THE INAUGURAL BALLARAT BIENNALE
Aug 27, 2018
3 minutes
PREVIEW JUDITH PUGH
ITS WEBSITE PROCLAIMS THAT THE Art Gallery of Ballarat, opened in 1890, is the oldest purpose-built art gallery building in Australia, and the first to be built outside a capital city in the overseas dominions of the British Empire. That’s unsurprising: the goldrush brought riches to the new state of Victoria. Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria began in the 1870s, but interestingly, Ballarat came to its fine permanent home even before Sydney’s Art Gallery of NSW.
The influx of migrants in the goldrush era
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