In the major libraries of Australia there are sets of remarkable photographs of aborigines taken between 1868 and 1876 in Grafton, New South Wales, by John William Lindt.
In 1994, a rare watermark album assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by Canon Ludwig von Büllingen (1771–1848), entered the collection of the N
NGV Australia will host two complementary exhibitions that explore Australia’s complex colonial history and the art that emerged during and in response to this perio
Colony: Frontier Wars explores the period of colonisation in Australia from 1788 onwards and its often devastating effects on First Peoples.
Tom Roberts’s large canvas, Shearing the rams (fig. 1) is popularly seen today as an archetypal vision of Australian pastoral li
This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 1975 encompasses essays that discuss works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection: Martin Butlin appraises a newly-discovered masterpiece by…
The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.
Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…
Nicholas Caire is considered today to be one of the pre-eminent Australian photographers of the nineteenth century, and Fairy scene at the Landslip, Black’s Spur, c
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
Photographs are not simply a mirror to the world but one of the most complex and, at times, problematic forms of visual representation. This exhibition presents photographs from the NGV Collection that invite us to project fictions and seduce us into looking longer and more thoroughly.