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Exhibitions

Exhibition Future

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2026 Xu Tiantian

Exhibition Future

Exhibition Current

Plant Life The Nature of Design

Exhibition Past

John Gollings Artist Room

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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025 Nipa Doshi

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Rigg Design Prize 2025 Next in Design

Exhibition Current

Made to Move: Australian Jewellery 1960–2020

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Making Good Redesigning the Everyday

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2024 NGV Architecture Commission Home Truth by Breathe

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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2024 Christien Meindertsma

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Reimagining Birrarung Design Concepts for 2070

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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission Bethan Laura Wood

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2023 NGV Architecture Commission (This is) Air by Nic Brunsdon

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Liam Young Planetary Redesign

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Liam Young Planetary Redesign

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The Fox: NGV Contemporary Design Competition Exhibition

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Freedom of Movement Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection

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2022 NGV Architecture Commission Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang | Temple of Boom

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Rigg Design Prize 2022

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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission Tatiana Bilbao

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Teatro Della Terra Alienata

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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2021 NGV Architecture Commission pond[er] | Taylor Knights with James Carey

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Sampling the future

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History in the making

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Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees Botanical pavilion

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2019 Architecture Commission In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office

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Tammy Kanat: Circles of Life

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Black Bamboo Contemporary Furniture Design
from Mer, Torres Strait

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Lucy McRae Body Architect

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SO – IL Viewing China

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John Wardle Architects Somewhere Other

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Archaeology of Light Architectural Photography by Erieta Attali

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2018 NGV Architecture Commission Doubleground by MUIR + OPENWORK

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Rigg Design Prize 2018

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Designing Women

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Design Storytellers The work of Broached Commissions

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MoMA at NGV 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Japonisme Japan and the Birth of Modern Art

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Ornament is fine

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Creating the Contemporary Chair The Gordon Moffatt Gift

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Atelier Viktor&Rolf for Kids

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Viktor&Rolf Fashion Artists

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2016 NGV Architecture Commission Haven’t you always wanted…? | M@STUDIO Architects

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Italian Jewels Bulgari Style

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Glenn Murcutt Architecture of Faith

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Bamboo Tradition in contemporary form

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Fake Food Park Martí Guixé for Kids

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Les Mason: Solo

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Rigg Design Prize 2015

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Shifting Gear Design, Innovation and the Australian Car

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Nordic Cool Modernist Design

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Emily Floyd The Dawn

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Outer Circle The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists

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Hyper-Natural Scent from Design to Art

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Bushido Way of the Samurai

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Mid-Century Modern Australian Furniture Design

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Fashion Detective

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Negoro Lacquer NGV Collection Focus

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Art of the Table

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion

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Contemporary Art & Design

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Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style

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Contemporary Asian & Pacific Art

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Kings Over the Water

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TEES: Exposing Melbourne’s T-shirt culture NGV Studio

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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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Ballet & Fashion

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Living Traditions The Art of Belief

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Napoleon: Revolution to Empire

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UNEXPECTED PLEASURES The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery

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An Excellent Adventure

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Vienna: Art & Design Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos

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The Dr Robert Wilson Collection of 19th Century Ceramics and Glass

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Mari Funaki Objects

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Lace in Fashion

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Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion

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Drape Classical Mode to Contemporary Dress

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Chinoiserie Asia in Europe 1620–1840

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Together Alone Australian and New Zealand Fashion

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Draw the Line The Architecture of LAB

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Dressed to Rule Imperial Robes of China

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2009 Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award

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Bugatti Carlo Rembrandt Ettore Jean

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Art Deco 1910–1939

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Top Arts: VCE 2007

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Krishna Love and Devotion

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Super Bodies Heroic Fashion from the 1980s

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Katie Pye Clothes for Modern Lovers

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Great Exhibitions The World Fairs 1851-1937

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Top Arts: VCE 2006

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Sneakers Classics to Customs

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2006 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award

