Unable to move or speak, panic and fear set in. Sleep paralysis may not be visible to the observer, but for the sufferer it is a visceral experience.
The alluring gaze, enigmatic smile and warm darkness that cloaks Madeleine Colt’s Self-portrait, is designed to draw us in and transport us back in tim
Learn more about Top Arts 2021 from the curators as they explore the key exhibition themes.
Presented by Heidi Victoria as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair As COVID-19 emerged and opportunities for the Performing Arts evaporated overnight, multi award winning photographer / environmental portraitist Heidi…
Presented by Emile Zile as part of Melbourne Design Week & Melbourne Art Book Fair Melbourne artist Emile Zile hosts a podcast series and live event for Melbourne Art Book…
JR’s project presented during NGV Triennial, Homily to Country, is an ambitious multi-part artwork comprising portrait photography, documentary footage and an architectural installation to draw global attention to the ecological…
To our friend – Louis ‘The Don’ Abrahams (1852–1903) Through the inclusion of letters and sketchbooks, the exhibition She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism provides new insight into the relationships between…
Faces 2012–14 is an extended series of compelling photographic portraits by artist Bruce Gilden, featured in the NGV Triennia
‘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.