National Gallery of Australia

Exhibitions presented at the National Gallery’s Parkes Place location in 2018–19.

Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Cartier: The Exhibition
Showcasing more than 300 spectacular items in exquisite settings, including royal tiaras, necklaces, brooches and earrings.
18 May – 22 July 2018

American Masters 1940–1980
Examining how a generation of Americans reinvented modern art.
24 August – 11 November 2018

Love and Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate
From the Tate’s unsurpassed collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and other collections worldwide.
14 December 2018 – 28 April 2019

Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia
Twenty of the most exciting emerging and established artists from Bali and Java’s key artistic centres.
21 June – 27 October 2019

Temporary Exhibition Gallery 2

Monet: Impression Sunrise
Claude Monet’s rarely loaned Impression, sunrise is joined by other world-famous paintings from the Musée Marmottan Monet and select collections worldwide.
7 June – 1 September 2019

Orde Poynton Gallery

Picasso: The Vollard Suite
A rare opportunity to see one of the twentieth century’s greatest suites of prints.
9 June – 24 September 2018

California Cool: Art in Los Angeles, 1960s–70s
Highlighting the way American artists responded to the promise of LA in the 1960s and 1970s.
6 October 2018 – 24 February 2019

Māori Markings: Tā Moko
Exploring the Maori art and tradition of tā moko, face and body marking.
23 March – 25 August 2019

Galleries 8A & 8B

The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War
Curated by Prof Tim Bonyhady, working with Dr Greg Lehman.
11 May – 24 September 2018

Power and Imagination: Conceptualism 1966–1976
Language, poetry, performance and film in art.
11 August 2018 – 19 May 2019

Performing Drawing
Bringing together drawings, photographs and audiovisual works from the collection.
1 September 2018 – 3 March 2019

Tim Fairfax Learning Gallery

Body Language
Indigenous Australian cultural identity and language expressed through art.
11 May 2019 – February 2020

Main foyer

Sarah Contos: Nikola Tesla sends Theda Bara to Mars
A succession of objects unfolds across the National Gallery’s foyer ceiling.
5 May – 24 September 2018

Level 1 foyer

Watercolours by HRH The Prince of Wales
Celebrating HRH The Prince of Wales’s 70th birthday.
10 August – 18 November 2018

Collection galleries

All collection galleries are changed over regularly. The following were the themed mini-exhibitions presented during 2018–19.

Art Deco in Australia
Stylish items from an age of jazz and flappers, glamorous fashion and design.
17 February 2018 – 17 March 2019

Infinite Conversations: Asian–Australian Artistic Exchange
Revealing a rich dialogue, as concepts of race and culture are provoked and explored.
26 February – 9 September 2018

Club Ate: Ex Nilalang
An ongoing series of video works conceived as an ‘archive of queer identities’.
5 May – 26 August 2018

Rachel Maclean: Over the Rainbow
A complex and challenging video work by Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean.
5 May – 26 August 2018

Jess Johnson and Simon Ward: Terminus
An unforgettable virtual-reality experience by Jess Johnson and Simon Ward.
5 May – 23 September 2018

Art Nouveau
Inspired by the inexhaustible forms of the natural world.
From June 2018

Sky/Earth
Revealing works in the national collection that speak to our place in the cosmos.
6 October 2018 – 7 April 2019

Bodies of Art: Human Form from the National Collection
Investigations of the human form throughout time.
From 1 December 2018

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Room
Cult contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS 2017.
From 1 December 2018

Urs Fischer: Sculpture
Swiss artist Urs Fischer’s four-metre-high wax candle sculpture Francesco 2017.
16 March – 11 November 2019

NGA Play

Kellie O’Dempsey: The Never-Ending Line
16 June – 28 October 2018

Sally Smart
10 November 2018 – 21 July 2019

Travelling nationally and internationally

National Gallery exhibitions that toured nationally and internationally in 2018–19.

Defying Empire: National Indigenous Art Triennial
Contemporary art responding to the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
24 March – 15 July 2018

UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld
28 July – 11 November 2018

Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW
9 March – 5 May 2019

Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia
Organised by the National Gallery of Australia and drawn exclusively from Australia’s national collection.

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
15 June – 26 August 2018

Abstraction: Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists
Revealing the contribution Australian women have made to abstract art.

QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld
16 June – 26 August 2018

Silver and Gold: Unique Australian Objects 1830–1910
Works from the National Gallery’s significant collection of colonial Australian decorative arts and design.

Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Qld
16 June – 26 August 2018

Diane Arbus: American Portraits
Powerful allegories of postwar America by photographer Diane Arbus.

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
16 July – 30 September 2018

The Ned Kelly Series
Sidney Nolan’s iconic paintings of the exploits of Ned Kelly and his gang.

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
11 August – 12 November 2018

Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, NSW
22 November 2018 – 17 February 2019

Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic
1 March – 26 May 2019

Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA
21 June – 4 August 2019

The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War
Curated by Prof Tim Bonyhady, working with Dr Greg Lehman.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas
17 August – 11 November 2018

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tas
23 November 2018 – 17 February 2019

Picasso: The Vollard Suite
A rare opportunity to see one of the twentieth century’s greatest suites of prints.

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
17 November 2018 – 3 February 2019

Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Vic
22 February – 28 April 2019

David Hockney: Prints
Hockney’s printmaking practice through key works from the collection.

Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Qld
15 February – 21 April 2019

Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT
3 May – 16 June 2019

Art Deco from the National Collection: The World Turns Modern
Stylish items from an age of jazz and flappers, glamorous fashion and design.

Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW
31 May – 25 August 2019

Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn Gift Suitcase Kits

Red Case: Myths and Rituals and Yellow Case: Form, Space and Design

Hobart LINC (Library network), Hobart, Tas
27 June – 30 July 2018

East Gippsland Library, Bairnsdale, Vic
1–29 August 2018

Geraldton Regional Library, Geraldton, WA
5 September – 2 October 2018

Broome Library, Broome, WA
8 October – 13 November 2018

National Gallery of Australia (National Visual Arts Education Conference), Canberra, ACT
21–28 January 2019

Florey Primary School, Canberra, ACT
30 January – 28 February 2019

Tumbarumba Library, Tumbarumba, NSW
5–28 March 2019

Florey Primary School, Canberra, ACT
3–29 April 2019

Gadara School, Tumut, NSW
6–27 May 2019

Tumut High School, Tumut, NSW
3–24 June 2019

Blue Case: Technology

Bungendore Library, Bungendore, NSW
18 June – 20 July 2018

National Gallery of Australia (Alzheimer’s groups), Canberra, ACT
21–26 July 2018

Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic
30 July – 3 September 2018

Coolamon Library, Coolamon, NSW
6–24 September 2018

Corowa Library, Corowa, NSW
24 September – 11 October 2018

Howlong Library, Howlong, NSW
11–25 October 2018

Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
1 November – 17 December 2018

National Gallery of Australia (National Visual Arts Education Conference), Canberra, ACT
21–28 January 2019

Nambour State College, Nambour, Qld
4 February – 20 March 2019

Cooma Library, Cooma, NSW
25 March – 6 May 2019

Kingborough Council, Kingston, Tas
15 May – 17 June 2019

Latrobe City Council, Traralgon, Vic
26 June – 29 July 2019

1888 Melbourne Cup

Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Qld
16 June – 26 August 2018