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25.01.2022 The Art Gallery of NSW is proud to be a COVID-Safe function venue. Contact our expert event planners today to start organising your next function in one of our unique and versatile spaces and delight your guests with an exclusive, after-hours viewing of the #ArchibaldPrize as part of your event!

25.01.2022 Sometimes the unsettling things in the Gallery after dark are the paintings of mythical monsters, sculptures of deadly pythons, and scrolls of fiendish ogres. Sometimes, it's two children staring at you while holding tiny weapons. Happy #Halloween! ... : Richard Noble 'The Russell-Jones children' 1857. Art Gallery of NSW, gift of Joseph Brown 1977.

24.01.2022 Missed this fascinating visit to #Streeton on ABC TV + iview's The Mix on the weekend? Catch up now on iview!

24.01.2022 Over the past weeks, you might have noticed a vibrant, magnificent artwork growing along, across, and aaaaall the way to the top of our gigantic entrance court wall! This piece is by artists Mathew Calandra, Emily Crockford, Annette Galstaun, Lauren Kerjan, Jaycee Kim, Catherine McGuiness and Meagan Pelham of @StudioASydney, and the artists have been creating it in front of a fascinated Gallery audience every day. Commissioned for #ArchiePlus and capturing the artists' res...ponse to who they have been together with during the turmoil of 2020, the mural is called 'Love owls and mermaids singing in the rainbow pop'. Tomorrow may be the final day you can catch them putting on the finishing touches, so be sure to drop by to see art in action! #TogetherInArt #WorkInProgress #ArtistsAtWork #StudioA #MathewCalandra #EmilyCrockford #AnnetteGalstaun #LaurenKerjan #JayceeKim #CatherineMcGuiness #MeaganPelham : AGNSW, Diana Panuccio

23.01.2022 Join us tomorrow, Saturday 31 October at 2pm for the Australian premiere of Sky Hopinka's new feature #film 'mani towards the ocean, towards the shore.' Shot in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, the film is a gorgeous portrait of Indigenous landscapes and livelihoods in the US. Grab your free ticket online or at the door!

23.01.2022 Tsering Hannaford’s 2020 #ArchibaldPrize portrait highly commended by the Trustees is inspired by a 17th-century painting by Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, titled 'Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura)'. ‘I had approached a different sitter, which didn’t eventuate, so I chose to reference an historical figure as I have in previous years through self-portraits,’ says Hannaford. ‘Gentileschi’s c163839 portrait inspired me her use of two... mirrors to observe the self in the act of painting is very clever. Taught by her artist father, Gentileschi was the first female member of the Academia of Art in Florence. She was a successful artist in her time; a court painter whose patrons included Charles I of England. Despite her accomplished body of work, she has often been defined by a sexual assault and subsequent trial. In the 20th century, however, she came to be recognised as one of the most inventive painters of her generation.’ Image: Highly commended in the Archibald Prize 2020, Tsering Hannaford 'Self-portrait after 'Allegory of Painting' the artist

23.01.2022 Art Gallery Society of NSW members head in and escape the heat at the Gallery today, and celebrate #MuseumStoreSunday with a double discount in the Gallery Shop!

23.01.2022 Tomorrow night, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday 14 October, catch Trixie Mattel and Kim Leutwyler in conversation with Benjamin Law to discuss all things artistic on #ArtAfterHoursOnline! Streaming as part of our #ArchibaldPrize series, free on our Facebook and YouTube channels set a reminder now! Facebook: https://bit.ly/34JBzyi... YouTube: https://bit.ly/3iPEVVw : Finalist Archibald Prize 2020 Kim Leutwyler 'Brian with pink, blue and yellow' the artist

21.01.2022 The Sydney that Arthur #Streeton painted in the 1800s has changed in many ways, but the blues and golds still shine through check out these comparisons!

20.01.2022 Composed and created in October 2020, ’Gold frames, gold chains’ is a new musical collaboration by NSW artists L-FRESH The LION and Nardean. Staged in a room of the artists’ choosing, this two-channel video work examines the narratives of ownership and empire that thread through the Grand Courts. The artists exchange reflections and questions about privilege and representation, the tension between social status and community connection, and build to a statement about shared... meals and shared opportunities. This theme of shared energy is present in the to-and-fro structure of the work. As each performer takes up the other’s final word to continue to the next verse, they create a live and generous portrait of their thoughts in 2020 and their hopes for a purposeful future. 'Gold frames, gold chains' was commissioned for #ArchiePlus experience it on display at the Gallery until February 2021, and read an interview with Nardean and curator Jonathan Wilson on #TogetherInArt: https://bit.ly/3oxvX2k Photos: AGNSW, Jenni Carter

