A range of innovative and stimulating public programs and special events are held in conjunction with exhibitions, including artists talks, guided tours for schools or community groups, and concerts.

Fun-filled and interactive children's programs are also available, which are a great way for your child to discover art and experiment with their creativity.

Download an events calender May to August 2008

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Thursday 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May and 5, 12, 19 June, 2008

SOLD OUT!

BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION
Tutor — Helen Burrows

Thursday 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May and 5, 12, 19 June
TIME: 6.30 – 9.00pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: $220 General Admission $200 Students and Friends of MGA
Bookings essential: ph 9562 1569

> Develop your artistic flair and learn to accurately draw the stunning beauty of plants and flowers. Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate, this 8-week course with Botanical Illustrator Helen Burrows will provide intensive guidance in basic botany, drawing and watercolour.

Bookings Essential:
03-9562 1569

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Saturday 10 May, 2008


SATURDAY ART CLUB Perspex Sculptures with Mark Galea


DATE: Saturday 10 May
TIME: 2.00 – 4.00pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10 General Admission, $8 Children of Friends of MGA
Suitable for 5-12 yr olds

> Inspired by the Eastlink's sound barriers and Mark Galea's sculpture in the MGA's collection, participants will make a perspex sculpture that can bereconfigured to explore colour theories and the effects of light. Tutor Mark Galea.

Bookings essential: ph 9562 1569

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Saturday 17 May, 2008

Zooming in:artist’s talk with Nathan Miller

DATE: Saturday 17 May, 2008
TIME: 3pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: FREE

>Zooming In is an ongoing series of floor talks by individual artists exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art. It is an opportunity to hear about an artists work from their own viewpoint. Artists discuss their professional practice, the processes behind their work and what influences and inspires them. Talks are given within the exhibition space and are followed by questions from the audience.

For this talk, Nathan Miller will discuss his current work in the exhibition Notes from the Mississippi Delta and talk about his love of blues music and his experiences photographing the life of Mississippi.

Bookings:
03-9562 1569

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Monday 19 May, 2008

Friends of MGA:Morning Coffee
Emily Floyd

DATE: Monday 19 May, 2008
TIME: 10am morning tea
10.45am talk
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10 General Admission $8 Friends of MGA
$4 talk only

> Emily Floyd is a Melbourne based artist who creates sculptural installations that playfully map out books, films, ideas and theories to
form alternative cultural landscapes.Recent projects include a 13m sculpture for Melbourne’s Eastlink freeway. Floyd’s talk will focus on
the different ways she approaches self-portraiture, social commentary, creativity and story-telling in her work.

Bookings essential: ph 9562 1569

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Friday 06 June, 2008

Zooming in:artist’s talk with Simon Obarzanek

DATE: Friday 06 June, 2008
TIME: 3pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: FREE

>Zooming In is an ongoing series of floor talks by individual artists exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art. It is an opportunity
to hear about an artists work from their own viewpoint. Artists discuss their professional practice, the processes behind their work
and what influences and inspires them. Talks are given within the exhibition space and are followed by questions from the audience.
Simon Orbazarnek's photographic work lays bare the face beneath portraiture. He allows the topography of the features to speak to
us in an elemental way about the nature of existence. This is a recurring theme in Obarzanek's practice and the upcoming MGA

survey of his photographs will provide the basis for his talk.

Bookings:
03-9562 1569

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Saturday 14 June, 2008

SATURDAY ART CLUB
Exquisite corpses

First created by the surrealists in the 1920s, exquisite corpses are a collaborative drawing game that relies on accident and chance. Participants will work together to create drawings that are unpredictable and will often have hilarious outcomes.

DATE: Saturday 14 June
TIME: 2.00 – 4.00pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10 General Admission, $8 Children of Friends of MGA
Suitable for 5-12 yr olds

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Monday 16 June, 2008

FRIENDS OF MGA, MORNING COFFEE
Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson's strongest interest is in the understanding of visual language.   He wants to know how pictures make sense visually or what makes a jug or a cabinet or a building communicate spatially. Art critic, writer, artist and Associate Dean Research & Graduate Studies at Monash University, he will discuss his passion for art and his role as an art critic for the Age.

