Event
KIDS WORKSHOP: Art in Action - Exploring Stage Design
16 April

For aspiring young performers and stage designers! Get inspired by the stage and costume designs by Sidney Nolan and create your own unique set design.

KIDS WORKSHOP: Create a Ceramic Coral Reef
Event
23 April—23 April
KIDS WORKSHOP: Create a Ceramic Coral Reef

Dive into artmaking these school holidays and create a ceramic coral reef in the CMAG Studio!

TALK: Chile to Lanyon - Migration Connections and Earthen Constructions - Heritage Festival 2025
Event
30 April—30 April
TALK: Chile to Lanyon - Migration Connections and Earthen Constructions - Heritage Festival 2025

In the 1860s, two Chilean men started working for the Cunningham family at Lanyon Homestead. Who were they and why did they travel to Canberra?

TALK: War, Art and the Love Story Behind Roland Wakelin’s Canberra - Heritage Festival 2025
Event
7 May—7 May
TALK: War, Art and the Love Story Behind Roland Wakelin’s Canberra - Heritage Festival 2025

Join Senior Curator Virginia Rigney to uncover the wartime love story behind Roland Wakelin’s serene depiction of the Canberra Methodist Church in Reid.

TALK: Captain Faunce - Policing Canberra's Colonial Frontier - Heritage Festival 2025
Event
14 May—14 May
TALK: Captain Faunce - Policing Canberra's Colonial Frontier - Heritage Festival 2025

Discover the life of Captain Alured Tasker Faunce, Canberra’s first police magistrate

Dean Cross: Looking for the Lyre
Exhibition
20 June—27 June 2027
Dean Cross: Looking for the Lyre
Opening soon

Artist Dean Cross (Worimi) presents a new multi-media work for Nolan50, responding to Nolan’s designs for the ballets, The Rite of Spring, 1963, and The Display, 1964.

Symposium: Cultural Alliance | Visual Art + Design for the Stage
Event
19 September
Symposium: Cultural Alliance | Visual Art + Design for the Stage

Join some of Australia’s leading artists, designers, and performance makers as they discuss their experiences working in theatre and the process of creating a ‘total work of art’

Public Impressions: Sidney Nolan in Popular Media
Exhibition
21 March 2026—23 August 2027
Public Impressions: Sidney Nolan in Popular Media
Opening soon

Before television dominated popular media from the early 1970s, colourful magazines were an ever-present fixture on the coffee tables and in canteens and waiting rooms across Australia

Nolan: The Backstory
Exhibition
10 July 2027—13 February 2028
Nolan: The Backstory
Opening soon

The backs of Sidney Nolan’s paintings reveal an intriguing body of historical information