First Nations Art

The NGV First Nations Art collection is one of the world’s most significant. With a focus on contemporary practice and spanning the diversity of First Nations art and design from across Australia, the collection includes painting, prints and drawings, photography, sculpture, fibre, fashion and textiles, and video. Supported by historical customary objects, together, these works tell a comprehensive story of 65,000 years of First Nations creativity across time, place and media.

Message about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content
This site includes artworks and images depicting deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It may also include names of the deceased where permission has been granted to do so. Artistic, cultural or intellectual property relating to First Nations people and cultural practices in the NGV Collection may be of a sensitive nature and include words and phrases considered inappropriate today. These terms are a true and honest reflection of past practices and are not the current attitudes of the NGV.

The NGV is committed to making as much of its collection available online as possible while also respecting traditional First Nations practices and ensuring restricted works are not reproduced. We acknowledge that Country and traditional place names do not adhere to rigid boundaries and that dialects and languages vary. For this reason, we encourage feedback, corrections and additions. If you believe any NGV records contain sensitive, secret, sacred and/or restricted content, and therefore should not be publicly available, please contact us.