Single entry tickets
Adult: $10
Concession: $7
(pension / healthcare cards & full-time students)
Family Pass: $23.50
(2 adults / 3 children)
NGV Members: $5
NGV Members Family Pass: $12
Unlimited entry tickets
Adult: $25
Concession: $17.50
NGV Members: $12.50
Closing party -
Open until midnight Saturday 9 July
See the exhibition, meet the artist,
enjoy food, music and wine.
Students $5 after 5pm.
Join NGV Members and receive a free ticket!
(conditions apply)
Bill Henson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. His powerful and edgy photographs approach the painterly and the cinematic, bringing together the formal and classical with the gritty, casual dramas of the everyday. Henson defines and redefines his subjects with a rigour that is inseparable from his technical command. He is a master of the use of light and dark in the tradition of the great European masters. Beautiful, confronting, and unforgettable his images capture a universal essence and enliven our own sense of being.
This landmark exhibition, which is organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is the first major survey of Bill Henson's work and includes more than 350 works from more than a dozen series since 1974.
'The work might begin with a fleeing impression from first-hand experience or in a piece of music I am always drawn back to, or perhaps in a paragraph of writing I cannot forget – and then it takes its own course. I become like a participant in some larger process I happen to be fascinated by.'
Bill Henson
Curator: Judy Annear (AGNSW)
Co-ordinating Curator: Dr Isobel Crombie (NGV)
Principal Sponsor
Support Sponsors
Image sequence: Bill Henson, from Paris Opera Project 1991 (detail), from Untitled 1985/86 (detail), from Untitled sequence 1979 (detail), from Untitled 1983/84 (detail), from Untitled 1985/86 (detail), from Untitled 1985/86 (detail). © Bill Henson
