There is a painting in the NGV Collection by John Longstaff titled Gippsland, Sunday Night, February 20th, 1898.

In a live conversation recorded during Melbourne Design Week 2019 between Yorta Yorta designer Lee Darroch and NGV Curator of Indigenous Art Myles Russell-Cook, Darroch spoke about creating the first…

Harden Sidney Melville’s Torres Strait Canoe and five men at the site of a wreck on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, North East Australia, 1874, is an…

The colour blue is dominant in the work of Yolŋu artist Dhambit Munuŋggurr, who first discovered the hue in 2005, when she was left wheelchair bound after a car accident…

From intricately woven baskets and figures to her bold patterns and designs used to create wearable art in collaboration with fashion designer Ingrid Verner, each unique work shares a different…

150 year, Rorschach, 2019, is a seven-panel panoramic landscape painting by leading Australian artist Ben Quilty and generously gifted through the Felton Bequest.

Big stories run through the exhibition Big Weather and other works in the NGV Collection, serving as a reminder of our reciprocal relationship with the weather, as well as the…

For more than 65,000 years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have developed an intimate understanding of the lands and waterways that make up this country.

Ordinarily I would insist on referring to any artist — woman, man or other — by their last name: Picasso, Monet, Warhol, Kngwarray and so

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne I read recently an article published by Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club,…

The NGV collection of early Australian gold and silverware is magnificent and intriguing.

Senior Gumatj woman artist, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu is the daughter of Munggurrawuy Yunupingu and Bunay Wanambi and the full sister of the late Barrupu Yunupingu.

To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…

The evolution of convincing images was indeed anticipated by nature long before human minds could conceive this trick … the art historian and the critic could do worse than ponder…

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