Event
Canberra Day Print Workshops @ Enlighten Festival
11 March 2022—14 March 2022

Join artist Sally Mumford for a linocut print making workshop and explore the layers of Canberra.

Floor Talk: Victor the Viking
Event
9 March 2022
Floor Talk: Victor the Viking

39 years ago, an 18-year-old ‘Victor the Viking’ stepped out onto the field as the Canberra Raiders mascot

CMAG on Saturday: Imaginationscape
Event
5 March 2022
CMAG on Saturday: Imaginationscape

Hands on art making Workshops for children 6 to 10 years of age

Connection Point: Contemporary established fibre textile artists of ACT and NSW
Exhibition
5 March 2022—18 June 2022
Connection Point: Contemporary established fibre textile artists of ACT and NSW

This exhibition highlights fibre textile art from CMAG’s own collection, alongside works from textile artists from ACT and NSW.

Canberra Raiders: 40 years in the limelight
Exhibition
26 February 2022—27 August 2022
Canberra Raiders: 40 years in the limelight

Discover the history of the Canberra Raiders, their place in the NRL and what they mean to the fans – and the city – who support them.

Conversation: The Thai Cave Rescue and the Australian Federal Police
Event
8 February 2022
Conversation: The Thai Cave Rescue and the Australian Federal Police

Join Chris Cranston, AFP Museum curator, in conversation with Kel Boers and Chris Markcrow, Australian Federal Police divers, as they share the story of their role in the Thai cave rescue

Curator Talk: Chris Cranston
Event
8 February 2022
Curator Talk: Chris Cranston

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

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

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

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

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

Threads of Policing
Exhibition
6 November 2021—8 February 2022
Threads of Policing
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