The Ubu diptych
James Gleeson turns 90
21 Nov – 18 Dec 2005
James Gleeson is Australia’s premier surrealist artist and The Ubu diptych is widely regarded as one of his greatest works.
Reflections in time
19th-century portrait photography
13 Oct – 11 Dec 2005
Explores the changes in international photographic portraiture from 1839 to 1900.
Jeppe Hein
Neonwall
21 Sep – 11 Dec 2005
This installation comprises 90 large neon tubes that make a dividing wall from floor to ceiling, with sensors switching sections off or on in response to viewers’ movements.
Daniel Crooks
Train no 1
15 Oct – 4 Dec 2005
Daniel Crooks’ video reconfigures views of a train into a mesmerising animation, which helps break down the conventional relationship between space and time.
The poetic mandarin
Chinese calligraphy from the James Hayes Collection
23 Sep – 27 Nov 2005
Focusing on the cultural life of the imperial Chinese mandarins, this exhibition reveals the important role of calligraphy both in an official’s career and as a leisure activity.
Earle Backen
6 Oct – 17 Nov 2005
From the early 1960s, Earle Backen established himself as one of the finest and most respected Australian printmakers of his generation.
Wolfgang Laib
11 Aug – 16 Nov 2005
The third Balnaves Sculpture Project features German artist Wolfgang Laib, best known for his magical work with pollen, bees wax and other materials used in a ritual setting.
Dobell Prize for Drawing 2005
5 Aug – 16 Oct 2005
The most respected award for drawing in Australia, the annual Dobell Prize brings the remarkable drawing talents of Australian artists into the public domain.
Patricia Piccinini
Swell
17 Aug – 9 Oct 2005
Piccinini is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Swell is part of a sequence of works that examines the evolution of nature in relation to progressive technology.
Wastelands
a poetic legacy
10 Aug – 3 Oct 2005
An exhibition of works that reflect the idea of a new picturesque in Australian art, flourishing largely through the legacy of TS Eliot’s poetry.
Rajput: sons of kings
paintings from the princely courts of India
8 Jun – 4 Sep 2005
Colourful Indian miniature paintings depicting the luxurious lifestyle of the Rajput courts of the Indian state of Rajasthan from the 17th to 19th centuries.
Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley
Neon
26 Jun – 14 Aug 2005
Language and the language of art have often been central tenets in the work of these two artists.
Unscripted
language in contemporary art
20 May – 24 Jul 2005
Considers how contemporary Australian artists use language to communicate through their art.
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2005
30 Apr – 3 Jul 2005
This annual exhibition is one of the most popular in Australia and often one of its most controversial.
Tranquillity
Rose Farrell, George Parkin, Lyndell Brown, Charles Green
8 May – 19 Jun 2005
This project brings together two of Australia’s most established collaborative partnerships, Rose Farrell/George Parkin and Lyndell Brown/Charles Green.
Dadang Christanto
They give evidence
19 Feb – 15 May 2005
A reprise of the confronting and moving, larger-than-life sculptures of human suffering by Dadang Christanto, first seen here at the launch of the new Asian galleries in 2003.
Fred Williams gouaches
9 Mar – 1 May 2005
A selection of gouache landscapes, dating from the 1960s to 1980, by one of the most important Australian artists of the 20th century.
Simryn Gill
Standing still
25 Mar – 1 May 2005
A series of 116 photographs that explores Simryn Gill’s interest in the passage of time and the evocation of place.
Bill Henson
three decades of photography
8 Jan – 3 Apr 2005
The first survey of the photography of Bill Henson brings together many of the artist’s important series and explores major themes from the last 30 years of his work.
ARTEXPRESS 2005
29 Jan – 28 Mar 2005
A dynamic and popular annual exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts.
Mutlu Çerkez and Marco Fusinato
5 Feb – 20 Mar 2005
In their collaborative endeavours, Mutlu Çerkez and Marco Fusinato create abstract excursions about time and reality.
Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2004-05
2 Dec 2004 – 13 Feb 2005
Six moving image and new media artists feature in the inaugural Anne Landa Award exhibition: Van Sowerwine, David Rosetzky, Peter Hennessey, Guy Benfeld, Craig Walsh and Shaun Gladwell.
The art of Japanese screen painting
6 Nov 2004 – 6 Feb 2005
Highlights from the Gallery’s outstanding collection of Japanese screens, dating from the 17th to 19th centuries and ranging from striking ink landscapes to studies of nature in vivid colours and gold.
Allan Mitelman
works on paper 1967- 2004
30 Oct 2004 – 16 Jan 2005
Over the past 30 years Allan Mitelman has produced a remarkably wide-ranging and varied body of works on paper, unlike any other in Australian art.