Friends tour of Anne Dangar with NGA Curator Dr Rebecca Edwards

Friends of the Drill Hall Gallery are invited to join Dr Rebecca Edwards, NGA Curator of Australian Art, for a guided tour of Anne Dangar, at 10.30am on Thursday March 13.

Anne Dangar showcases the innovation of this Australian pioneer of Cubism in the twentieth century.

Dangar is one of very few Australian artists to form part of the European avant-garde in the twentieth century, and the only to meaningfully contribute to Cubism in France, her adopted home. She was also a dedicated advocate and promoter of modern art in Australia, the first to teach and arguably to exhibit cubist art in the country, and she directly influenced the development of abstraction in Sydney from the 1930s onwards.

Bringing together ceramics, paintings, works on paper and archival material, this exhibition explores Dangar’s life and practice, as well as her important position in French modern art as one of the most dedicated and truly modern Australian artists of the twentieth century.

For more information on the exhibition see this link.

Curator: Rebecca Edwards, Curator, Australian Art