93-726: The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize was a photographic art prize held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with the Archibald Prize , Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize . The winner received $ 15,000 to $ 20,000 and their work was automatically acquired for the Art Gallery's permanent collection. In its inaugural year in 2003 there were 560 entries received and 50 works exhibited. In 2005 entries rose to 657 and there were 49 works exhibited. The prize
186-400: A 1936 refurbishment and enlargement included a new facade with an open Doric portico. Major extensions in 1962 (including a three-storey air-conditioned addition on the northern side), 1979 (general refurbishment, in time for its centenary in 1981) and 1996 (large expansion) increased the gallery's display, administrative and ancillary facilities further. The building is listed in
279-533: A ceremonial entrance. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating criticised plans to significantly develop the outdoor spaces near the gallery for use as private venues as "about money, not art". The Foundation and Friends of the neighbouring Royal Botanic Garden objected to the proposed loss of green space and parkland in the adjacent Domain , requested a review and negotiated with the gallery about sight lines, transport, logistics and alignment of built structures. The extension opened on 2 December 2022, almost doubling
372-463: A decision had not been made on what the new gallery would be called. The new, cascading exhibition spaces featured large windows with views onto Sydney Harbour, and converted a large underground oil bunker into a columned gallery spaced called 'The Tank'. In April 2024 it was announced the Sydney Modern (north building) would be called an Aboriginal name 'Naala Badu', meaning ‘seeing waters’ in
465-505: A further two in 1899. A watercolour gallery was added in 1901 and in 1902 the Grand Oval Lobby was completed. The 32 names below the entablature were chosen by the gallery's board of trustees president, Frederick Eccleston Du Faur. The names were of were painters, sculptors, and architects with no connection to any works in the gallery at the time. Several calls to replace these names with notable Australian artists failed because
558-417: A lot of live art . Paintings, photography, sculpture, textiles, film, video, sound art, installation, and performance art by 23 artists were featured, including work by Abdul Abdullah , Stelarc , David Noonan , Garry Stewart and Australian Dance Theatre , Megan Cope , Karla Dickens , Julia Robinson , performance artist Mike Parr , Polly Borland , Willoh S. Weiland , Yhonnie Scarce (whose work In
651-633: A major exhibition over the winter months at the Gallery. There is also a non-acquisitive Lipman Karas People's Choice Prize based on public vote, worth $ 15,000. In its inaugural year, over 450 young artists submitted entries. From the 21 finalists selected for the exhibition, Perth -born artist Sarah Contos , now based in Sydney , won the prize for her entry entitled Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye . Julie Fragar 's 2016 painting Goose Chase: All of Us Together Here and Nowhere , which explores
744-586: A major internal refurbishment of the gallery, introduced the Tarnanthi festival, hosted large-scale exhibitions, and greatly increased the collection of both contemporary Australian and international art. Annual visitor numbers increased from 480,000 in 2010 to 800,000 by the time of his departure. He was the first gallery director in Australia to implement a provenance project, which investigates old objects which were acquired without historical checks. After
837-668: A number of visiting exhibitions each year and also contributes travelling exhibitions to regional galleries. European (including British ), Asian and North American art are also well represented in its collections. The director, Rhana Devenport ONZM , is due to leave the position in July 2024, having served her six-year-contract. The South Australian Society of Arts , established in 1856 and oldest fine arts society still in existence, held annual exhibitions in South Australian Institute rooms and advocated for
930-479: A permanent gallery. Though Hunt submitted four detailed designs in various styles between 1884 and 1895, his work came to nothing apart from a temporary building in the Domain . With raw brick walls and a saw-tooth roof , it was denounced in the press as the "Art Barn". Newly appointed government architect, Walter Liberty Vernon , secured the prestigious commission over John Horbury Hunt in 1895. Vernon believed that
1023-745: A public art collection. In 1880 Parliament gave £2,000 to the institute to start acquiring a collection and the National Gallery of South Australia was established in June 1881 with 22 works purchased at the Melbourne International Exhibition , together with others lent by Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the British Government and private collectors. It was opened in two rooms of the public library (now
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#17327809561101116-468: A refurbishment of the administration area. A competition to expand the gallery as part of the 'Sydney Modern' project was won in 2015 by Tokyo architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA . The chosen design, which proposed a large extension to the north, was criticised on architectural as well as public interest grounds. Former architect Andersons described it as intrusive, 'colliding' with Vernon's sandstone façade and relegating his portico to
