Event
In Conversation: with the Jennings Germans
21 October 2020

Join original Jennings Germans and their partners as they reflect on their first-hand experience of the extraordinary Jennings Germans story

Localjinni Video Walks: What lies at the heart of the city?
Event
17 October 2020—29 October 2020
Localjinni Video Walks: What lies at the heart of the city?

Take a turn off the main drag and into the laneways to learn about the city’s rich history and art…

Curator Talk: Jennings Germans
Event
14 October 2020
Curator Talk: Jennings Germans

Hear about the wonderful journey that curator Sharon Bulkeley took in exploring the social history of one of Canberra's most interesting migrant groups - the Jennings Germans.

Richard Lewer: I can’t run away all my life sometimes I just have to stand and fight
Exhibition
10 October 2020—16 January 2021
Richard Lewer: I can’t run away all my life sometimes I just have to stand and fight

Artist Richard Lewer responds to the war memorials that line ANZAC Parade in this work installed as part of the…

Nolan school holiday workshop: Merry Go Round
Event
7 October 2020—8 October 2020
Nolan school holiday workshop: Merry Go Round

View the world through the eyes of Sidney Nolan, make sketches, take photographs then go for a ride

Collector Talk: The Art of the Fan
Event
30 September 2020
Collector Talk: The Art of the Fan
Booking fast

Join collector Wendy Whitham to discover why fans are a source of fascination and beauty. Admire the frills, feathers and…

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

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

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

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

Event
CMAG on Saturday: Artists Books
5 September 2020

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

Exhibition
Crafting Canberra
28 July 2020—24 July 2021

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

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

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