NGV Magazine

NGV Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine featuring writing from NGV and around the world that considers the many ways and reasons that we create, design, speculate and investigate. Learn how artists and designers make things, sink deep into the lives, challenges and achievements of creative people throughout history, and consider the world anew through the many ideas and perspectives explored through art and design.

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Issue 51 Mar–Apr 2025

In this issue of NGV Magazine, we feature Paris-based, Melbourne-born designer Martin Grant, on the occasion of the opening of the major exhibition Martin Grant at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. We also delve into the important body of work by Larrakia photographer Gary Lee and explore the remarkable contribution Clement Meadmore made to the Australian and international design and art world. Elsewhere, we write on the new acquisition of Edvard Munch’s Early spring, 1903–05 and he groundbreaking exhibition Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts), which gave rise to the Art Deco style in Paris a century ago.

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Features in this issue

COVER STORY The Making of Martin Grant

‘By sixteen, Grant had produced his first ready-to-wear collection, by eighteen he had made the pages of Australian Vogue, and by twenty he had taken out the title of Cointreau Young Designer of the Year.’

By Annemarie Kiely