1209-743: A system of demountable walls. While the new galleries were painted off white, senior curator, Daniel Thomas, advocated a rich Victorian colour scheme to display the gallery's 19th-century paintings in Vernon's grand courts. In 1975 the Captain Cook Wing was awarded the Sir John Sulman Medal for Public Architecture by the NSW Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. In 2007 the building
1302-748: Is "the only major biennial dedicated solely to presenting contemporary Australian art", and also the longest-running exhibition featuring contemporary Australian art. It is supported by the Australia Council and other sponsors. It is presented in association with the Adelaide Festival and staged by AGSA and partner gallery the Samstag Museum , as well as other venues such as the Adelaide Botanic Garden , Mercury Cinema and JamFactory . The Adelaide Biennial
1395-523: Is a large collection of British art , including many Pre-Raphaelite works, by artists Edward Burne-Jones , William Holman Hunt , Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Morris & Co. Other works include John William Waterhouse 's Circe Invidiosa (1892) and The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius (c.1883); William Holman Hunt 's Christ and the Two Marys (1847) and The Risen Christ with
1488-467: Is almost perfect, designs for the roof having been furnished by London correspondents after careful study of all the latest improvements in European galleries. The walls are coloured a chill neutral green shade, which makes an excellent background. Vernon proposed that his oval lobby lead into an equally imposing Central Court. His plans were not accepted. Until 1969 his lobby led, by a short descent from
1581-401: Is represented by works by Russell Drysdale , Arthur Boyd , Margaret Preston , Bessie Davidson , and Sidney Nolan , and South Australian art includes works by James Ashton and Jeffrey Smart . The Gallery became the first Australian gallery to acquire a work by an Indigenous artist in 1939, although systematic acquisition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art was not realised until
1674-603: Is strong in nineteenth-century works (including silverware and furniture ) and in particular Australian Impressionist (often referred to as Heidelberg School) paintings. Its twentieth-century Modernist art collection includes the work of many female artists , and there is a large collection of South Australian art, which includes 2,000 drawings by Hans Heysen and a large collection of photographs . Heidelberg school works include Tom Roberts ' A break away! , Charles Conder 's A holiday at Mentone , and Arthur Streeton 's Road to Templestowe . The mid-twentieth century
1767-536: The Biennale of Sydney was held at the gallery for the first time. The Sydney Opera House had been the location for the inaugural Biennale in 1973. 1977 saw an exhibition "A selection of recent archaeological finds of the People's Republic of China." Edmund Capon was appointed director in 1978 and in 1980 The Art Gallery of New South Wales Act (1980) established the "Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust". It reduced
1860-809: The NGV . In response to the Elder Bequest , the Government commissioned a specially designed building (now the Elder Wing) and pushed ahead with all due speed, to provide employment for skilled tradesmen in a time of economic recession. The building was designed by C. E. Owen Smyth in Classical Revival style, built by Trudgen Brothers, and opened by the Governor, Lord Tennyson on 7 April 1900. Originally built with an enclosed portico ,
1953-748: The New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney , Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia. The gallery's first public exhibition opened in 1874. Admission is free to the general exhibition space, which displays Australian art (including Indigenous Australian art ), European and Asian art. A dedicated Asian Gallery
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#17327809561102046-659: The South Australian Heritage Register . As of 2019 , the building houses 64kWh worth of battery storage as part of the Government of South Australia Storage Demonstration project, powered by three 7.5 kW Selectronic inverters. This reduces the consumption of power from the state grid . In 1939, an act of parliament , the Libraries and Institutes Act 1939 , repealed the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery and Institutes Act and separated
2139-595: The Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled in favour of the gallery over the disputed 2004 award of the Archibald Prize to Craig Ruddy . The same year, James Gleeson and his partner Frank O'Keefe pledged A$ 16 million through the Gleeson O'Keefe Foundation to acquire works for the gallery's collection. On 10 June 2007, a 17th-century work by Frans van Mieris , entitled A Cavalier (Self-Portrait) ,
