A message to our community

Geelong Gallery is temporarily closed

Current

Geelong Gallery—360° virtual tour

Collection leads: Kate Beynon—kindred spirits

until Sunday 15 November 2020

Jacky Redgate—HOLD ON

until Sunday 14 February 2021

Scenic Victoria—Land, sea, city

until Sunday 18 April 2021

Geelong Gallery collection

Upcoming

Who’s who portrait prize—a virtual exhibition

22 August 2020 to 27 September 2020

Framing the figure—contemporary photography and moving image works from the collection

21 November 2020 to 24 April 2020

RONE in Geelong

27 February 2021 to 16 May 2021

Blanche Tilden—ripple effect: a 25 year survey

8 May 2021 to 1 August 2021

Geelong contemporary art prize

29 May 2021 to 22 August 2021

Past

Going public—portraits from the Colin Holden Collection

29 February 2020 to 5 August 2020

Resonance+Reflection—design ideas for an expanded Geelong Gallery

22 February 2020 to 5 August 2020

Pop—up cinema—Smart's Labyrinth: Every picture a defeat

1 July 2020 to 31 July 2020

We see recognition—a virtual exhibition

9 April 2020 to 3 June 2020

The Look

7 March 2020 to 17 March 2020

Learn Space—The Look

7 March 2020 to 17 March 2020

Stephen Bram—abstract painting

23 November 2019 to 23 February 2020

Raymond Arnold—Elsewhere world (Final consolidated A–H)

30 November 2019 to 23 February 2020

Turmoil & tranquility—recent acquisitions 2018–19

30 November 2019 to 1 March 2020

Colour + line + shape

9 November 2019 to 1 March 2020

Digitisation lab

30 November 2019 to 4 February 2020

2019 Geelong acquisitive print awards

20 September 2019 to 24 November 2019

Collection leads: John Scurry—small paintings

14 September 2019 to 24 November 2019

The Greatest Team of All—treasures from the Bob Gartland Collection

20 September 2019 to 10 November 2019

Who’s who portrait prize

14 September 2019 to 13 October 2019

The Moon

15 June 2019 to 1 September 2019

Learn Space—Destination Moon

15 June 2019 to 1 September 2019

Offsite: We see recognition—a children’s art exhibition

25 May 2019 to 9 June 2019

Sidney Nolan—from the collection

16 February 2019 to 2 June 2019

John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda—Molluscs / Maypal and the warming of the seas

30 March 2019 to 2 June 2019

Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series

2 March 2019 to 26 May 2019

Learn Space—the man behind the mask

2 March 2019 to 26 May 2019

Bauhaus centenary—Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack

23 February 2019 to 26 May 2019

Vital Signs—smart city, living city

14 March 2019 to 24 March 2019

Recent acquisitions 2017–18

28 November 2018 to 24 March 2019

Learn Space—Patterns & Puzzles

1 December 2018 to 24 February 2019

Akio Makigawa—Water drawing no. 1

8 December 2018 to 17 February 2019

There is no there—Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano

8 December 2018 to 10 February 2019

Distant lands

1 December 2018 to 10 February 2019

Cuttings—Elizabeth Gower

1 September 2018 to 25 November 2018

Views of Geelong and beyond—treasures from the Geelong Gallery collection

8 September 2018 to 25 November 2018

Pattern Play

2018 Archibald Prize

22 September 2018 to 18 November 2018

Who’s who portrait prize

15 September 2018 to 18 November 2018

Learn Space—The Studio: Alice Oehr

22 September 2018 to 18 November 2018

My Geelong—our Gallery

28 July 2018 to 9 September 2018

Brook Andrew—rethinking Antipodes

14 April 2018 to 2 September 2018

Learn Space—The beehive

28 July 2018 to 2 September 2018

2018 Geelong contemporary art prize

9 June 2018 to 19 August 2018

Beginnings—Indigenous art from the collection

16 May 2018 to 22 July 2018

We see recognition—a children’s art exhibition

19 May 2018 to 8 July 2018

Reimagine—the world according to children’s books

24 March 2018 to 27 May 2018

Jörg Schmeisser—looking back: prints from the collection of Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James

