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The White Hat Guide to NGV Australia (The Ian Potter Centre)
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
Open daily 10am to 5pm
Thursday 10am to 9pm
Closed Mondays
Open all public holidays
except Good Friday and Christmas Day
Open 1-5pm Anzac Day (25 April)
Tel: (03) 8620 2222
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(National Gallery of Victoria Australian collection) Located in what White Hat regards as a stunning building in Federation Square and consisting of twelve galleries over three levels, this centre houses the finest and most comprehensive collections of Australian art in the world. The collection contains 20,000 works, and at any one time there are 1,800 on display in its 20 galleries. The Indigenous Art section contains works by William Barak, Ginger Riley, Munduwalawala, Peggy Napangardi Jones an Lin Onus. It also includes Emily Kngwarreye's Big Yam Dreaming. The 19th and 20th Century section contains works by the Heidelberg School, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, John Brack as well as Fred Williams' Pilbara Series (recently donated by Rio Tinto). Other works include Fred McCubbin's The Pioneer (see above) and Tom Roberts' Shearing of the Rams (see below).
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John Brack Australia
1920–1999
Collins St, 5p.m. 1955 oil on canvas 114.8 x 162.8 cm
National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1956. © National Gallery of
Victoria
White Hat has obtained the appropriate permission from the National Gallery of Victoria
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Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion
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From first European settlement the supply of clothing and the way Australian men and women presented themselves in the new colonies was of vital importance. Whether reflecting status and position in a newly formed society, or exhibiting new found wealth and flamboyance, the nuanced language of fashion was of particular concern for the burgeoning and diverse society.
Drawing on the collection of Australian Fashion and Textiles, this exhibition scopes the rise of fashion in Australia from the 1850s to 1950s, while speculating on the fashionable trends and demands of a 100 year development of an Australian style of fashion.
The exhibition includes rare early examples of labelled garments from the mid 19th century and a range of dresses, tailored items and accessories that were made and retailed in Australia from the 1850s to 1950s. It also includes a selection of paintings and photographs from the NGV collection showing how the garments were worn. |
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10am to 5pm, Tue to Sun until 23rd Jan 2011 |
National Gallery of Victoria (Australia)
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Enquiries: (03) 8620 2222 |
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Stick it! Collage in Australian Art
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Featuring over forty works primarily drawn from the NGV Collection together
with a small number of loans, Stick it! explores graphic and eye-catching
works created by pasting and applying paper, ephemera and other materials to a
base.
This free exhibition features a selection of collages made in the past
seventy years by some of Australia's leading practitioners of this technique,
including Sidney Nolan, James
Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Mike Brown, Elizabeth Gower, Mandy Martin, Nick Mangan
and Brook Andrew among others. |
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tue to Sun until 29th August 2010 |
National Gallery of Victoria (Australia)
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The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
Open daily 10am-5pm. Closed Mondays
Open all public holidays except Good Friday and Christmas Day
Open 1-5pm Anzac Day (25 April)
Tel: (03) 8620 2222
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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