Visiting the exhibition: What's on
A comprehensive range of public programs has been developed to complement the exhibition and enhance your experience.
Guided Tours
Meet the Curator
Artviews
Lunchtime Lectures
Film on Friday
Film on Friday for Kids
In-depth Lectures
Summer Course on Nineteenth Century Design
Sunday Readings
Special Events
Regional Artbus Program
For Children and Families
For further program details
and bookings contact Information Services on 9208 0203 or refer to individual
program details indicated.
Please note: all programs are conducted
at the NGV on Russell unless otherwise specified. All programs are FREE unless otherwise specified and all admission and program costs listed include G.S.T.
Please go to General Info for information about parking, public transport and the location of the gallery.
Free tours of the exhibitions are conducted daily at 2.00pm with the Voluntary Guides, commencing in McCoy Gallery.
Exhibition admission fees apply.
A unique opportunity to hear and discuss aspects of the exhibition with the Curators.
Victorian Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass
House
McCoy Gallery, Exhibition admission fees apply.
Monday 3 December 12.30pm & Monday 21 January 12.30pm
Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography
Sunday 27 January 3.30pm & Tuesday 29 January 12.30pm
Kate Rhodes, Assistant Curator, Photography
From the World of Beautiful Shadows
McCoy Mezzanine, Free event
Sunday 2 December 3.30pm
Susan van Wyk, Curator, Photography
Sunday 9 December 3.30pm
Maria Zagala, Assistant Curator, Prints & Drawings
Monday 17 December 12.30pm
Christopher Menz, Senior Curator, Decorative Arts
Sunday 20 January 3.30pm
Kate Rhodes, Assistant Curator, Photography
Interpreting art from different viewpoints.
For location check with the Information Desk on the day.
Exhibition admission fees may apply.
Tuesday 11 December 12.30pm
Susie May, Education Officer, Education and Programs
Tuesday 18 December 12.30pm
Angeletta Leggio, Photography Conservator
Tuesday 8 & 15 January 12.30pm
Dr Robert Wilson, Program Coordinator, Education and Programs
Sunday 20 January 1.30pm
Les Walkling, Photographer & Media Arts Course Director, RMIT University
An introductory suite of lectures by Gallery staff
Conference Room, McCoy Mezzanine
Free event
Wednesday 12 December & 30 January 12.30pm
Tracey Judd, Senior Assistant Curator, Directorate
Victorian Visions: The Art of The Pre-Raphaelites
Wednesday 19 December & 16 January 12.30pm
Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography
An Introduction to the Exhibition:
Victorian Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass House
Wednesday 23 January 12.30pm
Susan van Wyk, Curator, Photography
An Introduction to the Exhibition:
From the World of Beautiful Shadows
Conference Room, McCoy Mezzanine
Free event
Friday 14 December 12.30pm & Friday 1 February 12.30pm
Famous Men and Fair Women: Pioneers of Photography Julia Margaret
Cameron (30 mins)
Friday 25 January 12.30pm
To The Lighthouse (PG) (115 mins)
Note: This film will have a 10 minute interval at 1.30pm
Videos courtesy of Cinemedia
Conference Room, McCoy Mezzanine
Free event
Friday 18 January 12.30pm
Alice in Wonderland (G) (75 mins)
Friday 18 January 2.30pm
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (G) (96 mins)
Videos courtesy of Cinemedia
Conference Room, McCoy Mezzanine
Cost: $15.00, $10.00 members per lecture
Bookings essential, telephone 9208 0208
Friday 7 December 2.30pm & Sunday 9 December 1.00pm
Kenneth Park, Curator & Writer
Armchair Travel: Julia Margaret Cameron: Many Lands, Many Faces
Julia Margaret Cameron, the extraordinary portrait photographer, lived a fascinating life for a woman from a ‘well to do’ family of the 1800s. She experienced many parts of the world. Born in India, Cameron was educated in England and France. She lived in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) for many years before returning to live on the Isle of Wight. Join Kenneth Park as he surveys some of the regions that have figured in Cameron’s life and work.
