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Education Kits

Highlighting key works from the permanent collection including 16 A4 full-colour images with related information and student activities. Each kit: $25.00
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• Aspects of Australian Art
  Focusing on Australian painting, sculpture and photography.
• Focus on Photography
  Available now! Focusing on 16 significant photographers and their work.
• Adventures in Asia
  Focusing on Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Southeast Asian art.
• Encounters with Contemporary Art
  Focusing on contemporary art from Australia and the rest of the world.
• Brett Whiteley
  Includes ten A3 full-colour images and related student activities, highlighting major themes in Whiteley's work.  

Online Education Kits also available.

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Student Exhibitions

ARTEXPRESS
The annual exhibition of outstanding works produced by HSC Visual Arts students. The Gallery aims to represent a diverse range of styles, media and approaches from government and non-government schools in NSW. Presented in association with the Department of Education and Training and the Board of Studies in NSW.
• Visit the Inside ARTEXPRESS website >

Operation Art
An annual exhibition of drawings, paintings, collage and mixed media works mainly by primary students for children in hospital.
Presented in association with the New Children's Hospital NSW, Westmead and the Department of Education and Training.

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Prints & Drawings Study Room

The Study Room provides public access to the Gallery's collection of works on paper including prints, drawings, photographs and watercolours as well as selected sketchbooks and print blocks. School groups can visit with Teacher-Lecturers or with teachers under supervision of the Study Room Assistant.
· Mondays-Fridays, 10am-4pm
· Bookings essential
· tel. (02) 9225 1758

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Research Library

The Art Gallery Research Library holds one of the most comprehensive collections of fine art publications, rare books, manuscripts and artists' ephemera in Australia and houses monographs, periodicals and electronic resources such as CD-ROMs as well as exhibition files and art-related newspaper clippings.
· Mondays-Fridays, 10am-4pm
· tel. (02) 9225 1785
· fax (02) 9225 1848
· email: libcat@ag.nsw.gov.au

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The Gallery Shop

A wide range of books, catalogues, posters and postcards. Mail order and school discounts available.
Collection publications include: AGNSW Collections, AGNSW Collections Handbook, Australian Prints from the Gallery's Collection, Australian Drawing from the Gallery's Collection, Australian Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
· 10am-5pm daily
· tel. (02) 9225 1718
· fax (02) 9233 5184
· email: galleryshop@ag.nsw.gov.au
· Buy online 

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Courses

Recommended for senior students only. The Gallery offers extended study through a range of lecture-based courses. Contact Public Programs for brochures and fees.
· Tuesdays 1pm: Asian Art
· Wednesdays 6pm, repeated Thursdays 1pm: Western Art

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Films

The Gallery has a high quality free film programme screened weekly in the Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3. Programs are related to the temporary exhibitions. Film at the Gallery brochure available on request.
· 2.30pm
· Wednesdays & Sundays
· FREE 

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FAQ

Consult the Frequently Asked Questions section of this site. Topics include: the Archibald prize, the History of the Gallery and how the Gallery purchases of works of art. Visitors can also submit their own questions.

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