Australian Art Series
dal 22/2/2002 al 26/5/2002
Segnalato da
22/2/2002
Australian Art Series
City Gallery Wellington, Wellington
Three exhibitions by Australian artists Sir Sidney Nolan, Tracey Moffatt and Mikala Dwyer open this weekend at City Gallery Wellington, as a highlight of the 2002 New Zealand Festival. This weekend also marks the start of an extensive public programme of public events based on the Australian Art Series.
Three exhibitions by Australian artists Sir Sidney Nolan,
Tracey Moffatt and Mikala Dwyer open this weekend at
City Gallery Wellington, as a highlight of the 2002 New
Zealand Festival. This weekend also marks the start of an
extensive public programme of public events based on the
Australian Art Series.
Sidney Nolans Ned Kelly Series - Paintings from the
National Gallery of Australia features the most enduring
and instantly recognisable images ever painted of
Australias famous outlaw. The series was painted when
Sidney Nolan was himself an outlaw of a kind, having
deserted from the army in 1944. Though he was only 30
when he completed the works, many consider them to be
the masterpieces of his career. A range of films on Ned
Kelly and Sir Sidney Nolan will be screening in the Gallery
throughout this exhibition. 23 February - 19 May 2002.
LECTURE - Saturday 23 February, 2pm: Dr Brian Kennedy,
Director of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, will
give a keynote address entitled The Role of a National
Gallery. The National Gallery of Australia is home to the
Ned Kelly paintings. This lecture is part of a lecture series
by international gallery directors, running throughout the
Australian Art Series.
Photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt is currently
Australias most internationally recognised and widely
exhibited contemporary artist. The stylised worlds she
creates draw on her own experience of growing up
Aboriginal in suburban Brisbane, and the images that engulf
us in the media age. Nine photographic series and six
films/videos feature in this exhibition. 23 February - 26
May 2002.
Mikala Dwyers seriously playful installations amaze visitors
with their seemingly chaotic accumulations of domestic
and industrial materials. Dwyer has exhibited widely in
Australia and further afield over the past decade. For this
exhibition, she has created a new site-specific installation
especially for the Gallery. 23 February - 19 May 2002.
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