Event code G01167 & Event code G01168
Wednesday 19 December 2.30pm
Dr Robert Wilson, Program Coordinator, Education & Programs
George Frederick Watts: Noble Artist
To the great Victorian artists, Lord Leighton and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, George Frederick Watts was considered to be the father-figure of 19th century classicism. He dreamed of reviving great and noble art in England. But, considering the scale of his ambition, he was also a humble man. His life was completely dominated by a succession of women, including Mrs Prinsep, in whose house he lived for 30 years, and while in Italy, Lady Holland. Even his disastrous first marriage to child bride Ellen Terry was arranged by Mrs Prinsep. Join Dr Robert Wilson as he uncovers the highs and lows of one of the great originals in British art.
Event code G01183
Saturday 19 January 12.00noon
Dr Anne Marsh, Monash University
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Maternal Desire
The lecture will address Julia Margaret Cameron’s series of photographs of the Madonna and Child and consider these images in relation to a maternal desire evident in the religious subject matter. It will be argued that there is a veiled sensuality in these images, which speaks about female desire and the desire of the matriarch. Contemporary feminist theory will be used as a way of enhancing the conventional historical interpretation of Cameron’s work.
Event code G02003
Wednesday 23 January 2.30pm
Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography
Private Lives: A Nineteenth Century Photographic Album by Viscountess Frances Jocelyn
In the 1850s, Queen Victoria gave her Royal imprimatur to photography as a suitable hobby for women. Viscountess Jocelyn was a member of the Royal circle who, in common with other ladies of her class, enthusiastically constructed private photographic albums. With wit and ingenuity, Jocelyn frequently montaged the photographs she took to create telling images of her life and relationships. This lecture explores one such album by Jocelyn, revealing fascinating details of early photographic practice and giving a moving insight into a ‘private life’.
Event code G02004
Saturday 26 January 12noon
Dr Anne Marsh, Monash University
Julia Margaret Cameron: A Performative Practice
The lecture will consider Julia Margaret Cameron in the context of the 19th century by drawing comparisons with Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Lady Clementina Harwarden and others who pursued what we might now call a ‘performative photography’. Recent contemporary photography of women and children will also be discussed as a way of explicating the radical edge of Cameron’s work.
Event code G02005
Wednesday 30 January 2.30pm
Dr Alison Inglis, The University of Melbourne
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
The term ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood’ was first coined by the art historian, Jan Marsh, in her 1985 pioneering study of the women associated with the British art movement known as Pre-Raphaelitism. Earlier books on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had discussed the relationship of these male artists with various women – wives, mistresses, models, sisters and daughters – but these female figures had not previously been examined in their own right. This lecture will concentrate on the creative contribution of the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and will also consider more recent interpretations of their roles as artists, patrons and muses.
Event code G02006
Conference Room, McCoy Mezzanine
Cost: $8.00, $6.00 members per lecture
Special Offer: Book into all six lectures and receive
an exhibition ticket to see Victorian Photographs, Julia Margaret Cameron.
Bookings essential, telephone 9208 0208
Thursday 17 January 10.30am
Christopher Menz, Senior Curator, Decorative Arts
William Morris: Designer, Poet and Socialist
William Morris is best known nowadays for his beautiful floral textile and wallpaper designs, many of which are still in print. He was also the central figure in the revival of British handcrafts during the second half of the nineteenth century and his name is synonymous with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris’s firm Morris & Co. was responsible for some of the most sumptuous interiors of the nineteenth century, and had several Australian clients. As if this was not enough, Morris was a major poet and an early and important figure in the socialist movement.
Event code P02004
Friday 18 January 10.30am
Dr Robert Wilson, Program Co-ordinator, Education & Programs
Minton & Co: King of Nineteenth Century Ceramic Design
From humble eighteenth century beginnings, Thomas Minton established a firm that would lead the ceramic world in technical achievements and design by the mid-nineteenth century. Local and foreign designers and decorators flocked to Stoke to be part of a pottery dynasty the world is not likely to see again. Join Dr Robert Wilson as he explores the design archives of Minton & Co and the pots that established its reputation.
Event code P02005
Thursday 24 January 10.30am
Christopher Menz, Senior Curator, Decorative Arts
Edward William Godwin: Anglo-Japanese Designer
E.W. Godwin, architect and designer, has become associated with his pared-down Anglo-Japanese furniture. Although he never visited Japan, he studied Japanese art extensively and included many Japanese design principles in his work. Like many of his contemporaries, Godwin drew on many sources and the diversity of his work is remarkable.
