‘I began shooting traditional men’s headwear as a way to preserve my culture and to observe how it has trickled down to my generation in the way we mix them…
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright.
JR’s Homily to Country, 2020, draws attention to the ecological decline of the Darling (Baaka) River, Australia’s third longest river, caused by intensive water extraction due to irrigation, climate change…
Qualities of light and the cycle of day to night inform British artist and designer Faye Toogood’s reimagining of the NGV’s seventeenth-century Flemish, Dutch and British galleries, under the title…
NGV International | 19 December 2020 – 18 April 2021 | Free entry Thursday 17 December 2020: Opening this weekend, the NGV Triennial is a large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, design…
For Remembrance Day, NGV curators Susan van Wyk and Beckett Rozentals consider how Australian artists responded to World War I, introducing a selection of works in the NGV Collection by…
When this lovely example of Regency fashion entered the collection in 2018, the NGV Textiles Conservation team went scrambling for their history books and Jane Austen novels.
NGV International | 19 December 2020 – 18 April 2021 | Free entry Thursday 8 October 2020: Exploring some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including…
NGV International | 10 March 2022 to 21 August 2022 | Free entry “Queer” as a concept runs against all definitions, all fixed meaning, forever questioning, redeploying, twisting terms, texts…
In a recent online event, NGV curators Cathy Leahy and Petra Kayser introduced a number of etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz.
This unique portrait by the British painter, Joseph Highmore, displays an incredibly personal rendering of his daughter Susanna surrounded by the things that she most loved.
The NGV is delighted to present Mutual Trust clients with a specially curated experience following your talk about the wonderful women photographers practicing at the Paris end of Collins Street,…
Explore the history of women artists in Europe in the NGV Collection from the 1600s to the eighteenth century with Assistant Curator of Collections and Research at NGV, Dr.
The Sydney realist Herbert Badham was an insightful and wry observer of Australian life in the 1930s and 1940s.
An artist who is largely forgotten today, Henry Moore was acclaimed in the 1870s and 1880s as Britain’s foremost painter of the se