As an artist who places her own life at the centre of her practice, Tracey Emin is renowned for working within the historical lineages of expressionism.

Situated precariously outside the protective arm of Signal Hill, trapped between the outer mountainous circle of Cape Town and the vast curve of the Atlantic Ocean, sits the idyllic but exposed…

In November 2014, in the National Gallery of Victoria’s storage facility in North Melbourne, a large canvas was unrolled for the first time in more than twenty-five yea

William Larkin was one of the most accomplished portrait painters of Jacobean England, yet remains an enigmatic figure.

What has the highlight been of Top Arts 2016? Being honoured to have my artworks exhibited in the NGV and to be involved in the top arts process as a…

Porcelain sculpture may be considered the quintessential eighteenth-century European art form.

We interviewed Julia McFarlane from the band Twerps, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 12 February 2016.

In the early 1760s, when Joshua Reynolds painted this portrait of the young Susanna Gale, daughter of a British sugar planter in Jamaica, his success as a society portraitist was…

A suite of small sculptures lie upon offcuts of aging, discoloured foam.

From the late 1980s until the mid 2000s, celebrated French-American artist Louise Bourgeois produced numerous ‘cells’ – closed environments made from industrial materials into which she placed various found objects…

Maharana Sarup Singh ruled the Rajput kingdom of Mewar, centred on Udaipur, from 1842 to 1861.

The Enclave, 2012–13, is a visceral and moving work by Irish artist Richard Mosse filmed in the Democratic Republic of Cong

In 1847 the English-born photographer Douglas Kilburn opened Melbourne’s first commercial photographic studi

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

When E. Phillips Fox returned to Melbourne in late 1892 after five years studying and working in France, he encountered a city in the grip of economic depression.