Where did the Art Gallery favourites go?

I was wandering around the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra recently as I was there for the “Turner from the Tate” exhibition. (It’s worth seeing, by the way). I usually like to go up to the early colonial painting section to look at the Australian landscapes - I enjoy the grandeur, the scope and the colour of a substantial landscape scene.  It was disappointing as some of my favourites were not there :(

I have found them plus a few others that have been in the NGA collection but not on show in Canberra for some time!!  They are up here in Darwin in an exhibition called “Capital and Country”.

The Museum and Art Gallery of NT is all in one and has free admission.  They have an excellent section on Cyclone Tracy, which devastated the city on Christmas Day, 1974; a natural history section; and an interesting little photographic exhibition called “Smalltown” by author, Tim Winton and photographer, Martin Mischkulnig. Fascinating place, really and I got to catch up with exhibitions I'd missed in Canberra!

Look at:

http://artsandmuseums.nt.gov.au/museums/exhibitions

http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/CAPITAL/

http://www.naa.gov.au/visit-us/exhibitions/smalltown/index.aspx

We then met up with a homeschooling family at Dripstone Park and walked on the beach and rambled around the nearby cliff, had afternoon tea and then came back here for dinner.

The easier pace is suiting us right now :)