20.01.2022 Internationally acclaimed Australian artist Tracey Moffatt was born #onthisday in Brisbane in 1960, and in this collection work 'As I lay back on my Ancestral Land', the artist fuses her own body with the land. A large-scale photograph, the piece stitches multiple forms together: a radiant canopy of clouds fringed by branches and leaves, and Moffatt's own torso melding into the luminous landscape. Suspended in sky, yet grounded by the upwards gaze, it expresses and explores t...he spiritual resonance of place. Browse more on Tracey Moffatt, including curator talks and collection works, through our Artist Profile: https://bit.ly/3eSfF0k #BornOnThisDay #otd #TraceyMoffatt Artwork: Tracey Moffatt 'As I lay back on my ancestral land no. 1' 2013. Art Gallery of NSW, Don Mitchell Bequest 2013. Tracey Moffatt. Courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

20.01.2022 ‘Stone, soil, sea and sky, light and darkness. The earth is a physical and multisensory medium, a means of connection (like language or paint) that is laden with traditions of communication linking humans not only to other humans, but to all the other lively factors in our global system of vitality. Animal, vegetable, mineral. All entities relating to and acting upon each other. 'What kinds of worldly stories are needed now?’ Head to #TogetherInArt to read ‘Enter Medium Earth...’, an essay by curator Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd considering the vital ecologies that bind species together, and exploring our exhibition of new works ‘works of resilience and rupture; of belonging to country and displacement; for an earth we hold in common with critters, varied and vulnerable': https://bit.ly/36IZSyZ Image: video still from 'A tulala Tara Kinon (Spirit journey of the Kinon)' 2020 Taloi Havini #TogetherInArtNewWork #AustralianArt #MuseumFromHome

19.01.2022 Happy International Teachers Day! We're sharing this vivid and perceptive portrait by #YoungArchie 2020 finalist Liza Griffin, 14, who says, 'I have chosen to draw my art teacher, Jann. She has inspired me to do so much with my art. I get to teach art classes with her to younger students on Mondays after school and I thoroughly enjoy our conversations on the way back from art classes with her.' 2020 has been a tough year for teachers, who have had to take on radical re-jiggin...g of every plan, adapting to new tech and tools, communicating and connecting under immense pressure, and who have continued to show care and guidance despite enormous personal, community and global challenges. To all of our great teachers we thank you for an extraordinary year, and we know your students will never forget your courage and commitment. Find Gallery education and teaching resources on our website: https://bit.ly/35JdPuJ #TeachersDay #InternationalTeachersDay #WorldTeachersDay #TeachersDay2020 #Teachers #Education #ArtTeacher Artwork: Finalist, Young Archie 2020 Liza Griffin 'Jann at work' the artist

19.01.2022 Adrienne Doig's creative constructions have brought us inspiration and ways to connect through the chaos of a year like no other. Her #TogetherInArtMaking video 'How to make a toilet roll doll' sparked a whole new population made of tiny versions of distant loved ones, and her #ArchiePlus mural 'What do we want?' featured memorable moments and faces from months of challenge and change. Though the mural finishes its time brightening our Archibald hallway on 17 January, you can... still experience Doig's intricate and witty self-portraiture practice in the exhibition 'It's All About Me!' at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, on until 14 February. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3np6KpW Make some mini magic with 'How to make a toilet roll doll': https://bit.ly/3q4XaKv

17.01.2022 It's the closing day for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2020, but if you couldn't make it in to the Gallery, don't worry you still have the chance to see all this year's #ArchibaldPrize works as they travel to a host of regional galleries in the touring exhibition! Click through to find out more on venues and dates.

17.01.2022 They're not quite 1.5m apart, but Edvard Munch's 'Two beings (The lonely ones)' definitely calls to mind one of this year's most relatable moods. Munch was born #OnThisDay in 1863, and so many of his works speak even now to our anxieties, fears, sorrows and angst. Though his most well-known subjects are figures in despair and distress, there is a comfort in seeing such feelings depicted so starkly and poignantly: it means someone else is feeling them, too. In sharing our moments or months, or more of isolation and loneliness, we are able to be that little bit less alone. Edvard Munch 'Two beings (The lonely ones)' 1895. Art Gallery of NSW, purchased 1957. #BornOnThisDay #EdvardMunch

