Continuing a recent series of major commissions by leading international artists for Federation Court at NGV International, Paola Pivi’s You started it … I finish it is an installation encompassing…

At the age of seventy-five the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting’ (gakyō-rōjin) as he railed against his mortality by declaring that…

This edition of Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria traverses the centuries, from Carl Villis’s detailed study of the NGV’s fifteenth-century Virgin and Child panel, to Paola Di…

In 1957 a photo-essay by Jeff Carter in People magazine represented seasonal hop-picking in the Ovens Valley in north–eastern Victoria in pastoral terms (fig.

 In June 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was given a superb contemporary La-sisi malagan canoe created in 1999 by the master carvers Edward Salle (born 1939) and his son Mathew…

Lola Greeno is a Tasmanian Aboriginal who combines the energy and improvisation of a contemporary arts practice with a tradition tracing back thousands of years.

The ground-breaking work of Australian photographer and filmmaker Sue Ford will be explored in a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 17 April.

AK: In Melbourne Now, one half of your artwork, Cloaked Combat, hangs directly next to my video West Park Proposition, and it strikes me as a wonderful and unexpected connection and…

In many Melanesian societies the traditional cultures are in transition. However, many stories have survived for thousands of years.

John Galliano’s Elvira evening dress was one of the final garments to appear on the catwalk of the 2003 autumn-winter ready-to-wear collection that was described by fashion critic Sarah Mower…

The Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land has produced some of the most masterful Australian painters of the mid- to late-twentieth century.

Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori

In the late 1830s the young brothers Jeremiah, Joseph and John Ware, the eldest just twenty years of age, had played a major role in the settlement of the Western…

The near absence of Indigenous people in mid-nineteenth-century colonial painting has been one of the most potent assertions of continued settler presence in Australia.

Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.