A Guiding Hand: prints and directors 1967 – 2011
Saturday, 24 September 2011 -
Sunday, 27 November 2011,
9 AM -
5 PM
Mars Gallery, Timken Foundation Community Gallery and Victor Gordon King Gallery
Admission: FREE
The story of five gallery directors and how they built up the
Art Gallery of Ballarat holding of prints into a collection of
national significance.
The five professional Directors who have led the Gallery since
1967 - James Mollison, Margaret MacKean, Ron Radford, Margaret Rich
and Gordon Morrison - have each contributed to the print
collection, taking it in particular directions according to their
individual tastes and approaches to collecting.
A Guiding Hand includes works by notable Australian
artists from George French Angas and Louis Buvelot to Dorrit Black,
Margaret Preston, Redback Graphix and the Jill Posters Collective,
with particular attention given to George Baldessin, Bea Maddock,
Murray Griffin and Alun Leach Jones.
The exhibition will feature colonial prints, relief prints of
the 1920s and 1930s, posters and will also examine print processes,
using the Gallery's collection of original printing blocks and
other artefacts.
The exhibition is being held in association with the
International Printmaking Conference Impact 7 2011:
Intersections and Counterpoints which is being hosted by
Monash University in September this year.
This exhibition is a fascinating study in connoisseurship,
showing some rarely seen works from the Gallery's collection,
curated by Gallery Registrar Anne Rowland.