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Abstract Mode Geometric Fashion and Textiles

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Top Arts: VCE 2005

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Focus on Lacquer Japanese Lacquer at the National Gallery of Victoria

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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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Gwyn Hanssen Pigott A Survey 1955–2005

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Dutch Masters From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Top Arts: VCE 2004

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Flair: From salon to boutique Australian fashion labels through the 60s

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Akira Isogawa Printemps – Été

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Hunters & Collections Wardrobes of the International Fashion & Textiles Collection

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Tutu Designing for Dance

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2004 Australian Culture Now

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The Art of Zen From the Asian Collection

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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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Mario Bellini Architect & Designer

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Fraught Tales Four Contemporary Narratives

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Habitat Callum Morton

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Techno craft The work of Susan Cohn 1980 to 2000

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2003 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award

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Spring Flowers, Autumn Grass

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Top Arts: VCE 2001

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Yikwani Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics

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From the World of Beautiful Shadows The circle of Julia Margaret Cameron in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Top Arts: VCE 2000

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Versace The retrospective 1982-97

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Top Arts: VCE 1999

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Treasures of Asian Art Selections from the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of the Asia Society, New York

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The Cicely and Colin Rigg Craft Award 1997

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The Colin and Cicely Rigg Craft Award 1994

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Robert Prenzel His Life and Work

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Featherston Chairs

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From Robert Adam to Biltmoderne The Architect as Designer

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Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers A Retrospective

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The Great Eighteenth Century Exhibition

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The Craft of the Book

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Colonial Crafts of Victoria

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Collection Pieces Australian Crafts 1970–77

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Australian Art in the 1870s

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Krimper A Memorial Exhibition of the Furniture and Woodwork of Schulim Krimper (1893-1972)

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Design With Paper

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Design in Scandinavia

Essays

A Plant Life Future

Piero Lissoni’s Eda-mame, chaise and Piuma chair

Eda-mame: Piero Lissoni

Gaetano Pesce: Lighting up design

Artona chair Afra & Tobia Scarpa, B&B Italia

Celebrating 10 years of the Rigg Design Prize

Contemporary Korean jewellery

A dance of materials: between the organic and inorganic in Iris van Herpen’s fashion

Frank Lloyd Wright Vase

Framing the future: The growth of Australian houses

Reimagining Birrarung

Surrealism and Design

Infinite horizons

Myth, Matter and Satellites

Grafting shadows

A kaleidoscopic lens

Resisting closure

The great breath

Treading lightly in a world of many worlds

Ore streams – Table Formafantasma

Ore streams – Low chair Formafantasma

Ore streams – Desk Formafantasma

Ore streams – Screen 2 Formafantasma

Ore streams – Screen 1 Formafantasma

Ore streams – Cabinet Formafantasma

Post Mundus chair Martino Gamper

Alice armchair Jacopo Foggini

Ghost, armchair Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi

Infinite woven symphony

Yang Metamorfosi Carlotta de Bevilacqua

Compact tablewares Lella and Massimo Vignelli

Beanbag (Sacco) Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro

Carlton room divider Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Milano Group

Chair Carlo Bugatti

Conservator insight: Conoid, bench, 1966

‘A companion to the horizon’

Artist Profile: Frank Lloyd Wright

The influence of nature

Liam Young: the worlds of tomorrow

Design through history : Shaker design and furniture

The rainbow flag: a borderless design

MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission | Tatiana Bilbao

Zaha Hadid: Wave sofa 1988

Jewellery and Body Adornment from the NGV Collection

Sampling the Future

An ode to the airbag

We Change the World

History in the Making

Brodie Neill on Gyro, table 2016

The magnetising Jólan van der Wiel

Alexandra Kehayoglou

The spectre of speculation

Some notes on conservation

Adam Goodrum, Arthur Seigneur Bloom, cabinet

Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves Bag

Are You Listening? The poster as a site for resistance

Raising the Flag

Women of Industry: Frances Burke and Joyce Coffey

Selling Suffrage: Visual culture and merchandise

In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office | 2019 NGV Architecture Commission

Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design from Mer, Torres Strait

John Wardle Architects: Somewhere Other

SO – IL: Viewing China

Studio: Breaking Ground Muir + Openwork

Women in Design: Helen Kontouris interviews Faye Toogood

Joris Laarman Microstructures, aluminium gradient chair, structural prototype

Archaeology of Light: Erieta Attali

2018 Architecture Commission Design: Doubleground

The Rigg Design Prize

Design Storytellers: The Work of Broached Commissions

Designing Women

Maarten Baas Grandfather clock

The 2016 NGV Architecture Commission: M@ STUDIO Architects

The Australian Islamic Centre in Newport, Melbourne

Encountering art in the people’s gallery: Grant and Mary Featherston and the interior furnishing and fit-out of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1966–68

Les Mason: Solo

Between Beauty and Power: Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman as an emblem of the National Gallery of Victoria’s modernity, 1959–68

Akira Isogawa’s Earring dress

Carlo Bugatti’s Throne chair

Japanese Horse stable

Carlo Bugatti’s Chair, from the Snail Room

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory Pair of glass coolers

Kings Over the Water: Jacobite glass in the National Gallery of Victoria

In search of immortality: provisions for the afterlife

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Pair of candlesticks

Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co. Saint Paul, window from the Chapel of Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester

Linda Jackson Collection of outfits

‘There is no modern furniture!’: Adolf Loos and the Viennese apartment of Jakob and Melanie Langer

Videos

Colour, cut and craftsmanship Melbourne Winter Masterpieces^®: 2026

CARTIER Melbourne Winter Masterpieces^®: 2026

Voice of the Birrarung river Uncle Dave Wandin, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elder and Birrarung Council member.

Reimagining Birrarung Design Concepts For 2070

Christien Meindertsma | MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission 2024

Megacities NGV Triennial

NGV Triennial 2023 | Exhibition introduction

Exhibition Introduction NGV Triennial

Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence) NGV Triennial

Fernando Laposse NGV Triennial

Bethan Laura Wood | MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission 2023 NGV Triennial

Virtual Tour with Dr Miranda Wallace and India Mahdavi HSBC In Conversation series | Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi

Great Wrap Melbourne Now

Brud Studia Melbourne Now

James Lemon Melbourne Now

Globe International Melbourne Now

NGV Collection Highlight | Sori Yanagi Curator talk

American Japanese Design Curator talk

Sampling the Future | Knitted Architecture Ewan McEoin, Jenny Underwood & Leanne Zilka

Sampling the Future | MARS Ewan McEoin & Alex Goad

Lucy McRae’s Prickly lamp History in the Making

Design and Change with Brodie Neill We Change the World

Design and Change with Yan Huang We Change the World

Triennial conversations | Nature as collaborator Talin Hazbar, Elliot Bastianon, Geoff Nees and Hannah Presley in conversation with Myf Doughty

Triennial conversations | Oceans on the edge Professor Madeleine van Oppen, Pirjo Haikola and Alex Goad in conversation with Ewan McEoin

Triennial conversations | Get real estate Jill Garner, Amy Muir and Michael Bleby in conversation with Ewan McEoin

Triennial conversations | Quantum memories Refik Anadol in conversation with Simone LeAmon

Triennial conversations | Downtime Faye Toogood in conversation with Simone LeAmon

Triennial conversations | Crystalline Erez Nevi Pana in conversation with Ewan McEoin

Triennial profile | Glenda Nicholls

Triennial profile | Liam Young

Triennial profile | JR Interview with William Badger Bates

Triennial profile | Refik Anadol

Triennial profile | Faye Toogood

Triennial profile | Porky Hefer

Triennial profile | Kengo Kuma

Installing JR’s Homily to Country NGV Triennial 2020

Preparing for NGV Triennial 2020 Celebrating contemporary art, design and architecture

