Audio Descriptions | Who Are You: Australian Portraiture
Hear detailed descriptions of four artworks from the NGV Collection alongside three artworks from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, produced in collaboration with Access2Arts.
Each artwork is accompanied by a track which includes the artwork description plus some factual information. Image captions are available at the bottom of this page.
Artwork number 1 Kaylene Whiskey Yankunytjatjara born 1976 Seven Sisters Song 2021, enamel paint on road sign. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artist 2021. © Kaylene Whiskey. Courtesy of the artist, Iwantja Arts and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Artwork number 2 Peter Drew Monga Khan 1916 2016, printed 2019, from the Aussie series 2016, brush and ink on screenprint, 114.5 x 80.5cm (image) 117.5 x 83.5 cm (sheet). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased NGV Supporters of Prints and Drawings, 2020. © Peter Drew
Artwork number 3 Bert Flugelman Self Portrait, c.1985, stainless steel (sight: 76.5 cm x 45.5 cm depth 45.5 cm). Gift of the artist 2009. National Portrait Gallery Canberra. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. © Bert Flugelman/Copyright Agency, 2022
Artwork number 4 Patricia Piccinini Nest 2006, enamel paint on fibreglass, leather, plastic, metal, rubber, mirror, transparent synthetic polymer resin, glass, (a-b) 104.2 × 197.0 × 186.4 cm (variable) (installation), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2006 © Courtesy of the artist
Artwork number 5 Samuel Metford, England 1810–90, lived in United States 1834–44 Mackenzie family silhouette 1846, brush and ink, pen and ink, stencil cut-out with watercolour highlights 43.2 cm x 64.0 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Gift of the Estate of Nancy Wiseman 2007
Artwork number 6 Rona Panangka Rubuntja Arrernte born 1970 I’m black (Nicky Winmar), covered vase, 2015,
earthenware, (a-b) 53.1 × 24.8 cm diameter (overall). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015. © Rona Panangka Rubuntja/Copyright Agency, 2022
Artwork number 7 Brook Andrew Australia born 1970, Trent Walter (printer) Australia born 1980 Marcia Langton 2009, screenprint on paper, 252.0 x 242.0 x 7.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2009 © Brook Andrew