Symposium

Convenor: Professor Anthea Callen

Registrations open at 9:30 am

The Art of Landscape symposium has been organised by the Australian National University in conjunction with the Canberra Museum and Gallery, to coincide with their major exhibition Elioth Gruner: the texture of light, on display at CMAG from Saturday 8 March to Sunday 22 June 2014.

The convenor of the symposium is Professor Anthea Callen, Art Historian and Professor of Art, ANU College of Arts and Sciences, with keynote speaker Professor Michael Rosenthal, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK & an internationally distinguished scholar of landscape art; other speakers include Dr Mary Eagle, former Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia and a specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century Australian art; Denise Mimmocchi, Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South  Wales and co-curator of Sydney Moderns (2013); and distinguished visual artist Imants Tillers.

The Symposium will be followed by an exhibition floor talk at Canberra Museum and Gallery from 4 – 5.30pm, with refreshments.

Elioth Gruner: the texture of light

Sat 8 March - Sun 22 June
Gallery 2/3  

Canberra Museum and Gallery
176 London Circuit, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia ‎ 

Elioth Gruner (1882-1939) is an artist whose work is long overdue for reassessment. He was an outstanding painter of the Australian landscape, celebrated in his lifetime, and was awarded the Wynne Prize for landscape painting seven times.

The exhibition will include seventy paintings, from the artist’s impressionist beachscapes and farmland views of the 1910s to the subtle and distinctive modernist landscapes of his maturity from the 1920s and 1930s, with a particular focus on Gruner’s remarkable visual explorations of the Canberra region: the Southern Highlands, the South Coast, Yass and the Murrumbidgee River valley, and the Cooma-Monaro plateau. 
Few artists have represented this corner of  south-eastern Australia with such extraordinary clarity as Gruner, who captured the quality of light, the rolling hills and the quiet austere beauty of our region.

A Canberra Museum and Gallery and Newcastle Art Gallery partnership exhibition.

» find out more at museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au

» Video: Senior Curator Deborah Clark discusses the life and work of Elioth Gruner