Until 21 July the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will survey the career of Australian artist Bea Maddock, spanning her early prints of the 1960s, the incorporation of photo-etching and mass-media imagery in the 1970s, as well as her profound later works that explore Australia’s Indigenous history.

Bea Maddock is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists, recognised in particular for her innovative and evocative prints. Bea Maddock will present over fifty prints, drawings, artist’s books and paintings selected from the NGV’s strong holdings, collected over a thirty year period.

Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style will explore Australian art of the 1980s; a decade of dynamic social change and fiercely contested viewpoints on contemporary art and culture.

Featuring over 120 works, the exhibition will bring together creative approaches ranging from appropriation and sampling to the DIY aesthetics of post-punk; and from postmodern critiques of authorship and originality to postcolonial revisions of Australian history.

Mix Tape 1980s will feature various media – painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, fashion and furniture design, as well as selected ephemera including magazines, records, films and video which reference the preoccupations of a rapidly changing Australian society and the intersections between art, music, theory and popular culture.

Create your own hand rendered characters and fonts in an intense two day workshop  – Saturday 20 & 27 June 10am – 5pm

In part two of this hugely popular area of knowledge and expertise, you will continue to build on the skills and knowledge you acquired in Level One. You will apply your new thinking and skills via ideas based on world alphabets, demonstration of different skills, and work on hand made letter construction projects that are large scale.

Prerequisite: Hand Made Type Level One