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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6240 6411

Address: Parkes Place East 2600 Canberra, ACT, Australia

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24.01.2022 'We sing for all these people too ... I would like to thank the Ngunnawal people of this land [Canberra]. They also had ceremonies like this like all Aboriginal people all over Australia. Here you see something very special. Our art is not just for looking at it has meaning. It is about our land and our history. We care about the land. Each clan has a job looking after each part of the country and the people. But this Memorial is for all the dead Aboriginal people all ove...r Australia. In some parts of Australia people have lost their song. In this Memorial we sing for all these people too. We were happy to make this in 1988, and happy that the world will now see this and understand our history and culture.' Ramingining artist, Djardie Ashley, 1999 #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek [Ramingining Artists, 'The Aboriginal Memorial', 198788, Purchased with the assistance of funds from National Gallery admission charges and commissioned in 1987]

24.01.2022 Just spotted. You've only got one week to visit Yayoi Kusama's infinity room, 'THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS' before it closes on May 23. To visit, book a free-timed ticket to the National Gallery.... [#YayoiKusama, 'THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS', 2017, purchased 2018 with the assistance of Andrew and Hiroko Gwinnett YAYOI KUSAMA] Image of gallery visitors Veronica and Christian #knowmyname #nationalgalleryaus #yayoikusama

23.01.2022 Today is Members’ Double Discount Day! For one day only, Gallery Members receive 20% off at the Art Store. Present your membership card when making your purchase. 10am 5pm, ground level. Perfect timing for Christmas present buying! In-store only.... nga.gov.au/members/

23.01.2022 He may be best known for his work on TV and radio but comedian Tim Ross has now found his way onto our Facebook. 'Watching my kids tear around this sculpture has always been a joy and I love how it seems to blend so well with the architecture of the Gallery. Clement Meadmore started his career making modern furniture in Melbourne, often using a plumbers pipe bender to shape his works. He then went to America and got bloody famous. Good for him.' Tim Ross... Keeps your eyes peeled for more moments with Tim. [#ClementMeadmore, 'Virginia', 1970, purchased 1973 Meadmore Sculptures, LLC. VAGA/Copyright Agency]

23.01.2022 Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula was one of the initial group of Aboriginal men who painted their Dreamings for Geoffrey Bardon at Papunya in 1971. As a senior cultural leader, Tjupurrula painted his Dreamings with confidence and with distinct characteristics. His extensive use of white dotting overlay became his signature. The artist would often cover the entire board in a wash of white dotting, making the painting appear to float off its support. His dotting technique would oft...en be compared to smoke rising up into the sky and or to the heat haze from the afternoon sun. Old Man’s Fighting Dreaming depicts the site near Tjikari where two Old Wallaby Men are in a cave. They are attacked by a number of other Old Men who chase and catch them, then kill them and bury them in a hole. The attackers are depicted standing over the hole in the ground. On display in our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander galleries. Level 1, free. [Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Pintupi/Luritja peoples, 'Old man's fighting Dreaming', 1971, purchased 1993 the artist, licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd https://bit.ly/3jEGeqw]

22.01.2022 Today we're excited for our friends at the National Gallery London who are reopening to the public. Find 61 paintings from the National Gallery London right here in Canberra within Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London. It's the first time in the gallery’s near 200-year history an exhibition of their works has toured internationally. ... Only in Canberra Last weeks until 14 June Best availability weekdays Presented in partnership with the National Gallery, London, Art Exhibitions Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. #BotticelliVanGogh #NationalGalleryAus #NationalGallery #VisitCanberra #WeAreCBR The National Gallery, London. Image courtesy The National Gallery, London.

