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
Rosalie Gascoigne developed a completely new way of seeing the landscape of the Canberra region.This vision gradually evolved from her…
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
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.
The Nolan Collection is an iconic group of paintings from 1945 to 1953 by Sidney Nolan that the artist gifted to the nation in 1974
We live in a time of disruption, distraction and instability; what was once certain no longer is. ‘Dissonance’ refers to…
As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation
Bringing together works of art and social history objects from the CMAG collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community…
Flow Line is a term used in the oil industry that describes the behaviour of liquid forces as they move together
For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’
Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.
Just what is it that made 19th century magic lantern slides so enchanting, magic and powerful? Watch a live demonstration…
Calling all creative kids to be part of a workshop exploring artists books in the PLACE exhibition
The fires that swept through the suburbs of Canberra in 2003 were the first serious threat experienced in the history of the city
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
Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema
Flow Line draws out cross generational connections between the twelve artists represented in the exhibition