2232-577: The Tiwi Islands were installed in the forecourt, which started to change public perception of Aboriginal art, as contemporary art. In October 1973 the Primitive Art Gallery opened, with Tuckson as curator. The first Indigenous curators were appointed in 1984. Hetti Perkins worked at AGNSW from 1989, as the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the gallery from around 1998 until 2011, when she resigned. She
2325-611: The 'light box'. This addition was coupled with other alterations: a new temporary exhibition space on the top level, new conservation studios, an outward expansion of the café overlooking Woolloomooloo Bay, a new restaurant with dedicated function area, a theatrette and relocation of the gallery shop. The project was designed was by Sydney architect Richard Johnson and was opened on 25 October 2003. The space involves art from all corners of Asia, including Buddhist and Hindu arts, Indian sculptures, Southern Asian textiles, Chinese ceramics and paintings, Japanese works and more. The aesthetics of
2418-552: The 19th-century Grand Courts was celebrated in the gallery's inaugural 'Open Weekend' in 2009. A new contemporary gallery was created in 2010 by removing storage racks from the lowest level of the Captain Cook wing, and artworks were relocated to a new purpose-built off-site collection storage facility. The same year, the award of the Wynne Prize to Sam Leach for Proposal for landscaped cosmos caused controversy due to
2511-539: The A$ 450 ;million project, The firm of McGregor Coxall was chosen to redesign the gardens. The project has attracted controversy for its expense and encroachment into the public land of the Domain and the Royal Botanic Garden and its dependence on "much greater commercialisation". In 1883 John Horbury Hunt , an architect in private practice, was engaged by the gallery's trustees to design
2604-572: The AGSA collection comprises almost 45,000 works of art. Of the state galleries, only the National Gallery of Victoria is larger. It attracts about 512,000 visitors each year. Lindy Lee 's 6-metre (20 ft) sculpture "The Life of Stars" is mounted on the forecourt of the gallery, after being presented for the 2018 Biennial, Divided Worlds . Created in Shanghai in 2015, the sculpture's polished stainless steel surface reflects its surroundings during
2697-596: The Academy of Art) in 1872. From 1872 until 1879, the academy's main activity was the organisation of annual art exhibitions. The first exhibition of colonial art, under the auspices of the academy, was held at the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney Exchange in 1874. In 1874, the New South Wales Parliament voted funds towards a new Art Gallery of New South Wales, with a board of trustees to administer
2790-499: The Adelaide Botanic Garden. It drew record crowds, with more than 240,000 people over a 93-day season under curator Erica Green. Curator for the 2020 Biennial, which was scheduled to run from 29 February to 8 June 2020, was Leigh Robb, inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art appointed in 2016. The title was "Monster Theatres", examining "our relationships with each other, the environment and technology" and featured
2883-564: The Anne Landa Award was established, Australia's first award for moving image and new media. The Nelson Meers Foundation Nolan Room was opened, also in 2004, with a display of five major Sidney Nolan paintings gifted to the gallery by the foundation over the past five years. myVirtualGallery was launched on the gallery's website in 2005 and the former boardroom was reopened for display of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Australian artists. In 2005 Justice John Hamilton of
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2976-693: The Asian Galleries extension, including an RAIA National Commendation in the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture category; and a RAIA NSW Chapter Architecture Award for Public and Commercial Buildings. Over A$ 16 million was granted from the NSW Government for this major building project – inclusive also of the Rudy Komon Gallery, new conservation studios, café, restaurant and function area, and
3069-418: The Captain Cook Wing, the architect Andersons divided new from old with a wide strip of skylights in the main entry court. While in the old courts there was parquetry flooring, travertine flooring was employed in the new galleries for both permanent and temporary exhibitions. The modern need for flexibility in display layout was answered by the use of track lighting and precast ceiling panels designed to support
3162-626: The Dead House was installed in the old Adelaide Lunatic Asylum morgue building in the Botanic Garden ) and others. However, AGSA had to temporarily close from 25 March 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia , so some of the exhibits were shown online, along with virtual tours of the exhibition. When the gallery reopened on 8 June, it was announced that the exhibition period would be extended to 2 August 2020. The 2022 event
3255-522: The Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. The 2015 exhibition was said to be the "most ambitious exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in its 134-year history". In association with the Government of South Australia and BHP , an expansive city-wide festival is staged biennially (in odd-numbered years), alternating with a focus exhibition at the gallery in
