What’s on Calendar

EXHIBITIONS

• 10am

  Gallery opens

  Open every day, except Christmas & Good Friday

  Times vary. See Opening hours

• 10.30am

  For kids

  Art Club 2012

  Jeff Koons and kitsch-inspired art

  We visit the Contemporary galleries to see the work of artist Jeff Koons, who is well known for his play with banal and kitsch imagery. We discuss the meaning of kitsch, before creating a foil embossing, inspired by the forms and patterns found in Vase of flowers.

  Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
  Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
  Charges apply

• For kids    Workshop

  Kids Club 2012

  Colour and mood

  Choosing your favourite colours to suit your mood, create a mad, moody masterpiece.

  Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
  Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
  Charges apply

• Course    Lecture / symposium

  Study for self-portrait: Francis Bacon’s Britain

  Deeply ordered chaos: Bacon and cinema
  Dr Christopher Hartney, lecturer, studies in religions, school of letters, arts and media University of Sydney

  Bacon sought shock in a concentration of reality and a shorthand of sensation, ends that British cinema from the lean years of the 1950s onwards was also desperate to achieve. Through ideas of 'framing’, this lecture examines cross-overs in how Bacon and British cinema dealt with the image and how they fed each other until their final consummation in John Maybury’s 1998 biopic of Bacon: love is the devil.

  British design and popular culture 1940-80
  Professor Adrian Franklin, professor, school of sociology and social work, University of Tasmania and presenter on ABC TV’s Collectors program

  As with Bacon’s art, design and popular culture in post-war Britain was awakening. Revolutions in sexuality, popular culture, gender, fashion and lifestyle were given shape and expression through a new material culture that was richly visual. It reviewed the best and worst of Britishness and reorganised it around a new openness to other cultures, traditions and pasts. The result: a fabulously rich fusion, but still distinctly British.

  In association with Francis Bacon.
  Duration 2 hours, 30 minutes
  Domain Theatre
  Charges apply

• 11am

  Tour

  Aboriginal art guided tour

  A guided introduction to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander collection

  Duration 1 hour
  Information desk
  Free

• Tour

  Collection highlights tour

  An introduction to selected highlights from the Gallery's collection

  Duration 1 hour
  Information desk
  Free

• 12pm

  Tour

  Asian art guided tour

  A guided introduction to art from China, Korea, Japan, the Himalayas, India and Southeast Asia

  Duration 1 hour
  Information desk
  Free

• Tour

  Contemporary art guided tour

  Contemporary art highlights in the Gallery, including Anne Landa Award

  In association with The space between us.
  Duration 1 hour
  Information desk
  Free

• 12.30pm

  Music

  Sunday concert 2012

  Irina Klamka, Liljie Sile and Robert Harris

  Irina Klamka (piano), Lilija Sile (soprano) and Robert Harris (viola)

  Duration 1 hour
  Grand Courts
  Free

• 1.30pm

  For kids

  Art Club 2012

  Jeff Koons and kitsch-inspired art

  We visit the Contemporary galleries to see the work of artist Jeff Koons, who is well known for his play with banal and kitsch imagery. We discuss the meaning of kitsch, before creating a foil embossing, inspired by the forms and patterns found in Vase of flowers.

  Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
  Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
  Charges apply

• For kids    Workshop

  Kids Club 2012

  Colour and mood

  Choosing your favourite colours to suit your mood, create a mad, moody masterpiece.

  Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
  Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
  Charges apply

• 2pm

  Tour

  Australian collection guided tour

  An introduction to selected highlights from the Australian collection

  Duration 1 hour
  Information desk
  Free

• Film

  Location: Paris film series

  Pickpocket

  Dir: Robert Bresson 1959
  75 mins 35mm B&W Rated M
  French with English subtitles
  Martin Lasselle, Marika Green
  One of the most significant and influential films to emerge from the post-war era in France is a portrait of a compulsive pickpocket who believes he is above the constraints of common humanity and the law. Robert Bresson’s intense masterpiece depicts the mechanics of theft – the 'ballets of thievery’, as fellow filmmaker Jean Cocteau called them – as an erotically and spiritually charged ritual. Location is one of the key aspects of Pickpocket, with Paris truly a character in the film. Michel, the young pickpocket, spends his days working the streets, subway cars and train stations. A realist practising close to the borderline of abstraction, Bresson displays a highly individual directorial style predicated upon absolute austerity of acting, dialogue and mise-en-scène. In an effort for clarity and simplicity Bresson uses rigorous, stripped-down shots and attempts to strip all artificial 'performance’ from the line readings of his non-professional actors – or 'models’, as he refers to them. The result is direct, clear, concise and tautly choreographed. Print courtesy Institut Français and French Embassy.

  In association with Eugène Atget.
  Duration 1 hour, 15 minutes
  Domain Theatre
  Free

• 2.30pm

  For kids    Performance

  Gallery Kids Sunday performance 2012

  You beaut!

  Join the Etcetera Duo for a performance inspired by the Australian art collection. Filled with mime, magic and illusion, this special performance has been created exclusively for the Gallery. Suitable for children of all ages. Performed by Russell Garbutt and Julia Cotton.

  30 September performance interpreted into Auslan
  

  

  Duration 30 minutes
  Entrance court
  Free

• 5pm

  Gallery closes

  Normal hours: 10am–5pm, Wednesdays till 9pm

  See Opening hours