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Sunday 18 November 2012

EXHIBITIONS

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2012

Fri–Sun only 14 Sep – 25 Nov 2012
(See exhibition page for exact dates)

Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills

Special hours

A small section of works from this year’s scholarship winner Mitch Cairns and highly commended finalist Tom Polo.

Cate Consandine
Cut Colony

8 Nov 2012 – 6 Jan 2013

In these video works, two staged performances unfold in the spectacular and unforgiving landscapes of clay pans and desert lakes in outback NSW.

Dadang Christanto
They give evidence

until 21 Jul 2013

A reprise of the confronting and moving, larger-than-life sculptures of human suffering by Dadang Christanto.

Flatlands
photography and everyday space

13 Sep 2012 – 3 Feb 2013

Examines photography’s role in transforming the way we perceive, organise and imagine the everyday world, by looking at the changing ways artists have depicted public and private environments.

Francis Bacon
five decades

17 Nov 2012 – 24 Feb 2013

Surveying Bacon’s life and work, this is the first major exhibition in Australia of rare works by this towering figure of 20th-century art.

Home

27 Jun – 2 Dec 2012

Explores the idea of home through the works of Aboriginal artists who belong to nations and language groups that today fall within the area defined as New South Wales.

The London years 1960–67

Fri–Sun only 13 Jul 2012 – 7 Apr 2013
(See exhibition page for exact dates)

Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills

Special hours

Explores Brett Whiteley’s art and life from 1960 to 1967. Includes works from his Bathroom, Christie and London Zoo series, and monoprints of conversations with Francis Bacon.

  • 10am

    Gallery opens

    Open every day, except Christmas & Good Friday

    Times vary. See Opening hours

  • 10.15am

    Workshop

    Printmaking with Andrew Totman 2012

    Mono-prints

    Printmaking takes on many forms and methods. This one-day class will introduce the novice or the well travelled printmaker to the relatively new process of solar plate printing, a non-toxic process that allows artist with a simple set-up to create elaborate and delicate prints. Each student will need to bring one or two photocopies on transparencies to be used as the main image for the process, as well as a old shirt or apron. All other materials provided.

    Duration 6 hours
    Charges apply

  • 10.30am

    Course    Lecture / symposium

    Study for self-portrait: Francis Bacon’s Britain

    Francis Bacon: disputed master
    Craig Judd, independent curator, arts writer and lecturer

    This lecture examines the broader contexts of visual culture and art in Great Britain from 1945 to 1960 to reveal how artists exulted in quiet grim stoicism (that most English of characteristics) to create an extraordinary archive of responses to their rapidly changing world. In this terrain Bacon towers above the rest, a disputed problematic master.

    Picasso and Bacon
    Terence Maloon, former curator of special exhibitions, Art Gallery of NSW

    Bacon was crucially influenced by Picasso as a young artist, and this final lecture examines the parallel careers of the two giants of 20th-century art, focusing on their subversive but ultimately redemptive re-interpretation of the great figurative tradition.

    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

  • Film

    Iconic interviews with Francis Bacon

    Daily documentary screenings on Bacon’s life and career

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 3 hours
    Centenary Auditorium
    Free

  • 12.30pm

    Music

    Sunday concert 2012

    Young AIM stars

    Duration 1 hour
    Grand Courts
    Free

  • 1pm

    Tour

    Francis Bacon guided tour

    An introduction to the exhibition

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 1 hour
    Major exhibition gallery
    Free with exhibition entry

  • 1.15pm

    Tour    Contempo

    High tea: European portraits

    A guided tour followed by high tea

    Duration 2 hours
    Information desk
    Charges apply

  • 2pm

    Tour

    Australian collection guided tour

    An introduction to selected highlights from the Australian collection

    Duration 1 hour
    Information desk
    Free

  • Film

    Film series: Hitting rock bottom in post-war England

    Victim

    Dir: Basil Deardon 1961
    100 mins 35mm B&W Rated R (unclassified)
    Starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
    In one of the first films to deal directly with homosexuality, Dirk Bogarde plays a married lawyer – one of a large group of closeted London men – who confronts a blackmailer after the suicide of his male lover. An extraordinary performance by Bogarde grounds this intense indictment of early-sixties social intolerance and sexual Puritanism. The film became a cry of protest against British laws forbidding homosexuality. Matinee idol Bogarde risked his film career to play the role.

    Sydney author and gay activist Robert French will introduce the 7.15pm screening on Wednesday, 14 November. Considered to be one of Australia’s foremost community historians, French was co-convenor of the NSW Gay Rights Lobby (GRL) 1982–88 and has been secretary of the Pride History Group since 2008. A professional archivist, who worked for the National Archives for over 30 years, he contributed a widely syndicated history column to the community newspaper, Sydney Star Observer in 1992–93, which in edited form, was published as Camping by a Billabong: Gay and Lesbian Stories from Australia’s History.

    In association with Francis Bacon.
    Duration 1 hour, 40 minutes
    Domain Theatre
    Free

  • 2.30pm

    For kids    Performance

    Gallery Kids Sunday performance 2012

    Commedia dell’ Arte

    Meet a cast of carnival characters in a lively puppetry performance with lots of laughter and mischievous action with Dennis Murphy.

    Duration 30 minutes
    Entrance court
    Free

  • 5pm

    Gallery closes

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

    See Opening hours

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