Event code P02006
Friday 25 January 10.30am
Christopher Menz, Senior Curator, Decorative Arts
Dr Christopher Dresser: Botanist and Designer
Dresser was one of the most eclectic of the nineteenth century designers, drawing on ancient and exotic cultures as well as nature. His training as a botanist informed his highly original work, some of which continues to appear startlingly modern 120 years later. As a freelance designer, Dresser embraced machine production, producing metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles and wallpaper. He was one of the forerunners of twentieth-century design.
Event code P02007
Thursday 31 January 10.30am
Margaret Legge, Curator, Decorative Arts
William De Morgan: Pre-Raphaelite Potter
William De Morgan was a major figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Originally trained as a painter in the Royal Academy Schools, this contemporary of William Morris turned to ceramics and developed a vigorous style of decoration in magnificent lustres and rich colours inspired by Islamic and Renaissance models.
Event code P02008
Friday 1 February 10.30am
Margaret Legge, Curator, Decorative Arts
Wendy McRae, Social Historian Nineteenth Century Jewellery
The gleaming gold, fiery stones and cool silver of jewellery are often all that remains of great love affairs from Victorian times. Their symbolism still speaks to us over the years. Join Wendy McRae as she traces jewellery design trends in the nineteenth century.
Event code P02009
McCoy Gallery, Exhibition admission fees apply
Sunday 2 December 3.00pm
Edwina Preston
Writer Edwina Preston will present an original piece in response to work
in Victorian Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass
House.
Presented in association with the Victorian Writers’ Centre.
Sunday 20 January 3.00pm
Dorothy Porter
Writer and poet Dorothy Porter will present readings of nineteenth century literature in connection to Victorian Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass
House.
Presented in associated with the Australian Book Review.
Friday 14 December 9.00am
Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography
Study Morning: Victorian Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass
House
Cost: $35.00, $30.00 members (includes breakfast and entry into the exhibition)
Bookings essential, telephone 9208 0208
Isobel Crombie will present an introductory talk on the exhibition Victorian
Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass House. The illustrated lecture will
follow a continental breakfast in the Gallery Café, and there will be
time to view the exhibition with Isobel after the lecture.
Event code G01151
Thursday 17, 24 & 31 January;
Sunday 20, 27 January & 3 February
12.00noon – 4.00pm each day
‘Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown’d’
A performative installation by Linda Sproul, visual artist
McCoy Mezzanine (enter via the right stairway from the Gallery foyer)
Free event
A site-specific project in response to the exhibition Victorian Photographs, Julia Margaret Cameron.
One of the distinct roles photography has assumed over the last while is that of the ‘happy snap’. In this work Linda Sproul invites members of the public to have their photos taken for inclusion in the ‘Let Love clasp Grief’ album. It seeks to create a ‘family’ album that records interior states, not exterior likenesses, in order to make visible the other world of our daily lives.
Thursday 24 January 11.30pm – 1.30am
Midnight Poetry Event
Cost: $25.00, $20.00 members/students
Bookings essential, telephone 9208 0208
A special event at NGV on Russell featuring a selection of writers ‘performing’
nineteenth century poetry and original work in response to Victorian
Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass House. Experience readings by Alicia
Sometimes, Kieran Carroll and others. A bewitching literary-arts event
designed to move your mind and soul. The evening includes drinks on arrival
and time to view the exhibition.
Event code G02001
Travel to Melbourne from selected Regional Galleries on the NGV Artbus and view the exhibitions and the permanent collection of the NGV. For further information, telephone 9208 0351.
8 December – 3 February 2002
Family Trail
Experience the fantasy of different places and other times with a self help trail especially designed to explore the current exhibitions. Available from the Information Desk. (Trail free to families, adult exhibition fee applies)
Sunday 9 December 11.00am – 3.00pm
Super Sunday Family Day:
Angels, Jewels and Kings
Cost: Family ticket $20.00 (includes activities and exhibition admission)
Get into the spirit of a Victorian Christmas with ‘joy, happiness and goodwill to all’. Hear carols and traditional Christmas songs, participate in workshops in our studio, help Santa decorate the Gallery’s tree and join Artie on a tour of angels and kings. Come dressed for the occasion and complete your Christmas costume in our face-painting corner.
Monday 21 – Friday 25 January 11.00am – 12.00noon
Children’s Holiday Program
Lively Legends and Passionate Portraits
Free event for children, adult exhibition admission fees apply. A special opportunity for children to be guided through the exhibition with a Voluntary Guide.
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