Introduction Torres Strait Islanders of Far North Queensland speak of their maritime identity and connections with the sea.

In October 1972, Annette Dixon, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Curator of European and American Art After 1800, was brimming with excitemen

Connecting multiple generations of family and kin through their embrace of a single artistic movement, Watercolour Country: 100 Works from Hermannsburg celebrates the ongoing legacy of an artform that transformed…

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

The value of an artwork can be measured in countless ways, and this pair of Italian Rococo style, mid eighteenth-century armchairs are a case in point.

There is a painting in the NGV Collection by John Longstaff titled Gippsland, Sunday Night, February 20th, 1898.

Australian designer Brodie Neill is a leader in a growing movement of contemporary designers who use their work as both a form of education and activism regarding the environment and…

NGV Magazine explores the majestic worlds of Argentinian artist Alexandra Kehayoglou and shines a light on the physical environments that have influenced the artist’s carpentry, the sociopolitical significance interweaved within…

Rather than trying to capture 200 years of Australian fashion in one fell swoop, we asked a curator, a journalist, an historian, a novelist and a contemporary designer to share…

In 1986, spirited Warlpiri women of Lajamanu, a small community in Gurindji Country on the edge of the Tanami Desert, in the Northern Territory, painted a groundbreaking series of gouaches…

For as long as humans have been engaging in cultural and symbolic practice, the making and wearing of jewellery and body adornments have been central to the expression of identity,…

Introduction In 1989 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired two nineteenth-century Tibetan scroll paintings (thangkas) depicting Tibetan Buddhist lamas: Yuntonpa with Begtse Chen (fig.

Guy Stuart is a Melbourne-based artist, born in Canberra in 1942.

Curators at the NGV work within their collection areas – such as Photography, Contemporary Art, Asian Art and International Art – to research and produce interesting and creative exhibitions.

The Department of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, in recent years has acquired three important Indian paintings and a related drawing belonging to the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605)R