16.01.2022 Emily Crockford’s #ArchibaldPrize portrait is painted in honour of her late father, John Crockford, who died in January 2020. She says: ‘This painting is my dream come true. It’s my dream of my daddy. I watched him flying his beautiful planes in the fields. He made amazing models. This painting is very special to me, because he’s my lovely father.’ ‘I began my painting at studio A, a big huge canvas!' Crockford said. 'Mostly I’ve been working on it at my home studio, the ga...rage I call Emily’s studio with museum planes! It was originally Dad’s workshop where he built model planes that he’d fly in the fields in Scone. Daddy’s planes are hanging in the studio garage.’ You can visit the portrait now in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition, and also check out Crockford's work in the entrance court as part of the immense and joyful #ArchiePlus collaborative mural 'Love owls and mermaids singing in the rainbow pop.' Artwork: Finalist, Archibald Prize 2020 Emily Crockford 'Self-portrait with Daddy in the daisies, watching the field of planes' the artist #EmilyCrockford

15.01.2022 This glorious painting, 'Ngayuku ngura'', is by APY Art Centre Collective artist Margaret Richards, and is currently on display as a finalist in the #WynnePrize 2020 exhibition. Richards' artist statement gives insight into the power and purpose of this work: 'When I paint my mind travels back to my Country. I had to move to Adelaide for medical treatment many years ago. So now when I paint, I am right on my Country in the western Aangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) L...ands, near Pipalyatjara in South Australia. I am not able to be there to look after this Country anymore, but through my painting I celebrate the tjukurpa of the Country and keep it alive, so my painting is caring for Country too.' See all the finalists on our website now, and book tickets for your visit: https://bit.ly/2RzI3JW Artwork: Finalist, Wynne Prize 2020 Margaret Richards 'Ngayuku ngura' the artist #MargaretRichards

14.01.2022 Asia Society Australia's annual executive forum #AsiaBriefingLIVE goes digital and free to the public in 2020. Join the experts on Thursday 15 October to discuss Asia’s economy, geopolitics and the state of Australia’s engagement with the region. Register now: https://asiabriefing.bbgevent.com/... Proudly supported by the Art Gallery of NSW and VisAsia. #Asia #Australia #internationalrelations

14.01.2022 Sydney Festival has launched its 2021 #SydFest program start planning for a summer to make your heart sing.

13.01.2022 Did you watch one of our Art After Hours Online talks this year? We'd love to find out what you thought about the program take our quick survey now for the chance to win one of 5 double passes to 'Streeton'!

13.01.2022 Join us at 7.30pm AEDT Wednesday 2 December for our final #ArtAfterHoursOnline talk this year, as Yumi Stynes speaks with two artists from studio A, Meagan Pelham and Jaycee Kim, about their experience creating the epic, colourful mural that spans the length of the Gallery’s entrance court, 'Love owls and mermaids singing in the rainbow pop.' An electrifying declaration of the power of love and a celebration of unity, the mural was created as part of the Gallery's #A...rchiePlus project. Made by seven Studio A artists, the mural depicts a person or a being who has supported and inspired each artist during 2020: fellow artists, writers, friends, family, pets and imaginative companions. Tune in as the artists, and Studio A CEO & Artistic Director Gabrielle Mordy, discuss the project and the ways we celebrate the individuals and communities that got us through a year like no other. This event will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube Live, and will be available to watch anytime after the broadcast. This event will be Auslan interpreted and open captioned. #ArtAfterHours Online is proudly supported by Art Gallery Society of NSW and Macquarie University. Find out more about the artists and Studio A: www.studioa.org.au #MeaganPelham #JayceeKim #StudioA #IDPwD

12.01.2022 It's time to celebrate the Gallery Shop has just released their Christmas gift guide! This year we're celebrating all things Australian with exclusive #Streeton books and merchandise, colourful Australiana-inspired stocking stuffers, statement gifts by local designers and the best of the best books for your summer reading list. Start shopping now to meet #Christmas posting deadlines!

12.01.2022 Who knew we'd have the perfect artwork on display this year for #NationalDessertDay? John Honeywill's 'Ambrosia' is a Sulman Prize 2020 finalist. Honeywill describes in his artist statement that he paints 'the quiet visual conversations between everyday objects; paintings that explore presence and stillness in the genre of the still life a genre that links the intimate world with the public.' View the work, and other Sulman finalists, on our website here: https://bit.ly/3nP...7MNq Now if you'll excuse us, it's almost time for morning tea! : Finalist, #SulmanPrize 2020 John Honeywill 'Ambrosia' the artist #DessertDay

