Margaret PRESTON<br/>
<em>Mosman bridge</em> (c. 1927) <!-- (recto) --><br />

hand-coloured woodcut<br />
25.1 x 18.5 cm (image) 33.0 x 24.7 cm (sheet)<br />
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br />
Gift of Martin Terry, 1982<br />
P63-1982<br />
© Margaret Preston/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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Exhibitions

Exhibition Future
Ben Quilty The Unimpressionist
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The Golden Hour Australian Impressionism – Origins, Icons & Echoes
Exhibition Current
Margaret Preston
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Extraordinary Women Works from the NGV Collection
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The Stars We Do Not See Australian Indigenous Art
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Prudence Flint and John Brack: ALL ANGLES Artist Room
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The National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship
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Made to Move: Australian Jewellery 1960–2020
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Sam Jinks | Into Art
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Floribunda
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Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson
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The Land is Us Stories, Place & Connection
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The Joseph Brown Collection
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Melbourne Now
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Melbourne Now 2023
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Australian Art
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Australiana Designing a Nation
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WHO ARE YOU Australian Portraiture
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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection
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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection
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Found and Gathered Rosalie Gascoigne | Lorraine Connelly-Northey
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She-Oak and Sunlight Australian Impressionism
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Top Arts 2021
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Shearing the rams Wangaratta Art Gallery
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Ivan Durrant Barrier draw
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Roger Kemp Visionary Modernist
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Hans and Nora Heysen Two Generations of Australian Art
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Modern Australian Women Works from a Private Collection
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Rirkrit Tiravanija
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Robert Hunter
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The Field Revisited
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Colony Frontier Wars
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Colony Australia 1770–1861
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Del Kathryn Barton The Highway is a Disco
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Our Knowing and Not Knowing Helen Maudsley
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Brave New World Australia 1930s
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Every Brilliant Eye Australian Art of the 1990s
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Creating the Contemporary Chair The Gordon Moffatt Gift
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Contemporary Photography
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Bruce Armstrong An Anthology of Strange Creatures
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Making the Australian Quilt 1800–1950
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Luminous Australian Watercolours 1900–2000
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Jan Senbergs Observation–Imagination
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200 Years of Australian Fashion
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Hard Edge Abstract Sculpture 1960s–70s
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Les Mason: Solo
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Lurid Beauty Australian Surrealism and its Echoes
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Bunyips and Dragons Australian Children's Book Illustrations
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Follow the Flag Australian Artists and War 1914–45
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John Wolseley Heartlands and Headwaters
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Shifting Gear Design, Innovation and the Australian Car
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Mambo 30 years of shelf-indulgence
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Emily Floyd The Dawn
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The Instrument Builders Project Collaborations in Sound by Indonesian and Australian Artists
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Outer Circle The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists
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Robert Jacks Order and Variation
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Mid-Century Modern Australian Furniture Design
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David McDiarmid When This You See Remember Me
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Inge King Constellation
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Sue Ford
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Melbourne Now 2013
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Wired for Melbourne Sound
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Textiles of Michael O’Connell NGV Collection Focus
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Visual Music Masters of Light and Colour
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Ian Strange: SUBURBAN
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Australian Impressionists in France
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Indigenous art
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Bea Maddock
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Captivating style 1950s Melbourne
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just sing what you feel
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2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award Containment
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Thrown Studio ceramics from the Kenneth Hood Bequest
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Negotiating this world Contemporary Australian Art
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Experimenta Speak to Me Screening Program
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Fred Williams Infinite Horizons
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Brent Harris
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Fred Kruger Intimate Landscapes
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Tjukurrtjanu Origins of Western Desert Art
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10 ways to look at the past
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This Wondrous Land Colonial Art on Paper
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Kaleidoscope: Art and colour
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Eugene von Guérard Nature Revealed
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Stormy Weather Contemporary Landscape Photography
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John Davis Presence
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Mari Funaki Objects
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Contemporary encounters
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Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion
