FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2009From 25 July 2009 |
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The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards is a national art award founded in 2008 to celebrate the diversity and richness of Indigenous art from across the country. The awards acknowledge the significant contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists make to Australian art and culture... more | |
Abstract Earth: The Photography of Richard Woldendorp1 August - 8 November 2009 |
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Richard Woldendorp Forest River near Wyndham, Western Australia Copyright Photographs © Richard Woldendorp 2008 |
Richard Woldendorp is a highly respected photographer acknowledged as Australia’s eminent practitioner of aerial photography. For 50 years, Woldendorp has documented the country's unique landscape from the sky. His images of the environment, taken from the air, established a fresh visual vocabulary for the Australian landscape. The exhibition features works which captures the vastness of the Australian outback, our distinctive coastlines and our man made landscapes in a way that combines both realism and precision with the power of large-scale abstract form. |
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McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-1712 December 2009 - 29 March 2010 |
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Frederick McCubbin The Old Garden c1910 oil on canvas 56 x 91.5cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased with funds from the Great Australian Paintings Appeal, 1978 |
Well-known for his monumental nationalistic landscapes from the 1890s, Australian artist Frederick McCubbin continued to paint until his death in 1917. Travel to Europe in 1907 changed both his technique and subject matter, with the art of JMW Turner and the French Impressionists being particular influences. This exhibition features only the late works by McCubbin, showing his passion for the Australian bush, but now captured in smaller and light-filled landscape paintings of the natural and urban environs of Melbourne, many of which exhibit brilliant effects of light and colour. This is a touring exhibition from the National Gallery of Australia |
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