Full program
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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 art talk – Open Weekend
John Glover and the colonial landscapeDavid Hansen, senior researcher, Sotheby’s Australia, discusses the work of John Glover, one of the finest painters of colonial Australia.
Duration 25 minutes
19th c Australian art
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For kids Performance
Interactive storytelling: Australian art
With Open Stage ProductionsDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
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Tour
Motherhood tour
A special tour for Mothers’ DayDuration 1 hour
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
11.30am
Celebrity talk
Welcome to Open Weekend 2012
By acting director Anne FlanaganDuration 20 minutes
Entrance court
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12pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston and the Sydney ModernsDeborah Edwards, senior curator of Australian art, discusses the significant contribution to Australian art made by the artists of the Sydney Moderns group.
Interpreted into AuslanDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
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Music
Music in the ArtBar with The Falls
Singer/songwriter duoDuration 1 hour
Cafe
Free -
Music
Music in the members lounge
Classical guitar with Roger LockClassical guitarist Roger Lock brings a fresh approach to Australian and international guitar music.
Duration 1 hour
Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
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Workshop
Vox pop workshop
Record your own Australian storyDuration 1 hour
19th c Australian art
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12.30pm
Tour
Australian symbolism audio-described tour
For people with visual impairmentIn association with Australian Symbolism.
Duration 25 minutes
Temporary exhibitions gallery
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For kids Performance
Magic, mime and illusion
With the Etcetera DuoDuration 25 minutes
Entrance court
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Exhibition talk
The life and work of Brett Whiteley
With Wendy WhiteleyDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
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1pm
Music
Live music with flautist Jane Rutter
Symbolist musicIn association with Australian Symbolism.
Duration 25 minutes
Entrance court
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1.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
The significance of Tiwi artArtist Pedro Wonaemirri and Jonathan Jones, curator of Aboriginal art, discuss the importance of Tiwi art and the significance of the Gallery’s commission, in 1958, of Pukamani poles by Tiwi artists, the first major commission of Aboriginal art by an Australian gallery.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
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Music
Music in the ArtBar with The Falls
Singer/songwriter duoDuration 1 hour
Cafe
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2pm
Exhibition talk
Australian prints and drawings talk
Drawings by Dobell, Rees and GleesonJoin Hendrik Kolenberg, senior curator of Australian prints and drawings, for an in-depth look at drawings and artists’ books by Australian artists William Dobell, Lloyd Rees and James Gleeson.
Duration 25 minutes
Study room
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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
Stories from Sydney
Delia Falconer, authorDuration 25 minutes
19th c Australian art
Free -
Music
Music in the members lounge
Classical guitar with Roger LockClassical guitarist Roger Lock brings a fresh approach to Australian and international guitar music.
Duration 1 hour
Art Gallery Society (members lounge)
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Film
Outsiders in Australian Cinema film series
DingoDir: Rolf de Heer 1991 (Aust)
109 mins 35mm Colour Rated PG
Colin Friels, Miles Davis
Rolf de Heer’s Dingo begins in the late 1960s in a Western Australian outback town. A young boy, John Anderson, becomes captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross (played by legendary trumpeter Miles Davis), after he unexpectedly performs to stunned locals on a dusty airstrip when his plane makes a brief, unscheduled stop-over. Years later, now a family man, making a meagre living tracking dingos and playing trumpet in a local band, John dreams of re-connecting with Billy. Dingo traces the pilgrimage of John, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his outback home to the jazz clubs of Paris and captures one of Davis’ last performances on film. The brand new print of Dingo is a product of the Deluxe/Kodak preservation project which has run over the past 10 years. The National Film and Sound Archive, along with its partners Deluxe Sydney and Kodak Australasia, has a dedicated strategy in place to preserve, and make available to contemporary audiences, new 35mm prints of significant Australian colour feature films.Duration 1 hour, 50 minutes
Domain Theatre
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2.30pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Australian artists in the PacificNatalie Wilson, assistant curator of Australian art, discusses Australian artists’ journeys in the Pacific and the influence of their travels on 20th century Australian art.
Duration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
Tour
Cantonese language Australian art tour
A guided introduction to the Australian collection, in CantoneseDuration 25 minutes
Information desk
Free -
Workshop
Kelp weaving workshop
With artist Vicki WestDuration 2 hours
Domain Theatre foyer
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3pm
Exhibition talk
Australian art talk – Open Weekend
Australian art from modern to contemporaryWayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art, discusses the movements that link 20th century Australian art with contemporary art of the 21st century in the Gallery’s collection.
Duration 25 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
Exhibition talk
Australian modernist photography talk
Judy Annear, senior curator of photographsDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
3.30pm
Exhibition talk
‘Leg Spiral’ and the rise of performance art in Australia
Mike Parr, artistDuration 25 minutes
20th & 21st c Australian art
Free -
4pm
Music
Live music with The Rescue Ships
Sunday in the Entrance courtDuration 25 minutes
Entrance court
Free -
Duration 25 minutes
Entrance court
Free
