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Drill Hall Gallery

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6125 5832

Address: Kingsley St 2601 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://dhg.anu.edu.au/

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24.01.2022 Come along to the Drill Hall Gallery on your lunch break and feed your soul with a tour of Tunnelvision. Discover one of the most accomplished contemporary Australian sculptors in his prime, through the insightful words of Drill Hall Gallery director Terrence Maloon. The 30 minute tour commences at 12pm today at the Drill Hall Gallery.... https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/guided-tour-of-james-rogers

24.01.2022 This is the last week you can visit our current exhibition Tunnelvision featuring sculptures by James Rogers. Discover what makes Rogers one of Australia's the most accomplished contemporary Australian sculptors with a tour with Drill Hall Gallery Director Terence Maloon. Tours will take place on Wednesday at 1pm and Saturday at 2pm.... https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/guided-tour-of-james-rogers

23.01.2022 Revisit Katy Mutton’s Panopticon, presented at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery on October 17, through Meredith Hinchliffe’s review. This article was originally published by City News on October 30, 2020. https://citynews.com.au//review-experimental-venture-lead/

22.01.2022 Like what we do? Perhaps its time to consider deepening your support with a membership! This Friday is our annual end of year members party. We encourage you to join the festivity, meet some friends and sign up on the night. Bookings essential. Be part of a creative community. The ANU Drill Hall Gallery gathers some of the best and brightest from the wider ANU community. Never before was a lifetime’s education offered on such easy and pleasurable terms!... It is a source of great pride that the Friends of the Drill Hall Gallery comprises some of the leading artists of the ACT, curators, art historians, collectors, and art lovers of every stripe. It has also attracted greats from the world of music and adventurous spirits from academia. See our website for more great reasons to be a Friend. http://ow.ly/n8Ag50CrbX5

21.01.2022 Join us at 2pm today for the final guided tour of Lightworks.

18.01.2022 This weekend is the last opportunity to enjoy James Rogers' knockout show, Tunnelvision. Closes at 5pm Sunday 27 Sept.

17.01.2022 Come along to the Drill Hall this evening to join artist and tutor Dionisia Salas for a guided drawing workshop in the James Rogers sculpture survey, Tunnelvision. Comprising one hour sessions over two consecutive Wednesday evenings, the workshop will incorporate a tour of the exhibition and a drawing session, investigating the construction and concerns of James Rogers sculptural works. Tickets include a glass of wine. Please bring your own drawing paper and materials. Classe...s are limited 10 participants per class. Bookings through Eventbrite 5.30 6.30 pm Wednesday Sept 16 and Sept 23 or 7.00 8.00 pm Wednesday Sept 16 and Sept 23 General admission: $30 Students and Friends of the Drill Hall Gallery: $25 Price includes both weeks. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/drawing-workshop-james-roge See more

16.01.2022 The gallery is currently closed during the installation of our next exhibitions. Lightworks, Integral and Watershed open to the public at 10am on Friday.

16.01.2022 John McDonald reviewed James Rogers, Tunnelvision survey exhibition in the Sydney Morning Herald this weekend, referring to it as 'a revelation'. https://www.smh.com.au//a-revelation-the-standout-sculptor

15.01.2022 "What’s most remarkable are the delicate effects Rogers is able to create using industrial techniques." -John McDonald @JMDartcritic http://ow.ly/IvKR50BALau #JamesRogers #AustralianSculpture #Abstraction #contemporaryart... Image: Rob Little

14.01.2022 Come along to the closing weekend of our current exhibition Tunnelvision featuring sculptures by one of the most accomplished contemporary Australian sculptors. Discover the manner in which Roger's sculptures evoke bodily gesture, human stance and the undulating folds of draped cloth.

