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Canberra Museum and Gallery

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

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Address: 176 London Circuit 2601 Canberra, ACT, Australia

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25.01.2022 Ham Darrochs Mantis 2 is the most recent work in Flow Line and is one of the largest works on canvas the artist has created. The saw-toothed shapes are carefully poised in a dynamic relationship evoking the spindly human like arthropod of the painting’s namesake. The mantis is the shape shifting predator par excellence whose mimicry alludes perception. Similarly, the artist plays with us here. Many layers of vivid titanium white create the space around the forms to tease us... with aftereffects as your eye moves across and around the canvas. Hamilton DARROCH Mantis 2 2019 acrylic on canvas Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection Purchased 2020 @hamdarroch #hamdarroch #flowline #abstraction #CanberrAArt #canberraartist

24.01.2022 Building a Life: The Jennings Germans story. Like the houses they built, this long lasting exhibition continues to provide fascination and entertainment to all who visit. Explore the social history story of one of Canberra's most interesting migrant groups - the Jennings Germans and the contribution these 150 migrants and the changes they made, to the Canberra landscape and community; truly a story of heritage, culture and lederhosen. #BuildingALife#CMAG#JenningsGermans#AVJennings

21.01.2022 The fires that swept through the suburbs of Canberra in 2003 were the first very serious disaster experienced in the history of the city. This burnt dishwasher sits in the Seeing Canberra exhibition as a pivot point to represent how these fires dramatically shaped the way that our community has ‘seen the city’. Join us tomorrow for a conversation with artists Waratah Lahy, G. W. Bot and community historian Mary Hutchison with Senior Curator Virginia Rigney as they reflect on ...the impact of that time on their work and ongoing practice. As our awareness of the impacts of climate change have grown, they also reflect on the growing understanding of the fragility and preciousness of the environment of the bush capital and the most recent experience of fire and smoke. 1pm Wednesday 9 September CMAG Theatrette FREE Bookings via www.cmag.com.au/tickets Miele ( Manufacturer) Fire damaged dishwasher from the 2003 Canberra fires and contents. Originally manufactured 1990 Metal, glass, ceramic & plastic. Donated by Mrs Marshall-Cox and Mr Cox 2003 Photo RLDI Please note that the Seeing Canberra exhibition is temporarily closed in preparation for use of the gallery space for ACT Government elections and will reopen in early November. #seeingcanberra #gwbot #2003fire #canberralandscape

18.01.2022 George Foxhill's abstracted view, Bright Day for Cricket, reflects a restrained experience of the city but has come from an artist no less drawn to making expressive paintings in response to place. Born in Salzburg Austria in 1921, he studied applied and fine arts, absorbing the deep vein of emotional Austrian and German Expressionism. He emigrated to Australia after the war and settled in Canberra with his family in 1956 where he remained till his passing in 2011. Like many ...migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds, he found it easier to navigate the new life in Australia by changing his name, but his art practice insistently searched to draw out conflicted emotions of both displacement and connection. George FOXHILL Bright day for cricket 1978 acrylic on canvas Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection Donated 1999 by the artist #georgefoxhill #flowline #abstraction #canberraart #canberraartist

17.01.2022 Artists Ham Darroch and Guy Warren shared perspectives on the slippages between figuration and coming towards abstraction- their experiences in the global art centre of London half a century apart and the impacts on their practices on both affirming the potential of making art - making the literal mark - as the way of understanding the world and being responsive to place. View the whole talk on our website in coming weeks. #flowlines #cmagcollection #CMAG #VisitCanberra #cbr @hamdarroch

16.01.2022 In celebration of the exhibition, Sidney Nolan and St Kilda: Memory and Modernism, Queenie, one of the two elephants from the Civic Merry-go-round has taken up temporary residence in the CMAG foyer and visitors are welcome to climb into her basket and to also take a close look at her paintings and decorations which so inspired Sidney Nolan. The Merry Go Round itself was designed and built in 1915 for the enormous sum of 7,000 and its steam powered mechanism was the first of ...its type made in Australia. It was commissioned by German showman Anton Weinger and constructed by Herbert Thompson who was the first successful manufacturer of motor vehicles in Australia and was located at the St Kilda esplanade until 1973 when it was purchased by the ACT Government and after extensive restoration work, relocated to Civic. Queenie appears courtesy of ACT Property Group. Sidney Nolan’s St Kilda Memory and Modernism Canberra Museum and Gallery

