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New Ballarat exhibition an Australian first
Visit Ballarat
07 Mar 2023
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In an Australian exclusive, the Art Gallery of Ballarat will soon give an intimate and rare glimpse into the world of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings and Watercolours
On loan from England’s Ashmolean Museum, Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings and Watercolours will go on show in Ballarat from 20 May until 6 August.
This international exhibition will tell the story of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, bringing to life the worlds of John Ruskin, William and Jane Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal.
Founded in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelites are possibly best known for their depictions of women.
These women were often unconventional beauties combining strikingly strong and even androgynous features with an ethereal quality.
The exhibition will include everything from portraits the artists made of each other through to studies for paintings and commissions plus subjects taken from history, literature and landscape.
“These little-seen artworks show a different side to the Pre-Raphaelites than the paintings that have been reproduced widely,” Art Gallery of Ballarat director Louise Tegart said.
In the Company of Morris
Meanwhile, alongside in a special double feature will be an exhibition of historical and contemporary Australian artworks drawing from the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly William Morris.
Morris was one of the most important and inspiring figures of the 19th century – a polymath, visionary thinker, designer, writer, artist, poet, environmental crusader and social activist.
He imagined a future where the world would have “a new art, a glorious art, made by the people and for the people”.
In the Company of Morris (20 May – 6 August) will feature works by Norman Lindsay, Deborah Klein, Elizabeth Pulie, William Strutt, Fiona Hiscock, Natasha Bieniek, Christian Waller, Napier Waller, Kate Rohde, Thomas Woolner, Bernhard Smith, Alice Muskett, Louiseann King, Stephen Bird, Janet Beckhouse and Emily Floyd.
One ticket will give entry to both Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibitions – Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings and Watercolours and In the Company of Morris.
Tickets are adult $20, concession $17, child $8, family $50 (two adults and up to three children), and gallery member $15.
Find out more at artgalleryofballarat.com.au
Main image: Marie Spartali Stillman, Cloister lilies, 1891. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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