9 Shades of Whiteley Regional Tour
This exhibition includes 20 Whiteley works and traces the artist’s life and career and it is the first time a Brett Whiteley exhibition has toured to regional Australia since the Brett Whiteley Studio opened in 1995. The exhibition will travel to 6 regional centres across 3 states (NSW, VIC and QLD) over 13 months.
From July 2008
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Adam Cullen: let's get lost
This is Adam Cullen’s first survey show in an art museum and presents some 35 works including paintings and early ‘grunge’ sculptures.
15 May - 27 July 2008
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Archibald 08 Packing Room Prize
Artist Martin Ball from Auckland has been awarded the Packing Room Prize in conjunction with the 2008 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Crowded House frontman, Neil Finn. |
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Archibald inspired Art After Hours
Archibald is back! Celebrate Australia's most famous portrait prize during the Gallery's late night openings every Wednesday until 9pm. Enjoy Archibald celebrity talks with TV presenters, broadcasters, authors and scientists, Live Music in the ArtBar, guided tours - the complete mix for your Wednesday night at the Gallery.
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Art After Hours August 08
The August 2008 Art After Hours program of events is inspired by Living Black and includes celebrity speakers Deborah Cheetham and Patrick Johnson. This month also features a concert by celebrated musician Vic Simms. |
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Art after Hours July 08
July events include talks by Akira Isogawa and Ben Hills as well as special events for NAIDOC week celebrations. |
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Artexpress 08
The annual ARTEXPRESS exhibition, one of the gallery’s most popular exhibitions, turns 25 this year. This year 62 outstanding art works were elected from over 9000 students who sat the HSC Visual Arts in 2007.
2 February - 30 March 2008 |
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Bill Viola
Bill Viola is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading contemporary artists. For over 30 years he has been at the forefront of developing the medium of video art. He visits Sydney in early April to present three major video works from The Tristan Project.
10 April - 27 July 2008 |
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Brett Whiteley Studio Handbook
The first book on the studios of Brett Whiteley will be launched at the Brett Whiteley Studio on Thursday 13 December, 6pm. The book is a pictorial history of the artist’s studios throughout his life and features photographs never published before. |
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Charles Bayliss: Landscape Photographer
Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) is a leading figure in Australia’s photographic heritage. The images on display document the extensive expansion into Australia’s eastern interior which reflect nineteenth century Australia’s interest in ‘the great pastoral life’
9 February - 25 May 2008 |
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February Art After Hours
This month's program of events is inspired by ARTEXPRESS, celebrating its 25th anniversary, and the Michael Riley exhibition opening later this month. Celebrity speakers include Gretel Killeen, Miles Merrill and Linda Burney. |
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ghosts in the machine
A photographic exhibition of 95 anonymous, intriguing images from the 1860s to the 1970s specifically chosen for their uniqueness, difference and sense of humour.
10 April - 16 July 2008
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Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography
Harold Cazneaux (1878–1953) was Australia’s greatest pictorialist photographer who created some of the most memorable images of the early 20th century. This exhibition will include more than 100 of his iconic images, on themes such as landscape, portraits, artists’ portraits, the harbour and the city, to explore the breadth and depth of his work.
5 June - 10 August 2008 |
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Intimate encounters
Drawn from collections throughout Australia, this exhibition of more than 70 works surveys the major schools of Indian painting.
22 February - 4 May 2008 |
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Jacques Blanchard "Mars and the Vestal Virgin"
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has acquired an important 17th century painting Mars and the Vestal Virgin by Jacques Blanchard, who was one of the most important Parisian painters of his time. |
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Jan Senbergs, from screenprinter to painter
This is the first survey of the development of the work of Jan Senbergs comprising a generous selection of screenprints and a number of his most important and powerful paintings from the late 1970s to the present.
5 April - 25 May 2008 |
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June 08 Art After Hours
Art After Hours in the upcoming months provides the opportunity to see 3 diverse exhibitions: Adam Cullen, the bad boy of Australian art; Taisho Chic: Japan in the 20s & 30s; and Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography. |
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Kaldor gift
Thursday 3 April 2008: Today the Art Gallery of New South Wales announced the gift of the John Kaldor Collection valued at over $35million Aus.
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May 08 Art After Hours
Late opening every Wednesday extends the opportunity to view the Archibald Prize before it closes 18 May. Free upcoming events include celebrity talks by Annabel Crabb and Casey Bennetto as well as a musical performance inspired by Adam Cullen Let's get lost |
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Michael Riley
The first major survey one of the most important contemporary Indigenous visual artists of the past two decades. Includes photomedia, films and video work.
22 February - 27 April 2008 |
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Poetic Eye
The exhibition Poetic Eye includes some 50 poetically and musically activated Whiteley works together with the artist’s magnum opus, Alchemy, 18 panels of combined mural and self portrait painted in 1972-73.
1 December 2007 – 6 April 2008 |
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Summer at the Gallery
Enjoy the many exhibitions and events at the Art Gallery of New South Wales during the holidays. Open daily (except Christmas Day)
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Taisho chic: Japanese modernity, nostalgia and deco
This exhibition features about 70 paintings, prints, textiles and decorative arts from the Taisho and early Showa eras from 1912 to the 1930s when Western-oriented ideologues championed avant-garde tastes from Europe and America.
22 May - 3 August 2008 |
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