NGV Magazine

NGV Magazine

NGV Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine featuring writing from NGV and around the world that considers the many ways and reasons that we create, design, speculate and investigate. Learn how artists and designers make things, sink deep into the lives, challenges and achievements of creative people throughout history, and consider the world anew through the many ideas and perspectives explored through art and design.

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Latest issue

Issue 55 Nov–Dec 2025

In this final edition of NGV Magazine for 2025, we feature the new exhibition Women Photographers 1900– 1975: A Legacy of Light, at NGV International along with a preview of the major summer exhibition Westwood | Kawakubo. We take a closer look at Prudence Flint and John Brack: ALL ANGLES, a new display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia which explores the parallels between the work of these two Australian artists and we compare rare works in the created by Gabriele Chanel, Tunic, 1922 and Paul Poiret, Dress, 1922, to the NGV Collection recently gifted to the NGV Collection by Krystyna Campbell Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

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Features in this issue

COVER STORY Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

‘The artists featured in the exhibition all demonstrate the development of ‘new visions’ by transforming their images into innovative formats and embracing their roles as image-makers.’

By Maggie Finch

EXHIBITION PREVIEW Westwood | Kawakubo

‘Motivated by the belief that clothing should be ‘forceful and pose questions’, each has built a legacy of material, technical and conceptual innovation rooted in very singular understandings of what fashion can be.’

By Katie Somerville and Danielle Whitfield

AT NGV INTERNATIONAL The Metropolis and Desire: Modernist Photobooks

‘Photobooks also offered photographers unprecedented ways to share their work beyond studios or exhibitions, while also reaching a broader public to circulate social, cultural or political material.

By Dr Donna West Brett

NEW TO THE NGV Against going gray

‘Two recently acquired paintings, one by Noel McKenna and the other by William McKinnon, direct our looking and move our gaze around treasured memories, through both familiar and strange scenes.’

By Anita Kirpalani

2025 MECCA x NGV HOLIDAY COLLABORATION Karen Black

‘I’m looking for my work to have an element of being unresolved. I feel that this ambiguity mirrors the complexity of lived experience.’

Sophie Oxenbridge interviews Karen Black

COLLECTION STORIES NGV at Mildura Arts Centre

‘Presented in partnership between Mildura Arts Centre and the National Gallery of Victoria, Extraordinary Women celebrates female strength, creativity and complexity.’

By Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo