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.

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Event Jul 15-Jul 29 Tuesday night writing sessions in the Gallery

Exhibition Jun 20-Aug 10 Jacqueline Stojanović: Units

Exhibition Jun 20-Aug 10 Material Nature

Friends Jul 25 July Friends Night: Artist talk with Jacqueline Stojanović

Event Jul 26 Jacqueline Stojanović: Units floor talk

Lecture Aug 3-Sep 7 Lecture Series: The 50 years that changed painting 1867–1917

Event Aug 3 Meditation in the gallery – Material Nature

Music Aug 10 Evans Robson Quartet

Friends Aug 16 DHG Friends Studio Visit with Savanhdary Vongpoothorn

Exhibition Aug 22-Oct 19 Light Source

Exhibition Oct 24-Dec 21 ANU Art Collection: Conjunction

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Jun 18, 2025

Lecture 9: Cubism and the birth of abstraction

Jun 11, 2025

Terence Maloon OAM

May 29, 2025

Highlights from the ANU Art Collection: Wayilkpa Maymuru

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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 images: Jahnne Pasco-White, Embodied watery entanglements, Like a Wheel That Turns, installation at ACCA, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis; Jacqueline Stojanović, Fontana, 2022, silk and velvet on MDF, 24 x 24cm. Created at Fondazione Lisio in Florence, Italy. Collection of the artist, courtesy Haydens Gallery, Melbourne

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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