Through careful observations of portraits and drawings from the NGV Collection, Laith McGregor shows how to create an abstract portrait with the endless possibilities of a simple line.

In preparing this painting, Portrait of Lady Hamilton by Anne Forbes, for display, NGV Conservators discovered a hand that had previously been painted over.

Melbourne Now textile and printmaking artist Kelly Koumalatsos delves into her art practice, discussing her work Portrait of sister in laws; Wemba Wemba Great Aunty Frieda Stewart and Wergaia Great…

This etching is a portrait of my grandparents. How we value the elderly, and their life experience is explored.

The corporeal naturalism of carrion birds’ scavenging cycles is intermingled with machinery, delineating an alternate reality where technology is ingrained within ecology, where a subtly roboticized murder of crows consume…

Internal portrait explores the idea of revealing the true nature of the inner voice by making it visual. Embroidery patterns act as a physical representation of the individual’s inner voic

A painting’s frame is often an artwork itself. Lillie Williamson, born in Melbourne, was a celebrated frame-maker working in the early twentieth centur

Throughout her career Maree Clarke has developed a deep and contemplative, multidisciplinary practice that continually reclaims and celebrates Aboriginal customary ritual, language and art.

Discover the thriving creative community of the Victorian Artists Society, where the Australian Impressionist painters including Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton formally gathered during the late 1800s.

The Darling / Baaka River is the major tributary to the Murray-Darling River system – the largest system on the Australian continen

Unable to move or speak, panic and fear set in. Sleep paralysis may not be visible to the observer, but for the sufferer it is a visceral experience.

The alluring gaze, enigmatic smile and warm darkness that cloaks Madeleine Colt’s Self-portrait, is designed to draw us in and transport us back in tim

JR’s project presented during NGV Triennial, Homily to Country, is an ambitious multi-part artwork comprising portrait photography, documentary footage and an architectural installation to draw global attention to the ecological…

JR’s Homily to Country, 2020, draws attention to the ecological decline of the Darling (Baaka) River, Australia’s third longest river, caused by intensive water extraction due to irrigation, climate change…

Qualities of light and the cycle of day to night inform British artist and designer Faye Toogood’s reimagining of the NGV’s seventeenth-century Flemish, Dutch and British galleries, under the title…