PROJECT Referencing Western sculptural traditions, Thomas J Price’s works play with methods of presentation, material and scale, to highlight the inadequate and prejudiced representations of Black people today and throughout…

PROJECT In this installation Ezz Monem explores the tension between reverence and the profane by recontextualising references to the name ‘Mohamed’ from Egyptian and broader Middle Eastern cinema.

PROJECT Farrokh Mahdavi’s symbolic use of pink comes from the translation of the Persian word for ‘pink’: ‘soorati’, named after ‘soorat’, which refers to the ‘face’.

PROJECT Gary Hume is a British painter, sculptor and printmaker who came to prominence as a member of the Young British Artists in the early 1990s.

PROJECT Depicting imagined landscapes, Shara Hughes views her works as reflections of her psychological interior world.

PROJECT Inspired by Hulda Guzmán’s immediate surroundings of Samaná in the Dominican Republic, this painting centres on a portrait of the artist dancing wildly on a table, surrounded by frolicking…

PROJECT A central principle in Gauri Gill’s practice is collaborative partnerships as a way to blur the line between photographer and subjec

PROJECT A continuously burning gas flare set against the backdrop of the Tongan coast, captures the stark realities of our evolving relationship with the environment and is a metaphor for…

PROJECT Without specific narratives but full of psychological richness, Prudence Flint’s paintings of women escape easy interpretation.

PROJECT Korean artist Guimi You creates oil paintings that present a blurring of elements from the so-called real world connected with an imagined city.

In preparation for the exhibition Rembrandt: True to Life, NGV conservators documented and studied the NGV’s extensive collection of Rembrandt prints, not only to assess their condition and ensure their…

Introduction John Thallon was the leading frame maker for artists in Melbourne from the 1880s well into the twentieth century.

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…

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For Melbourne Now, the Wheeler Centre and NGV come together for an afternoon of art and storytelling.