2025 Exhibition | Clarice Beckett: Paintings from the National Collection

A National Gallery of Australia Touring Exhibition

Clarice Beckett: Paintings from the National Collection
22 November 2025 - 25 January 2026

Clarice Beckett: Paintings from the National Collection presents an intimate, rarely seen group of works by one of the most original artists of early twentieth-century Australia.

Deeply sensitive to the effects of colour, light and atmosphere, Beckett painted the life and scenery of her coastal home in southeast Naarm/Melbourne with an eye for the commonplace and fleeting effects of nature. Her work captures a world on the cusp of modernisation, evoking both the natural environment and simple pleasures of suburbia.

In 1972, the artist’s sister Hilda Mangan donated a group of Beckett’s works to the National Gallery. It is this collection that will be on view for the first time, their freshness and vitality recently restored by extensive conservation treatment.

This exhibition is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by The Australian Government through Visions of Australia.

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Exhibition Opening
Saturday 22 November | 5 pm - 7 pm

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Clarice Beckett: Paintings from the National Collection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by The Australian Government through Visions of Australia.

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The exhibition presented at Ngununggula is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW

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IMAGE CREDITS:

IMAGES: Clarice Beckett painting in yard at her Beaumaris home. From: Rosalind Hollinrake, The Artist and Her Circle.

Clarice Beckett, Bay Road, 1930, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1971