visual arts exhibition
Last Thursday we made another visit to Deutscher Hackett auction house in South Yarra to see their wonderful selection of Australian art – paintings, sculpture and prints.
Tag Archives: Exhibitions
Menzies auction November 2024
Visiting auction exhibition
Last weekend we made our way over to South Yarra – to wander through the exhibition of Australian art being staged prior to the auction by Menzies in South Yarra.
Visiting Heide October 2024
Heide Museum of Modern Art
An overcast Friday in Melbourne and a good time to visit Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Deutscher Hackett auction visits
visual arts exhibitions
Another post about visits to auction houses to see visual arts exhibition – being four day events before the auction. There’s usually a mix of artworks – some wonderful to some ordinary.
Visiting ANU Drill Hall Gallery
This was published originally in August 2022
It was a recent photography exhibition by Catherine Rogers (closed 14th August) that brought home to me what a great space the ANU Drill Hall Gallery is.
visiting Canberra’s City Gallery
CMAG – a new future
More than three decades ago the local visual arts community advocated for the establishment of a Canberra Regional/City Gallery. Continue reading visiting Canberra’s City Gallery
Summer at the NGA
There’s a lot to be seen at the exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia this summer – so it’s time to get thee hence – – –click here.
Canberra Visual Arts in May
Recommendations for Visual Arts exhibitions May 2017
Here’s a few of the exhibitions in Canberra this month.
Versailles at the NGA–a summer of glitz, cake and unsettled staff
Usually at this time of the year, I am looking forward to the coming visual arts exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).
Continue reading Versailles at the NGA–a summer of glitz, cake and unsettled staff
Portraits of William Eggleston
click on the image for the story about the exhibition of William Eggleston
photography at the V&A
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Auckland festival of photography
2016 Auckland festival of photography – June 2016
The 2016 Auckland festival of photography like many Australian photographic festival is very dependent on the enthusiasms and the energy of a small band of people, or more often than not, just one person.
Richard Avedon
Exhibition Review
Richard Avedon at National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
August – November 2013
Christopher Chapman of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra is to be congratulated for curating this exhibition of a diverse range of Richard Avedon’s work.
For people not too familiar with his work, it is a great introduction to the scope of photography produced by this famous artist.
Splendid
Exhibition Review
Adrienne Doig at Martin Browne Contemporary
September – October 2013
I was introduced to Adrienne’s current work when visiting the 2013 contemporary art fair in Sydney in September.
I was intrigued. Her use of eBay purchased embroided patchwork struck a chord and I was hoping to see more soon.
The next day we were wandering over to see another exhibition when we realised we were near to Martin Browne Contemporary and took the chance to see if her work was on exhibition. It was and I was again very interested. Continue reading Splendid