17 March 2018 to 27 May 2018

An exchange of treasures—Roberts and McCubbin from the Art Gallery of Ballarat

26 February 2018 to 27 May 2018

Learn Space—View of Geelong

16 December 2017 to 13 May 2018

Offsite: Mindscapes—the Geelong Gallery collection at the Australian Club

17 February 2018 to 11 May 2018

Outrage, obscenity and madness—Elizabeth Gertsakis

17 February 2018 to 6 May 2018

Antipodean views

16 December 2018 to 8 April 2018

Kylie on Stage

9 December 2017 to 4 March 2018

Recent acquisitions 2016–17

13 December 2017 to 25 February 2018

Views of Geelong and beyond—treasures from the Geelong Gallery collection

21 October 2017 to 10 December 2017

Who’s who portrait prize

21 October 2017 to 10 December 2017

2017 Archibald Prize

28 October 2017 to 10 December 2017

Learn Space—The Studio: Alice Oehr

28 October 2017 to 10 December 2017

Fred Williams in the You Yangs

19 August 2017 to 5 November 2017

Learn Space—Our landscape: Lewis Brownlie

18 August 2017 to 15 October 2017

Born into space—sculpture from the collection

18 August 2017 to 15 October 2017

The You Yangs—Mark Dober

14 August 2017 to 15 October 2017

2017 Geelong acquisitive print awards

14 August 2017 to 8 October 2017

A human form

10 December 2016 to 17 September 2017

Still life painting—Adam Pyett

20 May 2017 to 16 July 2017

Let’s talk recognition—a children’s art exhibition

20 May 2017 to 9 July 2017

Luminous relic

8 April 2017 to 9 July 2017

Prized

18 March 2017 to 9 May 2017

Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists

25 February 2017 to 7 May 2017

Atmospherics—the Geelong Gallery collection

18 June 2016 to 13 March 2017

My Geelong—our Gallery

12 November 2016 to 2 April 2017

A print legacy—in memory of Dr Colin Holden

15 October 2016 to 13 March 2017

Tricking the eye—contemporary trompe l’oeil

26 November 2016 to 12 February 2017

A question of scale—maquettes and small sculpture from the permanent collection

17 October 2015 to 4 December 2016

2016 Geelong contemporary art prize

10 September 2016 to 13 November 2016

Where we find ourselves—Jo Scicluna

20 August 2016 to 6 November 2016

Who's who portrait prize

17 September 2016 to 9 October 2016

People Like Us

18 June 2016 to 21 August 2016

Selected watercolour and gouache paintings from the collection

16 July 2016 to 11 September 2016

Black to blackest

25 June 2016 to 14 August 2016

Land of the Golden Fleece—Arthur Streeton in the Western District

27 February 2016 to 13 June 2016

Let’s talk recognition—a children’s art exhibition

21 May 2016 to 10 July 2016

Geelong Botanical Gardens revealed

30 April 2016 to 19 June 2016

Grand designs—architectural subjects in photography

17 October 2015 to 15 May 2016

JamFactory Icon—Giles Bettison: pattern and perception

20 February 2016 to 29 May 2016

A certain light—recent acquisitions

12 December 2015 to 25 April 2016

Ex libris—the book in contemporary art

22 February 2014 to 25 May 2014

A curious nature

24 November 2012 to 10 February 2013

In search of the picturesque—the architectural ruin in art

21 April 2012 to 24 June 2012

James Whitley Sayer 1847–1914

8 December 2012 to 28 January 2013

The silent wilderness—19th century Australian landscapes

18 September 2010 to 21 November 2010

The Great War—a graphic legacy

14 June 2014 to 24 August 2014

Print traditions—sources of Australian printmaking

14 June 2008 to 10 August 2008

True crime—murder and misdemeanour in Australian art

1 November 2008 to 1 February 2009

Eugène von Guérard—View of Geelong

Rodick Carmichael—the Australian years

6 August 2005 to 25 September 2005

Ernest Decimus Stocks 1840–1921

6 August 2005 to 25 September 2005

Painted porcelain—decorated British ceramics 1750–1850

13 June 2005 to 24 July 2005

More than a memory—the art of Elizabeth Parsons

10 April 2004 to 13 June 2004

Augustine Dall'Ava—sculpture and drawings 1983–2003

16 April 2003 to 1 June 2003

Andrew Seward—a botanical album: drawings, prints and photographs 1999–2004

6 August 2004 to 26 September 2004

Giant—ancient & historic trees

29 November 2003 to 15 February 2004

Travels with Charles Travers Mackin

16 November 2002 to 19 January 2003

All That Glitters—Australian colonial gold and silver from the Vizard Foundation

12 December 2001 to 3 March 2002

William Buckley: Rediscovered

12 May 2001 to 8 July 2001

Geelong Gothic

25 July 1998 to 23 August 1998

Victoria: Buildings and Builders—Geelong & District

18 October 1997 to 30 November 1997

People, Prints and Patronage: the developments of the Geelong Art Gallery's print collection 1900–19

11 May 1996 to 9 June 1996

Geelong's Colonial Silversmiths

26 February 1988 to 24 April 1988

Cartoons and caricature in contemporary art

30 January 1998 to 8 March 1998

Queens & Sirens⁠—Archaeology in 19th century art and design

26 September 1998 to 1 November 1998

Making Their Mark—Colonial Artists of the Western District

14 December 1996 to 2 February 1997

Swansea and Nantgarw—Welsh porcelain in Australia

12 March 1993 to 2 April 1993

Painters of the past

11 October 1991 to 24 November 1991

Alexander Webb 1813–1892

8 December 1989 to 28 January 1990

Drawing on Nature—images and specimens of natural history

6 March 1992 to 12 April 1992

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