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Exhibitions

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FUTURE COUNTRY Country Road + NGV
First Nations Commissions 2026

Exhibition Current

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The Stars We Do Not See Australian Indigenous Art

Exhibition Past

Dean Cross Artist Room

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The Colour of Memory: Sally Gabori Artist Room

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Another other: The Photo-Politics of Gary Lee Artist Room

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The Earth is Blue The Art of Dhambit Munuŋgurr

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MY COUNTRY Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2024

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Blak Rainbow The Art of Dylan Mooney

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Watercolour Country 100 works from Hermannsburg

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2023 MECCA Holiday Collaboration Kaylene Whiskey

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Maree Clarke Ritual and Ceremony

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Jewellery and Body Adornment from the NGV Collection

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DESTINY The art of Destiny Deacon

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Australiana Designing a Nation

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Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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The Gecko and the Mermaid Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and Her Sister

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The Gecko and the Mermaid Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and Her Sister

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Bark Ladies Eleven Artists from Yirrkala

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NGV X MECCA Naomi Hobson

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Initiation OA_RR

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Maree Clarke Ancestral Memories

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Black Bamboo Contemporary Furniture Design
from Mer, Torres Strait

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Desert Lines Batik from Central Australia

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Marking Time Indigenous Art from the NGV

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From Bark to Neon Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection

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Colony Frontier Wars

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Colony Australia 1770–1861

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CLAUDIA MOODOONUTHI COYA – LITTLE ONE, 2017

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Past Legacy Present Tense

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Who’s Afraid of Colour?

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Siu i Moana Reaching Across the Ocean

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Greg Semu The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific)

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Art of the Pacific NGV Collection Focus

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Our Land is Alive Hermannsburg Potters for Kids

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Indigenous Art Moving Backwards into the Future

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Visual Music Masters of Light and Colour

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Fred Kruger Intimate Landscapes

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Tjukurrtjanu Origins of Western Desert Art

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This Wondrous Land Colonial Art on Paper

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Kaleidoscope: Art and colour

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Living Water Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert

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Wisdom of the Mountain Art of the Ömie

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Across the Desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia

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Melbourne International Arts Festival: Brook Andrew YOU'VEALWAYSWANTEDTOBEBLACK

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Colour Power Aboriginal art post 1984

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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

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Remembering Barak

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Rover Thomas I want to paint

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Seeing the Centre The art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959

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Yikwani Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics

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Rover & Queenie

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Raiki Wara Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait

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Great Icons of Aboriginal Art from the NGV

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Yolngu Art of Elcho Island

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Imaging the Land

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Power of the Land Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art

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Heritage of Namatjira

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Images of Power Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley

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Mythscapes Aboriginal Art of the Desert

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The Face of the Centre Papunya Tula Paintings 1971–1984

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Kunwinjku Bim Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board

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Essays

Matthew Harris The British Museum

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

Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie

My Country: Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions

A journey through Watercolour Country

Infinite woven symphony

Hannah Brontë EYE HEAR U MAGIK

Jewellery and Body Adornment from the NGV Collection

Found and Gathered

NGV X MECCA: Naomi Hobson

‘The past is in the present is in the future’

In conversation: Lee Darroch

Seeing what they saw

Can we all have a happy life?

The intricate designs of Lisa Waup

DESTINY: the art of Destiny Deacon

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Gäna (Self)

Indigenous Voices of Creative Assertion and Resistance

She Is Like No Other: A call and response to Umma (Mother)

Aboriginal Feminism and Gender

Magical transformations: Yawkyawk and Ngalyod become art

Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV

Barrupu Yunupingu Gurtha (Ancestral fire)

From Bark to Neon: Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection

Nonggirrnga Marawili Lightning in the rock

Who’s Afraid of Colour?

