Join us for our annual family day inspired by our vibrant and dynamic new exhibition, Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams. With plenty of creativity, art-making and exploration, you'll get to spend the day crafting your own birds, banksias and butterflies in Joan Ross’ signature fluorescent colours! We'll have live music, live ice-sculpting and plenty of portraiture to go around.
10:00am
The day will start with a Welcome to Country by local Ngunnawal Elder, Caroline Hughes.
10:00am – 2:00pm
Get creative all day long with different making activities. Fashion a banksia brooch, create a kaleidoscope of butterflies and craft brightly coloured birds. All materials provided.
10:30am – 12:30pm
Watch live ice sculpting by internationally acclaimed ice sculptor Kenji Ogawa. Known for using traditional hand tools (and the occasional chainsaw) to make ephemeral one-of-a-kind sculptures, Kenji is not to be missed!
10:00am – 12:00pm
Musical duo Mr Tim and Ms Nath are back, bringing their special brand of family fun and performing some of their favourite tunes for everyone to enjoy. Dance and sing along or pick up a pencil and draw while listening to their upbeat performance.
12:00 – 2:00pm
Tara Louise and Ben Lanyon will continue the musical entertainment into the afternoon. With decades of performance experience between them, the duo will bring their deep love of jazz, soul and pop music for everyone to groove along to.
from Saturday 24 August 2024
The exhibition is a vibrant and dynamic exhibition by acclaimed contemporary artist Joan Ross. Transforming scenes from colonial artworks through a digital ‘cut and paste’ technique and her signature fluorescent yellow, Ross explores critical issues like climate change, greed and consumerism.
Join us in the Gallery for this free 30-minute tour of the collection, exploring portrait stories and the history of the building.
Join us on a 30-minute tour of this year's Darling Portrait Prize and National Photographic Portrait Prize to explore the links between portraiture and identity through diverse representations of Australians and Australian life.