3348-669: The Gallery from the Public Library (now the State Library ), and Museum, established its own board and changed its name to the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Art Gallery Act 1939 was passed to provide for the control of the library. This has been amended several times since. In 1967 the National Gallery of South Australia changed its name to the Art Gallery of South Australia. From about 1996 until late 2018 Arts SA (later Arts South Australia) had responsibility for this and several other statutory bodies such as
3441-552: The Gothic style admitted greater individuality and richness 'not obtainable in the colder and unbending lines of Pagan Classic.' The trustees were not convinced and demanded a classical temple to art, not unlike William Henry Playfair 's Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh , opened in 1859. Vernon's building, housing eight daylight lit courts, was built in four stages. The first stage was commenced in 1896 and opened in May 1897. By 1901
3534-689: The Mortlock Wing of the State Library), by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George . In 1889 the collection was moved to the Jubilee Exhibition Building , where it remained for ten years. On 6 March 1897 Sir Thomas Elder died, bequeathing £25,000 to the art gallery for the purchase of artworks. The Elder bequest was the first major endowment to any Australian gallery, seven years before the Felton Bequest to
3627-650: The Museum and the State Library, after which the functions were transferred to direct oversight by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet , Arts and Culture section. Christopher Menz was director of the gallery until 2010, when he refused to renew his five-year contract because he believed that government funding to the gallery was inadequate. Nick Mitzevich was appointed as director in July 2010, when he
3720-549: The Ramsay Art Prize in 2016, a year before her death, and the couple's legacy lives on in the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, established in 2008. The bequest was established by James' will in 1994, and upon Diana's death in 2017, James' entire estate and part of Diana's was bequeathed to it. The Foundation supports the children and family programs, whereby more than 300,000 children and families have visited AGSA since
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3906-465: The Sydney language. The south building is to be named 'Naala Nura', meaning 'seeing country'. In 1871 the collection started with the acquisition by The Art Society of some large works from Europe such as Ford Madox Brown 's Chaucer at the Court of Edward III . Later they bought work from Australian artists such as Streeton's 1891 Fire's On , Roberts' 1894 The Golden Fleece and McCubbin's 1896 On
3999-483: The Two Marys in the Garden Of Joseph of Aramathea (1897); and John Collier 's Priestess of Delphi (1891). Works by British portrait painters include Robert Peake , Anthony van Dyck , Peter Lely and Thomas Gainsborough . Sculpture includes works by Rodin , Henry Moore , Barbara Hepworth , Jacob Epstein and Thomas Hirschhorn . The Asian art collection, begun in 1904, includes work from
4092-482: The Wallaby Track . In 2014 the collection is categorised into: AGNSW did not have any Indigenous Australian art until the middle of the twentieth century. In 1948, it acquired a donation of bark and paper paintings from the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land . Deputy director Tony Tuckson then started expanding the collection. In 1959 a series of 17 Pukamani grave posts from
4185-665: The Yiribana Gallery, dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, was opened. In 2001, the New South Wales Art Gallery announced that nine of the gallery's 40,000 artworks could have been among the many paintings stolen by the Nazis and that it was undertaking provenance research. In 2003 an Art After Hours program was initiated with the gallery opening hours extended every Wednesday. The inaugural Australian Photographic Portrait Prize
4278-576: The archives of major Australian sculptors and to extend research in three-dimensional practice". The 2011 exhibition The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors attracted more than 305,000 people and in the same year new contemporary galleries were opened, including the John Kaldor Family Gallery, plus a dedicated photography gallery and a refurbished works-on-paper study room. In August 2011 Edmund Capon announced his retirement after 33 years as director. Michael Brand assumed
4371-465: The ceiling of the gallery, which attracted much press coverage. His overall approach was to display contemporary works in close proximity to classics. Although he had a few detractors, the general opinion was that he had done a fine job at AGSA. His achievements included curating the highly successful 2014 Adelaide Biennial, the purchase of Camille Pissarro 's Prairie à Eragny , with its A$ 4.5 million price raised from donations only. He also oversaw
4464-623: The completion of the gallery would be a major part of the Captain Cook Bicentenary celebrations. This extension, which was opened to the public on 2 May 1972, and the 1988 Bicentennial extensions, were both entrusted to the New South Wales Government Architect , with Andrew Andersons the project architect. The architecture of the Captain Cook Wing did not attempt to clone the classical style of Vernon's design. Andersons' design philosophy