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Top Arts: VCE 2009
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Rupert Bunny Artist in Paris
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Stick it! Collage in Australian Art
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Ron Mueck
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Ricky Swallow The Bricoleur
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Together Alone Australian and New Zealand Fashion
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2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
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Long Distance Vision Three Australian Photographers
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Draw the Line The Architecture of LAB
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Top Arts: VCE 2008
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Shared Sky
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2009 Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
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Rosalie Gascoigne
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No Standing, Only Dancing Photographs by Rennie Ellis
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Klippel/Klippel Opus 2008
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Moon in Reflection The art of Kim Hoa Tram
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Top Arts: VCE 2007
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Preserving the past, enriching the future Hugh Williamson’s legacy
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Sidney Nolan
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Bertram Mackennal The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project
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Yvonne Audette Different Directions 1954–1966
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Gordon Bennett
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Geoffrey Bartlett
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Katie Pye Clothes for Modern Lovers
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Kitty Kantilla
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Australian Impressionism
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Top Arts: VCE 2006
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Lucio Fontana and John Nixon (A Dialogue)
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Proof Contemporary Australian Printmaking
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Juan Davila
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Howard Arkley
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Melbourne International Arts Festival: Brook Andrew YOU'VEALWAYSWANTEDTOBEBLACK
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Thomas Harrison Milliner
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Light Sensitive Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund
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2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
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Charles Blackman Alice in Wonderland
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The Paris End Fashion, Photography & Glamour
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Deborah Halpern Angel
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Top Arts: VCE 2005
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2006 Contemporary Commonwealth
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Land Marks
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Exiles and Emigrants Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
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Martin Grant Paris
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Remote Control Contemporary Photomedia
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Margaret Preston Art and Life
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Gwyn Hanssen Pigott A Survey 1955–2005
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This & Other Worlds Contemporary Australian Drawing
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Top Arts: VCE 2004
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Bill Henson 3 Decades of Photography
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Flair: From salon to boutique Australian fashion labels through the 60s
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Ron Mueck The Making of Pregnant Woman, 2002
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Akira Isogawa Printemps – Été
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Flashback Australian photography in the 1960s
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Colour Power Aboriginal art post 1984
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James Gleeson Beyond the Screen of Sight
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Shelter
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Living Together is Easy
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Allan Mitelman Works on Paper 1967-2004
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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
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The Spirit of Football
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Tutu Designing for Dance
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2004 Australian Culture Now
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re_generation
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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
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Top Arts: VCE 2003
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Pins & Needles Textile and Technique from the Australian Collection
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Contemporary Fellowship 2002-4: Aleks Danko SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 16 - SHH, GO BACK TO SLEEP (an un-Australian dob-in mix) 2004
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Xin Nian Contemporary Chinese Australian Art
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Lionel Lindsay An Antipodean in Spain
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Fraught Tales Four Contemporary Narratives
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Peter Booth Human/Nature
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Second Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria
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2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
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Fair Game Art & Sport
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Charles Conder 1868-1909
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Swish Fashionable Melbourne of the 1950s
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Mythform The Making of Nearamnew
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Sidney Nolan Desert and Drought
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Habitat Callum Morton
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Seeing the Centre The art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959
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Bushfire Our community responds
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Pen to Pixel 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings
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Black Intentions Susan Cohn
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Techno craft The work of Susan Cohn 1980 to 2000
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Top to Toe
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2003 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
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Top Arts: VCE 2002
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First Impressions Contemporary Australian Photograms
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Fieldwork Australian Art 1968-2002
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Sandman Patricia Piccinini
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Twister The Celebrated, Ingenious and Exotic in Fashion
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Top Arts: VCE 2001
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Yikwani Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics
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Top Arts: VCE 2000
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CommonWealth A Tribute to Federation
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Melbourne 1956
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Rover & Queenie
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Top Arts: VCE 1999
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Nolan: Wimmera Landscapes
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Emotionally charged 19th century Australian and European paintings from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
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Starting out: VCE Top Cats from 1998
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New Worlds from Old 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes
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Starting out: VCE top CATS from 1997
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Russell Drysdale 1912–1981
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Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection
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I Had A Dream Australian Art in the 1960s
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Moët and Chandon Touring Exhibition 1997
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Tom Roberts
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Beauty in Truth The Botanical Art of Margaret Stones
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Black Attack
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Starting Out: VCE Top CATs 1995
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TECAA2 Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australia Art
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Fred Williams A Working Method
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Arthur Streeton 1867–1943
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Black Room Photographs by Farrell and Parkin
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Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours
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Power to the People The Art of Mike Brown
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Fairweather
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Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition 1994
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E. Phillips Fox 1865 – 1915
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Robert Prenzel His Life and Work
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Creators and Inventors Australian Women's Art in the National Gallery of Victoria
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TECAA Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
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Being and Nothingness Bea Maddock – Work From Three Decades
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Uncommon Australians Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery
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The Art of Frederick McCubbin
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Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers
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Merric Boyd Studio Potter 1888-1959
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Clifford Last Sculpture A Retrospective Exhibition
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Angry Penguins and Realist Painting in Melbourne in the 1940s
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John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition
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Four Australian Jewellers
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The ANZ Bicentennial Art Commissions
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Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends A retrospective exhibition: 1937 – 1987
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Backlash The Australian Drawing Revival 1976–1986
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Drysdale Photographer
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Golden Summers Heidelberg and Beyond
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Treasures from Australian Churches
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Tradition and diversity A selection of Australian Ceramics from the National Gallery of Victoria
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Australian Sculpture Now Second Australian Sculpture Triennial
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Vox Pop: into the Eighties
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Sidney Nolan: the City and the Plain
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Lina Bryans A Retrospective Exhibition
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Joy Hester
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The J. and J. Altmann Collection of Australian Silver
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Australian Drawings of the Thirties and Fourties in the National Gallery of Victoria
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The Kangaroo in the Decorative Arts
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Australian Colonial Portraits
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Survey 8: Ivan Durrant
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Australian Pottery 1900–1950
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Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne
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Collection Pieces Australian Crafts 1970–77
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Paintings from the Collection of Allen D. Christensen
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Australian Art in the 1870s
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Australian Landscape Drawing 1830 – 1880 in the National Gallery of Victoria
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The Hats of a Lifetime Thomas Harrison of Melbourne
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Twelve Australian Lithographers
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Crafts Victoria ’75
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Grace Crowley
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Exploration An Exhibition of Photographs by John Cato and Laurie Wilson
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Object and Idea New Work by Australian Artists
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The Australian Landscape
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The First Leasing Art Prize
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Stanislaw Halpern Retrospective Exhibition
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Landfall
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Arthur Boyd’s Australia
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Lloyd Rees Retrospective
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The Field
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Sidney Nolan Retrospective Exhibition Paintings from 1937–1967

Essays

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Martin King: Strangerlands II
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John Gollings: Building Myths
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Modern Australian women
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Fred Williams: The London Drawings
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Claude Flight’s painting lesson
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Pictures You Can Feel: The Photography of Christine Godden
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Women Photographers 1900 – 1975: A Legacy of Light
