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George Adams Gallery & State Theatre Foyer Gallery - the White Hat guideThere are two galleries at the The Melbourne Arts Centre at 100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne. Entry is free to both. The George Adams Gallery can usually be relied on to have something of interest, and you may well find yourself spending an hour or more delving into some byway of Australia. Recent exhibitions have included Dame Edna Everidge's fabulous frocks, Our Nell (Nellie Stewart) and her effect on the Australian public, painted cellos, Beatrix Potter, and the Archibald Prize for portraits. No records returned.The St Kilda Rd Foyer Gallery usually has exhibits from the performing arts, often of a lighter nature. While mum might be examining intricacies of 19th century porcelain in the George Adams Gallery, dad can be over in the foyer investigating the costumes worn by the Tivoli girls in the 1950s together with the photos. No records returned.And if you are visiting these galleries, make sure you make the short detour to the foyer of the Fairfax Theatre to view the work that Jeffrey Smart created for this space - see below. Jeffrey Smart's Container Train in Landscape was commissioned in 1983 to hang in the foyer of the Fairfax Theatre of the Melbourne Arts Centre. The painting comes into view at the top of the entrance stairs, and by cunning use of forced perspective the train appears to remain at the same distance as the viewer descends the stairs. It is painted on five panels. As a consummate craftsman, Smart integrates the painting with the colours and columns of the foyer, and as a consummate artist uses numbers of visual devices to extract beauty form a seemingly unpromising subject. Those who know the painting well may notice that the above image (from the website of the organisation selling the print) is in fact a mirror image of the original. Never fear - if you buy the print it is the right way round. |
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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