Geelong Art Gallery

Art gallery in Geelong, Australia

Geelong Gallery

Geelong Gallery from Johnstone Park

Former name

| Geelong Art Gallery
Established| 1895
Location| 55 Little Malop St, Geelong, Australia
Type| Art gallery
Director| Jason Smith
Curator| Lisa Sullivan
Website| http://www.geelonggallery.org.au

The Geelong Art Gallery, currently known as Geelong Gallery, is a major regional gallery in the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. The gallery has over 6,000 works of art in its collection.[1] The Gallery forms Geelong's Cultural Precinct with the adjacent Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (Geelong Regional Library and Geelong Heritage Centre), Geelong Arts Centre, and the Geelong Courthouse (housing Back to Back Theatre and Platform Arts).

## History

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An art gallery for Geelong was first petitioned for in 1895 by members of the Geelong Progress League. In May 1900 permission was given for the Geelong Art Gallery Association to use three walls in the Geelong City Hall to hang artwork on. Among the first acquisitions made was Frederick McCubbin's 1890 A bush burial which cost 100 guineas ($210 USD) at the time. On 31 May 1900, the formal opening of the Geelong Art Gallery took place at the town hall. Mr. S. Austin, M.L.C., presided and the mayor Alderman Carr made a speech officially declaring it open to the public.[2]

The gallery was soon moved to the Free Library Building in Moorabool Street (between Malop and Corio Streets).

For over 125 years Geelong Gallery has amassed a significant collection of Australian and European painting, sculpture, printmaking and decorative arts. This includes works made by renowned artists such as Eugène von Guérard, Clarice Beckett, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and Frederick McCubbin.[1]

In 2021, Geelong Gallery presented the first comprehensive survey of Rone’s career to date, charting the artist’s practice from early stencil works and street art, to photographs documenting major installations that have transformed abandoned spaces.[3]

## Building

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The current Geelong Gallery was officially opened in 1915, and was erected as a memorial to the late George M. Hitchcock. It is located on the south side of Johnstone Park, between the Town Hall and the former fire station site, now occupied by the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre. The initial building consisted of a portico and vestibule facing the park, and the G. M. Hitchcock Gallery.

The first additions to the gallery occurred in 1928 when the Henry P. Douglas Gallery was opened, followed by the H.F. Richardson Gallery in 1937. The main entrance to the gallery was moved to Little Malop Street with the opening of the J.H. McPhillimy Gallery by then-Prime Minister Joseph Lyons in 1938. Further expansion followed in 1956 and 1971, with contemporary renovations taking place in 2001 and 2017.

## Proposed expansion

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A major expansion of the gallery's existing building has been proposed, in order to display more of its holdings.[4]

## Collection

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Eugène von Guérard, View of Geelong, 1856 Frederick McCubbin, A bush burial, 1890

The Gallery has a collection of over 6,000 Australian and International items including works on paper, paintings, decorative arts and sculpture.[1] Individual collection items can be viewed on the Geelong Gallery collection website.

There are a number of notable artworks in the collection:

* Eugène von Guérard Aborigines met on the road to the diggings (1854)
* Eugene von Guerard View of Geelong (1856)
* Louis Buvelot On the Woods Point Road (1872)
* Frederick McCubbin A bush burial (1890)
* Edward Fischer Geelong gold cup (1890)
* Stanhope Forbes The pier head (1910), considered "one of the greatest British impressionist paintings in Australia"[4]
* Russell Drysdale Hill End (1948)
* Fred Williams Yellow landscape (1968)
* Rosalie Gascoigne Sharpe Bros horizontal (1981)

Since 2016 the Gallery has been the custodian of the Colin Holden Print Collection on behalf of the Colin Holden Charitable Trust.

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Geelong Gallery | Collection". Geelong Gallery.
2. ^ "Geelong Art Gallery Opened". The Age. 1 June 1900. p. 6 - via Trove.
3. ^ "RONE in Geelong". Geelong Gallery.
4. ^ a b Bronwyn Watson, "public works", Weekend Australian, 23–24 January 2016, Review, p. 10

* Beg, Peter. (1990). Geelong - The First 150 Years. Globe Press. ISBN

0-9592863-5-7

* Geelong Gallery Archived 30 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine: About the Gallery.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geelong Art Gallery.

* Official Site

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