Event
Curator Talk: Chris Cranston
8 February 2022

Discover the work of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in the ACT, Australia-wide and globally with AFP Museum curator, Chris Cranston

Conversation: Aunty Matilda House and Dr Brenda L. Croft
Event
Cancelled
18 January 2022
Conversation: Aunty Matilda House and Dr Brenda L. Croft
Cancelled

Join Dr Matilda House (Ngambri/Ngunnawal elder) and Dr Brenda L. Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish heritage) in conversation

Dean Cross: Sometimes I Miss the Applause
Exhibition
9 July 2022—22 October 2022
Dean Cross: Sometimes I Miss the Applause

Presented in dialogue with Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise is a newly commissioned installation by Dean Cross

Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise
Exhibition
9 July 2022—22 October 2022
Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise

Nolan is one of Australia’s most iconic twentieth century artists whose life and loves among the Heide circle of artists in the 1940s were at first his idea of Eden but then became his own personal hell

Conversation: Dr Brenda L. Croft and Jodie Cunningham, CEO Craft ACT
Event
17 December 2021
Conversation: Dr Brenda L. Croft and Jodie Cunningham, CEO Craft ACT

Jodie Cunningham, Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre CEO and Artistic Director, and Dr Brenda L. Croft, artist and Associate Professor, Indigenous Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University, will discuss the exhibition, ‘hand/made/held/ground’ and the Made in Australia II series

Curator Talk: Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax
Event
Booked Out
8 December 2021
Curator Talk: Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax
Booked out

Join National Gallery of Australia's Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, for a tour of Spowers & Syme.

Curator Talk: Virginia Rigney
Event
1 December 2021
Curator Talk: Virginia Rigney

Join Virginia Rigney, CMAG’s Senior Curator Visual Arts, as she charts six pivotal years in Mandy Martin’s early career

Finding the dry heart: Sidney Nolan’s early travels in Central Australia
Exhibition
27 November 2021—2 April 2022
Finding the dry heart: Sidney Nolan’s early travels in Central Australia

After completing the first Ned Kelly series in mid-1947, Sidney Nolan’s ambition to address the landscape and mythologies of Australia in a new way significantly expanded beyond his more familiar terrain of northern Victoria

The Piano Creatures: A Ragged Shore
Exhibition
22 May 2021—27 November 2021
The Piano Creatures: A Ragged Shore

The whimsical concept behind the imaginary microcosm presented within the glass walls of CMAG on the Square is that these creatures have, over time, evolved from discarded musical instruments

Exhibition
Threads of Policing
6 November 2021—8 February 2022
Revised closing date

Threads of Policing is a rare opportunity to explore the varied work of the Australian Federal Police as reflected by stories of its members

Spowers and Syme
Exhibition
29 October 2021—12 February 2022
Spowers and Syme

Celebrating the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, Spowers & Syme presents the changing face of interwar Australia through the perspective of two remarkable women artists

Brenda L. Croft: ‘hand/made/held/ground’
Exhibition
29 October 2021—22 January 2022
Brenda L. Croft: ‘hand/made/held/ground’

Mixed media installation hand/made/held/ground’ (2019) metaphysically maps Croft’s patrilineal relationship to Country, reimagining customary objects jimpila (spearhead) and kurrwa (stone axe) originally created on Gurindji homelands.

Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York: 1978-1984 / Art & Life
Exhibition
29 October 2021—12 February 2022
Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York: 1978-1984 / Art & Life

Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York charts the shifts in Martin’s practice between1978 to 1984, from the sensitive gouaches of her near neighbours and friends, to the expressive drama of the paintings that speak to her deep concern for the environment.

CMAG on Saturday: Pattern Play
Event
7 August 2021
CMAG on Saturday: Pattern Play

Discover decorative details in the exhibition Ruth Lane-Poole: A Woman of Influence and play around with pattern

Event
Reel Classics: The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
31 July 2021

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.

Curator talk: with Margaret Betteridge
Event
Cancelled
14 July 2021
Curator talk: with Margaret Betteridge
Cancelled

Join Margaret Betteridge, curator of Ruth Lane-Poole: A Woman of Influence, as she delves into Ruth’s early life, including her Irish connections to the Celtic Revival and the celebrated Yeats family

Reel Classics: Chicken Run (2000) & The Corpse Bride (2005)
Event
10 July 2021
Reel Classics: Chicken Run (2000) & The Corpse Bride (2005)

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.