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…
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.
Introduction This paper discusses three paintings by Eugène von Guérard in the collection of the National Gallery of Victori
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…
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.
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
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…
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…
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,…
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
Damien Wright is the founder of Wright Studios, a Melbourne-based furniture design and craft studio.
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….
Senior Curator, Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan, spoke to Kent Morris about the Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Pilot Progra
Artist Bonita Ely reflects on life in the 1980s and being a mother and artist.
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…