Events Calendar

Articulate Guided Tours - General Collection

Daily, 11 am & 2 pm
Free
Take a tour of our outstanding collections with a Gallery Guide.
Meet: North Terrace main entrance

Weekday & Weekender Talks
Daily, 12.30 pm
Free
Meet: North Terrace main entrance

AUSLAN Tours
Regular Auslan interpreted guided tours are presented free of charge for deaf and hearing-impaired patrons. Each tour offers a new topic, with Collection highlights the perfect tour for first time visitors.
Special tours may be organised by appointment.
Information and bookings: agsainformation@artgallery.sa.gov.au or 08 8207 7005.

DAILY during Turner from the Tate: The Making of a Master
Until 19 May 2013

Grand Tour lunch
Inspired by Turner’s travel overseas, indulge your tastebuds with our monthly changing menus reflecting Turner’s tours through France (Feb), Italy (Mar), Switzerland (Apr) and England (May).
When: Daily, 12 - 3 pm
Cost: $60 per person includes two course meal and exhibition ticket
Bookings: Book in advance at Bass
Avoid waiting for a table, book with AGF W prior to purchasing your tickets.

Kaleidoscope of colour
Explore Turner’s fascination with light, the changing seasons and nature’s moods. Make a kaleidoscope, sun box or colour in your own version of Turner's, Scarborough town and castle: morning: boys catching crabs . Presented by the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation.
When: Daily (may be in use by school groups on weekdays 10 am - 3 pm)
Cost: Free, all materials supplied
Location: The Studio, Lower Ground Floor

TURNER TOURS

The Grand Tour
Take a grand tour of the exhibition with our experienced Gallery Guides. (60 mins)
When: Weekdays; 11 am, 2 pm, 3 pm / Weekends; every half hour from 10 am to 4 pm
Cost: Free with exhibition admission
Location: Meet at the exhibition entrance

Turner in focus
Explore the key ideas behind Turner’s revolutionary masterpieces. (30 mins)
When: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 12.30 pm
Cost: Free with exhibition admission
Location: Meet at the exhibition entrance

The Sunday Sessions
Every Sunday 12- 3pm, enjoy fine music by some of South Australia’s best musicians.
Cost: Free
Location: Gallery 25

For more information on our Turner from the Tate: The Making of a Master program, visit our Turner from the Tate page.
Know what you want to book? Go directly to our bookings page.

Friday 17 May, 5.30 - 10 pm
Turner Up Late
Celebrate Turner after hours, with live music, bar, celebrity talks, tours and hands-on activities in The Studio.
Cost: Exhibition admission prices
Location: Enter via the West Wing laneway
Bookings essential: Book online with BASS

Saturday 18 May, 2 pm
LECTURE: The True, Beautiful and Intellectual
Jane Messenger, Curator of European Art and co-curator of Turner from the Tate reflects on her research and the revelation of Turner’s late works.
Cost: Free with exhibition admission
Location: Radford Auditorium

Sunday 19 May, 10.30 am
New Members Welcome Tour
Cost: Free, but please register your attendance by telephoning 8207 7050
Location: Meet in the Members Lounge

Sunday 19 May, 2 pm
FILM: Mansfield Park (2007)
Wanting a better life for Fanny Price, her parents send her away to live with her aunt and uncle at Mansfield Park. When the stylish but secretive siblings Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, romantic sparks begin to fly. PG 120 min.
Cost: Free
Location: Radford Auditorium

Tuesday 21 May, 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Unsettled
Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, speaks about the new display Unsettled: Recent acquisitions of Australian art.
Cost: Free
Location: Gallery 9

Saturday 25 May, 10 am
GETSMART
Art’s ancestry
Embark on a journey with Rosemary Collins and uncover the wellsprings of contemporary art in ancient times. This lecture will explore human ideals and desires, the abiding themes of love and compassion, the spiritual and the temporal.
The 3 Ds in art = Design, Decorate and Display
In this presentation, Helen Bulis will consider the diverse techniques, design trends and the emotional and spiritual resonances of Decorative Arts.
Cost: $30, $25 Member, $20 Student
Location: Radford Auditorium
Bookings essential: Call 08 8207 7005 or online

