Art Bites

Have you ever wondered about art works in your building? Or sculptures on your walk through campus? The ANU is peppered with remarkable and nationally significant artworks managed by the ANU Art Collection.

Lunchtime Art Bites are held fortnightly during semesters, facilitated by Drill Hall Gallery staff and co-hosted by artists, academics, and students. Expect a short informative introduction on the artworks followed by questions and an open conversation. Get to know your campus, learn to talk about art, build your cultural community, join the conversation.

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation plan please contact us before the event: dhg@anu.edu.au

Thursday 28 May, 1:15pm, HC Coombs Tea Room, Rm 3101 (location map here).

Join retired Drill Hall Gallery Director Terence Maloon and the Drill Hall’s Hassall Writers Fellow Quentin Sprague in the HC Coombs Tea Room to discuss the painting Wilkinkara site, 2000, by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, one of the founding members of the Western Desert Art movement. Opposite Wilkinkara site is Ildiko Kovaks’ painting, Inner cycle, 2016, generously donated to the ANU Art Collection by the artist following her brilliant survey exhibition Ildiko Kovacs: the DNA of colour at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery in 2019.

Thursday 11 June, 1:15pm
Location announced shortly

Thursday 25 June, 1:15pm
Location announced shortly

PAST ART BITES – If you missed an Art Bite, here is a little more information on the works we looked at:

Thursday 16 April Art Bite at the Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre included paintings by Naata Nungurrayi, Emma Beer and Ildiko Kovacs. Find out more here

Thursday 30 April Art Bite at the RSSS building foyer including sculpture by Jan King and paintings by Angelina Pwerle Ngala, Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Esther Giles Nampitjinpa and Tjawina Porter Nampitjinpa. Find out more here. 

Thursday 14 May Foyer of the Florey Building, 54 Mills Rd, including Lenton Parr’s 1964 steel sculpture, Untitled, and Lawrence Daws’ 1957 painting, Aboriginal Camp.