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Above:
Osang Gwon, Metabo, 2009 , c-prints, mixed media, courtesy of the artist and Arario Gallery, Seoul - Showing as part of 'Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age', 22 May - 22 August at the National Portrait Gallery (listing below).


ANU Drill Hall Gallery
Australian National University, Kingsley Street (off Barry Drive), Acton 2601 - http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Drill_Hall_Gallery/index.asp
Tel 02 6125 5832 Fax 02 6125 7219
Director: Nancy Sever
The gallery presents a changing program of exhibitions of national and international artists developed in conjunction with the University's academic interests.
Until 4 July: Marion Borgelt - Mind & Matter

8 July - 15 August: Juan Davila, The Moral Meaning of the Wilderness

19 August - 26 September: Goochs Utopia
Wed-Sun 12-5, Free admission

Beaver Galleries
81 Denison Street, Deakin 2600 - www.beavergalleries.com.au
Tel 02 6282 5294 Fax 02 6281 1315
Directors: Martin & Susie Beaver (ACGA)
Canberras largest private gallery. Regular exhibitions of contemporary paintings, prints, sculpture, glass and ceramics by established and emerging Australian artists.
Until 15 June: 

Madeleine Winch, Words Unspoken - paintings

Jennifer Robertson, Weaving Air - textiles

17 June - 6 July:

Marc Rambeau - paintings and works 
on paper

Nick Wirdnam - studio glass

19 August - 7 September:

Caitlin Perriman - drawings

Amanda Shelsher - ceramics 

Gallery and licensed cafe open
Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat-Sun 9-5.

Chapman Gallery
1/11 Murray Crescent, Manuka 2603 - www.chapmangallery.com.au
info@chapmangallery.com.au
Tel 6295 2550 Fax 6295 2550
Director: Kristian Pithie
Established in 1976, Chapman Gallery has built its reputation on providing high-end contemporary Australian art, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
Wed-Fri 12-6, Sat-Sun 11-6

National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600 - www.nga.gov.au
information@nga.gov.au
Tel 02 6240 6502
Until 14 June: Emerging Elders: Honouring senior Indigenous artists

Explores the works of self-taught artists who began painting or sculpting after 
a lifetime of other endeavours

Until 4 July: Hans Heysen

Showcasing Heysens well-known landscapes celebrating the magnificence of the Australian gum tree and the Flinders Ranges

3 July - 26 September: Street stencils and posters

Off the street and into the gallery, this exhibition looks at work from the past 10 years by 35 contemporary artists from around Australia

6 August - 24 October: To Please the Living and the Dead: Ancestral Art of Southeast Asia

A major exhibition featuring dramatic sculpture, jewellery and textiles 

Daily 10-5

National Portrait Gallery
King George Terrace, Parkes, 2600 - www.portrait.gov.au
Tel 02 6102 7000 Fax 02 6102 7001
Until 11 July: 
Husbands and Wives

Until 22 August:
 Present Tense

22 July - 12 September:
National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2010
Open daily 10-5, closed Christmas day
Free admission, Disabled access

Solander Gallery
10 Schlich Street, Yarralumla 2600 - www.solander.com.au
Tel 02 6285 2218 Fax 02 6282 5145
Canberra Investment Gallery, established 1974 by Joy Warren OAM.
Advice on collecting, large stock of significant Australian artists, gazetted valuer.
Fri-Sun 10-5, and by appointment