In the mid 1920s Margaret Preston embarked upon a campaign to establish a national Australian art based on the Indigenous art of Australia.
The NGV’s nineteenth-century shields from south-eastern Australia are visual puzzles whose early history and iconography are unknowabl
A geometric framework underpins most of Eugene von Guérard’s works, but nowhere more dramatically than in Tea trees near Cape Schanck, Victoria, where the artist made effective use of the…
HJ Wedge sees and paints with the intensity of childhood.
John Glover was a succesful painter in England prior to emigrating to Tasmania at the age of sixty-four.
This exhibition of new large-scale photographic works draws attention to the devastating impact, truth and reality of the colonisation and Christianisation of the Pacific.
The NGV has announced Sydney designer Adam Goodrum as the winner of the national Rigg Design Prize for 2015 with his work Unfolding, a series of translucent folding house structures,…
The National Gallery of Victoria will celebrate art and football with Our Land is Alive: Hermannsburg Potters for Kids exhibition, which will see the renowned indigenous artists, Hermannsburg Potters from…
From the mythical winged horse Pegasus to Phar Lap’s victorious Melbourne Cup, three thousand years of the horse in art will be displayed in the NGV Collection exhibition The Horse,…
In 1847 the English-born photographer Douglas Kilburn opened Melbourne’s first commercial photographic studi
Illustrated storybooks are often a child’s first encounter with works of art. Most of us vividly remember the picture books we read as childre
Australian Rules Football has taken over the NGV! The Hermannsburg Potters have created twenty pots depicting some of the AFL’s best and finest Indigenous players from all eighteen team
The intimate performance and conversation program Unplugged Live, featuring some of Australia’s leading musicians, songwriters and contemporary artists returns to The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from Jul
Enchanting large-scale works from more than 60 of Australia’s best-loved book illustrators will feature in Bunyips and Dragons: Australian Children’s Book Illustrations (25 July to 4 October, 2015, The Ian…
An interview with artist Robert Andrew on the creation and future care of his work Moving out of Muteness (2013), currently on display at the NGVA as part of the…