Australian born 1970 S & D II 1997, printed 2006 computer-generated colour transparency on transparent synthetic polymer resin Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists 2007.
A Studio of Her Own explores the period 1500–1900 and the women artists and designers who, despite the many obstacles to their independence, set up professional studios and made successful…
Levels 3-8 Join an NGV Educator for a short and lively introduction to one work from the NGV Collection and exhibitions.
17 December: Melbourne Design Week, Australia’s leading annual international design event, returns for its sixth edition from 17-27 March 2022, with a dynamic program that will transform Melbourne and parts…
17 December: Melbourne Design Week, Australia’s leading annual international design event, returns for its sixth edition from 17-27 March 2022, with a dynamic program that will transform Melbourne and parts…
Various locations and venues | January 2022 | FREE 15 December 2021: NGV Kids on Tour returns in 2022 to over 120 venues across regional and metropolitan Victoria to offer…
22 November 2021: NGV kids presents an all-ages exhibition, The Gecko and the Mermaid: Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and Her Sister, which celebrates the vibrant culture and community of the Yolŋu people…
The origins of Kai-awase Kai-awase (貝合わせ), the game of ‘matching shells’, is included among a number of aristocratic pastimes belonging to the category monoawase (物合わせ), a ‘competitive comparison among things’…
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WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is the first exhibition to comprehensively bring together the rich portrait holdings of both the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Portrait Gallery,…
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A painting’s frame is often an artwork itself. Lillie Williamson, born in Melbourne, was a celebrated frame-maker working in the early twentieth centur
The universality of Goya’s art lies in his pursuit of truth, making his observations of society and human nature as relevant today as they were in his own tim
The historical portrayal of women in art often prioritised the artist’s role, usually a male, rather than the female subject’s lived experiences and accomplishme
Dutch writer and curator Charles Dumas introduces us to a skilled young artist from a family of painters, who struggled to assert her identity in the male-dominated world of eighteenth-century…
Dr Maria Quirk investigates the events and people behind one of the biggest global activist movements, through a range of works in the NGV Collection connected to women’s suffrage, the…