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Keith Haring, the NGV Waterwall and art in the public space
In 1984, Keith Haring was the first artist to create a work on the NGV Waterwall.
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What is Civilization?
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…
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In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office | 2019 NGV Architecture Commission
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…
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Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design From Mer, Torres Strait
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…
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Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design from Mer, Torres Strait
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.
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Short Course: Introducing Art & Design of Australia’s First Peoples
In this introductory course, learn about the art, culture and design of Australia’s First Peoples through a close study of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in…
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Marking Time
Indigenous Art from the NGV
This exhibition explores drawings and markings of figures, signs or text made on public surfaces across Indigenous Australia, from rock face to now.
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Desert Lines
Batik from Central Australia
AN NGV TOURING EXHIBITION BENDIGO ART GALLERY 17 AUG – 17 NOV 2019 The exhibition is mainly based on the NGV exhibition Across the Desert: Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia…
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Weaving Workshop with Donna Blackall
Yorta Yorta/Taungurung woman Donna Blackall leads a drop-in weaving workshop sharing her Satin Stitch basket weave technique.
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2019 Architecture Commission
In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office
The fifth annual NGV Architecture Commission In Absence is a collaboration between contemporary artist and Kokatha and Nukunu woman Yhonnie Scarce and Melbourne architecture studio Edition Office.
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Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office announced as winners of 2019 NGV Architecture Commission
Contemporary artist Yhonnie Scarce and Melbourne architecture studio Edition Office have been announced as the winners of the 2019 National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission for their scheme titled In Absence
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Book Launch and Panel: ‘Shapes of Knowledge’ published by Monash University Museum of Art and Perimeter Editions.
One of the most powerful things about art is the multiplicity of knowledge it leads us to.
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More Than Bathrooms: Gender Diversity in Architecture
Presented by Simona Castricum and the University of Melbourne
Simona Castricum hosts ‘More Than Bathrooms: Gender Diversity in Architecture’, a panel centring active stakeholders in Melbourne’s LGBTIQA+ community to talk about their experiences creating queer, sexual and gender diverse…
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Jefa Greenaway: The Echo of Country
Presented by City of Greater Geelong with Geelong Regional Library Corporation
Meet and hear leading architect and educator Jefa Greenaway who will talk about giving agency to Indigenous voices through design.
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Design, Women and Housing
Presented by MADA, XYX Lab and Schored Projects
Design, Women and Housing is a symposium in three parts: women and housing, women and homelessness and first nation women’s space