Audio Descriptions: Queer

Hear detailed descriptions of four artworks from the NGV Collection produced in collaboration with Access2Arts.

Each artwork is accompanied by two tracks. The first track includes the artwork description plus some factual information. The second track is a piece of audio selected to complement the work. Image captions are available at the bottom of this page.

ARTWORK NUMBER 1: DYLAN MOONEY​, STUCK ON YOU, 2020;
PRINTED 2021

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Artist Dylan Mooney talks about his work.

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ARTWORK NUMBER 2: NICK CAVE, SOUNDSUIT, 2015

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Senior Curator Simon Maidment talks about Nick Cave’s Soundsuit.

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ARTWORK NUMBER 3: FLAMINGO PARK, SYDNEY (FASHION HOUSE),
JENNY KEE (DESIGNER), JAN AYRES (KNITTER) SNAKE GODDESS, 1980

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Field recordings of Australian bushscapes that influenced Flamingo Park’s designs, Mixed 2022

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Artwork number 1 Dylan Mooney Stuck on you 2020; 2021 (printed)
From the Queer, blak & here series 2020–21
inkjet print, (118.9 x 84.1 cm)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest, 2021. © Dylan Mooney

Artwork number 2 Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2015
From the Soundsuit series 1992–
Fibreglass, cotton, shell, glass, plastic, metal. 227.5 × 71.0 × 79.3 cm
Chicago, Illinois, United States. Purchased with funds donated by the Fox Family Foundation and the NGV Foundation, 2016 © Nick Cave, courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Artwork number 3 FLAMINGO PARK, Sydney (fashion house), Jenny Kee (designer), Jan Ayres (knitter), Snake goddess, 1980
Cotton, 75.0 cm (centre back) 21.0 cm (sleeve length) Label, centre black, printed in black on hot pink acetate: (head)
Jan / Ayres / for FLAMINGO / PARK SYDNEY. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.