Run away with the circus and explore your imagination
Run away with the circus at Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery! Come and challenge
those childhood recollections, tickle your sensory memories and explore an amazing
collection of circus images. Step Right Up! The Circus in Australian Art looks at
‘circus’ from a fi ne arts perspective. It explores the many mythologies surrounding
the circus tradition – as a refuge from real life, as imaginary world of exaggerated
good and evil, of physical achievement and mystery.
Step Right Up! The Circus in Australian Art features
historical and contemporary artworks drawn from state, regional,
commercial and private collections and works from the AlburyCity
collection.
Artists include John Olsen, Jeffrey Smart, Anne Zahalka,
Ponch Hawkes, John Brack, Fred Williams, Petrina Hicks,
George Baldessin, Margaret Cliento and many more.
Step Right Up! The Circus in Australian Art will tour throughout Australia
from 2009 to 2011. Port Pirie is the only South Australian venue
showing this exhibition.
An AlburyCity touring exhibition. Development funding was provided by Arts NSW and AlburyCity. This
exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring
exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural
material across Australia.
Proudly brought to Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery by Nyrstar Port Pirie
Step Right Up! The Circus in Australian Art will be on
display until 29 August.
All Welcome!
For group booking please contact Janet on 8633 0681 |
