The exhibition curators consider Margaret Preston’s fierce advocacy for a uniquely ‘Australian art’ and the role of First Nations visual traditions in this.

Words by Beckett Rozentals and Michael Gentle

Almost seven decades after Margaret Preston completed Banksia, Wadawurrung artist Dr Deanne Gilson painted Tjatjarrang (Elder Sister), Orange Banksia in Dilly Bag.

Words by Beckett Rozentals

Senior Tiwi artists Kaye Brown, Raelene Kerinauia Lampuwatu and Mary Elizabeth Moreen create new tunga, bark baskets, in response to Margaret Preston’s works from the 1940s.

Words by Beckett Rozentals

The late Bidjigal artist Marilyn Russell’s Jewellery box (purple), Jewellery box (red) and Jewellery box (teal), 2026 respond to Preston’s N.S.W Everlasting flowers, 1929.

Words by Beckett Rozentals

During the development of Margaret Preston, the NGV launched a worldwide call out to uncover the whereabouts of four key paintings. The first three paintings have since been discovered, leaving only Still Life: lobsters to be identified.

Words by NGV Magazine

One of the most ravishing jewels in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® 2026: CARTIER exhibition is not a tiara or necklace worn by a princess, but a jewel designed to be worn by a maharaja.

Words by Dr Miranda Wallace

NGV Magazine explores a selection of works on display in Plant Life: The Nature of Design – an exhibition that traces humanity’s evolving relationship with the plant world.

Words by NGV Magazine

Joris Laarman’s Ply loop chair, 2025, on display as part of Plant Life: The Nature of Design, uses a fully recyclable and biodegradable resin that gives plywood a different material future.

Words by Ewan McEoin

Two Dior works joining the NGV Collection thanks to the generous support of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family, share a connection across more than sixty years.

Words by Katie Somerville

Often described as ‘psychological Rorschachs’, Pat Brassington’s photomontages scratch at the underbelly of the human condition, drawing from surrealism, feminism and psychoanalysis.

Words by Elisa Scarton

Body Tracks 1974 by Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta recently joins the collection through the generous support of the NGV Foundation.

Words by Natasha Bullock

This Halloween, Wayne Crothers delves into the NGV Collection to discover Japanese ghosts, ghouls and otherworldly creatures.

Words by Wayne Crothers

Housed in a vitrine originally designed by Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann, is a collection of black-and-white ceramics by the early twentieth-century Viennese ceramicist Michael Powolny.

Words by Amanda Dunsmore

Grounded in community, memory and humanity, Richard Lewer, winner of the Archibald Prize 2026, makes art that is boldly personal and which tackles universal experiences and themes with grace and humor.

Words by Elisha Buttler

Dr Ken Wach explores the life and legacy of Alexander Calder, and Petit Château fort (Small fortified castle), 1970, which joined the NGV Collection as a gift of Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO in 2015.

Words by Dr Ken Wach

In this exclusive interview, Arrente artist Alfred Lowe describes his Rigg Design Prize winning work You and me, us never part as a bold declaration of love to his community.

Elisa Scarton interviews Alfred Lowe