Exhibition
The Art of the Fan
19 September 2020—28 November 2020

Wendy Whitham received her first fan as a child from her aunt and uncle after they returned from a trip overseas, but it wasn’t until decades later that she started collecting fans herself

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

CMAG on Saturday: Artists Books
Event
5 September 2020
CMAG on Saturday: Artists Books

Calling all creative kids to be part of a workshop exploring artists books in the PLACE exhibition

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…

Sidney Nolan and St Kilda: Memory and Modernism
Exhibition
22 August 2020—13 March 2021
Sidney Nolan and St Kilda: Memory and Modernism

For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’

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

CMAG on Saturday: ShapeShifter
Event
1 August 2020
CMAG on Saturday: ShapeShifter

Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring the work of Sidney Nolan

Crafting Canberra
Exhibition
28 July 2020—24 July 2021
Crafting Canberra

Bringing together works of art, and social history objects from the CMAG collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community…

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…

CMAG on Saturday: The World Turns Modern
Event
6 June 2020
CMAG on Saturday: The World Turns Modern

Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring The World Turns Modern exhibition

Building a Life: The Jennings Germans story
Exhibition
15 February 2020—7 November 2020
Building a Life: The Jennings Germans story

In the early 1950s, a group of 150 young German men left the security of their homeland and the comfort of their families to travel halfway around the world to a small city called Canberra.

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

THE MASS
Exhibition
28 February 2020—6 June 2020
THE MASS

LENDON/BEER’s THE MASS is the latest collaborative work by Emma Beer and Nigel Lendon

Exhibition
VOID
15 February 2020—1 August 2020

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

In Conversation with Dawn Waterhouse: Reflections on 1928 – 1951
Event
12 March 2020
In Conversation with Dawn Waterhouse: Reflections on 1928 – 1951

Celebrate Canberra Day at CMAG with one of our city's longest residents, Dawn Waterhouse

In Conversation with Martin Gascoigne and Virginia Rigney
Event
19 August 2020
In Conversation with Martin Gascoigne and Virginia Rigney

Rosalie Gascoigne developed a completely new way of seeing the landscape of the Canberra region.This vision gradually evolved from her…