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John Galliano’s Elvira evening dress
John Galliano’s Elvira evening dress was one of the final garments to appear on the catwalk of the 2003 autumn-winter ready-to-wear collection that was described by fashion critic Sarah Mower…
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Shark People: Djapu painting and the Miny’tji Buku Larrŋgay Collection
The Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land has produced some of the most masterful Australian painters of the mid- to late-twentieth century.
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A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
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Robert Dowling’s Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
In the late 1830s the young brothers Jeremiah, Joseph and John Ware, the eldest just twenty years of age, had played a major role in the settlement of the Western…
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Depictions of Aboriginal People in Colonial Australian Art: Settler and unsettling narratives in the works of Robert Dowling
The near absence of Indigenous people in mid-nineteenth-century colonial painting has been one of the most potent assertions of continued settler presence in Australia.
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Brook Andrew: Ethical portraits and ghost-scapes
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
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Margaret Preston’s Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales
In the mid 1920s Margaret Preston embarked on a personal campaign to establish a national art that was distinctively Australian, arguing that the Indigenous art of Australia offered the ideal…
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Dennis Nona’s Baidam – shark constellation
Dennis Nona is at the forefront of a group of contemporary Torres Strait artists who have invigorated printmaking with a visual language that articulates their relationship with the sky, sea…
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Melbourne Now Design Residency #2
A&D Projects with designer Philippa Abbott The A&D Design residency hosted in the Bolwell EDGE caravan at NGV International was an open studio project that explored the interface of design,…
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 7
The pre-contact art system of South-East Australia, which is embodied in men’s shields and other ritual objects of material culture, finds powerful and explicit expression in Melbourne No
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 10
Damien Wright is the founder of Wright Studios, a Melbourne-based furniture design and craft studio.
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 27
Senior Curator, Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan spoke to artist Maree Clarke about her kankaroo-tooth necklace that will feature in Melbourne Now. JR: Tell us about your production of kangaroo-tooth necklaces….
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Melbourne Now countdown – day 53
Senior Curator, Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan, spoke to Kent Morris about the Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Pilot Progra
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Bonita Ely on motherhood
Artist Bonita Ely reflects on life in the 1980s and being a mother and artist.
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Relics of Another Age: Art History, the ‘Decorative Arts’ and the Museum
When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…