Curator’s breakfast preview: ‘Oceania’
Thursday 27 September 2018 8.45 - 10am
Main Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
Free. Patrons only.
Oceania
Patrons are invited to join a curator led tour of this exhibition which marks 250 years since Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific, celebrating the dazzling and diverse art of the region of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary.
Oceania will bring together around 200 exceptional works from public and private collections worldwide, and will span over 500 years. From shell, greenstone and ceramic ornaments, to huge canoes and dazzling house facades, we explore important themes of voyaging, place making and encounter.
The exhibition draws from rich historic ethnographic collections dating from the 18th century to the present, and includes seminal works produced by contemporary artists exploring history, identity and climate change.