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Lives and Times - Education Resource

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Walangkura Napanangka 'Old woman's travelling story' 2004

Walangkura Napanangka
Pintupi born c. 1946
Old woman's travelling story 2004
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
182.2 x 244.0 cm
Purchased with funds from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2005
© Walangkura Napanangka, courtesy of Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, Sydney
2005.489

 

Peter Graham 'When my desert blooms ' 2005

Peter Graham
born Australia 1970
When my desert blooms 2005
oil on canvas
191.4 x 152.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2005
© Peter Graham, courtesy of Kaliman Gallery, Sydney and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2005.424

Lives and Times

A selection of works on tour from the VFLAA Collection

A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition through the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists.

Latrobe Regional Gallery
16 June to 29 July 2007

Swan Hill Regional Gallery
7 December 2007 to 3 February 2008

Bendigo Art Gallery
29 March to 18 May 2008

Mildura Arts Centre
5 June to 3 July 2008

Monash Gallery of Art
17 July to 24 August 2008

Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
6 September to 5 October 2008

This selection of works acquired through the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists reflects the vitality and dynamism of contemporary  art in Australia today.  The National Gallery of Victoria collects work in all media, by artists from across generations and from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds.

The works in this exhibition represent aspects of the individual lives and times of the artists. They also communicate to the widest possible audience something of the beauty, enigma, fragility and history of the complicated times in which we live.

In painting, drawing, fashion and textiles, photography and sculpture, artists render images of their inner lives and external environments uncompromisingly, poetically, and experimentally. They do so with a sense that, while vision and experience are deeply personal, works of art have the capacity to connect with the wider world, universal human conditions, and provoke new ways of being and understanding.

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NGV Touring Exhibition

Arts Victoria
Indemnification for this exhibition is provided by the Victorian Government.


 

NGV: Art like never before