[In my] work … the act of making is a process of experimentation leading to new knowledg

Interdisciplinary artist Greg Semu was born and raised in Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand and is of Samoan heritage.

In 1847 the English-born photographer Douglas Kilburn opened Melbourne’s first commercial photographic studi

Illustrated storybooks are often a child’s first encounter with works of art. Most of us vividly remember the picture books we read as childre

An interview with artist Robert Andrew on the creation and future care of his work Moving out of Muteness (2013), currently on display at the NGVA as part of the…

First published in 2014 by The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia www.ngv.vic.gov.

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

Knowledgeable Madarrpa elder Nonggirrnga Marawili learnt to paint on bark by assisting her late husband, Djapu clan leader and major artist Djutadjuta Mununggurr.

Terra Spiritus … with a darker shade of pale is a conceptual, artistic and technical tour de force and the culmination of Maddock’s extraordinary car

When Margaret Preston returned to Australia in 1919 after living in Europe, she called for a truly ‘national art’ founded on the imagery of Australia’s Indigenous pe

First published in 2013 by The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia www.ngv.vic.gov.

From 30 September 2011 to 12 February 2012 the National Gallery of Victoria and Museum Victoria presented Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.

Members of the First Fleet were well aware of the importance of the venture in which they were participating.

A strong sculptural tradition exists in North-Eastern and Central Arnhem Land stimulated by contact with balanda (outsiders).

Ellen van Neerven, an Indigenous writer based in Brisbane, wrote these poems in response to Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Anwerlarr Anganenty (Big yam Dreaming) 1995 and read them at the Points…