CONTEMPORARY ART EVENTS @ AGNSW

Looks like some great things coming up at the AGNSW.

Gilbert & George on Valentine's Day!!

INTERESTING UPCOMING LECTURE AT AGNSW

Photography lecture - Taryn Simon An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

"an ethnography of the American psyche rendered through an obsessive documentation of its repressed places". - Geoffrey Batchen

In her only Sydney appearance, Taryn Simon, a fine-art photographer and currently an assignment photographer for the New York Times, presents a discussion and slide show of her work An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. From the AGNSW website

See here for more detail.

BRETT WHITELEY TRAVELLING ART SCHOLARSHIP - OPEN!

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2009

Applications now available online

Entry for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is open to Australian artists aged between 20 and 30 (inclusive). The Scholarship comprises an amount of $25,000 and a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, which is administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The residency is for a continuous period of three months from July to September 2010 (dates subject to change). The $25,000 must be used by the successful applicant to further their art education in Europe for a period of at least six months, three months of which must be used in conjunction with the residency.

Download an application form
For more information, please see our website

Closing date for applications is Friday 10 July 2009

Cross post from AGNSW

CROSS POST FROM AGNSW

County, Culture Community: a new education kit for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is pleased to announce the launch a major new Education Kit for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection on Friday March 27.

The launch will be in the form of a Teachers Professional Development Day featuring artist talks by Judy Watson and Richard Bell, curator's talk, a discussion of the role of the art centre and related issues such as carpetbagging and re-sale royalty rights by a representative from Papunya Tula art centre, and strategies for using the kit to support classroom teaching practice with Visual Arts, Aboriginal Studies and History teachers.

Each teacher attending the day will receive a free copy of the Education Kit, valued at $45.00, as well as lunch and morning tea.

See here for further information and booking procedures.