During the last few decades, the use of artificial light as a medium in artwork has increased.
When Great Britain marched into the First World War in August 1914, Australians responded with wild enthusiasm and waved the flags of Empire.
‘O Auntie, I must tell you What Precious said today: I heard her tell the children While at their merry play She would not mind if Jesus Would send her…
Woken from this slumber arisen to this plunder my anger roars in thunder my command you are under I need no introduction yet your mind it cannot function you shut…
For as long as humans have been engaging in cultural and symbolic practice, the making and wearing of jewellery and body adornments have been central to the expression of identity,…
The works of contemporary Australian artist TextaQueen tackle questions of identity, particularly around ancestry and gender, which are unpacked in drawings in texta (felt-tipped pens).
Our spirits lie in the water … We didn’t create this culture recently. It lies in the ground. It lies in the earth, but we are bringing it
Set among the European pin oak trees of the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden, an enigmatic wooden tower rises upwards from a surrounding field of kangaroo grass, murnong (yams) and an…
Mer, or Murray Island, is in the Eastern Torres Strait, and its fertile oceans mark the beginning of the Great Barrier Reef, known in Meriam Mir language as Opnor.
In 2017, the NGV acquired eight works by the late Barrupu Yunupingu, which represent different conceptualisations of the Gumatj Fire Dreaming, sacred to her identity.
Letgo room, 2015, is a major site-specific installation by leading Chinese artist, activist and public intellectual Ai Weiwei.
First published in 2018 by The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia ngv.vic.gov.
Established in 2011, Broached Commissions is a creative agency whose purpose is to commission designers to produce ambitious, finely crafted, collectable design pieces with the capacity to reflect on or…
The NGV’s Designing Women exhibition highlights the ongoing role of female designers as a dynamic and critical force in shaping contemporary design practice and cultur
The contained body is not. It splits across histories and spaces of relationality. It is perceived, described, subjective, communicated, maintained, instrumentalised.