Home at last

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

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.

Home is where we start from
Tuesday 21 October 6 pm | download flyer

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 | Bookings essential | 02 6240 6502 | James O Fairfax Theatre

 

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

Picture my world

Online project in conjunction with Home at last

Picture my world is a collaborative project involving the National Gallery of Australia and early childhood educational centres in the Canberra region. Schools have responded to the topic of home or sense of place in a variety of ways. Each teacher was given a set of four quality photographic reproductions of works of art from the Home at last exhibition to use as a stimulus for discussion and creative responses in the classroom.

nga.gov.au/PictureMyWorld

 

Grace Cossington Smith Interior with verandah doors  1954 oil on composition board  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra  Bequest of Lucy Swanton 1982 Part of the Home at Last exhibition

 

Children’s Week

18 October – 26 October 2008

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Home at last
13 September 2008 – 1 February 2009 nga.gov.au/HomeAtLast
Home at last features prints, drawings, photographs, paintings and decorative arts by Australian artists from the national collection. The exhibition links art making and the home and demonstrates that works of art are often inspired by the artist’s home environment.

Big draw
community drawing event Sun 19 October 11 am – 2 pm
Come and draw the distinctive architecture and inspirational works of art in the Gallery at this national drawing event held in conjunction with Drawing Australia. To celebrate Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month, this community drawing event for all ages and abilities will include a shared drawing activity for sighted and non-sighted visitors to the Gallery.
Free Throughout the Gallery download flyer >>

Toddler time
workshop Tues 21 October 10.30 am – 12 noon
(ages 2–5, children accompanied by an adult)
Join Margie Kevin, Gallery Educator, take up a balloon and tour the Gallery’s sculpture garden. Bring a picnic morning tea and enjoy painting and drawing under the trees.
$12; $10 members Bookings essential: 6240 6502 (meet in Gallery foyer)

Home is where we start from
talk Tues 21 October 6 pm
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 | Bookings essential: 6240 6502 | James O Fairfax Theatre | download flyer >>

Touch and draw
workshop Thurs 23 October 10.30–11.30 am
Get close to art with Adriane Boag, Gallery Educator, in this tactile workshop for children and youth who are blind or have low vision (ages 10–18).
Free Limited places Bookings essential: 6240 6519 Small Theatre (meet in Gallery foyer)

Pacific arts storytelling
Sat 25 October 10.30–11.30 am
(all ages, children accompanied by an adult) Traditional stories told through dance and mime performed by Siua Lafitani of Phoenix Performing Arts, with Shiara Astle and ‘Amelia King.
Free Orde Poynton Gallery and Project Gallery

Babe
film screening Sun 26 October  2 pm
Free 35mm, 1995, G, 89 mins

 

image: Davida Allen   not titled [mother feeding child]   1989   colour lithograph   Collection of the National Gallery of Australia   Purchased with the assistance of the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund 2002   more detail

 

 

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 16 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 75.6cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  HO Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs HO Havemeyer, 1929