DATE: Monday 16 June
TIME: 10am coffee, 10.45am talk
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10.00 general admission, $8.00 friends, $4.00 talk only

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Saturday 21 June, 2008

DIRECTORS’ GALLERY CRAWL
Flinders Lane galleries in winter

DATE: Saturday 21 June
TIME: 3.00 - 5.00pm
VENUE: Arc One, Flinders Lane
COST:$10 General Admission, $8 Friends of MGA
(Tour only)
Limited places available.
Bookings essential: ph 9562 1569

> Join Acting Director, Stephen Zagala for the second of MGA's seasonal ‘Gallery Crawls'. Tour along Flinders Lane, Melbourne and gain an exclusive insight into the work of the artists exhibiting and their galleries. Meet 3.00pm at Arc One Gallery, 45 Flinders Lane and
conclude the tour with drinks at Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Bookings Essential: 03-9562 1569

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Monday 30 June, 2008

BABES IN ARMS

Bi-monthly MGA will open its doors only babies and their carers (and of course toddlers and young children) where we allow anything to go – crying, screaming, running around, and yes, breastfeeding too! MGA staff will be on hand to give informal talks about the exhibitions. Morning tea supplied. Mothers groups and play groups welcome.

DATE: Monday 30 June
TIME: 10.00 – 12.30pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: FREE

Bookings essential 03 – 9562 1569

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Saturday 19 July, 2008

SATURDAY ART CLUB
Drawing workshop with Nadine Christensen

Nadine will work with the group to make drawings that engage their imagination, elements of chance and the accident, as well as encouraging participants to practice their fine motor skills when carefully rendering their observations of the world.

DATE: Saturday 19 July
TIME: 2.00 – 4.00pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10 General Admission, $8 Children of Friends of MGA
Suitable for 5-12 yr olds

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Monday 21 July, 2008

FRIENDS OF MGA, MORNING COFFEE
Akira Isogawa in conversation

Join Katie Somerville, Curator, NGV Australian Fashion & Textiles as she chats with Akira Isogawa about his career in fashion design and the creative journey that unfolds behind the creation of each new collection.

DATE: Monday 21 July
TIME: 10am coffee, 10.45am talk
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10.00 general admission, $8.00 friends, $4.00 talk only

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Friday 18 July, 2008

Teachers Preview
Lives and Times

Lives and Times is a National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition features work in all media, by artists from across generations and from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds. The works in this exhibition represent aspects of the individual lives and times of the artists. They also communicate to the widest possible audience something of the beauty, enigma, fragility and history of the complicated times in which we live.

For this Teachers Preview Kelly Gellatly, Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, will discuss the exhibition; Susie May, Education Officer, National Gallery of Victoria will talk about the education resources available and curriculum links; and an artist from the the exhibition will speak about their works in the exhibition and professional practice.

DATE: Friday 18 July
TIME: 3.00 – 4.30pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: FREE

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Sunday July 27, 2008


Friends of MGA Musical Soiree
Nicholas Dinoplouos, Teresa Duddy and friend

Young rising stars Teresa Duddy (soprano) and Nicholas Dinopoulos (bass-baritone) come together in this twilight recital at the MGA. Pianist Andrea Katz, recently returned to Australia following performances for the Ushuaia Festival in her native Argentina, joins the two performers of swiftly growing repute for an intimate evening of music-making.

DATE: Sunday July 27th
TIME: 6.30pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: $20.00 and $18.00

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Monday 11 August. 2008

BABES IN ARMS

Bi-monthly MGA will open its doors only babies and their carers (and of course toddlers and young children) where we allow anything to go – crying, screaming, running around, and yes, breastfeeding too! MGA staff will be on hand to give informal talks about the exhibitions. Morning tea supplied. Mothers groups and play groups welcome.

DATE: Monday 11 August
TIME: 10.00 – 12.30pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: FREE

Bookings essential 03 – 9562 1569

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Saturday 16 August, 2008

SATURDAY ART CLUB
Illustrated Books

In celebration of children's book week and the exhibition Lives and Times that looks at the complicated times in which we live, p articipants will work on their own book to record in word and illustration their own Lives and Times .

DATE: Saturday 16 August
TIME: 2.00 – 4.00pm
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10 General Admission, $8 Children of Friends of MGA
Suitable for 5-12 yr olds

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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Monday 18 August, 2008

FRIENDS OF MGA, MORNING COFFEE
Patricia Piccinini

One of Australias most eminant artists, Patricia Piccinini was Australia's representative at the 2003 Venice Bienale with her exhibition We are family . Patricia will talk about her work Nest and the work from the series Your time starts now in the context of her practice and the current series she is working on.

DATE: Monday 18 August
TIME: 10am coffee, 10.45am talk
VENUE: MGA
COST: $10.00 general admission, $8.00 friends, $4.00 talk only

Bookings essential: 03 – 9562 1569

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