Past Exhibitions

Portia Geach Memorial Award 2010 (24 September – 7 November 2010)
This annual award exhibition for portraiture by Australian women artists presents selected entries from 47 artists across the nation representing diversity in contemporary portraiture. The Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australia women painters and has played a vital role in developing the profile of contemporary portraiture.


Slow Burn (6 August - 19 September 2010)
The National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition Slow Burn- A century of Australian women artists from a private collection. Slow Burn traces the history of women artists in Australia and the development of a remarkable private collection over a 15 year period.  The evolution of the collection was guided by the late art dealer, Eva Breuer.


The Shilo project (2 July - 1 August 2010)
Chris McAuliffe, Director of The Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University, was on holiday browsing in an op shop in Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula, when he came across two copies of Diamond's 1970 LP, Shilo. One cover was in its original condition, 202 numbered black dots on a white background, which features an uncompleted join-the-dots portrait of the American singer-songwriter-guitarist. The second cover was a completed coloured-in version by an unknown amateur. McAuliffe bought both and the chance find of these two album covers sparked the idea of an exhibition inviting contemporary artists to respond to the challenge posed by the do-it-yourself album cover.


Sidney Nolan: The Gallipoli Series (28 May - 27 June 2010)
idney Nolan (1917–1992) was one of Australia’s most complex, innovative, and prolific artists. In 1978 Nolan presented the Gallipoli series to the Australian War Memorial. These 252 drawings and paintings, completed over a 20-year period, were donated in memory of his brother Raymond, a soldier who died in a tragic accident just before the end of the Second World War. Gallipoli was a theme to which Nolan constantly returned throughout his artistic career.


Salon Des Refuses 2010 (27 March - 23 June 2010)
National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery presents the 19th annual Salon Des Refuses, the alternative Archibald & Wynne prize selection, Saturday 27 March until Sunday 23 May 2010. The Salon exhibition is selected from the official entries to the annual Archibald Prize (for portraiture) and Wynne Prize (for landscape painting and figure sculpture) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.


Nora Heysen: Light and Life (14 November - 20 December 2009)
This is first major retrospective on the South Australian-born artist since her death, in 2003. The exhibition will be accompanied by the release of a new fully illustrated book; “Nora Heysen: Light and life”, by exhibition curator, Jane Hylton, and published by Wakefield Press.


2009 Portia Geach Memorial Award (25 September - 8 November 2009)
Portia Geach Memorial Award was first given in 1965 to Jean Appleton for her self portrait. Last year’s winner was Canberra based artist, Jude Rae with Self Portrait 2008: (the year my husband left me).  Previous winners include Jenny Sages, Lucy Culliton,  Wendy Sharpe,  Nerissa Lea,  Maryanne Coutts,  Elisabeth Cummings,  Kim Spooner, Nancy Borlase, Margaret Woodward, Margaret Ackland, Jenny Watson, Christine Hiller, Brenda Humble, Ena Joyce, Maria Cruz & Rosemary Valadon.

 

Margaret Olley: Life's Journey (8 May - 28 June 2009)
MARGARET OLLEY: Life's journey provides a unique insight into the world of National Trust Living Treasure, Margaret Olley, one of  this country’s most celebrated artists. The exhibition traces the many places Olley has lived and worked from the late 1940s to the 1970s, years which helped define an important era in Australia's cultural life.



Ruark Lewis ‘Housing the Seafaring Nation’: An Ephemeral Public Art Installation(February - March 2009)
Artist Ruark Lewis and writer-curator Jo Holder are undertaking a series of ephemeral art works that take up the idea and form of a public conversation. The issue under discussion here is the government’s policy of selling-off of Public Housing in inner-city Sydney.

 

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