22.01.2022 Janet Laurence spent the week carefully installing her work 'Requiem' in our gallery a wunderkammer of meticulously placed objects and specimens that explore the deep, intricate relationship between all living things and the impact of human acitivity on the planet today a meeting place of art, science, imagination and memory. Not long to wait now, Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now opens 14 November nga.gov.au/exhibitions/knowmyname/ [#JanetLaurence, 'Requ...iem', 2020 Courtesy of Janet Laurence, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne] #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

21.01.2022 Today, design enthusiast Tim Ross presents a new podcast series, Constant. Ross dives into the formative power of art, exploring its role as a silent influencer and its undeniable constant presence in our lives. In this five-part series, Ross looks into some of Australia’s most famous and lesser-known artists including Ben Quilty, Leonard French, Vivienne Binns, Sidney Nolan and Stephen Ormandy. Tim Ross: Constant is a collaboration between Ross and the National Gallery of Au...stralia. nga.gov.au/timross #Podcast #ListenNow #NationalGalleryAus #MuseumFromHome

21.01.2022 Tickets are now on sale to Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London Only in Canberra 5 March 14 June 2021... This unprecedented exhibition shows 500 years of art and comprises the largest group of works ever to travel outside of the UK in the National Gallery’s 192-year history. Botticelli to Van Gogh features the world’s most famous and admired artists from the fifteenth to the turn of the twentieth century Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Turner, Constable, Van Dyke, Gainsborough, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh among them. Presented in partnership with the National Gallery, London, @Art Exhibitions Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. Tickets to this exhibition are timed entry only. https://nga.gov.au/masterpieces/tickets.cfm Book early and online to secure your preferred session. [Vincent van Gogh. Sunflowers. 1888. National Gallery, London] #BotticellivanGogh #VisitCanberra #NationalGalleryAus #Masterpieces #NationalGallery #B2V

21.01.2022 This year's theme for International Museum Day is The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine. We look to a future where we continue to challenge the assumption that modern and contemporary Australian art is a male dominated narrative. The Know My Name initiative is part of a larger commitment by @nationalgalleryaus to ensuring gender equity in collection development, programming and organisational structures into the future. Know My Name is also an invitation to the Austr...alian cultural sector and to communities more broadly, to recognise and highlight the work of women across diverse creative practices. Happy International Museum Day 2021 #knowmyname #IMD2021 #TheFutureOfMuseums [Installation image of Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now]

20.01.2022 Redressing Gender Imbalances || The Know My Name initiative wants to reframe the story of Australian art by adding to this history the voices of brilliant and creative women, too long unrecognised, and who continue to be under-represented across public and private collections. Read more with Ocula #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

20.01.2022 It's World Teachers' Day here in Australia a great day to acknowledge your favourite teacher! Annika, Anna and Worimi woman Krystal lead our team of Educators here at the Gallery, offering up learning programs onsite in the gallery spaces, on tour when our exhibitions travel, and online via our digital excursions. Follow their programming, creative activities and inspiration on Instagram @nationalgallery.learning.... [#Thanakupi, Dhaynagwidh/Thaynakwith people, 'Eran', 2010, Acquired through the Founding Donors' Fund 2010 the estate of the artist, licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd] #WorldTeachersDay #OnThisDay #NationalGalleryLearning #NationalGalleryAus #MuseumFromHome

19.01.2022 Christmas is sorted in our brand new Art Store. Take a look at all of these goodies! In-store only. The Art Store is open 10am 5pm daily except Chirstmas Day.... [1. Clockwise from top left: Frankie vase, $110; A Century of Colour in Design by David Harrison (Thames & Hudson), $40; The Design Book (Phaidon), $30; @TjanpiDesertWeavers baskets including: Maringka Burton (Indulkana) small basket, $100, Anna Ginger (Kaltukatjara Docker River) small basket, $100, Margaret Yai Yai (Mimili) medium basket, $150; large Tiff Manuel Blue poles clutch, $125; Margaret Worth Sukhavarti number 5 Know My Name cushion cover, $45; set of @MudAustralia bowls; Xenia dish, $110; @Dinosaur_Designs bangles, including: rock medium honeycomb, $90, rock medium cream, $90, organic large black, $85, organic large black marble, $85; Grace Crowley: Being Modern, by Elena Taylor (National Gallery of Australia), $29.95; @BonnieandNeil napkins (coming soon). 2. Clockwise from top left: @aoracreo Commuter backpack, $196; @Enigma_Chocs Sweet Blue truffles (inspired by Blue poles), $45; @fink_australia winter charcoal small vase, $140; @potteryfortheplanet 8oz, $50; @kaweco.germany brass sport fountain pen, $159; Falls The Shadow (Uro), $79; @chattyfeet artists socks, $15; @bonparfumeur 001 3ml, $69.95; W&P Carry On Gin & Tonic Cocktail Kit, $44; and O earrings, $70. 3. Clockwise from top left: Mobile, $55; Margaret Worth Know My Name mug, $20; Melinda Harper Know My Name coaster, $10; Lyra coloured pencils, $3 each; Tony Albert jigsaw puzzle, $35; Find Frida: the Frida Kahlo seek-and-find book (Laurence King), $25; Women Artists A-Z by Melinda LaBarge, illustrated by Caroline Corrigan (Puffin), $25; CE Classic baby beads, $41; Blocky man, $ 55; Frida Kahlo moleskin notebook, $42.95; Ethel Spowers pencil case, $16; Artists Socks (sold as a set of 4), $ 55; Croc blocks, $60.]