11.01.2022 Get your tickets to Sound and Sight with Miroslav Bukovsky this Saturday at 6pm. Five musicians come together to expound Miroslav Bukovsky’s adventurous new jazz composition inspired by sculptures in James Rogers survey show Tunnelvision at the Drill Hall Gallery. This night brings together John Mackey (Saxophone), James Luke (Bass), Luke Glanville (Drums), Richard Johnson (Saxophone and electronics), and Miroslav Bukovsky (Trumpet) for a special performance in a dialogue James Rogers’ artwork. The concert includes percussive sound samples from the studio of James Rogers in Walcha NSW. https://www.facebook.com/events/1049288105542190?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A5%2C%22action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22main_list%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%22%5C%22[]%5C%22%22%7D]%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D

11.01.2022 Nancy McDinny b.1958 Fetrel Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Nothern Territory. The Frontier Wars may still not be recognised in some official circles, yet they are very prevalent still in the hearts and minds of much of Australia’s indigenous population. Nancy McDinny’s War at Blackfella Spring tells a tail of colonial policemen hunting down ‘blackfellas’ in a creek in her indigenous Borroloola region in the North Territory one many such encounters in colonial Austral...ia. Working with other indigenous artists including Jacky Green, whose work also features in the collection, McDinny is best known for her depictions of actual events that took place within her indigenous locale stories that have been passed down through generations. War at Blackfella Spring uses a clever mixture of dark greens and black to simulate dense bushland, with the stark contrast of white as clouds in the sky, tree trunks, and most significantly, white Europeans and their campsite. On first viewing this composition, it is easy to miss the tiny off-white mouths and eyes of the indigenous people who are being hunted out by the white European settlers. This technique sees the contrasting dark tones with the bold white makes the white Europeans stand out, as if not belonging, whereas the indigenous people are at one with their traditional home in nature. What could, on a primary viewing, be seen as a charming painting of colonial Australia, is in fact an oft-hidden story of a ‘war’ been a native population, and their invaders. #NAIDOCweek #NAIDOC Nancy (Yukuwal) McDinny, War at Blackfella Spring 2014, acrylic on linen, 1220 x 1830 x 25mm. ANU Art Collection

10.01.2022 The second half of the two-part lecture "Spectacular Paris' is now available! This lecture by Drill Hall Gallery Director Terence Maloon can be found on our website in the news section or on our YouTube page. Touring through Paris of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the lecture opens on the development of the city’s railway stations and the resulting inevitable flood of diverse people, with disposable income and a hankering for diversion into the city. Observing Paris through the eyes of artists and writers, Pissarro, Monet, Benjamin, Balzac and Debord, we travel through the architecture, bustle and excitement of socially charged Paris discovering its history seeped in creativity, industrialisation and revolt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHyIKJrKvCw

09.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that there will be a second concert session added this Saturday 26th Sept. Places are filling up quickly!

07.01.2022 Emily Kame Kngwarreye 1910 - 1996 "Kngwarreye was a senior member of the Anmatyerre clan, and a custodian of the Dreaming sites in Alhalkere, her paternal clan country in Utopia, a tract of land 250 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs. Kngwarreye was about 70 when she began making art for public display, and she became prolific, producing an estimated 3000 works in eight years. But her spectacular public career was not an overnight phenomenon; it had its roots in a lifeti...me of making art for ceremonial and everyday purposes. As well as being a ceremonial leader, Kngwarreye was active in the land rights movement. In 1979 she played an important role in the return of Utopia Station, a 2000 square kilometre cattle property, to her people, the traditional owners." Read more: http://ow.ly/BppE50Cew0F Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yam Story III 1995, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 1495 x 2300 x 30 mm. ANU Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by James Erskine. #NAIDOCweek #NAIDOC

02.01.2022 Queenie McKenzie 1915 - 1998 "Queenie McKenzie (formerly Oakes), or Mingmarriya, was born on old Texas Downs on the Ord River in the rugged East Kimberley. Indeed, she lived there all her life until the respected manager, with whom a close knit group of Aboriginal people ran the cattle station for many years, retired. The 'Texas Downs mob' then all moved to the Warmun Community at Turkey Creek, which was located on an adjacent property. Queenie was therefore focused on a loca...lity from which she never moved, a landscape that she knew intimately: 'Every rock, every hill, every water, I know that place backwards and forwards, up and down, inside out. It's my country and I got names for every place.' It was this singularly close relationship with her country, that prompted Queenie to take up painting, but not until she had already led a full and energetic life." Read more here: http://ow.ly/65EK50Chhev Queenie McKenzie, Untitled (artist's country) 1993, 900 x 1200 mm, ochre on linen. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Craig Edwards in memory of Edmund Charles Edwards and Alan Edmund Edwards, teachers, 2018. #NAIDOCweek #NAIDOC #Alwayswasalwayswillbe #Waramunartist #waramun