12.01.2022 The country's favourite cows have mooved on in! From today, visitors to Maitland Regional Art Gallery can find Elioth Gruner's 'Spring Frost' and a host of other luminous landscapes in the 'Fieldwork: Landscapes west of Sydney' exhibition. Find out more and plan your visit: https://bit.ly/3fGYAH0

11.01.2022 Fans of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' are in for a treat. Tune in for this free event on Wednesday 14 October at 7.30pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time), as Benjamin Law interviews artist Kim Leutwyler and the subject of her Archibald Prize 2020 finalist portrait, Brian Firkus, otherwise known as drag superstar Trixie Mattel! Kim, who is known for her vibrant portraits of figures from the LGBTQI+ community, has painted Trixie before, dressed in her signature pink-and-yellow Barbie-i...nspired style. But for her 2020 #ArchibaldPrize entry, Kim decided to paint Brian, the man behind the frocks and wigs, who has stunned audiences with his musical and performative prowess, both in and out of drag. Trixie and Kim will share stories of the portrait’s genesis in Los Angeles, where Trixie answered the door to Kim wearing only a towel, and the dazzling finished painting now hanging at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. #ArtAfterHoursOnline is presented with the support of the Art Gallery Society of NSW and Macquarie University. #ArtGalleryofNSW #ArtAfterHours #ArtAfterHoursOnline #TrixieMattel Images: Kim Leutwyler. Trixie Mattel, photo by Albert Sanchez.

10.01.2022 Did you tune in to Art After Hours Online last year? Take our quick survey before midnight tonight for the chance to win one of 5 double passes to #Streeton!

08.01.2022 Register now for this Sydney Asian Art Series online lecture, at 4pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Thursday 15 October 'Changing Image Practices in South Asia' with Rahaab Allana from the Alkazi Foundation.

08.01.2022 Join us for the free livestream of #ArtAfterHoursOnline at 7.30pm AEDT, Wednesday 4 November, for our special focus on the Dobell #Drawing Biennial: Interpreting the world with a pencil. Artists Helen Wright and Jack Stahel like to reimagine the world in their complex drawings that combine fantasy and reality. Their imaginative drawings of teetering architectural structures and ‘imaginary science’ are part of our new exhibition Real Worlds: #Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial... 2020. Writer and broadcaster Yumi Stynes asks the artists about their unique observations of our fragile and nonsensical world and places a microscope on the bizarre year that has been 2020. This talk will be live-captioned. #ArtAfterHours Online is proudly supported by at Art Gallery Society of NSW and Macquarie University.

08.01.2022 From 10.30am today tune in to ARTS Friday on Eastside Radio 89.7fm, for Claudia Chan Shaw and 'Streeton' curator Wayne Tunnicliffe!

08.01.2022 Did you encounter a living portrait this weekend at the Gallery? Visitors on Saturday witnessed the gravity-defying performance work of Angela Goh's 'Body Loss', scaling the walls of the Grand Courts as part of the #ArchiePlus performance series. There are more works still to come in this program of pop-up portraits drop in this week, as they unfold until 5 Dec across the ground floor (and just above it!) Find out more: https://bit.ly/2V8vfMg

06.01.2022 Last chance to immerse yourself in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2020 exhibition, because it closes this weekend! This expressive work has been a visitor favourite since the exhibition opened; Alex Seton's Wynne Prize sculpture made from a hand-picked piece of Australian Molong marble that sat in a quarry yard for years, used as the recalibration weight to check the accuracy of their scales. Timed tickets still available for tomorrow, Sunday 10 January. Hotfoot it ...to secure your timeslot now: https://ticketing.artgallery.nsw.gov.au//agnsw_archibald_j Artwork: Finalist, #WynnePrize 2020 Alex Seton 'Proposal for a humble monument' the artist. Photos: AGNSW, Mim Stirling

05.01.2022 Tomorrow at 10.30am AEDT, Monday 14 December, join a free online event by the Gallery in partnership with Accessible Arts, with artists and 2020 #ArchibaldPrize finalists Emily Crockford, Digby Webster and Neil Tomkins discussing their art and careers. studio A's CEO Gabrielle Mordy will join the artists in conversation, and the event will be facilitated by artist David Capra. The session has been pre-recorded, but the artists will be available to chat live online with event attendees. Register now to receive your link to join this event on Zoom! The event will have closed captioning, Auslan interpretation and audio description. Please advise any access requirements, including Auslan interpretation, during the booking process.

