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Exhibitions and childrens' events

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.

Daniel Boyd 'Treasure Island' 2005 oil on canvas, 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.

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Storytelling
Saturday 8 July 11am (ages 4–10)
Learn how to hunt animals with storyteller, Larry Brandy, who will show and explain artefacts used by the Wiradjuri nation. ATSI Art Galleries.

Unknown maker 'Mask' 19th century Torres Strait Islands, wood, shell, resin, human hair, fibre string, white pigment Collection of the National Gallery of Australia

Drop-in workshop:
‘Community wrapped in a cloak’
Saturday 8 July 1.30–3pm
Join Victorian artists, Vicki Couzens and Lee Darroch, to look at a possum skin cloak, interpret traditional designs and create your own drawings. Gallery Foyer.

Performance
Saturday 8 July 1pm
Join the Wiradjuri Echoes for traditional dance and music. Gallery Foyer.

Storytelling
Sunday 9 July 3pm (ages 4–10)
Learn how to hunt animals with storyteller, Larry Brandy, who will show and explain artefacts used by the Wiradjuri nation. ATSI Art Galleries.

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

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.

detail: Imants Tillers 'Nature speaks: AU', 2002, synthetic polymer paint and gouache, Collection of Mr Len Watson

Imants Tillers:
one world many visions
14 July – 16 October
nga.gov.au/Tillers
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This exhibition will provide an opportunity to trace the high points of Tillers’ artistic development over the last 20 years.

Workshop: ‘Making me’
Wednesday 19 July 10.30am–12.30pm (ages 8–12)
Create a self-portrait on canvasboards using imagery from self-portraits by famous artists. $20; $15 members. Bookings essential.

Workshop: 'This time and this place'
Wednesday 19 July 2–4pm (ages 12–15)
Construct a layered multi-canvasboard image, inspired by Imants Tillers, incorporating maps, place names and images from the national collection. $20; $15 members. 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, © Michael Riley, Licensed by The Michael Riley Foundation and VISCOPY, Australia. Part of the upcoming Michael Riley: sights unseen exhibition.

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