In more than forty years of practice, Linda Jackson has played a significant part in the development of a distinctly Australian approach to fashion design.
Introduction Within the genre of South Indian art, sets of paintings on paper depicting a range of subjects including deities, tribes and castes, occupations, regional costumes, festivals and temple sites…
I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen
I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen
On 2 June 2012 the National Gallery of Victoria will open this year’s spectacular Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Napoleon: Revolution to Empir
“My love of couture, together with the inspiration and beauty of the Australian bush, brought about the idea of translating all this into a style of art and fashion that…
Celebrating Australia’s premier art gallery’s 150th anniversary Today, 24 May 2011, the National Gallery of Victoria celebrates its 150th birth
Welcome to the online conservation treatment diary for Nicolas Poussin’s Crossing of the Red Se
Opening 11 March, the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase the first exhibition in Australia to focus on men’s fashion from the 18th century to the present da
A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition 7 July – 29 August 2010 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 15 October – 28 November 2010 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 15 January…
Abstract Mode presents geometric patterns and forms in women’s and men’s fashion and textiles from the 19th century to the present. Works range from the delicate patterns of mid-to-late 19th century women’s dress to the futuristic 1960s style of Pierre Cardin and the energetic sampling of contemporary fa
This exhibition retraces the dynamic changes in fashion during Jane Austen’s lifetime. Featuring more than 70 works, with most from the NGV Collection, Persuasion surveys the period 1770-1830 and includes fashion, prints and drawings, decorative arts and paintings, with a focus on English women’s dress from the early 19th cent
This is the first exhibition in Australia to survey the enduring presence of floral themes and motifs within western fashion and textiles. On display are 46 examples of women’s and men’s dress, textiles and accessories dating from the middle of the 16th century to the dawn of our present century.
The definition of lace is a decorative or openwork fabric made up of spaces and worked areas formed by fine threads. Still present in contemporary life from fashion to homewares, lace first originated in sixteenth century Europe. It began with the development of two distinct types of work – needle lace and bobbin lace. These two techniques, relying on fine handwork for the first three centuries, produced some of the most luxurious and coveted forms of textiles ever create
Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris traces Bunny’s extraordinary life and art, from Melbourne to Paris and back again. Organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this is the first major exhibition of Bunny’s work since 1991 and includes over one hundred paintings, drawings and monotypes, some of which have never been seen before in Austra