This exhibition explores drawings and markings of figures, signs or text made on public surfaces across Indigenous Australia, from rock face to now.
All levels Mon – Fri, 9.30am, 11am, 1.30pm, 2.30pm Mark-making across Indigenous Australia spans the earliest drawings on rock faces to the screens and walls of contemporary lif
Our spirits lie in the water … We didn’t create this culture recently. It lies in the ground. It lies in the earth, but we are bringing it
Join Koorie Heritage Trust and artist Peter Waples-Crowe for reflection, conversation and stories about Koorie life and culture on the banks of Birrarung Marr (River of Mists – the Yarra…
Standing at the edge of a site and looking in, or standing in the middle and looking out? They are two very different starting points for design.
EXHIBITION TIMES: SAT 14 MAR, 11AM–6PM & SUN 15 MAR, 11AM–5PM Aurum is an essay film that traverses layers of history and mythology to examine our complex relationship with goldR
Presented by Information Office Beginning with the Seventies curator Lorna Brown and artist and possum-skin cloak maker Vicki Couzens discuss the reactivation of public and private archives in the resurgence of…
Presented by National Gallery of Victoria Join us for the launch of DESTINY a monograph celebrating the art and life of artist Destiny Deacon, published by the NGV.
NGV Australia | 27 March – 9 August 2020 | Free entry Destiny Deacon, one of Australia’s boldest and most acclaimed contemporary artists, will be celebrated in her largest retrospective…
Saturday 11 – Sunday 19 January 2020 | NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | FREE Inspired by the NGV’s summer exhibitions, Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat:…
In 1984, Keith Haring was the first artist to create a work on the NGV Waterwall.
Inspired by the works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists on display in Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Professor Lynette Russell and Zena Cumpston reflect on the concept…
Set among the European pin oak trees of the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden, an enigmatic wooden tower rises upwards from a surrounding field of kangaroo grass, murnong (yams) and an…
13 September 2019 – 5 April 2020 | NGV Australia | Free Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design From Mer, Torres Strait combines traditional craft and collaborative contemporary design in a…
Mer, or Murray Island, is in the Eastern Torres Strait, and its fertile oceans mark the beginning of the Great Barrier Reef, known in Meriam Mir language as Opnor.