Exhibition
Delene White: Flower Power
4 December 2021—3 September 2022

Delene White presents a sculptural garden of giant cyclamens that sway and bow for CMAG on the Square.

Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
Exhibition
17 September 2022—3 December 2022
Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop

Influential Australian Chinese artist Lindy Lee explores identity, history, spirituality and our relationship to the cosmos. She creates meditative works using light, shadow and scale across many artforms. Moon in a Dew Drop takes an in-depth look at four decades of extraordinary

Continuous culture
Exhibition
2 August 2022—26 November 2022
Continuous culture

This display showcases works by Dr Danie Mellor, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM and Paul House -  established Indigenous Australian artists working in the Canberra region

The Piano Creatures: A Ragged Shore
Exhibition
22 May 2021—27 November 2021
The Piano Creatures: A Ragged Shore

The whimsical concept behind the imaginary microcosm presented within the glass walls of CMAG on the Square is that these creatures have, over time, evolved from discarded musical instruments

Brenda L. Croft: ‘hand/made/held/ground’
Exhibition
29 October 2021—22 January 2022
Brenda L. Croft: ‘hand/made/held/ground’

Mixed media installation hand/made/held/ground’ (2019) metaphysically maps Croft’s patrilineal relationship to Country, reimagining customary objects jimpila (spearhead) and kurrwa (stone axe) originally created on Gurindji homelands.

Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York: 1978-1984 / Art & Life
Exhibition
29 October 2021—12 February 2022
Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York: 1978-1984 / Art & Life

Mandy Martin From Queanbeyan to New York charts the shifts in Martin’s practice between1978 to 1984, from the sensitive gouaches of her near neighbours and friends, to the expressive drama of the paintings that speak to her deep concern for the environment.

Sidney Nolan: Remembrances of my youth
Exhibition
20 March 2021—16 October 2021
Sidney Nolan: Remembrances of my youth

Over 1982 and 1983 Sidney Nolan grew increasingly interested in the possibilities of working with spray paint on a large…

HABITAT: Ways of living
Exhibition
6 March 2021—19 June 2021
HABITAT: Ways of living

Examining imagery alluding to the built environment, HABITAT: Ways of living features works by artists from Canberra and around Australia

Anna Madeleine Raupach: Unequal hours
Exhibition
23 January 2021—15 May 2021
Anna Madeleine Raupach: Unequal hours

Through reference to the theme of temporality in both local systems and global phenomena - from the Canberra light rail…

Event
In conversation: Ham Darroch and Guy Warren
23 September 2020

Flow Line draws out cross generational connections between the twelve artists represented in the exhibition

Panel Conversation: After the fires - seeing Canberra in a new light
Event
9 September 2020
Panel Conversation: After the fires - seeing Canberra in a new light

The fires that swept through the suburbs of Canberra in 2003 were the first serious threat experienced in the history of the city

Collector Talk: Martyn Jolly’s Phantasmagoria
Event
Booked Out
2 September 2020
Collector Talk: Martyn Jolly’s Phantasmagoria
Booked out

Just what is it that made 19th century magic lantern slides so enchanting, magic and powerful? Watch a live demonstration…

Flow Line: Abstraction from the CMAG collection
Exhibition
15 August 2020—7 November 2020
Flow Line: Abstraction from the CMAG collection

Flow Line is a term used in the oil industry that describes the behaviour of liquid forces as they move together

Seeing Canberra
Exhibition
7 March 2020—24 July 2021
Seeing Canberra

As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation

Exhibition
Ngaio Fitzpatrick - Dissonance
13 June 2020—3 October 2020

Dissonance is about time: our relatively brief time and geological or ‘deep’ time.
Until recently, both existed independently. Both have…

Place: A travelling exhibition of artists' books
Exhibition
21 March 2020—31 October 2020
Place: A travelling exhibition of artists' books

Artists’ books are part of most artists’ vocabulary, either as drawings bound together, illustrated diaries or a response to a place, time, political or historical event, or personal emotion

VOID
Exhibition
15 February 2020—1 August 2020
VOID

The void is a multifaceted concept, not simply of presence and absence, but a place that exists between distinct worldviews, is occupied by meaning and is imbued with personal, historical and ancestral significance