04.01.2022 Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship! Guest artist judge Lucy Culliton selected the five Scholarship recipients from 129 entries: Charlie Ingemar Harding (Victoria); Emily Grace Imeson (NSW); Dan Kyle (NSW); Lily Platts (NSW) and Georgia Spain (Tasmania). Awarded for the past 21 years to a young Australian painter aged between 20 and 30 years, the Scholarship in its 22nd year has been awarded to five artists, each of whom rece...ive $10,000 and the offer of a two-week residency at Shark Island Institute in Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales. During the residency the young artists will be offered a mentoring session by Ben Quilty, a former recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Curated by Wendy Whiteley, works from each artists’ winning body of work will be on display at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills from 15 October until 15 November 2020. Check out these works by the winning recipients, and find out more about the exhibition: https://bit.ly/3lGJjrO #BrettWhiteley #BrettWhiteleyStudio #BrettWhiteleyTravellingArtScholarship

04.01.2022 Did you miss our #ArtAfterHoursOnline talk with Archibald Prize 2020 ANZ People's Choice award winner and subject, Angus McDonald and Behrouz Boochani? Catch up now on the Gallery channel for their discussion with Benjamin Law about the painting, Angus’s advocacy for refugee rights through art and film, and the latest chapter in Behrouz’s epic journey.

04.01.2022 At the furthest reaches of the Grand Courts, in a room peopled with marbled sculptures, you'll find a new installation of episodic and fragmentary moments. Cherine Fahd's 'Another citation' brings together a suite of photographs that capture states of immediacy and remind us of how the world can change in an instant. But there is more that binds these images together: each scene pivots on the expressiveness of the hands. Whether waving, floundering or extending for the very f...irst time, these hands are an apt evocation of the contemporary moment. Hands have become symbolically loaded, not simply because they can transmit disease, but because they also enable connection. In this work, lonely hands reach out, seeking reciprocal gestures to rescue them from the deep. Visit the Gallery before May 2021 to wander 'Another citation'; free to view and commissioned as part of #ArchiePlus. Artworks: Installation views of Cherine Fahd's 'Another citation' (2020) the artist, with Harriet Hosner 'Beatrice Cenci' 1857, Benjamin Spence 'Hippolytus' 1862, John Gibson RA 'Hunter and dog' 1838, all Art Gallery of NSW. Photos: AGNSW, Diana Panuccio

02.01.2022 The Art Gallery of New South Wales is committed to protecting the health of our visitors, members, volunteers and staff and minimising the spread of COVID-19. In line with recent NSW Health advice, we ask that visitors from the Northern Beaches Local Government Area (The Spit to Palm Beach) avoid unnecessary travel outside the Northern Beaches, including refraining from visiting the Gallery on Friday 18 December, Saturday 19 December, and Sunday 20 December. We will be checki...ng the postcodes of visitors as they enter from Friday 18 December and residents from the Northern Beaches will not be admitted during this period. We have also advised Gallery staff from the Northern Beaches to remain at home during this time. Visitors from the Northern Beaches with paid, timed tickets to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2020 exhibition during this period will have their tickets honoured on a later date. Otherwise, they may request a refund by phoning the Gallery on 9225 1700. Our webpage also has FAQs regarding the current situation so please visit https://bit.ly/2AZtDxy. We will continue to monitor the advice of NSW Health accordingly and update our guidance as appropriate. Thank you for helping us continue to keep our visitors and staff safe by following these guidelines. Our staff are busy answering inquiries at this time, so please be patient as our team responds to your inquiry over the phone or via email.

02.01.2022 It's here! The #ArchibaldPrize 2020 catalogue is now available in all its easy-to-carry, full-colour, info-packed glory! Pick up a copy from the Gallery Shop in-store or online, and view all of this year's finalists and winners, including 2020 cover star Kaylene Whiskey and her work 'Dolly visits Indulkana'. Only $16 order your copy now: https://bit.ly/36VXchD

01.01.2022 Arthur Streeton’s painting of a railway being built radiates heat and light. Named after the distinctive cry warning that explosives had been ignited, 'Fire's on' depicts a critical moment during the dynamiting of the Lapstone Tunnel into a hillside of the Blue Mountains. Based on a scene that Streeton himself witnessed, the work shows the death of a railway labourer in an explosion, with men carrying the body from the tunnel mouth. Though Streeton's mastery of light and colo...ur was praised by critics when the painting was exhibited in Sydney and Melbourne in the 1890s, no reviewer at the time ever mentioned the accident at its heart. Click through the images to see 'Fire's on' in detail, and book now to view #Streeton at the Gallery until 14 February 2021: https://bit.ly/329kqO1 Artwork: Arthur Streeton 'Fire's on' 1891. Art Gallery of NSW. Installation and artwork photos: AGNSW, Jenni Carter