LIST OF SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2000—2020
NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA
In the role of Assistant Director at the NGA for the past 15 years, Adam Worrall oversaw the scheduling, budgeting, development and delivery of an ambitious program of exhibitions, with annual exhibition expenditure of $8.9 million* and over $8.5 million* in budgeted exhibition revenue. Adam's programming also delivered audience growth of 25% over a 5 year period.
While he was involved in hundreds of exhibitions and installations for the NGA, the list below only contains exhibitions where he was Exhibition Project Leader, the exhibition designer or where had a major role in the project.
*2018/19 financial year totals
2011—2020
Māori Markings
The art of Tā Moko
Crispin Howarth, Curator
9 Mar—25 Aug 2019
David Hockney: prints
Jane Kinsman, Curator
11 Nov 2017—27 May 2018
Arthur Streeton: The Art of War
Anna Gray, Curator
15 Dec 2017—29 Apr 2018
Albert Namatjira
Painting Country
Franchesca Cubillo, Curator
15 Jul 2017—2 Apr 2018
Pipilotti Rist
Worry will vanish revelation
Jaklyn Babington, Curator
11 Mar—20 Aug 2017
Angelica Mesiti
Jaklyn Babington, Curator
9 Sep 2017—2 Apr 2018
Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time
Linda Michael, Venice Bienalle & Deborah Hart, NGA
22 Apr—10 Jul 2016
The last temptation: The art of Ken and Julia Yonetani
Jaklyn Babington, Curator
12 Dec 2015—25 Apr 2016
Contemporary Asian Art
1 Nov 2016—1 Feb 2017
The story of Rama: Indian miniatures from the National Museum, New Delhi
Dr Vijay Mathur, Curator
22 May—23 Aug 2015
Myth and Magic: Art of the Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea
Crispin Howarth, Curator
7 Aug—1 Nov 2015
Impressions of Paris
Lautrec, Degas, Daumier
Jane Kinsman, Curator
7 Nov 2014—9 Mar 2015
Arthur Boyd
Agony and ecstasy
Deborah Hart, Curator
5 Sep—9 Nov 2014
Kastom: Art of Vanuatu
Crispin Howarth, Curator
8 Feb—16 Jun 2013
Stars of the Tokyo stage: Natori Shunsen's Kabuki actor prints
Lucie Folan, Curator
19 Jul—12 Oct 2014
William Kentridge
Drawn from Africa
Jane Kinsman, Curator
17 Jan—26 Jun 2013
Roy Lichtenstein:
Pop Remix
Jaklyn Babington, Curator
20 Jul 2013—27 Jan 2014
Divine Worlds:
Indian painting
Robyn Maxwell, Curator
1 Sep—11 Nov 2012
Turner from the Tate: The making of a Master
AGSA, NGA & AEA
1 Jun—15 Sep 2013
Toulouse Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge
Jane Kinsman, Curator
14 Dec 2012—2 Apr 2013
Varilaku: Pacific arts
from the Solomon Islands
Crispin Howarth, Curator
24 Feb—29 May 2011
Fred Williams:
Infinite Horizons
Deborah Hart, Curator
12 Aug—6 Nov 2011
Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land
Anna Gray, Curator
17 Aug—11 Nov 2012
Ballet Russes: The art of costume
Robert Bell, Curator
10 Dec 2010—1 May 2011
2001—2010
Space Invaders: Contemporary street culture
Jaklyn Babington, Curator
30 Oct 2010—27 Feb 2011
Life, death and magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asian ancestral art
Robyn Maxwell, Curator
13 Aug—31 Oct 2010
Soft Sculpture
Lucina Ward, Curator
24 Apr 2009—19 Jul 2009
Frederick McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-17
Anna Gray, Curator
14 Aug—1 Nov 2009
Picture Paradise
Asia-Pacific photography 1840s-1940s
Gael Newton, Curator
11 Jul—28 Sep 2008
Gods, ghosts and men
Pacific arts from the NGA
Crispin Howarth, Curator
10 Oct 2008—11 Jan 2009
Richard Larter:
A Retrospective
Deborah Hart, Curator
20 Jun—8 Sep 2008
Turner to Monet
The triumph of landscape painting
Ron Radford &
Christine Dixon, Curators
14 Mar—9 Jun 2008
Andy and Oz:
Parallel Visions
Deborah Hart, Curator
1 Oct 2007—30 Dec 2007
Australian Surrealism
The Agapitos Wilson collection
Deborah Hart, Curator
16 Feb—11 May 2008
Egyptian Antiquities
from the Louvre:
Journey to the afterlife
Marc Etienne, Curator
17 Nov 06—25 Feb 2007
Robert Rauschenberg
1967-1978
Jane Kinsman, Curator
1 Sep 2007—27 Jan 2008
Ocean to Outback
Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950
Ron Radford, Curator
3 Aug 2007—3 May 2009
The story of Australian Printmaking 1801—2005
Roger Butler, Curator
30 Mar—3 Jun 2007
George Lambert: A Retrospective - Heroes and Icons
Anna Gray, Curator
29 Jun—16 Sep 2007
Constable
Impressions of land,
sea and sky
Anna Gray, Curator
3 Mar—12 Jun 2006
Crescent Moon
Islamic Art and Civilisation
in Southeast Asia
James Bennett &
Robyn Maxwell, Curators
24 Feb—28 May 2006
Grace Cossington Smith
A Retrospective Exhibition
Deborah Hart, Curator
4 Mar—13 Jun 2005
Margaret Preston
Australian Printmaker
Roger Butler, Curator
18 Dec 2004—25 Apr 2005
2005 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition
Elena Taylor, Curator
15 Jul—9 Oct 2005
Bill Viola: The Passions
J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition
26 Jul—6 Nov 2005
James Gleeson: Beyond the screen of sight
Lou Klepac & Geoffrey Smith, Curators
18 Mar—13 Jun 2005
Home sweet home
Works from the
Peter Fay collection
Deborah Hart, Curator
11 Oct 2003—18 Jan 2004
Montien Boonma
Temple of the mind
Asia Society Exhibition
23 Jul—10 Oct 2004
French Paintings
From the Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Jorg Zutter, Curator
9 Jul—3 Oct 2004
The Edwardians:
Secrets and Desires
Anna Gray, Curator
12 Mar—15 Jun 2004
Pierre Bonnard
Observing Nature
Jorg Zutter, Curator
7 Mar—9 Jun 2003
Sari to Sarong
Five hundred years of Indian and Indonesian textile exchange
Robyn Maxwell, Curator
11 Jul—5 Oct 2003
Tactility: Two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre
Brenda L. Croft, Curator
7 Jun—14 Sep 2003
2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition
Elena Taylor, Curator
21 Mar—9 Jun 2003
Out and About
The NGA tours Australia
10 Dec 2002—22 Feb 2004
2001 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition
Elena Taylor, Curator
30 Nov 2001—10 Mar 2002
William Robinson:
A Retrospective
QAG Exhibition
14 Dec 2001—10 Mar 2002
The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian art
Curated by Arte e Civilta Fondazione Cultura Lombarda
28 Mar—16 Jun 2002
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
and Mexican Modernism
From the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection
Christine Dixon, Curator
13 Jul—28 Oct 2001