Drill Hall Gallery – Australian and international art exhibitions at the Australian National University

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Situated on the Australian National University campus, the gallery is housed in a historic drill hall built in the 1940s to train soldiers for the Second World War. Today the Drill Hall Gallery is the venue of choice for many of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, curators and collectors, continuing a proud tradition of impeccably presented landmark exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications.

Gallery closed
Monday 23 December – Thursday 2 January

January opening hours
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 January
Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 January
Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 January
10am–5pm

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What’s On

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Event Nov 21-Dec 13 Richard Larter: Free Radical exhibition tours

Exhibition Nov 8-Jan 19 Richard Larter: Free Radical

Exhibition Nov 8-Jan 19 Riffing On: Pat Larter’s Rhythms and Pete Maloney’s Blues

Event Nov 24 Dick Watkins: Reshaping Art and Life book launch

Event Nov 29 2024 DHG Friends end of year party

Exhibition Feb 14-Apr 13 Jonas Balsaitis: Analogue

Lecture Mar 2 Lecture Series: The 50 years that changed painting 1867-1917

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Nov 8, 2024

Lecture 6: Vuillard and the possibility of abstraction in the 1890s

Oct 30, 2024

Hassall Writers Fellowship: Quentin Sprague

Sep 25, 2024

Highlights from the ANU Art Collection: Rhonda Hamlyn

ANU Art Collection

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John Peart ‘Royale’ 1971, acrylic on canvas, 1700 x 3660 x 40 mm. Purchased 1971. ANU Art Collection

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Top image: Richard Larter, Cal-jo shift, 1970. Synthetic polymer paint, glitter on composition board, 122.2 × 185 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra. Purchased 1978. © The Estate of Richard Larter

The Drill Hall Gallery acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional custodians of the Canberra region, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

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