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The lungs of David Attenborough: voice and breath in Layla Vardo’s Orders of magnitude
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The sketchers
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The lasting friendships of Australia’s Impressionist pioneers
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Intersecting lines: the constructive paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson
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Gemma Smith Bask
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Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef
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When Crowley Met Balson
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My Country: Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions
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My Country
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A journey through Watercolour Country
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The Weight of Air
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Joy Hester Pauline McCarthy
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Coming back home
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Hannah Brontë EYE HEAR U MAGIK
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Writer Response: Emotion and Empathy
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Top Arts 2022
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Found and Gathered
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The articulate landscape of Thomas Clark
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Bushfire Brandalism Posters
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Finding Time
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We Change the World
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Country without Rain
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What is in a title? Dick Watkins’s Rain in West Pymble
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Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware
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Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story
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La Petite, Evening Dress
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200 Years of Australian Fashion
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Robert Jacks Temple gate
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The power of ‘women’s work’: craftivism
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The home front
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Behind the lines
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Gallipoli
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Prisoners and internees
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Women of Industry: Frances Burke and Joyce Coffey
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Living Libraries: Feminist histories in the art of Emily Floyd
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John Dermer: Potter
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H. Newman & Sons, Melbourne The Buller Presentation Flask
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Modern Australian Women: Works from a Private Collection
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Ken Unsworth: Truly, Madly
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Akio Makigawa: Spirit and Memory
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Thomas Woolner Farquhar Cole
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‘Majestic Michael rises’: Clarkson Stanfield’s Mount Saint Michael, Cornwall, 1830
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Donald Laycock: Star cycle
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Clifford Bayliss Untitled
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Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller Blood Generation
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John Kaldor’s early Art Projects and the NGV
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Hard Edge: Abstract Sculpture 1960s–70s
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In defence of Australian Minimalism: Guy Stuart’s Lock Span, 1969
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E. Phillips Fox Dolly, daughter of Hammond Clegg Esq.
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Constance Jenkins, her painting Friendly critics and the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship
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Outer Circle: The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists
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Video art at the National Gallery of Victoria: 1973–78
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Three illustrated publications by officers of the First Fleet
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Neil Douglas: Kangaroo platter
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Shaun Gladwell: Midnight traceur
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Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
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Home again by Frederick McCubbin
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Desirable Things, the private collection of Alfred Felton
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Australian idyll: domesticating the Victorian landscape
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A human, democratic art: three realist artists 1944–1947
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Obituary: Ursula Hoff, AO, OBE 1909–2005
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Obituary: Bridget Whitelaw, 1950–2004
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Obituary: Emma Devapriam, 1933–2005
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Charles Blackman’s Feet beneath the table
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Bill Henson’s Untitled
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Peter Kennedy’s One long catastrophe
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Patricia Piccinini’s Desert rider, mountain
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Albert Tucker’s City
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Studibaker Hawk’s Empress
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A Symbolic Centenary Sculpture
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A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
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Between Beauty and Power: Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman as an emblem of the National Gallery of Victoria’s modernity, 1959–68
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Ricky Swallow’s Salad days
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Shark People: Djapu painting and the Miny’tji Buku Larrŋgay Collection
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A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard
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Embodied Modernism: Visual arts and the aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolf Steiner
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Robert Dowling’s Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
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Depictions of Aboriginal People in Colonial Australian Art: Settler and unsettling narratives in the works of Robert Dowling
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Brook Andrew: Ethical portraits and ghost-scapes
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Margaret Preston’s Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales
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Ron Mueck’s Two women
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Dennis Nona’s Baidam – shark constellation
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Bill Viola’s “Ocean without a shore”
