Mini-Adventure #002 Three Galleries

This morning I set out to visit three art galleries: The National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery of Australia, and the Canberra Museum and Gallery.  Apologies for the lack of Photos as I was going into galleries I left my camera at home.

Getting off at the Albert hall stop, I had a nice little walk down past Questicon and old parliament house, I decided to head first into the National Portrait Gallery, which has the "In the Flesh" Exhibition on at the moment, which I was pretty keen to see.  Entering the Exhibit, you encounter several sculptures by Sam Jinks which are absolutely stunning, and their placement around the exhibit really emphasises the themes throughout the exhibit.

All the work displayed in the exhibit is fantastic and worth viewing but to me its really Sam Jinks work that brings the exhibit to life.  If you're in Canberra I'd highly recommend checking it out, its not a very expensive exhibit and well worth the admission price.

I wandered around the rest of the gallery, and then popped into the cafe for a coffee, and reflected on the experience.  Before heading over to the National Gallery,  where I checked out the entrance to the current paid exhibit James Turrell which looks really good, but a bit too pricey for what I had on me, so it will be for another time.  I then entered through the Impressionism section and worked my way through the upper floor galleries, ending up at the Impressions of Paris exhibition.

Impressions of Paris is a collection of works by Honore-Victorin Daumier, Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and if you're in town definately drop in to check it out before it closes 15 March.

Daumier's work dominates the exhibit taking up the whole of the downstairs area, and gives you the chance to really get absorbed in his fantastic figures and caricatures, then head upstairs to check out the work by Degas and Toulouse-Latrecs.  Fantastic free exhibit.

Finally I decided to walk back to Civic along Lake Burley Griffin.

I hummed and sang as I walked along what was a little longer walk than I expected, but made it back into civic to head into the Canberra Museum and Gallery to check out their pulse exhibit.  

After the exhibit I took a quick stroll through a few of the other galleries there.  After grabbing a quick bite to eat, I ended up at Gus's cafe for a really nicely made Mocha, which I drank while doing a few sketches in my notebook.  All in all a fantastic day.