19.01.2022 Take a closer look at XU ZHEN's oil paintings. Kilos upon kilos of rich black paint applied with a piping bag. It looks almost delicious. XU ZHEN: ETERNITY VS EVOLUTION is open on lower ground level until 14 March 2021. nga.gov.au/xuzhen XU ZHEN: ETERNITY VS EVOLUTION is presented with the support of Dr Judith Neilson AM and the White Rabbit Collection.... VSJudith Neilson AM . [XU ZHEN 'Under Heaven - Black Light 0302VS0137', 2013 --0302VS0137 2013 White Rabbit Collection, Sydney the artist ] See more

19.01.2022 'The question we posed in that original exhibition pitch was, 'can you name these artists? We wanted to make these women household names in the same way that Tom Roberts, Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley are.' Elspeth Pitt, Curator of Australian Art Read more with The Sydney Morning Herald #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

18.01.2022 'Well, one of my aims in sculpture or in working in steel is movement. I have used movement in various ways, but in recent years I had a particular interest to use movement that is suspended in some fashion or other or, as I often call it, I like to make them fly.' Inge King was born #otd 1915. Find King's magnificent work in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. knowmyname.nga.gov.au [#MarkStrizic, 'Inge King, sculpturess', 1974 Mark Strizic]... #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown #OnThisDay

18.01.2022 American historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich once said 'a well-behaved woman never made history' ... On our blog Sid and Fiona Myer Curator of Ceramics and Design Rebecca Edwards reaches out to New York-based Australian fashion designers Cami James and Nadia Napreychikov of DI$COUNT UNIVER$E to discuss their ‘WOMEN’ collection, an homage to the twenty-first century female: bold, brash and using her voice. https://medium.com//di-count-univer-e-a-well-behaved-woman... #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDownSid and Fiona Myer Curator of Ceramics and Design

16.01.2022 You walk along, and then there they are. A library of woolly books, jostled together like a rag-taggle bunch of 1970s teenagers in stripy tops and bell-bottoms. Some sit, some slump, some splay themselves open exposing their ribbed pages to the light. You are curious. They seem jovial and inviting. You ask them questions: Are they really books? How do you read text written in garter stitch? They are amused by your puzzled expression, but their laughter is good-natured and s...o you relax and spend a little time with them. After a while, their patterned soft covers and colours begin to suggest possibilities a ballad about the sky, a haiku about school jumpers and rainy days, a musk-stick pink limerick or an ode to liquorice allsorts. Jenny Christmann considered these books to be ‘knitted poetry’, and her poems are full of the delight that can be found in the ordinary. Her love of books is shared through the tactility of their plump forms, which remind us of the very act of reading cradling the book with expectation, opening the nubbly covers, and then the rhythmic turning of pages, which echoes the cadence of knitting. The use of wool and found objects reveals Christmann’s empathy with Dada, with its emphasis on humble materials and humour. This playfulness is seen in the pairing of a pink and blue book inside the slipcase for 'The psychology of sex' by Havelock Ellis. The association, however, transpires to be a red herring Christmann says the choice was based only on the box’s size and shape. Her mischievous delight continues in her ‘signature’, which appears on the last page of each volume a smiley face made out of safety pins, using a larger bent pin for an upturned mouth. There is joy in this. Christmann was born #otd 1928, and you'll find these delightful volumes in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now opening 14 November. nga.gov.au/exhibitions/knowmyname/ [#JennyChristmann, '20 woollen books', 19771978, Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 1982 G.S. Christmann https://bit.ly/2HHnB8s] #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

