20th-century Australian collection talks

    • Sidney Nolan First-class marksman 1946 (detail) © the Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust

    • Insights into works in the Gallery's 20th-century Australian collection

      Art After Hours, Exhibition talk

Wednesdays 5.30pm
2 – 16 November 2011

Free

Duration 30 minutes
Location: Temporary exhibitions gallery

Related exhibition: 20th-century Australian collection

Sidney Nolan First-class marksman 1946 (detail) © the Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust

    • Responses to Sydney Harbour

      Wednesday 2 November 5:30pm – 6pm

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      Join Emma Collerton, public programs, for a discussion of iconic paintings of Sydney Harbour including Brett Whiteley’s The balcony 1975 and John Olsen’s Five bells 1963.

    • Arthur Boyd

      Wednesday 9 November 5:30pm – 6pm

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      Join Camilla Shanahan, public programs, for a discussion of Arthur Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzar on fire falling over a waterfall 1966-68.

    • 20th-century Australian abstraction

      Wednesday 16 November 5:30pm – 6pm

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      Join Sheona White, head of public programs, for a discussion of the significance of abstraction to the development of Australian modernism.