ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive
The National Art School presents a major survey exhibition of Anne Zahalka, one of Australia’s most highly regarded photo-media artists, at NAS Gallery from 16 August – 19 October 2024.
First exhibited at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) in 2023, ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive brings together key bodies of work from Zahalka’s renowned photographic practice.
Anne ZAHALKA, The Artist (self portrait), 1988Spanning more than 40 years, the exhibition at NAS Gallery will see over 100 works from 15 different photographic series, alongside collected ephemera from her studio and archive.
An informal series of collaborative lunchtime talks with the staff and lecturers of NAS’s Art History and Theory and Photomedia departments. Anne Zahalka is one of the key figures in the Post-Modernist critique of images of Australia and the constructed photograph.
Her body of work intersects with all levels of the National Art School’s Art History and Theory and Photo Media teaching programs.
Join Dr Michael Hill and Dr Alex Kershaw and NAS staff lecturers as they respond to Anne Zahalka’s body of works presented in Zahalkaworld- an artist’s archive with their particular lens of interests. Free. All welcome!
- Thursday 29 August, 12.30pm
- Thursday 12 September,12.30pm
- Thursday 19 September,12.30pm
