Exhibitions held in the National Library Gallery

2008

26 November 2008 – 29 March 2009
Brutal, Tender, Human, Animal: Roger Ballen Photography

21 November 2008 – 22 March 2009
Thomas Griffith Taylor: Prophet and Pariah

21 November 2008 – 3 April 2009
Lords of the Ring: Arnold Thomas Boxing Collection

11 July 2008 - 26 October 2008
A Modern Vision: Charles Bayliss Photographer 1850-1897

 

2007

6 March 2008 – 15 June 2008
Bridging the Distance

12 December 2007 – 17 February 2008
Pioneers of the Inland: Australia's Muslim Cameleers 1860s–1930s

27 September – 25 November 2007
Cage of ghosts

14 June 2007 – 9 September 2007
Cooee: Australia in the Nineteenth Century

1 March 2007 – 27 May 2007
Joseph Lycett: Convict Artist

9 November 2006 – 4 February 2007
Donald Friend: A charmed life

2006

6 July – 15 October 2006
Facing Percy Grainger

16 March - 18 June 2006
Cook’s sites

3 December 2005 – 12 February 2006
National Treasures from Australia’s great libraries

2005

4 August – 30 October 2005
Good Looking: Narrative Photographs past and present

21 April 2005 – 17 July 2005
Miles Franklin: A Brilliant Career

2 December 2004 – 28 March 2005
In a New Light: Australian Photography 1930s–2000

2004

19 August 2004 – 14 November 2004
Xanadu: Encounters with China

20 May 2004 – 1 August 2004
Future Memory: National Library Recent Acquisitions

12 February 2004 – 26 April 2004
Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art

 9 October 2003 – 26 January 2004
In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s–1930s

2003

12 June 2003 – 21 September 2003
Travellers Art

13 February 2003 – 18 May 2003
Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes

2002

24 October 2002 – 27 January 2003
The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan

25 July 2002 – 7 October 2002
The Great Masters by Mortimer Menpes

19 June 2002 – 14 July 2002
Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers Collection 7

27 March 2002 – 2 June 2002
Burke and Wills: From Melbourne to Myth

7 December 2001 – 24 February 2002
Treasures from the World's Great Libraries

2001

22 August 2001 – 11 November 2001
Between the Sheets: A Century of Australian Music

22 August 2001 – 11 November 2001
Belonging: A Century Celebrated

14 June 2001 – 5 August 2001
The Banksias: Watercolours by Celia Rosser

15 February 2001 – 27 May 2001
Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas

25 October 2000 – 28 January 2001
Nora Heysen: Australian Artist

2000

12 July 2000 – 8 October 2000
Drawing with Light: Olive Cotton Photographer

4 March 2000 – 25 June 2000
The world upside down: Australia 1788–1830

13 November 1999 – 13 February 2000
Follow the sun: Australian travel posters 1930s–1950s

1999

10 July 1999 – 17 October 1999
Terre Napoléon

5 March 1999 – 20 June 1999
Birds!

6 August 1998 – 7 February 1999
Paradise possessed

1998

27 April 1998 – 19 July 1998
An exquisite eye: The Australian flora and fauna drawings of Ferdinand Bauer

3 November 1997 – 18 March 1998
Captive lives: Looking for Tambo and his companions

1997

24 April 1997 – 12 October 1997
dance people dance

6 December 1996 – 13 April 1997
For king and country: Australia's WW1 recruitment campaigns

1996

27 July 1996 – 24 November 1996
Harold Cazneaux – Photographs

1 June 1996 – 14 July 1996
Fragile objects: Artists books and limited editions of the Graphic Investigation Workshop

29 February 1996 – 26 May 1996
The wandering artist: Augustus Earle's travels around the world 1820–1829

26 October 1995 – 18 February 1996
Cover up: The art of magazine covers in Australia

1995

16 June 1995 – 8 October 1995
An ideal city? The 1912 competition to design Canberra

8 March 1995 – 4 June 1995
Beyond the picket fence: Australian women's art in the National Library's collections

10 December 1994 – 19 February 1995
It's about friendship. Rom: A ceremony from Arnhem Land

1994

16 September 1994 – 27 November 1994
'On this we stand': Menzies and the Liberal Party of Australia

2 June 1994 – 4 September 1994
In her view: The photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933–67

25 February 1994 – 15 May 1994
Gold Fever! Life on the diggings 1851–1855

5 November 1993 – 13 February 1994
Changing coastlines: Putting Australia on the world map 1493–1993

1993

14 September 1993 – 21 October 1993
Poignant regalia

9 June 1993 – 5 September 1993
The people's treasures: A celebration of collectors and collections in the National Library of Australia

19 February 1993 – 23 May 1993
Encounter with Eden: New Zealand 1770–1870

14 November 1992 – 7 February 1993
On the street where you live

1992

17 August 1992 – 25 October 1992
The lie of the land

8 May 1992 – 2 August 1992
Portraiture and biography

27 February 1992 – 26 April 1992
A discerning eye: Selections from the Rex Nan Kivell collection

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Planned closure
To Be Confirmed; The Exhibition Gallery will be closed in 2009 for building works, fit-out and installation of the new Treasures Gallery and Exhibition Gallery.