Australian Art
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
Level 2
Ongoing | Free entry
Open 10am–5pm daily
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is home to the NGV’s Australian Art Collection.
Explore the history and many styles and stories of Australian art through paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, prints, drawings, fashion, Indigenous art and the Joseph Brown Collection.
If you’re planning to visit a specific work of art please contact us to check if it will be on display. Email enquiries@ngv.vic.gov.au or call +61 3 8620 2222.
The National Gallery of Victoria respectfully advises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that this site includes images, works and names of deceased Indigenous people and may include images of artistic, cultural or intellectual property that may be of a sensitive nature. We have made efforts to ensure that restricted works are not reproduced.This website may contain terms that reflect the period in which the item was created and may be considered inappropriate today. These are a reflection of past practices only and do not reflect the attitudes of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Select works
Florence FULLER
(Paper boy) 1888
oil on canvas
61.2 x 45.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
2019.1077
David ASPDEN
Field 1 (1968)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
239.2 x 149.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Michael Machin and family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2021
2021.267
© David Aspden/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Inge KING
Winged image (1964)
welded steel
101.5 x 46.0 x 47.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the AMP Society, 1971
A9-1971
© The estate of Inge King
John BRACK
The bar 1954
oil on canvas
97.0 x 130.3 cm irreg.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of Peter Clemenger AM and Joan Clemenger, Elena Keown Bequest, Spotlight Foundation, NGV Foundation, Ross Adler AC and Fiona Adler, Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, Marc Besen AO and Eva Besen AO, the Bowness Family, Lindsay Fox AO and Paula Fox, Dorothy Gibson, Rino Grollo and Diana Ruzzene Grollo, Ian Hicks AM, the NGV Women’s Association and donors to the John Brack Appeal, 2009
2009.53
© Helen Brack
Klytie PATE
Bottle-brush, vase (c. 1939)
earthenware
24.6 x 19.4 cm diameter
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1980
D357-1980
© Courtesy of the artist
Vida LAHEY
Banksia 1931
oil on cardboard
40.5 x 35.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Andrée Harkness through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
2020.581
© Estate of Vida Lahey / Courtesy: Queensland Art Gallery
Grace Cossington SMITH
The Bridge in-curve (1930)
tempera on cardboard
83.6 x 111.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1967
1765-5
© Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
E. Phillips FOX
Portrait of my cousin (1893-1894)
oil on canvas
206.0 x 92.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925
1503-3
Aby ALTSON
Inspiration 1899
oil on canvas
131.5 x 98.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2019
2019.674
Frederick McCUBBIN
Lost 1886
oil on canvas
115.8 x 73.9 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1940
1077-4
Isa RIELLY
Waterfall at Mount Macedon 1880
oil on canvas
92.4 x 71.2 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1994
A20-1994
Harden Sidney MELVILLE
Torres Strait Canoe and five men at the site of a wreck on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, North East Australia 1874
oil on canvas
74.0 x 125 cm 105.0 x 155.0 cm (framed)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Warren Clark Bequest and Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest, 2020
2020.686
Iso RAE
(Breton girl with goat) (c. 1895)
pastel and black chalk on cardboard
47.0 x 17.0 cm (image) 48.3 x 17.5 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated from the Estate of Ouida Marston, 2011
2011.329