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 –…

Introduction The history of Indigenous art in Australia is marked by stories of great artists who have inspired other close or extended kin to follow their direction, resulting in a…

I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen

I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen

Indigenous Australian artist, Vernon Ah Kee explores the complexities of William Barak’s life as an important spokesman for Aboriginal social justice, through the creation of his own three-part installati

A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition

This exciting exhibition draws upon diverse material from across all areas of the NGV’s rich collections to explore a range of living religious traditions found in the Victorian community today.  With over 50 works of art, many rarely exhibited before, dating from the medieval period through to the contemporary, the exhibition looks afresh at religious practice and belief as seen through the eyes of artists past and presen

Last week was mostly about rehanging the twentieth century galleries on level 2 at NGV Australia.

On 4 February the National Gallery of Victoria will open Fred Kruger: Intimate Landscapes, the first comprehensive survey of Fred Kruger’s (1831–88) photographs ever to be moun

“My love of couture, together with the inspiration and beauty of the Australian bush, brought about the idea of translating all this into a style of art and fashion that…

Celebrating Australia’s premier art gallery’s 150th anniversary Today, 24 May 2011, the National Gallery of Victoria celebrates its 150th birth

The National Gallery of Victoria believes that it is vital to honour the art and culture of the Pacific so that it will be perceived here in Melbourne as one of the world’s great art traditions that continues to develop and is open to change. To that end the NGV opened its first Oceanic gallery at NGV International in December 2003. The Oceanic gallery enabled the NGV to create a Pacific presence on the ground floor but the scale of the permanent gallery did not do justice to the importance of Pacific Islander art or to the NGV’s vision for the Asia Pacific region that embraces Indigenous Australia, the Pacific and Asia. On 28 May 2011, synchronous with the NGV’s 150th anniversary, the Gallery opened to the public a modern permanent space dedicated to art of the Pacific with a special focus on the work of living artists. In this dynamic white cube, art of the Pacific moves out of its darkened cul-de-sac and into a light-filled 21st century space with a 5 metre ce