Framers in Focus: A series of essays on 19th century Melbourne frame makers, produced by the NGV Centre for Frame Research. Richard Foster Norton, also known as R.

People have been talking about the relationship between art and change for a long time.

Collaboration, friendship, inspiration, loss, love and connection. These themes filter through many artworks in the NGV Collection.

150 year, Rorschach, 2019, is a seven-panel panoramic landscape painting by leading Australian artist Ben Quilty and generously gifted through the Felton Bequest.

Learn more about Top Arts 2021 from the curators as they explore the key exhibition themes.

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright.

When this lovely example of Regency fashion entered the collection in 2018, the NGV Textiles Conservation team went scrambling for their history books and Jane Austen novels.

The Sydney realist Herbert Badham was an insightful and wry observer of Australian life in the 1930s and 1940s.

An artist who is largely forgotten today, Henry Moore was acclaimed in the 1870s and 1880s as Britain’s foremost painter of the se

Ben Nicholson is the painter who, more than anyone else, brought progressive English artists during the early 1930s into direct dialogue with their counterparts in Europe, working at the forefront…

A complex landscape study in which we see cattle grazing on the marshlands through a tracery of intertwined trees, Cecil Lawson’s Marshlands, 1876, was first exhibited with the title In…

Welsh-born artist Gwen John moved permanently to France in 1904 at the age of twenty-eight, even declining to return to Britain during the perilous years of the First World War….

In 1904 Annie Swynnerton created two paintings both titled New risen hope, depicting a naked child seemingly floating in mid-air, with head tilted back and eyes looking expectantly out at…

‘Genius consists in a man finding out what he is capable of and working at that for all he is worth’, Charles Napier Hemy said, assessing his own w

A blue-eyed lady who appears to be a singer, or an actress, stands on a stage before a curtained backdrop.