Grace Crowley: Being Modern |
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Grace Crowley (1890-1979) was one of the great ‘modern Australian women’ whose pioneering paintings of the 1920s and 30s revitalised art in this country. This colourful exhibition of 55 works offers a fresh look at Crowley’s art, presenting some of the artist’s best- known Modernist portraits and landscapes, alongside her lesser-known but more adventurous geometric paintings from the 1940s to 60s. These later works are among Crowley’s finest and confirm the artist as an expert colourist and one of our most masterful abstractionists. Touring from the National Gallery of Australia, Being Modern introduces a new generation to this sophisticated, experimental artist who worked at the cutting-edge of modern art in Australia. Grace Crowley: Being Modern is a National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition |
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TOURS
Free Guided Tours
2 pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays
Free with exhibition entry
AUSLAN Tour
Saturday 25 August at 12 noon
For Deaf and hearing impaired patrons
For more information telephone 8207 7005 (voice)
Free with exhibition entry
EXHIBITION TALKS
Add colour to your afternoon by attending our Tuesday lunchtime talks,
presented free with exhibition entry
Friday 27 July at 12.45pm
Elena Taylor, Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia and the
Curator of this exhibition, speaks about selected works in the exhibition.
Tuesday 7 August at 12.45 pm
Rebecca Andrews, the Gallery’s Associate Curator of Australian
Paintings and Sculpture, speaks about selected early works in the exhibition.
Tuesday 4 September at 12.45 pm
Rebecca Andrews dissects Grace Crowley’s geometric abstracts and renowned later
works.
Tuesday 25 September at 12.45 pm
Independent Curator Vivonne Thwaites presents her thoughts on Grace
Crowley’s œuvre.
Free with exhibition entry
FREE PUBLIC LECTURES
Saturday 28 July at 2pm
Grace Crowley: an abstract life
Join Elena Taylor, curator of Grace Crowley: Being Modern for a special
lecture on the remarkable journey of the artist Grace Crowley. Born in rural
New South Wales, the high spirited Crowley would absorb the great lessons of
modernism in Europe and develop her oeuvre to become Australiašs pre-eminent
abstract painter of the 20th century. Free
Sunday 28 October at 2pm
Life in the abstract
Dr Catherine Speck speaks about the development of modern art in Australia with particular
reference to the outstanding abstract artists, Grace Crowley, Ralph Balson, Rah Fizelle,
Frank Hinder. Ian Fairweather, John Passmore and Godfrey Miller. Free
Free lectures presented in the Radford Auditorium. No bookings necessary.
ABSTRACT PAINTING WORKSHOP
Saturday 6 October
10am – 4.30pm
Explore the origins of geometric abstraction and create your own work of abstract art in
the Modernist style. Under the expert tuition of local artist Mary Jean Richardson,
participants in this one-day practical workshop will learn collage, drawing and painting
techniques, and approaches used by Grace Crowley to produce her dynamic works of art.
Suitable for beginners. Includes exhibition entry and all materials.
Tickets: $80 Members, $100 Non Members. Limited to 15 participants.
This event is now close to capacity, however SOME PLACES MAY STILL BE AVAILABLE telephone
08 8207 7050 to enquire about a place.
PLANNING A SCHOOL VISIT?
To find out more about teacher briefing sessions and school group bookings for this
exhibition please contact our Education Officer on 8207 7033. Online Education Resource
Kit available from: www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
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This page was updated on 30 October 2007