An impressionist painting of an industrial harbour in France in the early 19th century, with sailboats and a crowd gathered on a pier. This painting is by Camille Pissaro.
The Pilots’ Jetty, Le Havre, Morning, Cloudy and Misty Weather, 1903, Camille Pissarro. Tate: Presented by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1948. Photo: Tate

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Audio-Described Tour – Light: Works from Tate's Collection

Exhibition

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Tickets

Full

$30

Concession

$27

ACMI Member

$25

Child

$10

When

Sat 30 Jul - Sat 22 Oct 2022

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Designed by Vision Australia, this tour of our Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibition is suitable for visitors who are blind or have low vision.

About the Exhibition

Curated by Tate in the UK and drawn from their prestigious collection, Light: Works from Tate’s Collection celebrates groundbreaking moments from over 200 years of art history, and the artists who harnessed this elemental force through painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, installation and the moving image.

Connected by their fascination with light as both material and subject, more than 70 works feature in this exclusive blockbuster exhibition, including must-see historical paintings by iconic artists like the great Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers, as well as the atmospheric beauty and transient light effects captured by Impressionist painters Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.

These extraordinary paintings are juxtaposed against equally groundbreaking works from modern and contemporary artists: Olafur Eliasson’s crystalline sculpture Stardust Particle (2014), Yayoi Kusama’s kaleidoscopic The Passing Winter (2005), James Turrell’s immersive Raemar, Blue (1969), Tacita Dean’s 16mm film Disappearance at Sea (1996) and Liliane Lijn's moving sculpture Liquid Reflections (1968). Viewed collectively, these radiant works draw fascinating links across time, medium and style, projecting light onto the viewer’s body and absorbing them into visions of infinite lustre and luminosity.

Presented alongside our award-winning centrepiece exhibition The Story of the Moving Image, which explores the essential contribution of light to the moving image, this major exhibition from Tate illuminates centuries of artistic practice and uniquely places film in a broader art historical context.

Large-print artwork labels

You can pick up large-print artwork labels for Light: Works from Tate’s Collection at our Tickets & Information desks on the Ground Floor and Level 1. The labels are printed at A4 size and include thumbnails of artworks on display in the exhibition.

Event duration

60 mins

Where

Gallery 4, Lower Ground
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