Tuesday 28 May, 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Noble Shadows
James Bennett, Curator of Asian Art, speaks about the new display of ancestral art from Indonesia and Australia.
Location: Gallery 21
Free

Saturday 1 June, 10 am
GETSMART
Portraiture: conversations across time
Images of human beings are among the most universal across time and place. Join Maureen Nimon to learn more about ourselves, and our ideas of art, through an examination of portraits across history.
Are we all flesh?
Delivered by David Stokes, this lecture considers the human condition in its myriad manifestations and questions the effectiveness of works of art, particularly three dimensional forms, in forcing us to confront our humanity.
Cost: $30, $25 Member, $20 Student
Location: Radford Auditorium
Bookings essential: Call 08 8207 7005 or online

Tuesday 4 June, 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: British Prints
Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, speaks about the new display of British prints.
Location: Gallery 8
Cost: Free

Saturday 8 June, 10 am
GETSMART
Landscape, nature and nation
By the 19th century, landscape painting glorified nature’s spiritual qualities and had become a powerful expression of nationalism and romanticism. Paul Corcoran focusses on the aesthetic and political shifts in the very idea of Nature in this lecture.
Interior lives
Works of art featuring domestic interiors and still life subjects offer a window into private settings and intimate moments. In this lecture, Jill Swann considers the richness and diversity of human experience communicated to the audience through genre painting.
Cost: $30, $25 Member, $20 Student
Location: Radford Auditorium
Bookings essential: Call 08 8207 7005 or online

Saturday 15 June, 10 am
GETSMART
Are we all seduced?
Consider with Mary Rivett, the representations of luxury, beauty, love and sexuality in works of art designed to seduce in the Melrose Wing of European Art.
Art is long, life is short
Explore with James Lainas the nature of mortality through a consideration of ‘ immortal’ works of art that depict individuals grappling with their humanity.
Cost: $30, $25 Member, $20 Student
Location: Radford Auditorium
Bookings essential: Call 08 8207 7005 or online

Tuesday 25 June at 12.30 pm
Artist Talk: HEARTLAND
Artist Stewart MacFarlane gives insights into his work in the exhibition, accompanied by one of his models, Coby Edgar.
Location: HEARTLAND exhibition
Cost: Free

Tuesday 2 July at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
James Bennett, Curator of Asian Art, speaks about the new display Paradise on earth: the Art of Islam.
Location: gallery 19
Cost: Free

Tuesday 9 July at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: HEARTLAND
Nici Cumpston, co-curator of HEARTLAND, discusses selected works in the exhibition as part of NAIDOC Week.
Location: HEARTLAND exhibition
Cost: Free

Tuesday 16 July at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
Lisa Slade, co-curator of HEARTLAND, speaks about selected works in the exhibition.
Location: HEARTLAND exhibition
Cost: Free

Tuesday 23 July at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
Elle Freak, Assistant Curator of Australian Art, talks about the new display in gallery 4.
Location: Elder Wing of Australian Art
Cost: Free

Tuesday 30 July at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
Tracey Lock-Weir, Curator of Australian Art, considers the history and significance of John Olsen’s painting Meandering Murray and wattles, 1982.
Location:
Cost: Free

Tuesday 6 August at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
Jane Messenger, Curator of European Art, discusses Abraham van den Hecken’s sumptuous seventeenth-century painting A scholar in his studio.
Location: on display in gallery 17
Cost: Free

Tuesday 13 August at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
As part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival, HEARTLAND artist Chris De Rosa speaks about her practice and her work.
Location: HEARTLAND exhibition
Cost: Free

Tuesday 20 August at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
Artist Wendy Fairclough gives insights into her work on display in HEARTLAND, as part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival.
Location: HEARTLAND exhibition
Cost: Free

Tuesday 27 August at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Director’s Choice
Gallery Director Nick Mitzevich talks about Thomas Hirschhorn’s Twin-Subjecter and the Seduced display.
Location: in the Melrose Wing of European Art
Cost: Free

Tuesday 3 September at 12.30 pm
Lunchtime Talk
Robert Reason, Curator of European and Australian Decorative Arts, speaks about the new display of Ernabella textiles.
Location: gallery 11
Cost: Free

Programs subject to change without notice.