As a corporate member you can select one corporate viewing evening for each of the following exhibitions and invite 32 or 48 guests, depending on your membership package.

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ARCHIBALD WYNNE & SULMAN PRIZES 2009
7 March – 24 May 2009

Australia’s favourite and most prestigious prize for portraiture is always a source of entertainment and controversy. Each year in accordance with the Archibald Bequest, resident Australian artists are invited to submit paintings, portraying from life, the men or women ‘distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics’. The Trustees of the Gallery judge the entries and the winner will receive $35,000.
This is a non-acquisitive competition. In addition to the main prize, the People’s Choice is awarded to the painting voted most popular with visitors to the exhibition.

Corporate viewing evenings:
• Friday 3 April 2009 (7pm – 9pm)
• Monday 20 April 2009 (6.30pm – 8.30pm)
• Monday 27 April 2009 (7pm – 9pm)
• Tuesday 5 May 2009 (6pm – 8pm)
• Tuesday 12 May 2009 (7pm – 9pm)

Del Kathryn Barton, You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella (detail) mixed media on canvas, 280 x 180 cm. Winner Archibald Prize 08. © the artist.

INTENSELY DUTCH
5 June – 23 August

Intensely Dutch will be the first major exhibition of modern Dutch art in Australia. Focusing on the wave of Dutch modernism that blossomed after the Second World War with vibrant colour, primitivism, vigorous execution and experimentation, this exhibition will introduce the Australian public to the riches of modern Dutch culture.

DOUBLE TAKE: ANNE LANDA AWARD
7 May – 19 July 2009

An invitational contemporary art prize selected from international and Australian artists, the Anne Landa Award is the first biennial exhibition in Australia for moving image and new media work with an acquisitive award of $25,000. The 2009 project will comprise a range of existing and new works created especially for the exhibition.

Corporate viewing evenings:
• Thursday 25 June 2009 (7pm – 9pm)
• Tuesday 7 July 2009 (6pm – 8pm)

Untitled, Copenhagen, (detail) 1949, oil on canvas 55 x 66 cm. Collection: Jan and Ellen Nieuwenhuizen Segaar.

SILK IKATS OF CENTRAL ASIA
2 July – 11 October

An exhibition of late 19th century robes, tunics and textile panels that present the remarkable artistic achievement and technical virtuosity of the silk designers, dyers and weavers of Central Asia. Within and across the borders of Central Asia, ikat textiles had political and social value, used as payment for services rendered, dowry and bride prices, diplomatic exchange and as gifts to monarchs. Great pride was taken in the aesthetic quality and bold originality of the designs of these
ikat fabrics which came to symbolise the exoticism of the Islamic world.

PRINTMAKING IN THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
6 August – 25 October

Romanticism emerged in the closing years of the 18th century as a powerful force in the development of European music, literature and painting. Works by Gustave Doré, Rodolphe Bresdin and Charles Meryon, who rejected painting altogether, are shown.

Corporate viewing evenings:
Tuesday 8 September 2009 (7pm – 9pm)
Tuesday 22 September 2009 (6pm – 8pm)

Munisak Robe – Type 4 Central Asia 1800s AD
Abr fabric, all-silk, blue yellow and red on plain background, 130 x 159 cm.

RUPERT BUNNY
20 November 2009 – 21 february 2010

Rupert Bunny (1864-1947), was one of the most successful expatriate artists of his generation. A superb colourist and fine draughtsman with a strong interest in rhythmic composition, Bunny was inspired most particularly by Symbolism and imagination. Bunny crafted individualised statements, in imaginative tableaus which range from magnificent Salon-endorsed mythologies, to vibrant decorative allegories and the Belle Epoque paintings of Parisian leisure. This is first major retrospective of Rupert Bunny’s art in over twenty years.

THE DOBELL PRIZE FOR DRAWING
5 November 2009 – 31 January 2010

The Dobell Prize is the most respected award for drawing in Australia. Beginning in 1993, it has always been the subject of discussion and debate about the nature of drawing.

Corporate viewing evenings:
• Monday 7 December 2009 (7pm – 9pm)
• Thursday 28 January 2010 (7pm – 9pm)
• Tuesday 9 February 2010 (6pm – 8pm)

Special viewing breakfast
• Thursday 10 December 2009 (8am – 10am)

Rupert Bunny On the Beach (Royan) (detail) c.1908, oil on canvas on hardboard, 64.4 x 81 cm.
AGNSW collection, purchased 1953.

These dates are current as of January 2009

Dates are subject to change – members will be notified 6 weeks in advance of final dates.