In 1986, spirited Warlpiri women of Lajamanu, a small community in Gurindji Country on the edge of the Tanami Desert, in the Northern Territory, painted a groundbreaking series of gouaches…
When Europeans arrived, the old ways of painting changed … We have changed the law, the old fashioned way of painting has finished and we are new people doing new kinds of painting together for non-Aboriginal people as wel
When Europeans arrived, the old ways of painting changed.
The new public prominence of Aboriginal art remains the greatest single revolution in the past quarter-century in Australian art
All the artist knows is brought to bear in the work itself, but some forms of that knowledge remain hidden.
On 9 March 2013 a new collection display that focuses on the physical, spiritual and ecological importance of the natural elements to Indigenous people opened in the National Gallery of…
Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the cultivation of vast and open spaces of bountiful possibles in order to help them flourish.
New South Wales SOPHIE HONESS, ARTIST Jonathan Jones, mentor Sophie Honess, a Gamilaroi woman living and working on Gomeroi Country in Tamworth, New South Wales, embraced the challenges of translating…
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Connecting multiple generations of family and kin through their embrace of a single artistic movement, Watercolour Country: 100 Works from Hermannsburg celebrates the ongoing legacy of an artform that transformed…
There’s a rare kind of magic in how Kaylene Whiskey’s art practice brings joy to so m
Among South African artist and ‘visual activist’ Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits, the series titled Ntozakhe (Parktown) contains two main interwoven narratives, both of which have their foundations in South Africa’s racial…
Now in its sixth year, the NGV X MECCA partnership supports women in the arts and enables new acquisitions by Australian women artists to enter the NGV Collection.
In January 2020, a group of artists across Australia organised a major intervention of public space by replacing advertising from bus shelters and walls with eye-catching posters in response to…
Melbourne craftsperson Damien Wright’s furniture and sculptures explore and celebrate the splendour and bounty of the Australian landscape. In his work