Annual Giving 2023
Help us bring the stunningly beautiful prints of Margaret Preston to Geelong!
Our fundraising focus for 2023 shifts to our next major exhibition project set to open in May 2024: A Geelong-exclusive survey of the superb woodblock prints of the ground-breaking modernist Australian artist Margaret Preston.
Margaret Preston (1875-1963) is one of Australia’s most famous and popularly known early modernists. Preston’s printmaking is acclaimed internationally for its stunning innovation and unique vision of Australian flora and landscapes. Geelong Gallery’s magnificent hand-coloured woodcut of 1928, Fuchsia and balsam, is the centrepiece of the exhibition we are developing, and we are ambitious to use the special opportunity and context of this major exhibition to acquire an additional Preston work for the collection as a part of this year’s Annual Giving campaign.
This will be the first major exhibition in Australia of Margaret Preston’s celebrated printmaking since 1987, and will include many of her iconic still life and floral subjects, landscapes and views of Sydney Harbour. The exhibition will reveal the intriguing aesthetic influence of Japanese printmaking – Ukiyo-e – on Preston’s distinctly Australian vision, reflecting her stated belief that ‘art is the tangible symbol of the spirit of a country’.
We seek your support to bring Preston’s captivating prints to Geelong, and to acquire for our permanent collection an additional work by this most important artist.
- A $100 gift covers the costs of installing 4 works with two dedicated art handlers.
- A $250 gift covers the costs of 15 low-income student admissions to the exhibition.
- A $500 gift covers the costs of 30 low-income student admissions to the exhibition
- A $1,000 gift covers the costs of condition reporting and packing precious works we will borrow from private collections.
- A $5,000 gift enables us to pack, and transport works from interstate public collections.
- A $15,000 gift is a major contribution to the acquisition of a much-needed additional Preston woodcut for your Geelong Gallery collection.
Geelong Gallery relies on our community for support. Can you help us?
Image:
Margaret Preston
Fuchsia and balsam 1928
hand-coloured woodcut
Geelong Gallery
Purchased 1982
© Margaret Preston
Geelong Gallery Fundraising
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Geelong Contemporary acquisition program
Geelong Contemporary was formed in 2016 to support the growth and presentation of Geelong Gallery’s acclaimed collection of contemporary Australian art. Geelong Contemporary comprises a group of external contemporary art enthusiasts and collectors who are achieving their vision through donations, an annual program of events and exclusive opportunities.
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Geelong Conservation
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All funds raised from Geelong Conservation events contribute to the conservation of priority works as nominated by the Gallery. Since 2019, funds raised by Geelong Conservation contributed to the conservation of key works, Clarice Beckett’s Rainy Day (1930), Walter Wither’s Moonrise on the Yarra (1908) and Danilla Vassilieff’s An accident I saw (1948).
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Geelong Gallery Foundation
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