4557-679: The construction of a new building and double the size of the institution. The money was used over the next two years for feasibility and engineering studies related to the use of land next to the gallery's existing 19th-century home, and to launch an international architectural competition. The International design competition for the Sydney Modern Project resulted in five architectural firms being invited from an original list of twelve to submit their final concept designs in April 2015. A mix of private and NSW Government funds will pay for
4650-433: The creation of the programs in 2013. In November 2019 it was announced that the couple had made a bequest of A$ 38 million } to AGSA, to be used for the purchase of major works. This was one of the largest bequests ever made to an art gallery in Australia. The family's wealth had accrued mainly thanks to James’ uncle William , who was responsible for developing Kiwi boot polish , and his artist brother Hugh Ramsay influenced
4743-434: The day and radiates light at night. Over 30,000 perforated holes individually placed by Lee resemble a map of our galaxy when lit from within. The sculpture was bought by the gallery as a farewell "gift" for and tribute to departing director Nick Mitzevich in April 2018. The Gallery is renowned for its collections of Australian art, including Indigenous Australian and colonial art, from about 1800 onwards. The collection
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#17327809561104836-635: The departure of Mitzevich, who left to lead the National Gallery of Australia in April 2018, the first female director in the history of AGSA was appointed. On 22 October of that year, Australian-born Rhana Devenport ONZM started her appointment after leaving the Auckland Art Gallery , where she had been director since 2013. In March 2024 Devenport announced her departure after her contract ends on 7 July 2024, after serving for six years. In June 2024, Lisa Slade , who joined
4929-527: The duo Electric Fields ) and Yurndu (Sun) , by Port Augusta artist Juanella McKenzie, while Melbourne-based Iranian photographer Hoda Afshar 's series entitled Agonistes was also selected. The prize was won by South Australian artist Kate Bohunnis , for her work entitled edge of excess , a kinetic sculpture , while Hoda Afshar won the People's Choice Prize with her photographic work, Agonistes . In 2023, 26 finalists were chosen from more than 300 entries. The South Australian artist Ida Sophia won
5022-477: The educational and civilising influence engendered by an exhibition of works of art, bought, moreover, at the public expense. Montefiore was president of the board of trustees from 1889 to 1891, and became the director of the gallery in 1892, a position he retained until his death in 1894. The destruction of the Garden Palace by fire in 1882 placed pressure on the government to provide a permanent home for
5115-440: The entire southern half of the building was finished. A newspaper article at the time noted: Only one wing of the building, about one fourth of the whole structure, is at present completed, and gives rich promise of future beauty. The style is early Greek. The façade is built of thracyte and freestone . The interior is divided into four halls, each 100 feet by 30 feet, communicating with each other by pillared archways. The lighting
5208-558: The entrance level, to the three 'temporary' northern galleries designed by Hunt. In 1909 the front of the gallery was finished and after this date nothing more was built of Vernon's designs. In the 1930s plans were suggested for the completion of this part of the gallery but the Great Depression and other financial constraints lead to their abandonment. In 1968 the New South Wales Government decided
5301-480: The extension were described as "cantilevered on top of the original Asian galleries, the pavilion glows softly like a paper lantern when lit at night" and as "a floating white glass and steel cube pivoted with modern stainless steel lotus flowers". The extension added 720 square metres (7,800 sq ft) to the New South Wales Art Gallery, with the new space to house temporary and permanent exhibitions. In 2004 Johnson Pilton Walker won two awards for their design of
5394-523: The family's love of the visual arts . James' father was Sir John Ramsay , noted surgeon. In 2016, a new national $ 100,000 acquisitive art prize for artists, open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, was announced by the Premier of South Australia , Jay Weatherill . Supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation (and launched by Diana on her 90th birthday ), it is the country's richest art prize, awarded biennially. Chosen by an international judging panel, all finalists are exhibited in
5487-448: The first word 'National'.) In 1969 construction began on the Captain Cook wing to celebrate the bicentenary of Cook's landing in Botany Bay . The new wing opened in May 1972, following the retirement of Missingham and the appointment of Peter Phillip Laverty as director in 1971. The first of the modern blockbusters to be held at the gallery was Modern Masters: Monet to Matisse in 1975. It attracted 180,000 people over 29 days. The 1976
