Fashion photography forms the most varied section of the Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection.
In 1938 Nora Heysen became the first woman to win the Archibald Portrait Prize and in 1943 was appointed the first Australian female war artist.
NGV International | 5 April 2019 – 4 August 2019 | Admission fees apply Known as the man who made sculpture move, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was one of the most…
‘Ha Ha World’ is a limited edition handmade artist book by Regan Tamanui, featuring 12 stencil portraits and 12 screen printed images, each of mathematical data reflecting a portrait of…
Photographer Kate Disher-Quill, artist Fayen d’Evie, and Luke King will will read and perform excerpts from new projects that challenge art publishing to become more ambitious and innovative in perceptual…
5 – 13 January 2018 | NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | FREE Inspired by the NGV’s summer program, including Escher X nendo | Between Two…
When, in 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a mid nineteenth-century Australian family portrait taken by the South Australian photographer William Millington Nixon, the sitters’ names were unknow
This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria presents seven papers originally delivered at the international conference ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700–1914’…
This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria presents seven papers originally delivered at the international conference ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700–1914’…
In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.
Letgo room, 2015, is a major site-specific installation by leading Chinese artist, activist and public intellectual Ai Weiwei.
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor presents approximately one hundred sculptural and pictorial compositions made by renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976), drawn from private and museum collections in North America, including…
Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art brings together the work of Hans and Nora Heysen, father and daughter artists whose work spanned more than a century during…
NGV International | 9 November 2018 – 17 February 2019 | FREE In his first exhibition for children, British artist Julian Opie has collaborated with the National Gallery of Victoria…
The turn of the twentieth century was a crucial time for women artists in Australia.
Polly Borland: Polyverse presents new and recent work by the celebrated Australian-born, Los Angeles–based artis