Join us to welcome the Library’s latest exhibition before it opens to the public. Enjoy a lecture on the exhibition highlights with curator Dr Guy Hansen, and explore the gallery while getting to know other Friends members.
Sport is a storytelling machine. And for Australians that machine is prolific. Our popular imagination is crowded with stories drawn from sporting contests. Whether it is Ash Barty winning the Australian Open in 2022, Cathy Freeman running for gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, or the ‘Bodyline series’ of 1932-33, there are so many stories to tell. These stories, and many more, are explored in our new exhibition Grit & Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation.
Bookings are essential. Tickets are $18 for Friends members and $22 for non-members.
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Images credit (left to right): David Moore, Portrait of Dawn Fraser, Melbourne, 1963 (detail), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-140402089 [left hand upper]; Serena Ovens, Portrait of Louise Sauvage, 1996 paralympian (detail), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136368441 [left hand lower]; Bruce Howard, Sydney’s Warwick Capper taking a spectacular mark over Mick Martin of the Kangaroos in a game at the MCG on Anzac Day, 1991 (detail), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-148148262; Steve Holland, Australian cricketer Shane Warne holding a cricket ball and stump at the end of the Fourth Test of the Ashes Series, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 2006 (detail), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137980452.
For more information visit https://www.nla.gov.au/whats-on/events/exhibition-preview-grit-gold-tales-sporting-nation
