Naata Nungurrayi Panels now on display in Kambri Cultural Centre
Naata Nungurrayi (c.1932-) 10 panels from the Iconography series 2011-2014 Each panel 183 x 244 cm Acrylic on canvas ANU Art Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Craig Edwards in memory of Edmund Charles Edwards and Alan Edmund Edwards, Teachers. These ten panels are part of an epic cycle of […]
Hassall Collection Catalogue Now Available
“When we chose the works for this exhibition at the Drill Hall, Tony Oates and I wanted the selection to acknowledge the social and cultural engagement of the collector, Geoffrey Hassall, not just his aesthetic acumen. For us, the collection forms a sort of imaginary utopia, a model of community where all the works are […]
Sidney Nolan mural of Eureka Stockade now on display in Kambri Cultural Centre
The Drill Hall Gallery and ANU Art Collections team have worked together with Kambri project managers for the monumental install of Sidney Nolan’s Eureka Stockade 1966. The Kambri precinct was officially opened on 11 Feb 2019 with a grand reveal of this seminal work. You are now able to visit the Kambri Cultural Centre in […]
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Jan King delivers her sculpture ‘Monastery’ to the Drill Hall Gallery
Jan King delivered her sculpture ‘Monastery to the Drill Hall Gallery on Thursday 6 December. This sculpture is being donated to the University under the cultural gifts program. The University is thrilled to receive this elegant and artwork into the burgeoning art collection of over 2,500 works. In 2011 ‘Monastry’ work was featured in a […]
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Drill Hall Gallery exhibitions honoured by Canberra Critics Circle
Last evening, Tuesday 13 November, The ACT Art Awards were presented by The Canberra Critics Circle. Three exhibitions by Canberra artists held at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery received awards. Robert Boynes ” For his powerful and dynamic exhibition of screen-printed paintings titled “Modern Times” , influenced by his love of film, spanning ten years, held […]
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Emil Viklicky Piano & Miroslav Bukovsky Trumpet Friday 2 November 7pm
Music in the Drill Gallery – a very special event. Visiting Czech pianist, Emil Viklicky, celebrated throughout Europe and also well known in the USA and Asia, will be joining the great jazz trumpeter Miroslav Bukovsky for an evening of duets at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery on Friday 2 November at 7 – 8.30 […]
500 years of figure drawing…a curator’s odyssey SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 3PMÂ
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo A falling figure C1792 red and white chalk, on faded blue paper, 266 x 311mm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Lecture #5 DRILL HALL GALLERY LECTURE SERIES SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 3PM TERENCE MALOON PRESENTS 500 YEARS OF FIGURE DRAWING A CURATOR’S ODYSSEY In the year 2000, Sydney was “the Olympic city”. […]
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SUNDAY 26 AUGUST 3PM Join us at the gallery for a champagne at the launch of DIANA KOSTYRKO – The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer: RenĂ© Gimpel (1918-1939) The transatlantic art dealer, RenĂ© Gimpel (1881-1945), maintained an interwar journal for twenty-one years until, like many Jews in France, he was overtaken by radical political […]
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FLOOR TALK GAIL NICHOLS WITH KAREN O’CLERY SATURDAY 30 JUNE 12 NOON
FLOOR TALK SATURDAY 30 JUNE at NOON MEET GAIL NICHOLS and KAREN O’CLERY Gail Nichols is a Braidwood resident who is recognized internationally for her unique approach to ceramics. She is famous for the generous, even voluptuous forms of her vessels, to which she applies a distinctive soda vapour glaze. She has devised a unique, […]
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AN INVITATION SUNDAY 17 JUNE 3PM – RE IMAGINING THE GALLERY Project #4 ABBIE MUIR
You are invited to join us for a glass of wine in the gallery this SUNDAY 17 JUNE at 3pm for a the presentation of the fourth project in the series RE IMAGINING THE GALLERY presented by University of Canberra Architecture student ABBIE MUIR In 2017 architecture students at the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts […]
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