Explore guitar design through the ages, from original ouds and theorbos to acoustic and electric, as well as paintings, prints, gig posters, album covers, and rock photography; each work depicting the musical instrument from its Medieval beginnings to its pivotal role in blues, country and rock ‘n’ roll music.
This exhibition features forty iconic guitars on loan from the National Guitar Museum (USA) alongside more than 200 music-inspired masterpieces by Picasso, Renoir, Manet, and contemporary artists – representing almost two centuries of music symbolism in culture and art.
Jenny Watson, Rockstar, 2014, oil, synthetic polymer paint and pigment on rabbit skin glue-primed French damask; plastic. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2017. Courtesy the artist, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney and Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Tony Mott, Joan Jett, photograph. Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Ballarat
Art Gallery of Ballarat
12 October 2024 to 2 February 2025
Victoria
