Wendy Whitham received her first fan as a child from her aunt and uncle after they returned from a trip overseas, but it wasn’t until decades later that she started collecting fans herself
For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’
Flow Line is a term used in the oil industry that describes the behaviour of liquid forces as they move together
Bringing together works of art, and social history objects from the CMAG collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community…
As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation
Dissonance is about time: our relatively brief time and geological or ‘deep’ time.
Until recently, both existed independently. Both have…
In the early 1950s, a group of 150 young German men left the security of their homeland and the comfort of their families to travel halfway around the world to a small city called Canberra.
Artists’ books are part of most artists’ vocabulary, either as drawings bound together, illustrated diaries or a response to a place, time, political or historical event, or personal emotion
LENDON/BEER’s THE MASS is the latest collaborative work by Emma Beer and Nigel Lendon
The void is a multifaceted concept, not simply of presence and absence, but a place that exists between distinct worldviews, is occupied by meaning and is imbued with personal, historical and ancestral significance
For artist, art historian and now collector Martyn Jolly, the magic lantern shows that came to prominence in the mid nineteenth century were much more than just the antecedent of today’s PowerPoint presentation
Anneka Losik describes her collection as a ‘mishmash of things that she loves’ and what she loves is everything pop culture
Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan investigates the many phenomena of glass through the use of astronomical imagery
Budawang (of Yuin Nation) spatial designer Dr Danièle Hromek with mother, Robyn Hromek and sister Siân Hromek, draw on their…
From ‘eco’ to ‘FIFO’. From high-value to high-vis. This art installation encompasses the complex political, environmental and fundamentalsocial issues that are occurring right now and for the visible future
For 90 years the Horticultural Society of Canberra has been there to inspire, educate—and sometimes console—Canberra gardeners and their backyard efforts.
Fifty years ago, landing on the moon required a vehicle not designed for this world, so the Apollo Lunar Module was born