Bringing NGV Triennial 2020 to life Celebrating contemporary art, design and architecture

nendo’s Manga chairs 2017 NGV Triennial

Live in-studio artist visit – James Walsh Get to know artists

Artist Talk – In Absence: NGV Architecture Commission 2019

Live in-studio artist visit – Darren Sylvester Get to know artists

Live in-studio artist visit – Georgia Nowak & Eugene Perepletchikov Get to know artists

In Absence | Behind the Design 2019 NGV Architecture Commission

Designing a Better World Marcus Fairs

How will technology transform the body? Lucy McRae

Landscapes of the Future Daan Roosegaarde

Escher X nendo Benno Tempel and Cathy Leahy

Between Two Worlds Interview with nendo Founder, Oki Sato

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | The Table Hecker Guthrie

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | Cabinets of Curiosity Sibella Court for The Society Inc.

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | A Web of Interior Design Scott Weston

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | Primitive Domesticity Richards Stanisich

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | An Interior Sanctuary Martyn Thompson

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | Panic Room David Hicks

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | Artful Domestic Living Flack Studios

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | Fantastical Interiors Danielle Brustman

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | Feast, Bathe, Rest Arent & Pyke

Rigg Design Prize 2018 | The Art of Living Simply Amber Road

Sissel Tolaas NGV Triennial 2017

Estudio Campana | Yarrenyty Arltere Artists | Elliat Rich NGV Triennial 2017

Pae White NGV Triennial 2017

We Make Carpets NGV Triennial 2017

Formafantasma Ore streams

Alexandra Kehayoglou NGV Triennial 2017

Contemporary design Patrizia Moroso

The making of the inaugural Summer Architecture Series John Wardle Architects

Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Unconstrained by practicality and functionality Kate Rohde

Rigg Design Prize 2015 | It’s just nice Daniel Emma

Rigg Design Prize 2015 | A product has to justify it’s existence Adam Goodrum

Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Merging form, material and process Brodie Neill

Rigg Design Prize 2015 | Crafting continuity and subconscious attraction Khai Liew

The Possibilities of the Artist Book Max Schumann

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

Shifting Gear: Design, Invention and the Australian Car Gallery Playlist

Learn resources

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Introduction to the Kimono | Japanese Language Teacher Resource Levels 5–10

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Westwood | Kawakubo Exhibition Fact Sheet Levels VCE

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Designers e costruttori: ispirati dal gruppo di design Memphis Designer and Builders: Inspired by Memphis design group in Italiano

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Meet the Maker | Ashley Eriksmoen Levels 5–8

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Creative Practice: Globe International Levels VCE

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Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | Notes for Educators Teacher Resource

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Creative Practice: Great Wrap Levels VCE

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Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard Levels 4–8

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Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse Levels 4–8

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Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma Levels 4–8

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Explore the art elements: Tactile textures Levels 3-6

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Celebrating the Everyday: Inspired by Claudia Moodoonuthi’s 360 flip on country Levels 3-6

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We Change the World | Brief Teacher Resource

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Beautiful Planet: Inspired by Alexandra Kehayoglou’s Santa Cruz River Levels 3-6

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Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020 Levels 4-8

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Graphic Portraits: Inspired by Julian Opie’s Walking in the Rain series Levels 6-10

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Accessory design: Inspired by Comme des Garçons Levels 7-10

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Analysing Historical Sources from the Women’s Suffrage Movement Art and History

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Creativity at Home Inspired by the NGV

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Poster design for change: Inspired by twentieth century Japanese graphic design Levels 7-10

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Make your mark: Design your own Japanese inspired emblem Levels 5-6

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Designers and builders: Great art ideas for teachers, inspired by the Memphis Design Group Levels 4-6

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Draw like an Egyptian: Canopic jars Level 4–6

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Meet the Artists & Designers: NGV Triennial 2017 Levels 5-12

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Creative Educators: Block Printing with handmadelife – eBook Resource Levels 7-12