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.
In the mid 1920s Margaret Preston embarked on a personal campaign to establish a national art that was distinctively Australian, arguing that the Indigenous art of Australia offered the ideal…
Dennis Nona is at the forefront of a group of contemporary Torres Strait artists who have invigorated printmaking with a visual language that articulates their relationship with the sky, sea…
A&D Projects with designer Philippa Abbott The A&D Design residency hosted in the Bolwell EDGE caravan at NGV International was an open studio project that explored the interface of design,…
Over the past few weeks flags designed by Melbourne artists were surreptitiously raised across the city.
Melbourne Now opens Friday 22 November.