13.01.2022 6pm, Thursday 26 November Watch this talk online or on Facebook Live. For Auslan Interpretation and live captions, please watch here: https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au//artists-in-conversation-ba/... Curator Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax leads a conversation with artists Barbara Campbell, Narelle Jubelin and r e a (Gamilaraay/Wailwan/Biripi peoples). This conversation engages with the feminist practices of three leading Australian artists who use the traditionally feminine activity of stitching to give a new (and often political) take on an old story. Campbell, Jubelin and r e a are all represented in the exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

12.01.2022 This Thursday is International Day of People with Disability. Jump online to book your place in one of the Gallery's many free access programs in the coming week. nga.gov.au/calendar Access to Art: Know My Name tour... 10.30am Wednesday 2 December Thursday Art Talk: Hands On Studio 12.45pm Thursday 3 December Art & Dementia: Art with Friends 10.30am Friday 4 December Sensory Sunday: Know My Name tour 8.30am Sunday 6 December Art by Description: Know My Name tour 11am Sunday 6 December Art with Auslan: Know My Name tour 2pm Sunday 6 December Art for Carers: Know My Name tour 10.30am Tuesday 8 December [#RoyLichtenstein 'Kitchen range', 1961-62, purchased 1978 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Copyright Agency] . #InternationalDayofPeoplewithDisability #ArtsAccess #Accessibility #NationalGalleryAus #IDPwD

12.01.2022 'Since his appointment in 2018, Mitzevich has been on a mission to return the gallery to Madigan’s original architectural vision, opening up spaces and removing plaster board additions in time for the building’s 40th anniversary next year. When visitors come to Canberra in the coming months they will get a taste of that vision in two new displays, Towards Abstraction and Emotional Body, which Mitzevich has curated in collaboration with the gallery's curatorial team and which showcase the collection alongside the modifications'. ArtsHub https://bit.ly/3hlN2vX

11.01.2022 'When I was a kid I always thought that postage stamps were like little pint sized paintings and when they were done well they did indeed inject art into the everyday and the practical. Today art on Instagram does the same thing. It’s a respite from the banal and the self indulgent. This painting by Melinda Harper has triggered something in your brain that has stopped your thumb from moving on. You’ve stopped and paused for a while. Melinda was inspired to become an artist af...ter a visit to the National Gallery of Australia. I wonder who she has and will inspire?' Tim Ross You'll be hearing more musings from Tim very soon. [#MelindaHarper, 'Untitled', 2001, purchased 2001, Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery] #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

10.01.2022 Big ideas. Defining moments. Visionary leadership. The National Gallery's annual lecture profiles great thinkers in the world of art. 6pm, Thursday 12 November Delivered online.... First Nations people have critiqued feminism, including in the arts, for excluding them, their communities, their voices and aspirations. Leading First Nations women Dr Crystal McKinnon, Kimberley Moulton and Paola Balla discuss perspectives on art, gender and power, and the influence of feminism on First Peoples practice in a global context. Show your commitment to Australian women artists by paying what you wish for the Annual Lecture, all proceeds support the Know My Name project. https://connect.nga.gov.au/135/223 #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

08.01.2022 'Back when we were allowed to travel, many Australians would touch down in a fabulous city and race to the biggest gallery in town for a look around. We don’t always do the same thing in our own backyard. Many of the most influential artists in the world are represented in the National Gallery collection. Feel free to tag a mate who should put in a visit to Canberra and the Gallery on their to do list.' Tim Ross More from Tim to come.... [#AndyWarhol, 'Campbell's Soup I', 1968, The Poynton Bequest 2006 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./ARS. Licensed by Copyright Agency https://bit.ly/2YEihcc] #VisitCanberra

08.01.2022 While there has been much research regarding the locations chosen by Cézanne, the site for this landscape in Provence still remains a matter of debate. Learn more about Paris, London and the Rise Of Modern Art in Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London. Ticket Sessions for this weekend 15 May and 16 of May have sold out. If you're planning a visit, please book your timed ticket in advance of arrival.... Only in Canberra Last weeks until 14 June Best availability weekdays Book now. https://nga.gov.au/masterpieces #BotticelliVanGogh #NationalGalleryAus #NationalGallery #visitcanberra #wearecbr [Paul Cézanne. Hillside in Provence. c. 1890-92. The National Gallery, London]