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MaterialByProduct’s Outfit comprising couture excesses
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Gavin Brown’s Indian snakes and ladders outfit
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In the Void: Robert Klippel’s Models of Unreason
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Bilda Miburiji Kurrij (Seeing with Far Eyes): The Root of Kaiadilt Women’s Art
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Ian Burns’s Down under where …
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Ian Strange: Suburban
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Unknown dressmaker Wedding outfit
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When the wattles bloom again: The Barak Project
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Tony Tuckson Untitled – yellow
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Precocious style: the Fashion Design Council, 1983–93
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Seeing into the past: an enquiry into the compositional development of Robert Dowling’s Tasmanian Aborigines
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Collecting the forties in the eighties
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wool works at the National Gallery of Victoria
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James Wallis An Historical Account of the Colony of New South Wales
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Arthur Loureiro Marie Therese Smith
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Linda Jackson Collection of outfits
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Rosalie Gascoigne Flash art
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Ricky Swallow The days aren’t different enough nos 1–4
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The cult of the queen empress: royal portraiture in colonial Victoria
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Land, loss and identity: art of a great Pintupi lineage

Videos

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Australian Impressionism 9 by 5 frames Recreating a frame
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Lillie Williamson’s frames A conservator’s insight
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Australian Impressionism exhibition tour A curator's perspective
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The Female Australian Impressionists Pivotal painters
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Charles Conder’s Hot Wind and the femme fatale A curator’s perspective
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Victorian Artists Society on painting en plein air Continuing the Impressionists' legacy
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An interview with Clinton Naina Big Weather
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Mary Tonkin on painting en plein air Continuing the Impressionists' legacy
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Adam Pyett on landscape painting Continuing the Impressionists' legacy
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Ivan Durrant | Exhibition video tour
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ANAM at NGV Massive journey of personally nocturne’d object | James Gleeson
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ANAM at NGV Inspiration | Aby Altson
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ANAM at NGV Cahill Expressway | Jeffrey Smart
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ANAM at NGV An old bee farm | Clara Southern
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ANAM at NGV The Bridge in-curve | Grace Cossington Smith
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ANAM at NGV Actual fractual | Howard Arkley
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What is abstract art? Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson
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Helen Maudsley’s Artistic lady With NGV Curator
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NGV’s Australian Silver Collection Decorative emu eggs
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NGV’s Australian Gold Collection Stories of Melbourne
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Clarice Beckett | A leading artist With Curator Beckett Rozentals
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Florence Fuller’s Paper boy | Melbourne in 1888 Perspectives from an NGV Curator and Conservator
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Grace Crowley’s Girl with goats With Beckett Rozentals, Curator of Australian Painting, Sculpture & Decorative Arts to 1980
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Whiteley’s Lasting Legacy Wendy Whiteley
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Contemplation and canvas Helen Johnson
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Giving new life to found objects Justene Williams
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Mapping space through sound Nathan Gray
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Transformation of value Marian Tubbs
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Metal is treasure from the earth Korban/Flaubert
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Weaving connections between the traditional and contemporary Koskela and Elcho Island Arts
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Unconstrained by practicality and functionality Kate Rohde
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | It’s just nice Daniel Emma
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | A product has to justify it’s existence Adam Goodrum
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Merging form, material and process Brodie Neill
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Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Crafting continuity and subconscious attraction Khai Liew
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Songwriting and art-making Tom Iansek
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‘Foolish’ endeavours Alex Gow
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Why Australian Painting Matters Patrick McCaughey
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Tom Roberts: naturalistic bent Curator Talk
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The Role of the Art Magazine Geoff Newton
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Immersive spaces for paintings Rosslynd Piggott
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Occupying space with language and text Emily Floyd
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E. Philips Fox: A celebration of colour Curator Talk
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John Glover: An English artist painting Australia Curator Talk
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Henry Burn: In search of gold Curator Talk
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Arthur Streeton: Celebrated, praised and loved Curator Talk
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Russell Drysdale: The Artist Curator Talk
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George W. Lambert: Australia’s first celebrity artist Curator Talk
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Frederick McCubbin: The Pioneer Curator Talk
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Grace Cossington Smith: A remarkable story in Australian art Curator Talk
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John Brack: Capturing the ordinary Curator Talk
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Bertram Mackennal: Beauty to be discovered Curator Talk

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Meet the Artists & Designers: NGV Triennial 2017 Levels 5-12
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Mount Kosciusko: Seen from the Victorian border (Mount Hope Ranges) Levels 3-8
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Weatherboard Creek Falls: Constructing a view Levels 9-12
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Howard Arkley Levels 5-12