10.01.2022 This October long weekend CMAG galleries will be open Saturday 10am to 5pm and closed Sunday and Monday. The CMAG polling station for the ACT elections will be open Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

09.01.2022 Rowan, Virginia, Sharon, Sita and Tiaan are available today to answer any curious or curly questions re their important role as curators and their connection to all things social history and visual art at CMaG. #askacurator

07.01.2022 Sidney Nolan’s St Kilda Memory and Modernism Canberra Museum and Gallery 22 August 12 March 2021 Sidney Nolan’s childhood memories of St Kilda loomed large in his creative imagination just at the moment when he shifted in his own conviction and practice as a distinctly modern artist. ... ‘I spent all day and much of the night on the beach it was university, gymnasium everything combined’ [1] ‘We were urchins really; that’s what it boiled down to, that that was our playground. It was a little piece of what you might call kitsch heaven’ [2] This display within the Nolan Gallery at CMAG brings together the two key St Kilda works from the Nolan Foundation Collection with works from the Heide Museum of Modern Art Collection from the period 1941 to 1945. The paintings reveal an artist experimenting with materials and scale, responding to the innocence of child art, the bold colour of Matisse and graphic black outlines of Leger but ultimately finding his own voice. This fantastical world of St Kilda was his jumping off point. @canberramuseumandgallery #SidneyNOLAN #CMAGNolan #NolanStKilda #cbr #VisitCanberra #nolan #stkilda [1] SN ‘Down Under on a visit’ Queen London 15 May 1962 [1] SN Brian Adams, director Nolan at Sixty, film 1977 Image : Sidney NOLAN (1917-1992) (Untitled) Big Dipper c. 1941 enamel on canvas Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Bequest of Barrett Reid 2000 The Sidney Nolan Trust. All rights reserved, DACS/Copyright Agency, 2020

07.01.2022 Tomorrow is the DAY

06.01.2022 The Art of the Fan celebrates Wendy Whitham’s amazing collection of over 90 fans from around the world. Wendy Whitham received her first fan as a child from her aunt and uncle after they returned from a trip overseas, but it wasn’t until decades later that she started collecting fans herself. She started travelling for work in the 1990s and this marked the start of her collecting passion. Why fans? Because they are beautiful objects; decorative, sometimes scented and made f...rom a variety of materials including silk, cotton, bamboo, sandalwood or plastic. Wendy’s fan collection also incorporates objects decorated with fans or in the shape of fans, including stamps from various countries, serviettes and greeting cards. Peruse through the cabinets at CMAG and admire over 90 fans collected from all over the world. #fans #cbr #CMAG #VisitCanberra #collection #cmagfans See more

05.01.2022 Happy Indigenous Literacy Day! Wishing our friends @IndigenousLiteracyFoundation all the best with events around our country celebrating #indigenousliteracy and #readingopensdoors Pop into CMAG and check out our selection of children’s books by Ngunawal Elder Don Bell, including Mununja the Butterfly, the first ever Ngunawal language storybook. Mununja the Butterfly is a beautifully illustrated Ngunawal Aboriginal story about a young girl who was turned into a butterfly to... avoid marrying the evil Gunga. Younger children can read it by simply following Don Bell's full English language text as it appears in the yellow boxes at the top of each picture page, and adults and older children can read the abbreviated bilingual text scrolled across the bottom of the page. @dhawuratours

05.01.2022 The oldest item in the CMAG collection. Door lock, knobs, plate and key c.1830-37, iron, brass... Prior to the 1820s a major Aboriginal settlement existed on sand hills overlooking the Molonglo River at Pialligo in what is now the Australian Capital Territory. The Limestone Plains were first settled by Europeans in the 1820s, the land having been appropriated from its traditional custodians by the colonial Government of NSW. One of the first landowners was the wealthy Sydney merchant Robert Campbell, who in 1825 was granted a substantial holding at Pialligo as compensation for losses at sea nearly twenty years before. The original property of 4,000 acres (1619 hectares) was named Duntroon after Campbell’s ancestral castle in Scotland, and over time it substantially increased in size. In 1910 the house and a portion of the land was selected as the site for the Royal Military College of Australia. The Duntroon Dairy (c.1832) is regarded as the oldest survivor of Canberra’s rural past. In 1977 the first archaeological excavation of an historic place in the Australian Capital Territory took place at the dairy. Over three hundred artefacts were recovered from the site and are recorded as the first handwritten entries in the ACT Objects Register (1981). Less than half of the original collection survives today. In 2002 CMAG assembled the remaining objects and displayed them for the first time in the exhibition, A Dig at Duntroon. This door lock from the Duntroon Dairy is the oldest artefact in the CMAG collection. It underwent conservation in 1979 and a new key and back plate were manufactured to restore it to full working order. ‘WR’ abreast of the Royal Coat of Arms indicates manufacture during the reign of William IV, 1830-37. maker’s plate reads: WR Registered Trade Mark, No. 60, Jas Carpenter Patentee, patent expired #askacurator #cmagcollection #duntroondairy