07.01.2022 'as a feminist I became aware that the heritage of women was not readily available to us, was not obviously recorded and was certainly not taught in the schools' Viv Binns Happy birthday Viv, born #otd 1940. You can catch Viv Binns’ work in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, opening 14 November.... . #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #NationalGalleryAus #MuseumFromHome See more

06.01.2022 Peter Maloney’s photographic montages from the mid-1990s draw on his lived experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Each of the montages bring together two colour photographs images of men, views of domestic or urban spaces, or of sky or sea. Maloney usually overpaints the photographs with text, anecdotes or fragments of found poetry, nursery rhymes or songs. The memories suggested by these works are those of someone remembering love and loss friends and lovers lost to HIV/AIDS, and also the moments of desire, risk and sensation that in a way mark the queer experience of time and space. Today is World AIDS Day. We'll remember them together. . [Peter Maloney, 'Untitled [Untitled 1975]', 1997, purchased 2019] #WorldAIDSDay

05.01.2022 Join us tonight at 6pm on Facebook Live as curator Deborah Hart leads a conversation with Australian artists Fiona Hall and Judy Watson (Waanyi people). Hall and Watson are distinguished artists, having both represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 1997, respectively. Hall’s practice intrigues and challenges audiences using diverse materials including sardine tins, dried bread, and bank notes to address issues of our times. Watson’s work commemorates and recla...ims Aboriginal memories, including the stories and sites of her matrilineal ancestral Country, using painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and public sculpture. Both artists are represented in the Gallery’s exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. https://www.facebook.com/NationalGalleryofAustralia/live/ #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown [Fiona Hall]

05.01.2022 This Thursday, join us from your home or office on Facebook for a discussion with Bruce Johnson-McLean (Wierdi, Birri-Gubba peoples), Assistant Director Indigenous Engagement on the art of protest in the national collection for NAIDOC Week. 12.45pm, Thursday 5 November Free, Facebook Live... NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week is an annual celebration that recognises Australia’s First Nations people and their rich cultural history. In the early 1990s, NAIDOC Week emerged as an important national event following acts of self-determination and civil rights protests including the 1938 Day of Mourning. In this livestream event, Johnson-McLean will highlight key works from the Gallery’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art collection that speak to the art of protest and current climate for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. [Bruce Johnson-McLean, Wierdi, Birri-Gubba peoples, with r e a, Gamilaraay/Wailwan/Biripi peoples, 'Resistance (flag)', 1996, Purchased 2004] #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek

03.01.2022 Bruce Johnson McLean (Wierdi, Birri-Gubba peoples), Assistant Director Indigenous Engagement on the art of protest in the national collection for NAIDOC Week. NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week is an annual celebration that recognises Australia’s First Nations people and their rich cultural history. In the early 1990s, NAIDOC Week emerged as an important national event following acts of self-determination and civil rights protests including the 1938 Day of Mourning. In this livestream event, Johnson McLean will highlight key works from the Gallery’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art collection that speak to the art of protest and current climate for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek

03.01.2022 6pm, Saturday 14 November Curators Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt introduce the Gallery’s major exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now in an accessible livestream conversation. For Auslan Interpretation and live captions, please watch here: ... https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/ #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown

01.01.2022 ‘We have to look at all exclusions, and only then, once we start being aware of those barriers of our time, does equitable inclusion open up.’ - Jennifer Higgie Read more with ArtsHub ... #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #BowDown

01.01.2022 In celebration of Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, see some of our favourite things available in-store at the Art Store. Discover Know My Name books and tote bags and bespoke products created by Bonnie and Neil and Mud Australia inspired by women artists from our collection. Mud Australia's limited-edition capsule is inspired by the works of seminal Australian artist Margaret Preston. These pieces have only passed through the hands of women makers at Mud A...ustralia in the spirit of Know My Name. #KnowMyName #NationalGalleryAus