Full program
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10am
Workshop
Printmaking workshop – Australian art
Make your own Australian print inspired by Margaret PrestonDuration 6 hours
Function space
Free -
10.30am
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Introduction to the Australian collectionWayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art, and Deborah Edwards, senior curator of Australian art, introduce the Australian collection.
Sunday talk interpreted into Auslan.Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
11am
Exhibition talk
Australian Symbolism exhibition talk
for Open Weekend 2012In association with Australian Symbolism.
Duration 25 minutes
Temporary exhibitions gallery
Free -
Exhibition talk
Contemporary Tiwi art talk
with artists Pedro Wonaeamirri, Dymphna Kerinauia, Raelene Kerinauia and Brian Farmer IllortaminniDuration 25 minutes
Yiribana Gallery
Free -
For kids Performance
Interactive storytelling: Australian art
With Open Stage ProductionsDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Tour
Mandarin language Australian art tour
A guided introduction to the Australian collection, in MandarinDuration 25 minutes
Information desk
Free -
11.30am
Celebrity talk
Welcome to Open Weekend 2012
By acting director Anne FlanaganDuration 20 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
12pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Australian impressionism: Heidelberg and beyondJane Clark, senior research curator, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, examines the continuing significance Australian impressionist art.
Duration 25 minutes
19th c Australian art
Free -
Music
Music in the ArtBar with Piers Twomey
For Open Weekend 2012Duration 1 hour
Cafe
Free -
Workshop
Vox pop workshop
Record your own Australian storyDuration 1 hour
19th c Australian art
Free -
12.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Paradise of waters: the art of Sydney harbourGrace Karskens, associate professor of History at the University of NSW, explores iconic images of Sydney harbour as painted by some of Australia’s most important artists.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
For kids Performance
Magic, mime and illusion
With the Etcetera DuoDuration 25 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
1pm
Music Performance
Live music with Warren Fahey and the Larrikins
Yarns, bush poetry and songsDuration 25 minutes
19th c Australian art
Free -
1.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Albert Namatjira and the Hermannsburg SchoolCurator Alison French explores the art of Albert Namatjira and the enduring significance of the Hermannsburg School.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Tour
Archibald Prize 2012 tour
Including the Wynne & Sulman PrizesIn association with Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2012.
Duration 1 hour
Major exhibition gallery
Free with exhibition entry -
Music
Music in the ArtBar with Piers Twomey
For Open Weekend 2012Duration 1 hour
Cafe
Free -
2pm
For kids Performance Tour
Interactive character tour: Gert by Sea
A lively tour of the Australian galleriesDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Celebrity talk
The history of colonial Sydney
Writer, Thomas KeneallyDuration 25 minutes
19th c Australian art
Free -
Film
Outsiders in Australian Cinema film series
Crocodile dreaming + Night cries + WindCrocodile dreaming
Dir: Darlene Johnson 2006 (Aust)
27 mins 35mm Colour Unclassified
David Gulpilil, Tom E Lewis
Crocodile Dreaming is a modern-day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by Indigenous actors David Gulpilil and Tom E Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a fully-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfil the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother’s dreaming. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.Night cries
Dir: Tracey Moffatt 1990 (Aust)
17 mins 35mm Colour Unclassified
Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick
Charles Chauvel’s film Jedda (1955) is a point of departure for Tracey Moffatt’s experimental narrative which focuses on the theme of a mother-daughter relationship in the context of white-Aboriginal relations. The characters of the white mother and the black daughter in the Chauvel film are taken 40 years on. The story of love-hate and loneliness unfolds in a deliberately artificial studio setting which recalls the paintings of the central Australian Hermannsburg school, particularly Albert Namatjira. In an evocatively dense soundtrack, Jimmy Little, miming The Royal Telephone – in the filmmaker’s words – ‘acts as a punctuation within the film’s narrative and soothes over the tensions which are present between the other characters’.Wind
Dir: Ivan Sen 1999 (Aust)
35mins 35mm Colour Rated MA15+
Ralph Cotterill, Bradley Byquar
Set in 1850s Australia. In the cold, bleak terrain of the high country, a young black tracker and his commanding sergeant hunt down a suspected Aboriginal murderer. Ivan Sen’s metaphysical thriller depicts a man trapped between two cultures, his loyalties divided.Duration 1 hour, 20 minutes
Domain Theatre
Free -
2.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
The art of John OlsenDeborah Hart, senior curator of Australian painting and sculpture post-1920, National Gallery of Australia, explores the art of one of Australia’s most important artists, John Olsen, including his masterpiece Five bells.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Exhibition talk
Australian prints and drawings talk
Australian artists in FranceJoin Anne Gerard-Austin, prints and drawings coordinator, for a close-up examination of prints and drawings by Australian artists working in France at the turn of the twentieth century.
