THANK YOU

2022 NGV Summer Appeal

The NGV sincerely thanks our dedicated philanthropic community who supported the acquisition of Troy Emery’s vibrant textile sculpture, Mountain climber 2022. At over three metres high, Mountain climber is Emery’s most ambitious work to date, and his first major commission by an Australian institution. In these textile-based works, bright-coloured fabrics are assembled, pinned and glued over an underlying form to create a large-scale and abstracted animal-shaped mass. The exuberant textile sculpture of a feline creature perched atop a gallery plinth is a continuation of Emery’s work exploring humankind’s relationship with animals and their historical representations in museums and in taxidermied form.

The larger-than-life mountain lion, covered in tens of thousands of coloured fake fur pom-poms is striking in scale and will encourage conversation on critical topics facing us today. This work greatly enhances the NGV Collection as a source of learning, sharing new ideas and perspectives, and we are incredibly grateful to all who supported this acquisition.

Thank you for your outstanding support, and we encourage you to visit Melbourne Now, and see Mountain climber in person at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia until August 2023.

The NGV warmly thanks all supporters who have made gifts to help secure this significant work: