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

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

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’

Exhibition
Flow Line: Abstraction from the CMAG collection
15 August 2020—7 November 2020

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

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…

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

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