Nonggirrnga Marawili Thunderman raining down

Dream on: Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art goes to Paris

Lipundja and unknown Yolngu artist: Mokuy figures

The Quick and the Dead, Purchasing Indigenous art 1988–1990

La-sisi malagan canoe

Lola Greeno’s Purmaner

Shark People: Djapu painting and the Miny’tji Buku Larrŋgay Collection

Robert Dowling’s Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware

Depictions of Aboriginal People in Colonial Australian Art: Settler and unsettling narratives in the works of Robert Dowling

Brook Andrew: Ethical portraits and ghost-scapes

Margaret Preston’s Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales

Dennis Nona’s Baidam – shark constellation

Bilda Miburiji Kurrij (Seeing with Far Eyes): The Root of Kaiadilt Women’s Art

When the wattles bloom again: The Barak Project

Martumili artists Ngayartu Kujarra

Visual Music: Indigenous Masters of Light and Colour

Elemental: the power, diversity and materiality of Indigenous art

Rover Thomas Yunurr (Spring Creek)

Land, loss and identity: art of a great Pintupi lineage

Videos

Carly Tarkari Dodd and Yhonnie Scarce | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Stephanie Ali and Doreen Jinggarrabarra | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Nunami Sculthorpe-Green and Lola Greeno | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Paul Girrawah House and Brenda L Croft | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Katie West and Clothilde Bullen | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Jahkarli Romanis and Brook Andrew | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Charlotte Allingham and Karla Dickens | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

Boneta-Marie Mabo and Megan Cope | Future Country Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026

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

Reimagining Birrarung Design Concepts For 2070

Tony Albert and Warraba Weatherall | My Country

James Tylor and Aidan Hartshorn | My Country

Jonathan Jones and Sophie Honess | My Country

Pedro Wonaeamirri and Johnathon World Peace Bush | My Country

Vincent Namatjira OAM and Alec Baker & Eric Barney | My Country

Denise Robinson and Cheryl Rose | My Country

Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney | My Country

Peggy Griffiths and Jan Griffiths | My Country

Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence) NGV Triennial

My Country The Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions

Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala | Episode four: The Gecko and the Mermaid: Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and her sister

Julia Gillard in conversation with Dhambit Munuŋgurr Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala

Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala | Episode three: Contemporary interpretations in bark paintings

Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala | Episode two: Yolŋu women and bark painting

Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala | Episode one: Introduction

Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu: I am a Mermaid

Donga Maymuru: Harvesting bark

Naminapu Maymuru-White: River of Heaven and Earth

Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories Exhibition introduction

What is a possum-skin cloak? With artist Maree Clarke

Maree Clarke’s Ritual and Ceremony Ancestral Memories

Maree Clarke’s possum-skin cloak Ancestral Memories

Big Weather | Exhibition introduction NGV Indigenous Art Collection

An interview with Clinton Naina Big Weather

Woven Song – Pukumani By Deborah Cheetham AO

Triennial conversations | Dhambit Munuŋgurr In conversation with Myles Russell-Cook

TIWI | Exhibition video tour

Triennial profile | Glenda Nicholls

A Broad Shield by a once known maker With NGV Curator

William Barak’s Ceremony with Rainbow Serpent With Judith Ryan AM, Senior Curator of Indigenous art

Live in-studio artist visit – Elisa Jane Carmichael Get to know artists

Marking Time | Part 5: Senior Warlpiri women render permanent sacred designs

Marking Time | Part 4: Iconography in modern art forms

Marking Time | Part 3: A momentous change in Indigenous Art

Marking Time | Part 2: From rock escarpment to bark

Marking Time | Part 1: Introduction

Colony: Frontier Wars Curators' perspectives

The figure of William Barak Vernon Ah Kee

Programs

Best of NGV Australia

Australian Collection Highlights Tour

Women in Art and Design Tour

Listen

Connecting the Dots: First Peoples Art from the NGV with Tony Armstrong Podcast

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

The Kimberley Sound Art

Indigenous Art Collections | Contemporary Electronic & Hip Hop Gallery Playlist

Learn resources

Learning Resource

Margaret Preston: Art and legacy | In the NGV Collection Levels 5–8

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FUTURE COUNTRY | Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions 2026 | Exhibition Fact Sheet Levels VCE

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Accessible Learning with Rona Rapangka Rubuntja

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Accessible Learning with Dhambit Munuŋgurr

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Accessible Learning with Trevor Turbo Brown

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Bark Ladies: Eleven artists from Yirrkala | Brief Teacher Resource

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Possum skin cloaks with Maree Clarke Levels 3-6

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Meet First Nations artist Cassie Leatham 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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Colony to Nation Levels 5-6

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Magical masks Levels 1-4

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Decorative pots: Inspired by the Hermannsburg Potters Levels 3-6

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Hermannsburg Potters: Indigenous Art, Football and Community Education Resource Levels P-6

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Gordon Bennett Levels 7-12