big Draw community event will held at the National Gallery of Australia for the second time in 2008. Teachers and students are invited to participate by demonstrating drawing in the Gallery on the day and/ or by contributing to drawing activities led by Gallery staff. Please email Adriane Boag, Youth and Community Programs at adriane.boag@nga.gov.au for more information.

Children’s Week
18 October – 26 October 2008
In addition to the Big Draw that overlaps with Children’s Week, the National Gallery will feature additional Children’s Week events.

Home is where we start from
Children's Week lecture | Tuesday 21 October 6pm
Dr Sarah Mares, Head of Infancy and Early Childhood Studies, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, discusses the developmental significance of home as an actual, imagined and remembered place, as the place where we first learn to play, create and explore.
Free | James O Fairfax Theatre

image above: Davida Allen  not titled [mother feeding child]   1989   colour lithograph 56.5 x 76.5 cm   National Gallery of Australia, Canberra  Australian Print Workshop Archive 2   Purchased with the assistance of the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund 2002   Part of the Home at last exhibition

Focus on photography: nga online

Explore photography resources always available on the NGA website below in complement to the photography exhibition Picture Paradise and for general research

nga.gov.au/Photography

works in the collection with articles and images

previous photography exhibitions with articles and information

nga.gov.au/Education

The VIVID National photography festival will be held in the ACT 11 July – 12 October nla.gov.au/vivid

image above: Gregor Krause   Gibbon, fully-grown male   1926   photogravure National Gallery of Australia Research Library, Canberra   Part of the Picture Paradise exhibition

Richard Larter   The hairdresser   1969 synthetic polymer paint on composition board 133.0 x 122.0 cm Collection of Helen Eager and Christopher Hodges   Part of the Richard Larter exhibition