Title

Gordon Darling and Australasian prints and printmaking.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Details

May 2003

Publication date

May 2003

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Gordon Darling, Chairman of the Australian National Gallery Council (June 1982-December 1986), first donated funds for the acquisition of contemporary Australian prints in to celebrate the opening of the gallery in 1982; then, in Australia’s bicentennial year 1988, he established the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund with a capital grant of one million dollars. The Fund not only finances acquisitions, but also the Gordon Darling Scholar, Graduate intern and the access initiative www.australianprints.gov.au.

In a new book Building the collection Gordon Darling is interviewed by Roger Butler, Senior Curator of Australian Prints at the National Gallery of Australia. The publication includes essays on all facets of the collection.

Pauline Green (ed.), Building the collection, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2003. ISBN 0-642-54202-3