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Indigenous Voices of Creative Assertion and Resistance
In 1986, spirited Warlpiri women of Lajamanu, a small community in Gurindji Country on the edge of the Tanami Desert, in the Northern Territory, painted a groundbreaking series of gouaches…
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Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV
When Europeans arrived, the old ways of painting changed … We have changed the law, the old fashioned way of painting has finished and we are new people doing new kinds of painting together for non-Aboriginal people as wel
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From Bark to Neon: Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection
When Europeans arrived, the old ways of painting changed.
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The Quick and the Dead, Purchasing Indigenous art 1988–1990
The new public prominence of Aboriginal art remains the greatest single revolution in the past quarter-century in Australian art
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Visual Music: Indigenous Masters of Light and Colour
All the artist knows is brought to bear in the work itself, but some forms of that knowledge remain hidden.
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Elemental: the power, diversity and materiality of Indigenous art
On 9 March 2013 a new collection display that focuses on the physical, spiritual and ecological importance of the natural elements to Indigenous people opened in the National Gallery of…
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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
Introduction Torres Strait Islanders of Far North Queensland speak of their maritime identity and connections with the sea.
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Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Art can save you. Art can change you. Art is an act of power. Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it or say otherw
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Reimagining Birrarung
I would like you to think about what Birrarung might have felt or experienced over the last two hundred years.
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Afrotopia
Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the cultivation of vast and open spaces of bountiful possibles in order to help them flourish.
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My Country
New South Wales SOPHIE HONESS, ARTIST Jonathan Jones, mentor Sophie Honess, a Gamilaroi woman living and working on Gomeroi Country in Tamworth, New South Wales, embraced the challenges of translating…
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Grafting shadows
This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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A journey through Watercolour Country
Connecting multiple generations of family and kin through their embrace of a single artistic movement, Watercolour Country: 100 Works from Hermannsburg celebrates the ongoing legacy of an artform that transformed…
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NGV x MECCA: Kaylene Whiskey
There’s a rare kind of magic in how Kaylene Whiskey’s art practice brings joy to so m
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Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a healing ritual
Among South African artist and ‘visual activist’ Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits, the series titled Ntozakhe (Parktown) contains two main interwoven narratives, both of which have their foundations in South Africa’s racial…