Art on the road: Travel in Worldwide
With Carol Cains, Shaune Lakin and Anne O’Hehir
Hiroshige Utagawa, Arai, ferry boat [Arai, Watashi bune No Zo], 1833-34, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift in memory of Lady (Louise) Walker.
Duration: 45 min including Q&A
Join Carol Cains (Head Curator, International Art), Shaune Lakin (Senior Curator, Photography) and Anne O'Hehir (Curator, Photography) for a closer look at the impact of travel on artists in the Worldwide collection display.
From Anna Atkins’ botanical cyanotypes, to the 1830’s Japanese travel prints of Hiroshige Utagawa, and Helen E. Lambert’s travel album, Who and what we saw at the Antipodes (1868–70), this talk will focus on how artists captured the world around them when travelling away from home.
Worldwide is structured around pivotal works in the collection inspired by the National Gallery’s founding history. Working across time, place and media, the Worldwide collection display draws together some of the greatest achievements of artists from Australia, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas and Europe.
It celebrates the diversity of art and cultures across the globe and shows how fundamental ideas such as landscape, abstraction, memory, the body and the power of art itself continue to resonate, demonstrating the interconnectedness of culture and our experience of the world.
Art Talks are a free weekly program. Hear from artists, curators and experts on the works in our collection and exhibition program.
This program is wheelchair accessible and four assistive listening devices will be available for attendees who are hard of hearing. Please email learning@nga.gov.au for more information.