5580-440: The funds, one of whom was Montefiore. In 1875, Apsley Falls by Conrad Martens , commissioned by the trustees and purchased for £50 out of the first government grant of £500, became the first work on paper by an Australian artist to be acquired by the gallery. The gallery's collection was first housed at Clark's Assembly Hall in Elizabeth Street where it was open to the public on Friday and Saturday afternoons. The collection
5673-588: The gallery in 2011 as project curator and was appointed assistant director, artistic programs, in 2015, announced her departure from 3 July 2024, after being appointed Hugh Ramsay Chair in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne , a position based in the Art History Program in the School of Culture and Communication. In November 2024 it was announced that Jason Smith, current director of Geelong Gallery and former director of Heide Museum of Modern Art and Monash Gallery of Art , would begin his term as director of AGSA in February 2025. As of May 2019 ,
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#17327809561105766-409: The gallery participated in the large "Biennial 2016" art festival with its "Magic Object" exhibitions. In 2018, the title was "Divided Worlds", which aimed "...to describe the divide between ideas and ideologies, between geographies and localities, between communities and nations, and the subjective and objective view of experience and reality itself". Venues included the Museum of Economic Botany in
5859-435: The gallery unveiled a strategic vision and masterplan, under the working title Sydney Modern : a proposal for major expansion and renewed focus on serving a global audience. The stated aim was to complete the project by 2021, the 150th anniversary of the gallery's founding in 1871. In the same year, the gallery received A$ 10.8 million from the NSW Government to finance the planning stages of Sydney Modern , which would see
5952-430: The gallery's exhibition space, to 16,000 square metres in total. The project cost $ 344 million in total, of which $ 244 million came from the NSW Government. The new spaces displayed a range of contemporary and installation works, with a particular focus on First Nations artwork. The new gallery did not adopt the 'Sydney Modern' project title as the permanent name of the new building, and at the time of its opening in 2022
6045-399: The highest amount paid by the gallery for a work of art. In the same year the NSW Government announced a grant of A$ 25.7 million to construct an offsite storage facility and a gift from the John Kaldor Family Collection to the gallery was announced. Valued at over A$ 35 million, it comprised some 260 works representing the history of international contemporary art. The refurbishment of
6138-429: The main facade in 1926. James Stuart MacDonald was appointed director and secretary in 1929. In 1936 the inaugural Sulman Prize was awarded to Henry Hanke for La Gitana . Will Ashton was appointed director and secretary in 1937. The first woman to win the Archibald Prize was Nora Heysen in 1938 with her portrait Mme Elink Schuurman , the wife of the Consul General for the Netherlands. The same year electric light
6231-481: The mid-1950s. The Gallery and now holds a large and diverse collection of older and contemporary works, including the Kulata Tjuta collaboration created by Aṉangu artists working in the north of SA. European landscape paintings include works by Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael , Salomon van Ruysdael , Joseph Wright of Derby , and Camille Pissarro . Other European works include paintings by Goya , Francesco Guardi , Pompeo Batoni and Camille Corot . There
6324-473: The national collection. In 1883 private architect John Horbury Hunt was engaged by the trustees to submit designs. The same year there was a change of name to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales. The gallery was incorporated by The Library and Art Gallery Act 1899. In 1895, the newly appointed government architect, Walter Liberty Vernon , was given the assignment to design the new permanent gallery and two picture galleries were opened in 1897 and
6417-448: The need for more forums focussing on Australian art. In its first iteration in 1990, The Adelaide Biennale set out to emulate the Whitney Biennial of American art in New York City , and was intended to complement the Sydney Biennale and the Australian Perspecta exhibitions. Then director Daniel Thomas said that they had introduced the Biennial to keep Australia up to date: the Festival attracts international and interstate visitors and it
6510-438: The number of trustees to nine and stipulated that "at least two" members "shall be knowledgeable and experienced in the visual arts." With the support of Premier Neville Wran a major extension of the gallery became a Bicennential project. Opened just in time in December 1988, the extensions doubled the floor space of the gallery. In 1993 Kevin Connor won the inaugural Dobell Prize for Drawing for Pyrmont and city . In 1994,
6603-401: The painting's resemblance to a 17th-century Dutch landscape; and the gallery announced Mollie Gowing's bequest of 142 artworks plus A$ 5 million to establish two endowment funds for acquisitions: one for Indigenous art and a larger one for general acquisitions. Also in 2010 the Balnaves Foundation Australian Sculpture Archive was established, funded by the Balnaves Foundation , "to acquire
