The Chairman Brian Hartnett of QVMAG Arts Foundation will hold the Annual General Meeting of QVMAG Arts Foundation members on Friday 25 August 2023 commencing at 2pm in the Nuala O’Flaherty auditorium.

Guest speaker: Jon Addison QVMAG Senior Curator Community History

“Under this sign we conquer': The Continued Iconography of the Australasian League Flag”

 QVMAG holds in its collection one of the most important flags in Australian flag history. The Australasian league flag of 1851 is the first flag or banner to feature the Southern Cross in its 'natural formation' - ie. How it appears in the night sky. Much debate has taken place over whether this flag is the origin of today's Australian flag.

This paper argues that the Australasian flag is indeed the origin of the current Australian flag, and presents the evidence for this argument.

 Afternoon Tea will be served

Invitations will be mailed to Art Foundation members

RSVP: Qvmag Executive Office Phone 63233719

Email: foundation@qvmag.tas.gov.au

40 YEARS THAT CHANGED AUSTRALIAN CULTURE THROUGH THE NATIONAL COLLECTION

Dr. Nick Mitzevich, Director, National Gallery of Australia.

Brian Hartnett, Chair QVMAG Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural Nuala O’Flaherty Memorial Lecture and Dr. Nick Mitzevich, Director, National Gallery of Australia will provide an engaging talk on the National Collection of Australia.

Venue: Tramsheds Function Centre, Launceston.

Limited Seats RSVP by 9 February 2023

The Chairman Dr Brian Hartnett and the Management Committee of QVMAG Arts Foundation welcome members to celebrate 2022 and Christmas with drinks to be held at QVMAG Inveresk, Launceston.

Further information for this Arts Foundation event will follow with a mailed Member invitation.

We do hope you will be able to join us!

QVMAG ARTS FOUNDATION MEMBER VISIT TO AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

QVMAG Arts Foundation has pleasure in convening a unique event for it’s members at

the home of Suzanne and Ralph Norton in Launceston.

Refreshments will be provided with further information to follow and member invitations

will be forwarded in the mail.

SAVE THE DATE!
QVMAG - Art Gallery Royal Park, Wellington St Launceston
Friday, 3 June 2022

The Chair of QVMAG Arts Foundation Dr Brian Hartnett and the Management Committee invite QVMAG Arts Foundation Members and Guests to celebrate the Fundraising Launch for the commissioned work by prominent

Australian Artist 
FIONA HALL
QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY 

At Queen Victoria Art Gallery Royal Park, 2 Wellington St Launceston.

Fiona Hall is one of Australia’s most significant artists who is now residing and working in Tasmania. This acquisition is most relevant for the QVMAG collection and an opportunity to acquire one of her major sculptural works. Fiona Hall is represented in many State and Regional Art Galleries throughout Australia.

QVMAG Royal Park 5 pm - 7 pm, Friday 18th February (TBC)

QVMAG Arts Foundation is pleased to celebrate the unveiling of Raymond Arnold’s “Elsewhere World” for the Masterpiece for Tasmania Fund. The work is to be completed and delivered fresh from Raymond’s studio in January 2022. The willing generosity of the Tasmanian public has progressed this acquisition for QVMAG Arts Foundation and QVMAG by the provision of donated funds within an eight-month acquisition program.

Join us with Raymond to celebrate this momentous occasion!

QVMAG Royal Park, 5 pm-6.30 pm, Thursday 16th December

This Member event provides Christmas cheer, and an opportunity to congratulate and raise a glass to the new General Manager, Creative Arts and Cultural Services at QVMAG, Shane Fitzgerald, and to toast the most recent Masterpieces for Tasmania work by West Coast artist Raymond Arnold.

Through generous philanthropic support for its ongoing Acquisition program, the Arts Foundation is proud to provide an update for the unveiling of Arnold's 9-metre masterpiece, entitled Elsewhere World, which will hang permanently in Gallery 10 at Royal Park.

RSVP essential by 13 December 2021
Caryl McQuestin E: caryl.mcquestin@gmail.com
M: 0419 106 273

Book early as places are strictly limited.

Continued support for the Acquisition Program is always appreciated and donations can be made by clicking HERE.

QVMAG Auditorium, Inveresk, 2pm - 4pm.

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a Professor of Social History and teaches History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. He has a passion for using digital techniques to piece together past lives, and is an academic expert on convict life in Australia. Hamish has made regular appearances on radio, creates podcasts, and you may recognise him from TV, where he has been a guest authority on the British and Australian versions of Who Do You Think You Are.

Contact us to reserve your spot.

Turners Stillhouse, 5:00pm - 7.00pm.

Please note this event has passed. Below is a summary of the event for you to peruse.

Warm appreciation was in the room when Keith Adkins and Sandy Campbell called ‘time’ on their active roles aboard the QVMAG Arts Foundation back in March. More than 40 Arts Foundation members gathered ‘off campus’ at Stelo at Pierre’s in Launceston to raise a glass of Tassie sparkling in recognition of these volunteer stalwarts. Along with Kenneth von Bibra, Sandy and Keith were founding members of the Arts Foundation back in 1985.

In the intervening years both have served as chairs of the Foundation, and have been members of the QVMAG Governance Board. Sandy, who was chair from 2009 to 2014, remains Patron of the Foundation. Keith has twice been chair, first in 2004-2009 and then again in 2015-2017. For 76 years collectively, Sandy and Keith have given guidance, knowledge and friendship to harness volunteer and philanthropic support to enable the QVMAG to commission and acquire art works, of both Tasmanian and national significance.

It was a thrill that MLC for Rosevears Jo Palmer and City of Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten could join in the celebrations to present specially struck medallions to both Keith and Sandy, in recognition of this dynamic duo’s contribution to QVMAG in so many ways. The medallion depicts Tasmanian native hens, designed on commission by Michael McWilliams. Native hens were chosen because of the bird’s lack of recognition as an endemic species.

As current Chair Jennie Caswell said on the day: ‘Sandy and Keith have both been Chairs of the QVMAG Arts Foundation for considerable periods of time, and as the current chair I am in the fortunate position of thanking and congratulating them for generosity of personal time and commitment. They have brought knowledge, expertise and they have helped develop and define us as an Arts Foundation with continuity and focus.

‘With Sandy and Keith as Chairs, and resilient Foundation committee fund-raising efforts and donor funds, an enormous number of major works have been acquired, and in 2012, we saw the inception of the Masterpiece for Tasmania program.

‘These works have been recently quoted as being “some of the crown jewels in the Museum’s art collection”.’

Among the guests were Manager of QVMAG Cultural and Creative Services and QVMAG Director Tracy Puklowski, Glover Award - winning artist Michael McWilliams, QVMAG Manager Knowledge and Content Christine Hansen, Robyn and Lucinda Hawkins, Ian and Susan Routley, Eric Ratcliff, Lyn Henshaw, Jill Ferrall, and recently retired Arts Foundation Board members Janet Tomlinson and Anne Moulden.

With this gathering drawing many plaudits for ‘easy, warm hospitality’, and the delicious canapé menu offered by Stelo, the Arts Foundation events committee will look to host other events ‘off campus’ as a means to ‘spread the word’ about its purpose, activities and achievements.