TarraWarra Museum of Art
The TarraWarra Museum of Art collection focuses on Australian modern art from the 1950s onwards, mounting major exhibitions which focus on artists in the collection alongside a changing program of contemporary art. The award winning, Allan Powell designed complex provides an opportunity to experience the harmonious relationships between art, architecture and the Yarra Valley.
The collection explores the development of contemporary art over this period, highlighting differences, styles and movements, attempting to demonstrate that which distinguishes Australian modernism during the last half of the 20th Century.
In the 1950s and 1960s in Australia, those artists who had struggled for recognition during the 1940s began to be more widely appreciated. Concurrently, art students completed four-year diploma courses, migrant artists arrived and Australian artists travelled abroad. International modernism, dispelling parochial standards of evaluation, began to make a widespread impact, while landscape and figuration endured as subject matter.
From the late 1960s, the work of Australian artists reflects the influence of international movements (such as abstract expressionism, hard edge, pop art, photorealism, conceptual art, neo-expressionism, neo-classicism and postmodernism) together with Indigenous and Asian art. While containing examples of internationally informed art, the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection demonstrates a coherent and unique Australian character, strongly founded in this nation's interior and exterior world. Location: TarraWarra Museum of Art is located in the Yarra Valley, approximately 35 minutes drive from The Country Place.
Bookings: 14 Days advance notice required.
Price on Application - This is variable on group size. Various package options available including combined lunch and tours.
