Tag Archives: Australia

State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research library in the state, with a collection focus on South Australian…

State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Migration Museum, Adelaide, Australia

The Migration Museum is a social history museum located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is one of the three museums operated by the History Trust of South Australia. It deals with the immigration and settlement history of South Australia, and maintains both a permanent and a rotating collection of works.…

Migration Museum, Adelaide, Australia

National Sports Museum, East Melbourne, Australia

The National Sports Museum is a museum dedicated to Australian sport and is located within the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. There are exhibits for sports such as cricket, Australian rules football, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, tennis, rugby league, rugby union, soccer, basketball, boxing and netball. The…

National Sports Museum, East Melbourne, Australia

National Motor Museum, Australia

The National Motor Museum, Australia, is an automobile museum in the Adelaide Hills in the township of Birdwood, South Australia. Established in 1964 and opened to the public soon afterwards, it is Australia’s largest motor museum, with close to 400 vehicles on display. The Museum was started by Jack Kaines…

National Motor Museum, Australia

Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

The Queensland Art Gallery is an art museum located in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only 150 metres (490 ft) away. The Queensland Art Gallery is owned and…

Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

International And Asian Art Collection, Queensland Art Gallery

The International galleries offer an opportunity to experience major works from the Gallery’s collections in new contexts, and include early European religious painting, British portraits, Dutch painting, and East Asian and European porcelain. From the influence of Japanese art on French Modernism to the representation of daily life, the display…

International And Asian Art Collection, Queensland Art Gallery

Indigenous Australian Collection: Everywhen, Everywhere, Queensland Art Gallery

Everywhen, Everywhere: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia surveys contemporary Indigenous art from Australia, exploring the ways in which time is embedded within Indigenous artistic, social, historical, and philosophical life. As seminal Australian anthropologist and essayist WEH Stanner posited, the ‘Everywhen’ — where knowledge and history from all…

Indigenous Australian Collection: Everywhen, Everywhere, Queensland Art Gallery

No.1 Neighbour: Art In Papua New Guinea 1966-2016, Queensland Art Gallery

‘No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016’ presents work by artists from Papua New Guinea created from the mid-1960s, through Independence in 1975, until today. The exhibition focuses on the vibrancy of contemporary artistic expression, a direction that is unique in Australia. A key conceptual thread within ‘No.1 Neighbour’…

No.1 Neighbour: Art In Papua New Guinea 1966-2016, Queensland Art Gallery

Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art And Everything, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Queensland Art Gallery’s 10th anniversary celebrations is ‘Sugar Spin’, featuring over 250 contemporary artworks exploring light, space, architecture and the senses.From brand-new immersive works to large-scale visitor favourites, the exhibition reflects our complex connections to the natural world with an explosion of colour, sensation and spinning delights. Major new artworks…

Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art And Everything, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

‘A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift’ celebrates a decade of artworks acquired through the support of a single generous benefactor. Tim Fairfax’s extraordinary commitment has brought major works by leading international artists into Queensland’s Collection, for visitors to enjoy now and into the future. A World View: The Tim…

A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir: Mirror Mirror, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

To celebrate Queensland Art Gallery’s 10th anniversary, the Children’s Art Centre will present an interactive exhibition by New York-based, Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir (aka Shoppy). Shoppy creates spectacular artworks using synthetic hair. She believes that hair can inspire great personal creativity and is a way for people to express who…

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir: Mirror Mirror, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

The Gabori Sisters: Gathering by the Sea, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

The Children’s Art Centre presents an exciting interactive exhibition developed in collaboration with Kaiadilt artists Elsie, Amanda and Dorothy Gabori, daughters of one of Australia’s most loved contemporary artists Sally Gabori (Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda). ‘The Gabori Sisters: Gathering by the Sea’ was developed to coincide with ‘Dulka Warngiid – Land of…

The Gabori Sisters: Gathering by the Sea, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia

The Shrine of Remembrance is a war memorial in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road. It was built to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I, but now functions as a memorial to all Australians who have served in…

Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is one of Australia’s leading art museums. It holds significant collections of Australian, European and Asian art, and presents nearly forty exhibitions annually. Through our collections, exhibitions, programs and scholarship we aim to inspire our visitors engagement with art. The Art Gallery of…

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Western art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

The gallery has an extensive collection of British Victorian art, including major works by Lord Frederic Leighton and Sir Edward John Poynter. It has smaller holdings of European art of the 15th to 18th centuries, including works by Peter Paul Rubens, Canaletto, Bronzino, Domenico Beccafumi, Giovanni Battista Moroni and Niccolò…

Western art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

HiSoUR – Hi So You Are

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