Siu i Moana: Reaching Across the Ocean presents collaborative ngatu (Tongan barkcloth paintings) by Maori/New Zealand artist Robin White and Tongan artist Ruha Fifita, which narrate powerful and moving present-day…
Using twenty-first century digital technologies to animate a nineteenth-century French neo-classical wallpaper, Lisa Reihana’s live-action video work, in Pursuit of Venus, powerfully challenges the exotic representations of Pacific Islander peoples…
In a world premiere, renowned Samoan-born contemporary artist, Greg Semu, will unveil a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria featuring a series of powerful photographic works, The Raft…
Luminous: Australian Watercolours 1900-2000 will be the first exhibition in twenty-five years to feature the National Gallery of Victoria’s outstanding collection of Australian watercolours and gouache
The National Gallery of Victoria is pleased to announce its the 2016 Spring/Summer program.
Since 2002, David and Anita Angel have gifted to the NGV over 100 contemporary Indigenous works, which are displayed together for the first time in Artist’s Hand: Collectors’ Eye: The…
Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus is a two-channel, live-action video that is inspired by the colonial nineteenth century panoramic wallpaper, Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (1804–05), produced by…
The NGV’s nineteenth-century shields from south-eastern Australia are visual puzzles whose early history and iconography are unknowabl
The NGV’s nineteenth-century shields from south-eastern Australia are visual puzzles whose early history and iconography are unknowabl
The NGV’s nineteenth-century shields from south-eastern Australia are visual puzzles whose early history and iconography are unknowabl
The ochre colours, patterning and flat pictorial space reveal Preston’s deep admiration for Indigenous ar
Lorraine Connelly-Northey was born and grew up in Swan Hill, Wadi Wadi and Wamba Wamba terrain, in Victoria, south of her mother’s Waradgerie Country, disconnected from mainsprings of culture, language…
The NGV’s nineteenth-century shields from south-eastern Australia are visual puzzles whose early history and iconography are unknowabl
The NGV’s nineteenth-century shields from south-eastern Australia are visual puzzles whose early history and iconography are unknowabl
Dulka Warngiid is a brilliant conceptual vision of Bentinck Island, Queensland, anchored in the contributors’ deep attachment to seven distinct story places on their tiny islan