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Geelong Gallery will present ‘There is only one true Impressionist’—The Life and Art of Berthe Morisot, a Creative Conversations event led by Dr Ted Gott, on Saturday 12 September 2026. The talk is part of the gallery’s September program and is scheduled to take place at Geelong Gallery in Geelong, Australia.
The event’s title refers to Berthe Morisot, the French artist associated with the Impressionist movement. The available listing identifies Gott as the presenter but does not provide further details about the lecture’s format, duration, ticketing or the particular works to be discussed. The title’s assertion is presented as the name of the event rather than as an institutional claim about Morisot’s position in art history.
The conversation is programmed alongside Geelong Gallery’s presentation of ‘Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel, Art Dealer Among the Artists’, which is listed as running until Sunday 11 October 2026. Gallery material describes that exhibition as placing works by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in dialogue with a second generation of artists shaped by their legacy, highlighting the continuing influence of Impressionism.
The broader presentation has also prompted programming aimed at different audiences and modes of access. The September schedule includes an Auslan tour of ‘Discovering the Impressionists’ on Sunday 13 September, a French-language tour on Tuesday 22 September, and a family program on Saturday 19 September featuring a tour and drop-in flower crafting. These activities are separate from the Berthe Morisot talk.
Other exhibitions on view at Geelong Gallery in September include ‘Claude Monet and Australian Impressionism’, scheduled through Sunday 25 October 2026, and ‘Milestones in Collecting—130th Anniversary Exhibition’, also running through 25 October. The Monet exhibition features ‘Haystacks, midday’ (1890), lent by the National Gallery of Australia through the Sharing the National Collection initiative, alongside works from Geelong Gallery’s collection by Australian plein-air painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
‘Milestones in Collecting’ marks Geelong Gallery’s 130th anniversary year with works connected to key stages in the institution’s collecting history. Its stated examples include Frederick McCubbin’s ‘A bush burial’ (1890), acquired in 1900; John Brack’s ‘The hunt’ (1988), purchased in 1996; and Emily Kam Kngwarray’s ‘Anooralya (or Anwerlarr)—Yam Dreaming’, acquired in 2021.
Geelong Gallery is located at 55 Little Malop Street, Geelong, and is open daily from 10am to 5pm. The Berthe Morisot event is listed for Saturday 12 September 2026 under the gallery’s Creative Conversations program.
