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MGA fundraising auction 2010

Preview exhibition:
>3 to 13 March 2010

Fundraising Dinner & Auction:
>6.300pm Saturday 13 March 2010

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Thirty two artists from Australia and overseas have generously donated work to MGA's 12th annual fundraising auction.

On Saturday 13 March 2010, MGA will host a gala evening of fabulous entertainment, fine dining and exceptional photo-based art.

Photographic works by the most collectable contemporary artists including Roger Ballen, Del Kathryn Barton, Rennie Ellis and Polixeni Papapetrou will be auctioned.

Since 1999, the Fundraising auction and dinner has become a significant feature of the Gallery's event calendar. All funds raised ensure the continued growth of MGA as one of Australia's leading public galleries along with the sustained development and conservation of the MGA collection - recognised as one of the Australia's finest.


Fundraising auction and dinner
Tickets: $160 per person

Auction items include works by:
Robert Ashton , Donna Bailey , Roger Ballen , Del Kathryn Barton , Jane Burton , Elaine Campaner , Rebecca Dagnall , Tamara Dean , Marian Drew , Rozalind Drummond , Paul Dunn , Stephen Dupont , Rennie Ellis , Cherine Fahd , Anne Ferran , Janina Green
Alfred Gregory , Siri Hayes , David Hempenstall , Mark Kimber , Christopher Koller , Georgia Metaxas , Rod McNicol , Deborah Paauwe , Sanja Pahoki , Polixeni Papapetrou , Sonia Payes , Louis Porter , Glenn Sloggett , Lyndal Walker.

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WILBOW GALLERY

Jon Lewis
Kiribati: putting a face to climate change

> 12 February to 11 April 2010
> Opening: 3.00PM Saturday 13 February 2010

Australian photographer and a founder of Greenpeace Australia Jon Lewis will this weekend speak at MGA in response to his latest exhibition. Kiribati: putting a face to climate change, on display at MGA until 11 April, takes on the big issue of our time: climate change.

The Republic of Kiribati consists of 33 atolls and is situated in the Equatorial Pacific. It is a country under threat of storm surges, salination of fresh water, unpredictable weather and tidal increases. The environmental impacts of climate change are contributing to the country’s physical demise – tragically, it is slowly and surely going down.

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> Listen up: artist;s talk with Jon Lewis
2pm Saturday 13 February 2010

Bookings 03 8544 500

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Talking Tapa : Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland

>12 February to 11 April 2010

> Opening: 3.00PM Saturday 13 February 2010
with opening remarks by judith Ryan, Senior Curator, Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria

Talking Tapa : Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland showcases the diversity of Pacific Islander cultural practices and visual iconography as represented through tapa (beaten bark cloth).

Talking Tapa: Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland is a travelling exhibition that showcases Pacific Islander heritage. With a growing number of Pacific Islanders settling in Australia and an increasing awareness of Australia's Pacific neighbours, i t is timely that a major exhibition of tapa (bark cloth) has been developed and will be touring across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria in 2009/2011.

Talking Tapa is a national travelling exhibition presented by Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre, curated by Joan G Winter and toured by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia. This project is also proudly funded by Queensland Government's Gambling Community Benefit Fund and Brisbane City Council

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Sean Davey and Emmanuel Onom Mel
8 Mile: photographs from the margins of Port Moresby

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>28 January to 28 February 2010
>16 March to 11 April 2010 (extended season)

Monash Gallery of Art begins 2010 with Pasifika: three Oceanic encounters. Pasifica runs from February-April 2010 and focuses attention on our Pacific neighbours. Pasifika begins with a photographic collaboration between Sean Davey and Emmanuel Onom Mel.

Sean and Emmanuel’s exhibition portrays life in the small community of 8 Mile Settlement, located just outside Port Moresby, PNG. Over the past few years, Sean has visited 8 Mile, photographing it and teaching its residents how to take photographs. Emmanuel has also documented his community: together, Sean’s black-and-white and Emmanuel’s colour photographs produce a compellingly gritty picture of contemporary life in PNG.

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