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Tuesday
talks
Director’s view
Ron Radford, Director, discusses key works from the exhibition and von Guérard’s importance in the history of Australian art.
- Venue: Project Gallery
- FREE
Thursday
off-site tours
members
Coach trip to Archibald Prize
National Gallery members are invited to join National Portrait Gallery members for a coach trip to the Art Gallery of New South Wales to view the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.
- Venue: meet at front of National Portrait Gallery
- Bookings essential
- $68 NGA & NPG members, $78 guests (includes bus travel, exhibition ticket and morning tea)
- Book now
Monday
talks
Rendezvous with art
Learn about works of art on display. Enjoy refreshments in the Members Lounge before joining voluntary guides to discuss selected works of art.
- Venue: Members Lounge and galleries (meet at information desk)
- Bookings essential
- $12, $10 members/concession
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Tuesday
talks
The view from the top
Professor Tim Bonyhady, Director, Centre for Climate Law and Policy, ANU, on von Guérard’s North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko 1863.
- Venue: Project Gallery
- FREE
Wednesday
community
members
Members Book Club
A Special Book Club Event. Join Candice Bruce for a discussion of her novel The Longing, a perfect companion to Eugene von Guérard: nature revealed (exhibition opens 27 April in the Project Gallery and Orde Poynton Gallery). Refreshments will be served and a book signing will be held at the conclusion of the event. A special discount of 20% on The Longing is offered in the National Gallery of Australia shop.
- Venue: Gandel Hall
- Bookings essential
- $12 members, $15 non members
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assisted
Assisted tour
Special viewing of the exhibition for people with disabilities and their carers.
- Venue: meet at information desk
- Bookings essential
- Free
- Email enquiry
Friday
families
Art and me ages 2–3, to be accompanied
Join Gallery educators and voluntary guides on an interactive art tour for toddlers.
- Venue: meet at information desk
- Bookings essential
- $12, $10 child members (includes materials)
- Email enquiry
assisted
Art and Alzheimer’s Tours for people living with dementia and their carers
Join Gallery staff for an interactive tour connecting people in shared intellectual activity through personal insights, interpretation, art history and memories.
- Venue: meet at information desk
- Bookings essential
- Free
- Email enquiry
talks
Painting on the dark side
Dr Candice Bruce, art historian, writer and curator, discusses von Guérard’s From the verandah of Purrumbete 1858, a source of inspiration for her recent book The longing. She also touches on themes of romanticism and the gothic and on the landscapes of the Western District of Victoria.
- Venue: Project Gallery
- FREE
Thursday
talks
Eugene von Guérard’s ‘truth to nature’
Dr Ruth Pullin, guest curator of the exhibition, discusses von Guérard’s detailed and accurate studies of nature in the context of 19th-century German (Humboldtian) science and considers their relevance for the 21st century.
- Venue: Small Theatre
- FREE
assisted
Private viewing for carers
Join voluntary guides for a tour of the exhibition, in collaboration with Carers ACT.
- Venue: meet at information desk
- Bookings essential
- Free
- Email enquiry
Thursday
talks
Improving upon nature: von Guérard the aesthete
Daniel Thomas, Emeritus Director, Art Gallery of South Australia, and the National Gallery of Australia’s inaugural head of Australian Art, discusses Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges 1857, a masterpiece he persuaded Joseph Brown to give to the National Gallery of Australia in 1975.
- Venue: Project Gallery
- FREE
Tuesday
talks
Eugene von Guérard, his frames and framers
John Jones, curator and art historian, gives an overview of the frames and frame makers employed by von Guérard, and the sophistication of colonial Australian picture frame making.
- Venue: Small Theatre
- FREE
Tuesday
families
Tales for the very young ages 2–3, to be accompanied
Margie Kevin, Gallery Educator, leads this activity based tour with stories about the people and places featured in works in the exhibition
- Venue: Project Gallery
- FREE