The story of Australian printmaking 1801–2005
exhibition opens 30 March 2007
For event bookings email eventbookings@nga.gov.au or call +61 2 6240 6504
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Jules Cherét 'Folies-Bergère: la Loïe Fuller' 1897 lithograph Collection of the National Gallery of Australia Gift of Orde Poynton Esq. CMG 1996
The Birth of the Modern Poster
until 13 May 2007
nga.gov.au/ModernPoster
events
Members event
Curator's perspective
Thursday 29 March 2.30 pm
Join Mark Henshaw, curator of the exhibition, for a walk-through and discussion of some of the greatest artists and graphic designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Followed by light refreshments in the Members' Lounge.
$15 members and their guests
Orde Poynton Gallery
Bookings essential
Fanny de Mole '
Gum wattle and silver wattle' from Wild flowers of South Australia Adelaide:
Paul Jerrard & Son, 1861, hand-coloured lithograph printed image, Collection of the
National Gallery of Australia
The story of Australian printmaking 1801–2005
30 March – 3 June 2007
nga.gov.au/AustralianPrintmaking
events
Exhibition opens
Friday 30 March 2007
This landmark exhibition draws almost exclusively from the vast Australasian print collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Included in the exhibition will be prints by John Lewin, the first printed in the colony, to works by more contemporary artists such as Margaret Preston, Noel Counihan, Bea Maddock, John Brack, Brett Whiteley, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists including Dorothy Napangardi and Dennis Nona.
Special access tour
Wednesday 11 April 9.30am
Special access tour with voluntary guides for people with disabilities and their carers.
Exhibition Galleries (meet in Gallery Foyer)
Bookings essential
John Brack 'Third daughter' 1954 print, intaglio, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia © Helen Brack
6th Australian print symposium
Friday 30 March – Sunday 1 April
Keynote speaker eX de Medici. Artists, art critics and curators present papers on printmaking in Australia and the region. Coinciding with the major exhibition The story of Australian printmaking 1801–2005.
$250; $190 members/concession; $110 students (includes all sessions, lunch and morning and afternoon tea)
James O Fairfax Theatre
Bookings essential +61 2 6240 6537
or download the booking form here
Symposium program
Grace Crowley 'Portrait study' 1929 oil on canvas on composition board Collection of the National Gallery of Australia Bequest of Grace Crowley 1979
Grace Crowley
being modern
until 6 May
nga.gov.au/Crowley
events
Descriptive tour
Sunday 1 April 2.30pm
Descriptive tour with voluntary guides for visitors who are blind or have low vision.
Project Gallery (meet in Gallery Foyer)
Bookings essential
Exclusive viewing
Members event
Friday 30 March 5.30pm
Members of the National Gallery of Australia are invited to an exclusive viewing of the Australian War Memorial's George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes exhibition.
Bookings +61 2 6243 4523
Australian War Memorial
Conservation tour
Sunday 1 April 11am
Join David Keany, Senior Conservator, Painted Surfaces, for a tour of George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes and insights into the special conservation work carried out on the paintings for the exhibition
Bookings +61 2 6243 4523
Australian War Memorial
awm.gov.au
