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Indigenous Voices of Creative Assertion and Resistance
In 1986, spirited Warlpiri women of Lajamanu, a small community in Gurindji Country on the edge of the Tanami Desert, in the Northern Territory, painted a groundbreaking series of gouaches…
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Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV
When Europeans arrived, the old ways of painting changed … We have changed the law, the old fashioned way of painting has finished and we are new people doing new kinds of painting together for non-Aboriginal people as wel
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From Bark to Neon: Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection
When Europeans arrived, the old ways of painting changed.
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The Quick and the Dead, Purchasing Indigenous art 1988–1990
The new public prominence of Aboriginal art remains the greatest single revolution in the past quarter-century in Australian art
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Visual Music: Indigenous Masters of Light and Colour
All the artist knows is brought to bear in the work itself, but some forms of that knowledge remain hidden.
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Elemental: the power, diversity and materiality of Indigenous art
On 9 March 2013 a new collection display that focuses on the physical, spiritual and ecological importance of the natural elements to Indigenous people opened in the National Gallery of…
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Afrotopia
Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the cultivation of vast and open spaces of bountiful possibles in order to help them flourish.
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My Country
New South Wales SOPHIE HONESS, ARTIST Jonathan Jones, mentor Sophie Honess, a Gamilaroi woman living and working on Gomeroi Country in Tamworth, New South Wales, embraced the challenges of translating…
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Grafting shadows
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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A journey through Watercolour Country
Connecting multiple generations of family and kin through their embrace of a single artistic movement, Watercolour Country: 100 Works from Hermannsburg celebrates the ongoing legacy of an artform that transformed…
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NGV x MECCA: Kaylene Whiskey
There’s a rare kind of magic in how Kaylene Whiskey’s art practice brings joy to so m
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Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a healing ritual
Among South African artist and ‘visual activist’ Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits, the series titled Ntozakhe (Parktown) contains two main interwoven narratives, both of which have their foundations in South Africa’s racial…
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NGV X MECCA: Naomi Hobson
Now in its sixth year, the NGV X MECCA partnership supports women in the arts and enables new acquisitions by Australian women artists to enter the NGV Collection.
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Bushfire Brandalism Posters
In January 2020, a group of artists across Australia organised a major intervention of public space by replacing advertising from bus shelters and walls with eye-catching posters in response to…
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Finding Time
Melbourne craftsperson Damien Wright’s furniture and sculptures explore and celebrate the splendour and bounty of the Australian landscape. In his work