6696-518: The prize with her video installation witness . Zaachariaha Fielding won the $ 15,000 People's Choice prize, with his multi-panel work Wonder Drug . The Guildhouse Fellowship is also supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, and presented in partnership with AGSA. Inaugurated in 2019, the fellowship is intended for mid-career artists, to support opportunities to expand their research and further explore their creative potential. It offers $ 35,000 to support research and development, including
6789-567: The role of director in mid-2012. Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris attracted almost 365,000 visitors – the largest number ever to an exhibition at the gallery, also in 2012 and Michael Zavros won the inaugural Bulgari Art Award with The New Round Room . In the same year Kenneth Reed announced his intention to bequeath his entire private collection of 200 pieces of rare and valuable 18th-century European porcelain valued at A$ 5.4 million. In 2013
6882-619: The second largest state art collection in Australia (after the National Gallery of Victoria ). As part of North Terrace cultural precinct, the gallery is flanked by the South Australian Museum to the west and the University of Adelaide to the east. As well as its permanent collection, which is especially renowned for its collection of Australian art , AGSA hosts the annual Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art known as Tarnanthi , displays
6975-402: The story of Antonio de Fraga, her first paternal ancestor to emigrate to Australia in the 19th century, won the People's Choice Award. In 2019, 23 finalists were chosen from a field of 350 submissions. Vincent Namatjira won the main prize with his work Close Contact, 2018 , a double-sided full-body representation of a man, in acrylic paint on plywood . Winner of the People's Choice Prize
7068-475: The trustees could not decide on alternatives. Over 300,000 people came to the gallery during March and April 1906 to see Holman Hunt 's painting The Light of the World . In 1921, the inaugural Archibald Prize was awarded to William McInnes for his portrait of architect Desbrowe Annear . The equestrian statues The Offerings of Peace and The Offerings of War by Gilbert Bayes were installed in front of
7161-552: The whole region, with focuses on the pre-modern Japanese art , art of Southeast Asia , India and the Middle East . The Gallery holds Australia's only permanent display of Islamic art . As well as its permanent collection, AGSA hosts the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art , displays a number of visiting exhibitions each year and contributes travelling exhibitions to regional galleries. The Adelaide Biennial
7254-516: The years in between. In 1906, when William Holman Hunt's The Light of the World was on display, 18,168 visitors crammed through the gallery in less than two weeks to see it. Diana Ramsay (7 May 1926 – 2017) and her husband James Ramsay (1923–1996) were art-lovers who gave generously to the art gallery. As of 2021 the gallery had acquired over 100 artworks thanks to their generosity, including paintings by Vanessa Bell , Clarice Beckett , Angelica Kauffmann and Camille Pissarro . Diana launched
7347-449: Was 24-year-old Zimbabwean man Pierre Mukeba (the youngest finalist) for his 3 metres (9.8 ft) by 4 metres (13 ft) painting entitled Ride to Church , inspired by childhood memories of the whole family perched somewhat precariously on a single motorbike to travel to church. In 2021, 24 finalists were chosen from more than 350 entries. South Australian finalists included the work of musician and painter Zaachariaha Fielding (of
7440-519: Was a good time to introduce contemporary Australian art to this audience. Artists such as Fiona Hall , whose work is now in the National Gallery of Art , were showcased at the first Biennial. The exhibition today still projects Thomas' vision, with the most noticeable difference being that the current version has a theme and a catchy title. The 2014 Biennial was titled "Dark Heart", an examination of changing national sensibilities, mounted by director Nick Mitzevitch, with 28 artists exhibiting. In 2016,
7533-527: Was acknowledged with the New South Wales Enduring Architecture Award . Sixteen years later the 1988 Bicentennial extension was built on the Domain parkland sloping steeply to the east. Within the constraints of two large Moreton Bay fig trees, and with a substantial part of the accommodation below ground level, the extension doubled the size of the gallery. Space for permanent collections and temporary exhibitions
7626-464: Was akin to that espoused by Robert Venturi in his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture , as Andersons explains: He [Venturi] argued the case for richer and more complex forms of architectural expression – for 'the juxtaposition of old and new' for dramatic visual impact, rather than striving for unity and consistency in architecture that conventional precepts then dictated. In
7719-806: Was called Free/State , and among others featured the work of Hossein Valamanesh , who died in February, and his wife Angela Valamanesh . It ran from 4 March to 5 June, and was curated by Sydney -based Burramattagal man Sebastian Goldspink . The theme was inspired by the history of South Australia as a "free colony", and also had resonances with states of being and psychology, and contrasting ideas of freedom. Other artists featured include Shaun Gladwell , JD Reformer , Tom Polo , Rhoda Tjitayi, Stanislava Pinchuk , and collaborators James Tylor and Rebecca Selleck. Since 2015, AGSA has hosted and supported events connected with Tarnanthi (pronounced tar-nan-dee),
