To celebrate and honour NAIDOC Week, the National Gallery of Victoria has produced a vibrant and diverse week-long festival to commemorate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres…
Kohei Nawa is one of Japan’s new generation of high-flying young artist
Sue Ford was a pioneer of Australian photography, and one of the most important practitioners to emerge in the wave of 1970s feminist photographers. This retrospective exhibition celebrates her artistic life and career. It brings together key photographs, digital prints, collages and films created over an almost fifty-year period, as well as important archival materials.
NGV Collection Focus
During the 1990s, Indigenous Australian women emerged as artists of astonishing innovation and eloquence, a phenomenon that has positioned them at the forefront of contemporary Indigenous art practice. The eight senior Indigenous masters of light and colour represented in this special NGV Collection Focus inform their paintings with profound knowledge and cultural memory of Country and its sanctity. The works evidence the artists’ embodied experiences that are both physical and mnemonic and which predated European contact and its consequent cultural and intellectual assail. These intrepid practitioners of contemporary art have simultaneously come to the fore in two distinct cultural and geographical regions of Indigenous Australia: the vast inland deserts and a tiny island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queenslan
Senior Curator, Indigenous Arts, Judith Ryan, explains the significance of Reconciliation week.
Respected Indigenous playwright, poet and bureaucrat, John Harding, will be giving a talk at the NGV on Sorry Day to discuss sorry business, and how all Australians can move forward…
Opening on 11 April, Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style will explore Australian art of the 1980s; a decade of dynamic social change and fiercely contested viewpoints on contemporary…
Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria 50, a special edition published in the Gallery’s 150th anniversary year, set a new benchmark for this respected publicatio
Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria 50, a special edition published in the Gallery’s 150th anniversary year, set a new benchmark for this respected publicatio
The Tasmanian-born artist Robert Dowling (1827–1886) produced the most significant nineteenth-century paintings that depicted Aboriginal people as the subject of major composition
In recent years the Joe White Bequest has enabled the acquisition of significant early works on paper for the collection.
Masks are a very important part of Melanesian culture and in many ways are dramatic symbols of different Pacific Islander cultures.
In more than forty years of practice, Linda Jackson has played a significant part in the development of a distinctly Australian approach to fashion design.
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired through the Felton Bequest Yunurr (Spring Creek), 1991, by Rover Thomas, an acknowledged leader of the Warmun School of Painting in the…
This February, the National Gallery of Victoria will survey the career of Australian artist Bea Maddock, spanning her early woodcuts, etchings, drypoints and screenprints, her use of photo-etching and mass-media…
Internationally recognised street artist ROA was in Melbourne recently and the National Gallery of Victoria took the opportunity of commissioning him to create a mural for the Gallery Kitchen –…