05.01.2022 In response to a question from The National Portrait Gallery @PortraitAu as part of #askacurator about a portrait work in our collection Virginia Rigney Senior Curator Visual Arts responds - At first glance this might not look like a portrait, but for Dean Cross, an artist of Worimi descent born in Canberra, his identity is intimately bound up in place and making an meaningful self-portrait needed to contain many elements. The artist comments; ‘I have often likened my experi...ence of being a mixed-race Indigenous man of being something like living as a human collage. Differing parts coming together to form a new and rich whole, that hopefully is somehow greater than the sum of its parts. Collage then has become a common part of my working methodology. In this instance, the collages are digital. The pieces are mostly of places of I have been or belong to, or moments in time and place that I would like to remember.’ Come in after October 24th to see this work on display in CMAG’s exhibition, Seeing Canberra @deean.cross #seeingcanberra #askacurator Dean Cross Untitled Landscape ( Double Self Portrait with Horse ) 2018 Pure pigment print CMAG Collection Acquired 2019 See more

04.01.2022 As a relatively young collection CMAG is delighted when we have the opportunity to acquire artworks that deepen our appreciation of the creative history of our city and the way that artists have viewed it. We were especially pleased this week to confirm the acquisition of not one but two works that are now part of our collection through the generous support of Emmanuel (Manny) Harry Notaras. Minister Gordon Ramsay, CFC Board Chair Richard Refshauge and Deputy Chair Helen O’N...eil joined staff Sophie Chessell and Virginia Rigney to thank this long time Canberran and local business leader for his promised philanthropic gift of Thomas Gleghorn’s Mugga Way 1968, currently featuring in our Flow Line exhibition. Along with other donors to our Canberra Region Treasures Fund, Manny also made a substantial donation that allowed us to acquire this rare Canberra view from 1944 by Adrian Feint (1894-1971) . Feint was a leading artist, designer and galleriest in Sydney from the 1920s to the 1950s and came to Canberra in 1944 and painted three known views while here. One was exhibited that year in the Wynne Prize for landscape painting and subsequently immediately acquired for the @AGNSW collection. Come and enjoy the work yourself when it goes on display in Seeing Canberra when the exhibition re-opens in November. To see how your philanthropy can support growing our city’s collection please click here: https://www.cmag.com.au/about/support #philanthropy #fundraising #supportthearts #donate

03.01.2022 Martyn Jolly discusses the history of magic lantern slides and how they were originally used in creative and performative ways to inspire wonder and intrigue at the popular floor talk today @canberramuseumandgallery. Exhibition closes 5Sept#magiclantern#martynjollysphantasmagoria#VisitCanberra

03.01.2022 Last days to view this amazing exhibition. Martyn Jolly's Phantasmagoria @canberramuseumandgallery. Closes 5 Sept #magiclantern #martynjollysphantasmagoria #VisitCanberra

02.01.2022 Do you have any questions you have been hankering to ask the staff at CMAG?? Curators are up for the task, Wednesday 16 September is the day you get a chance to fill that gap in your knowledge. Social History or Visual Art, serious or fun, ask away on #askacurator day.

01.01.2022 Purchased in Beijing in 1995, this bamboo folding fan features a hand-painted scene with 13 ladies in traditional costume, surrounded by rocks, greenery and flowers. Wendy Whitham has amassed over 90 different varieties of folding fan, from smooth silk to bamboo, wood and even plastic. Come and explore The art of the fan at CMAG and admire the beauty and design of fans from all over the world. CMAG galleries will be open Saturday 10-5 then closed Sunday Monday for the long weekend. #fanart #VisitCanberra #CMAG #cbr