Defining Australian Impressionism
Dr Gerard Vaughan explains how the artists in this exhibition became grouped generically as Australian Imressionists.
Duration: 21 min
Image: NGV Staff Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV NGV Photographic Services
A Golden Age: Tom Roberts and the Art of Spain
Humphrey McQueen, Freelance Historian, discusses the Art of Spain and its influences on Tom Roberts' work.
Duration: 16 min
Image: Seminars and Symposiums
The City's Toil: Impressionists Views of Marvellous Melbourne
Presented by Dr Andrew Brown-May from the School of Historical Studies at The University of Melbourne.
Duration: 20 min
Image: Tom Roberts Allegro con brio, Bourke St West (c.1885–86) National Library of Australia and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased, 1918
Memory and Desire: Box Hill 1885-88
Dr Leigh Astbury, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Monash University introduces the Box Hill landscapes and the artists' pursuit of truth in nature
Duration: 25 min
Image: Tom Roberts A quiet day on the Darebin Creek 1885 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased, 1969
The Sunny South: On the Melbourne Riviera
Daniel Thomas, retired art-museum curator and director, walks us through the sea-side paintings of the Sunny South and the Mentone period
Duration: 36 min
Image: Tom Roberts The sunny south (c.1887) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1940
Heidelberg, Grosvenor Chambers and the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
Terence Lane, Curator of the Australian Impressionism Exhibition, brings together Heidelberg, Grosvenor Chambers and the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
Duration: 31 min
Image: Arthur Streeton Near Heidelberg 1890 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1943
Exploring the Familiar: Conservation Research into the Australian Impressionists
Michael Varcoe-Cocks is the Conservator of Paintings 1850 - 1950, here at the National Gallery of Victoria
Duration: 24 min
Image: Tom Roberts Shearing the rams 1890 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1932
Friendly Rivalry: Paintings of Waterside Sydney 1888 and 1890s
We travel to Sydney with Dr Mary Eagle, Fellow, at the Australian National University
Duration: 26 min
Image: Tom Roberts Holiday sketch at Coogee 1888 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Purchased, 1954
High Noon On the Hawkesbury River: Arthur Streeton in the Hawkesbury District of NSW
Jane Clark, Deputy Chairman, Sotheby's Australia, discusses Arthur Streeton's work from the Hawkesbury district
Duration: 32 min
Image: Arthur Streeton ‘The purple noon’s transparent might’ 1896 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased 1896
Jane Sutherland: Thoroughly Australian Landscapes
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director at the NGV introduces us to the extraordinary landscaps of Jane Sutherland
Duration: 29 min
Image: Jane Sutherland Field naturalists Field naturalists by Jane Sutherland, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Gift of Mrs E. H. Shackell, 1962
Natural Nationalism
David Hansen, Curator and Writer, talks about National Themes in this collection
Duration: 21 min
Image: Seminars and Symposiums
The Guggenheim Museum – History and today
Lisa Dennison, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
walks us through the history of the Guggenheim museum from its beginning as a progressive collection of non-objective art to a growing and evolving international network for cultural exchange.
Duration: 49 min
Image: Lisa Dennison @ Guggenheim Symposium Fred Kroh
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to now
Dr. Valerie Hillings, Curator of Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to now, discusses the curatorial process that she undertook, together with colleagues at both the Guggenheim and the NGV, to realize a show that is both survey and portrait.
Duration: 52 min
Image: Dr Valerie Hillings @ Guggenheim Symposium Fred Kroh
Artist Perspective
Sarah Anne Johnson’s work has been collected by the Guggenheim Museum, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Spencer Museum of Art and Yale University. Sarah offers a unique and humourous insight into the production and inspiration of two recent works: Tree Planting and The Galapagos Project.
Duration: 32 min
Image: Sarah Anne Johnson @ Guggenheim Symposium Fred Kroh
Finding Our Way: Modern Art, Misery, and the Pursuit of Happiness
David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, is the author of several books on American art, society, and popular culture. He discusses how Modern art, born in the Age of Revolution, sprang from a radically new concept in human history—that common citizens had the right to be happy.
Duration: 51 min
Image: David Lubin @ Guggenheim Symposium Fred Kroh
Running Hot and Cool: Climate Change in Post-War Art
Dr Anthony White is a graduate of The University of Melbourne and Harvard University. From 2000-2002, he held the position of Curator of International Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia and is now Lecturer, Art History Program, School of Culture and Communication, at The University of Melbourne. Anthony discusses the artistic transformation that took place in post-war European and American Art.
Duration: 43 min
Image: Visitors @ Guggenheim Symposium Fred Kroh
Experimenta Playground
Emma McRae, Curatorial and Project Coordinator of Experimenta, discusses the process of exhibition design for Experimenta Playground, with a focus on the challenges of working within a non-traditional gallery venue for the exhibition of media art.
Duration: 14 min
Image: Communictions Symposium Fred Kroh
An Architecture of Light, Energy and the Museum
Michael Pearce, Senior Architect, DesignInc, focuses on some of the possibilities that are opening to architecture in a new age of uncertainty, energy base shifts, and global warming.
Duration: 50 min
Image: Communictions Symposium Fred Kroh
Installing the APT in the new GOMA, Brisbane
Don Heron, Head of Exhibitions and Display, Queensland Art Gallery, explores the exhibition design of the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) with a particular emphasis on how the exhibition was designed for, and installed in the new Gallery of Modern Art building.
Duration: 18 min
Image: Communictions Symposium Fred Kroh
