artonline 68 June 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.

Unknown maker 'Jawun [bicornual basket]' c.early 20th century, lawyer cane, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia.

Right here
right now
until 13 August
nga.gov.au/RightHereRightNow

Right here right now: recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art acquisitions displays a selection of recent acquisitions for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection. Works include bark paintings, prints, drawings, painting and sculpture, with themes ranging from the ancestral and ancient in Indigenous and European time, to the cutting edge of political society in Australia today.

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 artist's talks. To see a full listing of events click here.

detail: Imants Tillers 'Kangaroo Blank' 1988, oil, oilstick, synthetic polymer paint on canvasboards, Collection of the Artist

Upcoming Exhibitions

Imants Tillers
one world many visions
14 July – 16 October
nga.gov.au/Tillers
events >>

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.

Opening night
Saturday 15 July 6.00pm
Bookings essential

detail: Michael Riley 'Darrell' 1989, gelatin silver photograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

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.

Opening night
Saturday 15 July 6.00pm
Bookings essential

detail: Michael Riley 'Untitled', from the series 'cloud [cow]' taken 2000, printed 2005 Pigmented prints, ultrachrome chromogenic inks on Ilford Gallery Pearl photographic paper, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Copyright: Riley foundation / © Viscopy. Part of the upcoming Michael Riley: sights unseen exhibition.

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