7812-1479: Was discontinued in 2007. List of winners [ edit ] 2006 - Vanila Netto The magnanimous beige wrap part 1 - (contraption) 2005 - Cassandra Mathie Ali and Rahma 2004 - Roderick McNicol Robert Hunter 1984 & 2004 2003 - Greg Weight Railway Blues: Jim Conway External links [ edit ] Photographic Portrait Prize (discontinued) References [ edit ] ^ "Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize" . Art Gallery of NSW . Retrieved 4 April 2013 . ^ "Photographic Portrait.Prize.06" . Art Gallery of NSW . Retrieved 4 April 2013 . ^ "The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize 2005" . Retrieved 4 April 2013 . ^ "Photographic Portrait Prize (discontinued)" . Art Gallery of NSW . Retrieved 4 April 2013 . v t e Australian art awards Archibald Bald Archy Blake Bowness Clemenger Conrad Jupiters Dobell Doug Moran Fleurieu Fremantle Print Award Gallipoli Art Prize Glover Gold Coast Art Prize Helen Lempriere McCaughey Mandorla Mosman NATSIAA National New Media Art Award National Works on Paper Portia Geach Phoenix Prize for Spiritual Art Photographic portrait Ramsay Art Prize Salon des Refusés Sculpture by
7905-473: Was established in 1990, planned to coincide with Artist's Week, which had commenced in 1982 to help counter the poor coverage of visual art in the Adelaide Festival of Arts programme at that time. The Art Gallery of New South Wales introduced an exhibition of Australian art called Australian Perspecta in 1981, which ran in alternate years with the international Biennale of Sydney , in response for
7998-518: Was expanded, a new Asian gallery, the Domain Theatre, a café overlooking Woolloomooloo Bay , and a rooftop sculpture garden were added. Escalators connected four exhibition levels with the entry/orientation space. Four contemporary art 'rooms' were top lit by pyramid skylights. A new space for Asian art was built to add to the existing Asian art gallery immediately below. Backlit translucent external cladding glows at night and has been dubbed
8091-649: Was hardly known in SA. He had grand ambitions and made a big impression in the eight years he ran AGSA. During this time, he acquired and commissioned works that would make an impression on the public, such as projecting an AES+F video work onto the gallery's façade during the Adelaide Fringe in 2012, and buying an entire exhibition of 16 paintings by Ben Quilty on the 130th anniversary of AGSA. He also hung We Are All Flesh , an epoxy resin sculpture of two headless horses by Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere , from
8184-476: Was opened in 2003. On 24 April 1871, a public meeting was convened in Sydney to establish an Academy of Art "for the purpose of promoting the fine arts through lectures, art classes and regular exhibitions." Eliezer Levi Montefiore (brother of Jacob Levi Montefiore and nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow Montefiore ) co-founded the New South Wales Academy of Art (also referred to as simply
8277-559: Was relocated in 1879 to a wooden annexe to the Garden Palace built for the Sydney International Exhibition in the Domain and was officially opened as the Art Gallery of New South Wales on 22 September 1880. In 1882 Montefiore and his fellow trustees opened the art gallery on Sunday afternoons from 2 pm to 5 pm. Montefiore believed: the public should be afforded every facility to avail themselves of
8370-550: Was responsible for some major exhibitions and initiatives during her time there. Art Gallery of South Australia#Ramsay Art Prize The Art Gallery of South Australia ( AGSA ), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide . It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia . It has a collection of almost 45,000 works of art, making it
8463-508: Was stolen from the gallery. The painting had been donated by John Fairfax and was valued at over A$ 1 million. The theft raised questions about need for increased security at the gallery. In the same year the Belgiorno-Nettis family donated A$ 4 million over four years to the gallery to support contemporary art. In 2008 the gallery purchased Paul Cézanne 's painting Bords de la Marne c. 1888 for A$ 16.2 million –
8556-405: Was temporarily installed at the gallery to remain open at night for the first time. In 1943 William Dobell won the Archibald Prize for Joshua Smith , causing considerable controversy. Hal Missingham was appointed director and secretary in 1945. On 1 July 1958 the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act was amended and the gallery's name reverted to the "Art Gallery of New South Wales". (Dropping
8649-476: Was won by Greg Weight . The Art Gallery Society of New South Wales celebrated its 50th anniversary in the same year and the Rudy Komon Gallery exhibition space was opened, followed by the new Asian gallery. A 2004 exhibition of Man Ray 's work set an attendance record for photography exhibitions, with over 52,000 visitors. The same year a legal challenge was mounted against the award of the Archibald Prize to Craig Ruddy for his David Gulpilil , two worlds; and
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