Duration 25 minutes
Study room
Free -
Workshop
Kelp weaving workshop
With artist Vicki WestDuration 2 hours
Domain Theatre foyer
Free -
3pm
Celebrity talk
Australian stories told through music
Richard Gill, artistic director, Victorian OperaDuration 25 minutes
19th c Australian art
Free -
Music
Live music with The Rescue Ships
Brian Campeau and Elana StoneDuration 1 hour
Cafe
Free -
3.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Ian Burn and Australian conceptual artDr Ann Stephen, art historian and senior curator at the University of Sydney Art Gallery, collaborated with conceptual artist Ian Burn on various projects, from the Artworkers Union to The necessity of Australian art (1988). In 1996 Stephen curated the exhibition Artists think: the late works of Ian Burn and in 2006 published On Looking at Looking: The Art and Politics of Ian Burn.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
4pm
Exhibition talk
Designing the Australian galleries
Architect Richard Johnson and acting director, Anne FlanaganDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Music
Music in the members lounge
Blues with Bridie KingBridie King has long been considered one of Australia’s top Blues and Boogie pianists. Get on board as she takes you on a musical journey from Kansas City down through Memphis, Mississippi and all the way to New Orleans.
Duration 1 hour
Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
Free -
4.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Violence and sunlight: the art of Sidney NolanAndrew Sayers, director, National Museum of Australia
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Music
Live music with The Rescue Ships
Brian Campeau and Elana StoneDuration 30 minutes
Cafe
Free -
5pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Lloyd Rees and the South Coast of NSWHendrik Kolenberg, senior curator of Australian prints and drawings, discusses the landscape paintings of Lloyd Rees, one of Australia’s most significant 20th century artists.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
5.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Enola Gay and the influence of war on Australian art and societyProfessor Ian Howard, dean, College of Fine Arts, Sydney. In the politically-charged environment of the Vietnam War era, Ian Howard began to make art about the ever-increasing militarisation of our global society. In 1975, using a technique similar to brass-rubbing, he made a life-sized impression of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
6pm
Celebrity talk
Australian artists and curator panel
Janet Laurence, Imants Tillers and Rosemary Laing in conversation with Wayne TunnicliffeDuration 25 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
Music
Music in the members lounge
Blues with Bridie KingBridie King has long been considered one of Australia’s top Blues and Boogie pianists. Get on board as she takes you on a musical journey from Kansas City down through Memphis, Mississippi and all the way to New Orleans.
Duration 1 hour
Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
Free -
6.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Australian sculptureDeborah Edwards, senior curator of Australian art, discusses the significant developments in 20th century Australian sculpture produced by artists such as Robert Klippel and Margel Hinder.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
7pm
Music
Music by Wes Carr
Australian singer/songwriterDuration 25 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
7.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Conserving the Australian collectionSimon Ives, paintings conservator, discusses the challenges of conserving iconic paintings in the Gallery’s collection, from 19th century oil paintings to contemporary mixed-media works.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Music
Music in the ArtBar with Roger Lock and Josh Hill
A unique collaboration of percussion and guitarDuration 1 hour
Cafe
Free
