National Gallery of Australia – 24 July – 3 October 2010
Robert Dowling: Tasmanian son of Empire
A travelling retrospective of Australia’s first home-grown artist.
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/DOWLING/
Art Gallery of New South Wales – 26 June – 19 September 2010
Paths to Abstraction – 140-plus works by some of the most influential artists of the modern era
including Whistler, Cézanne, Monet, Seurat, Vuillard, Bonnard, Gauguin, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Klee, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Hans Arp and Sophie Taüber-Arp.
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/current/paths_to_abstraction
Queensland Art Gallery
Joe Rootsey: Queensland Aboriginal Painter 1918–63: 17 July – 3 October 2010
This exhibition recognises the importance of Rootsey’s works in Queensland’s art and cultural history.
http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/joe_rootsey
Ron Mueck: Australian-born, London-based sculptor: 8 May – 1 August 2010
Featuring celebrated works from Australian and international collections, in addition to new sculptures, it will be one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Mueck’s work ever presented.
http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/ron_mueck
National Gallery of Victoria
European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century
19 Jun 2010 – 10 Oct 2010
Alongside masterpieces by German artists are works by the greatest French, Belgian, Dutch and Swiss masters of the time. Included are iconic Neo-Classical, Realist, Impressionist and Symbolist works, through to breathtaking German Expressionist paintings and sculpture, rarely seen in Australia.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/melbourne-winter-masterpieces-2010
Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion – 28 May 2010 – 23 Jan 2011
The exhibition will include rare early examples of labelled garments from the mid nineteenth century and a range of dresses, tailored items and accessories that were made and retailed in Australia.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/australian-made
Art Gallery of South Australia
Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris – 23 July – 4 October
From the romantic mythological scenes endorsed by the Salon, to vibrant decorative allegories and Belle Époque pictures of Parisian leisure, Bunny’s works can be admired en masse in this major national travelling exhibition.
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/Rupert_Bunny.html
Art Gallery of Western Australia
patricia piccinini: relativity – 1 May – 22 August 2010
Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists whose startling sculptures examine the connections between science and nature, art and the environment. Audiences are drawn to Piccinini’s sculptures because they appear so real, yet they are creatures of the artist’s imagination developed to consider a strange new world of artificial or mutant beings derived from experimental biotechnology.
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/patricia-piccinini-relativity.asp
